Narratives of the European Border

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. An Introduction to European Nowheres

   • Richard Robinson

   Pages 1-15

3. Place-in-Space / Space-in-Place: Theories of the Border

   • Richard Robinson

   Pages 16-39

4. From Border to Front: Italo Svevo’s La coscienza di Zeno

   • Richard Robinson

   Pages 40-65

5. Recreating Habsburg Borders: The Later Fiction of Joseph Roth

   • Richard Robinson

   Pages 66-99

6. ‘The earth is what is not us’: Yugoslavia in Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

   • Richard Robinson

   Pages 100-127

7. Buckley in a General Russia: Finnegans Wake and Political Space

   • Richard Robinson

   Pages 128-155

8. Nowhere, in Particular: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled and Central Europe

   • Richard Robinson

   Pages 156-178

9. Back Matter

   Pages 179-200

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Richard Robinson examines the representation of shifting European borders in twentieth-century narrative, drawing together an unusual grouping of texts from different national canons and comparing the various ways that fictional settings transmute European placelessness into narrative.

• drawing
• Europe
• fiction
• history
• history of literature
• knowledge
• Rebecca West
• Russia
• space
• Yugoslavia

'Richard Robinson's study of shifting European borders in twentieth-century literature offers a refreshingly new take on how fictional texts negotiate and transmute imaginatively a sense of locality - of geographical and temporal emplacement...This study is important for all those who read books not merely to confirm their theoretical models of preference, but also to delve into fiction's own signifying borderzones.' - Cristina Sandru, English

RICHARD ROBINSON is Lecturer in English at Swansea University, UK. He specialises in twentieth-century fiction and literary theory, and has published on James Joyce, Italo Svevo and Kazuo Ishiguro.

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