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Paralyses literature, travel, and ethnography in French modernity

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  • "Modernity has long been equated with motion, travel, and change, from Marx's critical diagnoses of economic instability to the Futurists' glorification of speed. Likewise, metaphors of travel serve widely in discussions of empire, cultural contact, translation, and globalization, from Deleuze's "nomadology" to James Clifford's "traveling cultures." John Culbert, in contrast, argues that the key texts of modernity and postmodernity may be approached through figures and narratives of paralysis: motionâ„—¡is no more defining of modern travel than fixations, resistance, and impasse; concepts and figu."

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  • "Electronic books"
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"

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  • "Paralyses literature, travel, and ethnography in French modernity"
  • "Paralyses: Literature, Travel, and Ethnography in French Modernity"
  • "Paralyses : literature, travel, and ethnography in French modernity"