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Portable Modernisms: The Art of Travelling Light (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture) by Emily Ridge is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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Luggage is an overlooked detail in the stock sketch of the expatriated modernist writer from the valise-fashioned desks of both James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov to the lost manuscript-laden cases of Ernest Hemingway and Walter Benjamin. While the trope of modernist exile has long been spotlighted, little attention has been given to the material meaning of this condition. What things and objects do modernism's exiles and emigres carry with them and how does the act of carriage enter into the mode
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Emily Ridge
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781474434621
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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