Forsdick, C and Leak, A and Phillips, R (Eds).
(2019)
Georges Perec's Geographies: Material, Performative and Textual Spaces.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Georges Perec, novelist, filmmaker and essayist, was one of the most inventive and original writers of the twentieth century. A fascinating aspect of his work is its intrinsically geographical nature. With major projects on space and place, Perec’s writing speaks to a variety of geographical, urban and architectural concerns, both in a substantive way, including a focus on cities, streets, homes and apartments, and in a methodological way, experimenting with methods of urban exploration and observation, classification, enumeration and taxonomy. Georges Perec’s Geographies is the first book to offer a rounded picture of Perec’s geographical interests. Divided into two parts, Part I, Perec’s Geographies, explores the geographies within Perec’s work in film, literature and radio, from descriptions of streets to the spaces of his texts, while Part II, Perecquian Geographies, explores geographies in a range of material and metaphorical forms, including photographic essays, soundscapes, theatre, dance and writing, created by those directly inspired by Perec. Georges Perec’s Geographies extends the body of Perec criticism beyond Literary and French Studies to disciplines including Geography, Urban Studies, Planning and Architecture to offer a complete and systematic examination of Georges Perec’s geographies. The diversity of readings and approaches will be of interest not only to Perec readers and fans but to students and researchers across these subjects.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Georges Perec's Geographies: Material, Performative and Textual Spaces |
| ISBN-13: | 9781787354418 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787354418 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787354418 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Contributors, 2019 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in the captions, 2019 This book is published under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC license (CC BY-NC 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, redistribute and adapt the work for non-commercial use, provided the original author and source are credited, and any changes made are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Forsdick, C., Leak A., and Phillips, R. (eds.). 2019. George Perec’s Geographies: Material, Performative and Textual Spaces. London: UCL Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787354418 Further details about Creative Commons licenses are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Any third-party material in this book is published under the book’s Creative Commons license unless indicated otherwise in the credit line to the material. If you would like to re-use any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons license, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. |
| Keywords: | Georges Perec, literature, geography |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10083077 |
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