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Title Literature as document : generic boundaries in 1930s Western literature / edited by Carmen Van den Bergh, Sarah Bonciarelli, Anne Reverseau
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 204 pages) : illustrations
Series Textxet : studies in comparative literature, 0927-5754 ; Volume 90
Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; Volume 90.
Contents The difference between "document" and "monument" / Remo Ceserani -- A re-evaluation of documentary tendencies in Neue Sachlichkeit / Gunther Martens and Thijs Festjens -- Characters as social document in modernist collective novels: the case of Manhattan Transfer / Antonio Bibbò -- Documenting Berlin in the twenties: war neurosis and inflation in Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz / Stijn De Cauwer and Sven Fabré -- Building up a "glasshouse" in Nadja: documenting the surrealist way of life / Nadja Cohen -- The "essence of things" and their decomposition: the use of montage in Dino Terra's Metamorfosi / Achille Castaldo -- Tardy presents: embodied agency in the "documental" poetry of Benjamin Péret and Antonio Porchia / Piet Devos and Gys-Walt Van Egdom -- "Madrid está cerca" Spanish Civil War radio poetry / Robin Vogelzang -- "Documentary" aspects in Umberto Barbaro's literary and cinematographic practice / Fabio Andreazza -- Plot placement and literary plot: how economic context becomes part of literature / Toni Marino
Summary Literature as Document' considers the relationship between documents and literary texts in Western Literature of the 1930s. More specifically, the volume deals with the notion of the "document" and its multifaceted and complex connections to literary "texts" and attempts to provide answers to the problematic nature of that relationship. In an effort to determine a possible theoretical definition, many different disciplines have been taken into account, as well as individual case studies. In order to observe dynamics and trends, the idea for this investigation was to look at literature, taking its practices, its factual-looking and concrete applications, as a point of departure - that is to say, then, starting from the literary object itself
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
Literature -- Philosophy.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Literatura -- s.20 -- Historia y crítica
Literatura -- Filosofía
Literature -- Philosophy
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Bonciarelli, Sarah, editor.
Bergh, Carmen Van den, editor.
Reverseau, Anne, editor.
ISBN 9789004384255
9004384251