Writing the City : Urban Visions and Literary Modernism

ISBN-13: 9780415942768 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 236 str.

Desmond Harding; Harding Harding;Harding

Opis

This work examines and challenges the traditional transatlantic axis, London-Paris-New York, that marks the intersection between western thinking about the City and the advent of literary modernism. Taking up the works of James Joyce and John Dos Passos, and drawing on a variety of interpretive strategies from literary criticism, social history, urban studies, sociology and cultural studies, Harding investigates the formation of a specifically Atlantic system of metropolitan identities and discourses.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments Preface Chapter One: Saxa Loquuntur: The Modernist City Chapter Two: dubliners : The City Betrayed Chapter Three: Grave Memories: The Epitaphic Consciousness of The Dead Chapter Four: The Metropolitan Consciousness of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter Five: ulysses and Manhattan Transfer : A Poetics of Transatlantic Literary Modernism Afterword Notes Works Cited Index

O autorze

Desmond Harding