Descrizione

Daniela Daniele
THE WOMAN OF THE CROWD
Urban Displacement and Failed Encounters in
Surrealist and Postmodern writing.
Rodopi, Amsterdam - Atlanta, GA 2000,
brossura,15x22 cm., pp.221,
Collana Postmodern studies n.28,
testo in inglese,
peso: g.387

cod.0347

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CONTENTS
Foreword and Acknowledgements 7
Introduction 9
Chapter 1
Reading fragments in the entropic city:
Baudelaire, Breton and the pursuit of the sphinx in the crowd 27
Chapter 2
On the frontier of nonsense:
Breton’s Nadja and the failed encounter 45
Chapter 3
Marcel Duchamp/Rrose Sélavy:
the artist as transvestite and the corrosive encounter
of opposites in space 61
Chapter 4
Sites of dismemberment:
zones, nowhere places and the end of the quest in
American Postmodern fiction 93
Chapter 5
A linguistic wilderness:
maps in ruins in Thomas Pynchon’s post-industrial zones 109
Chapter 6
The collage city and the displaced narrator in the
short stories of Donald Barthelme 139
Chapter 7
Electronic bodies and humor in Laurie Anderson’s
empty places 175
Bibliography 199