Spatial Politics in Contemporary London Literature: Writing Architecture and the Body

ISBN-13: 9781138547506 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 212 str.

Laura Colombino

Opis

This book analyses the spatial politics of a range of British novelists writing on London since the1950s, emphasizing spatial representation as an embodied practice at the point where architectural space and the body enter into relation with each other.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Modular Bodies and Architecture as Skin: J. G. Ballard (1956-1975) 2. Human Ruins and Architectural Spectres (the 1980s and Beyond) PART I: Insubstantial Bodies and the City’s Organicism: Peter Ackroyd, Geoff Dyer and Michael Bracewell PART II: Ruins and Memory: Michael Moorcock and Iain Sinclair 3. Traumatized Subjects and Chaotic Substances: Iain Sinclair (the 1990s and the Millennium) 4. Corporeality within Abstract Space (from the 1970s to the Post-millennial) PART I: Islands and Rifts: J. G. Ballard and Geoff Ryman PART II: Stages and Intersections: Tom McCarthy and Zadie Smith Coda

O autorze

Laura Colombino is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Genoa, Italy.