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This book critically considers how geo-historically distant and disparate urban sites give rise to peculiarly parallel polyphonic fictional forms. It redefines new constellations (eccentric, concentric, ex-centric) for understanding geo-cultural and generic dimensions of modernist and post-modern literature and theory.

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Introduction
1. Eccentricity and modernity
2. Eccentric cities and citytexts: transposition, translation, and transformations of authority and authorship
3. Gogol’s open prospects: digressive copy clerks
4. Dostoevsky’s and Machado de Assis’s undergrounds: dead men writing
5. Hallucinated cities
Postscript: Theory of the novel and the eccentric novel’s early play with theory

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/11/2013
      ISBN13: 9780719087707, 978-0719087707
      ISBN10: 719087708

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book critically considers how geo-historically distant and disparate urban sites give rise to peculiarly parallel polyphonic fictional forms. It redefines new constellations (eccentric, concentric, ex-centric) for understanding geo-cultural and generic dimensions of modernist and post-modern literature and theory.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1. Eccentricity and modernity
      2. Eccentric cities and citytexts: transposition, translation, and transformations of authority and authorship
      3. Gogol’s open prospects: digressive copy clerks
      4. Dostoevsky’s and Machado de Assis’s undergrounds: dead men writing
      5. Hallucinated cities
      Postscript: Theory of the novel and the eccentric novel’s early play with theory

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