ID - 12814556 TI - <
> new georgics : rural and regional motifs in the contemporary European novel AU - Korthals Altes, Liesbeth AU - Montfrans, Manet van PY - 2002 VL - 18 SN - 15681858 18758150 SN - 9042012706 9004334130 9789042012707 9789004334137 PB - Amsterdam, Netherlands Rodopi DB - UniCat KW - European fiction KW - Rural conditions in literature KW - Regionalism in literature KW - History and criticism KW - Rural conditions in literature. KW - Regionalism in literature. KW - Postmodernism (Literature) KW - Realism in literature. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Social Sciences KW - General and Others KW - History KW - Society and Culture KW - Political Science KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:12814556 AB - The human condition in rural, provincial locations is once again gaining status as a subject of European ‘high fiction’, after several decades in which it was dismissed on aesthetic and ideological grounds. This volume is one of the first attempts to investigate perspectives on local cultures, values and languages both systematically and in a European context. It does so by examining the works of a variety of authors, including Hugo Claus, Llamazares, Bergounioux and Millet, Buffalino and Consolo, and also several Soviet authors, who paint a grim picture of a collectivized – and thus ossified – rurality. How do these themes relate to the ongoing trend of globalization? How do these works, which are often experimental, connect – in their form, topics, language and ideological subtext – to the traditional rural or regional genres? Far from naively celebrating a lost Eden, most of these ‘new Georgics’ reflect critically on the tensions in contemporary, peripheral, rural or regional cultures, to the point of parodying the traditional topoi and genres. This book is of interest to those wishing to reflect on the dynamics and conflicts in contemporary European rural culture. ER -