Semi-Peripheral Realism Nation and Form on the Borders of Europe【電子書籍】[ Christinna Hazzard ]

＜p＞This book explores the geopolitical and symbolic borders of Europe through the concept of the semi-periphery. Focusing on the North Atlantic island nations, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, and Turkey ? a set of very different social and cultural landscapes ? the book compares the semi-peripheral aesthetics of Halld?r Laxness’s and William Heinesen’s novels with the semi-peripheral city and borderscapes in works by Orhan Pamuk and Latife Tekin. It offers new readings of texts such as Laxness’s ＜em＞The Atom Station＜/em＞ and Pamuk’s ＜em＞Snow＜/em＞, and provides original readings of works that little has been written about in English, such as Heinesen’s ＜em＞The Black Cauldron＜/em＞ and Tekin’s ＜em＞Swords of Ice.＜/em＞ Making use of the theory of uneven and combined development and world systems theory, the book illustrates that the experience of nation-building and capitalist modernisation in the semi-periphery results in a particular realist aesthetic that is remarkably similar across diff．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る