The new Georgics : rural and regional motifs in the contemporary European novel /
The new Georgics : rural and regional motifs in the contemporary European novel /
edited by Liesbeth Korthals Altes and Manet van Montfrans.
- 1 online resource (244 pages)
- European studies, a journal of European culture, history and politics ; 18 .
- European Studies 18. .
Chiefly English, with some contributions in French.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
AUTHORS IN THIS VOLUME / INTRODUCTION: THE NEW GEORGICS: RURAL AND REGIONAL MOTIFS IN THE CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN NOVEL / NATURE, HISTORY AND MODERNITY / HUGO CLAUS’S RURAL RUMOURS / ‘FROM NATURAL TO UNNATURAL’: THE IMAGE OF AUSTRIA AS ‘HEILE WELT’ AND ITS CONSEQUENCES / LE ‘THULSERN’ DE GERHARD KÖPF: SI PRÈS, SI LOIN / VOICE, TEXT AND LITERACY IN THE ENGLISH GEORGIC OF ADAM THORPE’S ULVERTON: A POSTMODERN INTERROGATION OF THE COUNTRY-CITY DEBATE / RESHAPING MEMORY: BUFALINO, CONSOLO AND THE SICILIAN TRADITION / LE ROMAN RURAL PORTUGAIS DANS L’ACTUALITÉ / THE RUSSIAN VILLAGE WRITERS / PIERRE BERGOUNIOUX: UN LIMOUSIN ENTRE DESCARTES ET BOURDIEU / LE PLATEAU DES MILLE MYSTÈRES: RÉEL ET FANTASTIQUE CHEZ RICHARD MILLET / THE FRAMING OF THE WORLD IN THE NOVELS OF THE SWISS AUTHOR MARGRIT SCHRIBER / SERGIO MALDINI AND THE NORTH-EAST OF ITALY / THE METAPHORICAL LANDSCAPE OF THE SPANISH AUTHOR JULIO LLAMAZARES / FICTION AND REALITY IN SMILLA’S SENSE OF SNOW / LOSS IN MALDEGEM AND JORWERD COUNTRY ‘SITES’ IN CONTEMPORARY DUTCH/FLEMISH LITERATURE / Liesbeth Korthals Altes and Manet van Montfrans -- Liesbeth Korthals Altes and Manet van Montfrans -- Joep Leerssen -- Dirk de Geest -- Andrea Kunne -- Hans Hartje -- Richard Todd -- Francesca Neri and Giampiero Segneri -- Fernando Venâncio -- Arthur Langeveld -- Liesbeth Korthals Altes and Manet van Montfrans -- Sjef Houppermans -- Hans Ester -- Elisabeth Koenraads -- Dorothée te Riele -- Annelies van Hees -- Ton Brouwers.
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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.
9789004334137
10.1163/9789004334137 DOI
1900-1999
European fiction--20th century.
European fiction--Influence.
Country life--Europe.
Country life.
European fiction.
European fiction--Influence.
Europe.
PN849.E8 / N49 2002
809.3
Chiefly English, with some contributions in French.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
AUTHORS IN THIS VOLUME / INTRODUCTION: THE NEW GEORGICS: RURAL AND REGIONAL MOTIFS IN THE CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN NOVEL / NATURE, HISTORY AND MODERNITY / HUGO CLAUS’S RURAL RUMOURS / ‘FROM NATURAL TO UNNATURAL’: THE IMAGE OF AUSTRIA AS ‘HEILE WELT’ AND ITS CONSEQUENCES / LE ‘THULSERN’ DE GERHARD KÖPF: SI PRÈS, SI LOIN / VOICE, TEXT AND LITERACY IN THE ENGLISH GEORGIC OF ADAM THORPE’S ULVERTON: A POSTMODERN INTERROGATION OF THE COUNTRY-CITY DEBATE / RESHAPING MEMORY: BUFALINO, CONSOLO AND THE SICILIAN TRADITION / LE ROMAN RURAL PORTUGAIS DANS L’ACTUALITÉ / THE RUSSIAN VILLAGE WRITERS / PIERRE BERGOUNIOUX: UN LIMOUSIN ENTRE DESCARTES ET BOURDIEU / LE PLATEAU DES MILLE MYSTÈRES: RÉEL ET FANTASTIQUE CHEZ RICHARD MILLET / THE FRAMING OF THE WORLD IN THE NOVELS OF THE SWISS AUTHOR MARGRIT SCHRIBER / SERGIO MALDINI AND THE NORTH-EAST OF ITALY / THE METAPHORICAL LANDSCAPE OF THE SPANISH AUTHOR JULIO LLAMAZARES / FICTION AND REALITY IN SMILLA’S SENSE OF SNOW / LOSS IN MALDEGEM AND JORWERD COUNTRY ‘SITES’ IN CONTEMPORARY DUTCH/FLEMISH LITERATURE / Liesbeth Korthals Altes and Manet van Montfrans -- Liesbeth Korthals Altes and Manet van Montfrans -- Joep Leerssen -- Dirk de Geest -- Andrea Kunne -- Hans Hartje -- Richard Todd -- Francesca Neri and Giampiero Segneri -- Fernando Venâncio -- Arthur Langeveld -- Liesbeth Korthals Altes and Manet van Montfrans -- Sjef Houppermans -- Hans Ester -- Elisabeth Koenraads -- Dorothée te Riele -- Annelies van Hees -- Ton Brouwers.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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.
9789004334137
10.1163/9789004334137 DOI
1900-1999
European fiction--20th century.
European fiction--Influence.
Country life--Europe.
Country life.
European fiction.
European fiction--Influence.
Europe.
PN849.E8 / N49 2002
809.3