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This book traces the origins of the Postmodern eclectic grammar of linguistic collision back in the Surrealist poetics of ruins. Keeping in mind the images of lost direction in the big city as a central figure in the discussion of both the Modern and Postmodern aesthetics of displacement, Daniele starts comparing the epiphanic encounters of the Baudelairian flâneur in metropolitan Paris - in constant search for the traces of a lost symbolic order - with Breton's enigmatic pursuit of Nadja, the elusive sphinx in the crowd who moves in a mental territory of puzzling condensations and of ineffable objets trouvé. In his visual and written work, Marcel Duchamp was probably the first artist to envision the space of the crowd as a trans-urban, multiple dimension: a cool arena of disjunctive encounters contributing to transform the Surrealist erotic space of desire in a cooler, open field of performance. Deeply influenced by Duchamp's hybrid aesthetics, American Postmodern writers such as Donald Barthelme and Thomas Pynchon, and the performance artist Laurie Anderson, represent metropolis as a "geographical incest", as a plural, entropic semiosphere which transcends the notion of urban community to become the tolerant receptacle of an ethnic and discoursive multiplicity, an electronic area of linguistic collisions translatable in new fragmented and unfinished narratives. Evoking the assemblages of Abstract Expressionists, the debris of Simon Rodia "junk art", and the hybrid language of Postmodern architecture, this neo-Surrealist narrative discourse transforms the epiphanic traces envisioned by the Baudelairian and Bretonian heroes in partial parodies, in enigmatic fragments whose ultimate source transcends the narrator's knowledge. The conceptual strategy which is constitutive of these texts implicitly asks the puzzled reader to disentangle the entropic plots, immerging him in the midst of a "linguistic wilderness," where all opposites - fact and fiction, man and machine, man and female - enigmatically and humorously coexist.

City and town life in literature --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern

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City and town life in literature --- Australian literature --- Littérature australienne --- Vie urbaine --- Dans la littérature.

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Agriculture in literature. --- Agriculture --- Didactic poetry, Greek --- Farm life in literature. --- Farm life --- Seasons in literature. --- History --- History and criticism. --- History

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"James P. Beckwourth, a half-black fur trader; Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, a Paiute translator; Salishan author Mourning Dove; Cherokee novelist John Rollin Ridge; Sui Sin Far, an Anglo-Chinese short story writer, and her sister, romance novelist Onoto Watanna; and Mary Austin, a white southwestern writer - each of these intercultural writers faces a rite of passage into a new social order. Their writings negotiate their various frontier ordeals: the encroachment of pioneers on the land; reservation life; assimilation; Christianity; battles over territories and resources; exclusion; miscegenation laws; and the devastation of the environment." "In West of the Border Noreen Groover Lape raises issues inherent in American pluralism today by broaching timely concerns about American frontier politics, conceptualizing frontiers as intercultural contact zones, and expanding the boundaries of frontier literary studies by giving voice to minority writers."--Jacket.

American literature --- Women and literature --- Multiculturalism in literature. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Frontier and pioneer life in literature. --- Authors, American --- Frontier and pioneer life in literature --- Multiculturalism in literature --- Ethnicity in literature --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- History and criticism. --- Minority authors --- History. --- Homes and haunts --- History and criticism --- West (U.S.) --- In literature. --- Intellectual life.

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Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth --- Criticism and interpretation --- Literature and society --- Massachusetts --- Amherst (Mass.) --- History --- 19th century --- Women and literature --- United States --- Political and social views --- Manuscripts [American ] --- Manuscripts --- Community life in literature