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The Artistry of Exile is a new reading of one of the most important themes of nineteenth-century literature. Exile represents a crisis in the always present tension between self and culture, the disturbance of memory, the quest for home, and the survival or not of life's heart q…
History in action -- The radicalization of exile polemic -- Calling the armada -- English history made Spanish -- The king's men -- English voices in Spain -- An Anglo-Spanish voice in Europe -- Between "English" providentialism and reason of state -- (Habsburg) England and Spai…
"Writing, Maurice Blanchot taught us, is not something that is in one’s power. It is, rather, a search for a nonpower that refuses mastery, order, and all established authority. For Blanchot, this search was guided by an enigmatic exigency, an arresting rupture, and a promise of…
In this book, Michael Gillespie provides new readings of James Joyce's main oeuvre through the lens of exile studies, and, in doing so, challenges the tendency in Joyce criticism to give more weight to reading that stress his negative view of Ireland.
Dovlatov in Leningrad -- Dovlatov in emigration -- The zone -- The compromise : journalism and fiction -- Dovlatov's sanctuary and Pushkin -- The suitcase and the fridge -- Ours -- Tales of emigre life -- Dovlatov's posthumous reputation.
