In 1972, Italo Calvino publishedInvisible Cities, a literary book that masterfully combines philosophy and poetry, rigid structure and free play, theoretical insight and glittering prose. The text is an extended meditation on urban life, and it continues to resonate not only among literary scholars, but among social scientists, architects, and urban planners as well. To commemorate the 50thanniversary ofInvisible Cities, this collection of essays serves as both an appreciation and a critical engagement. Drawing from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts, this...
In 1972, Italo Calvino publishedInvisible Cities, a literary book that masterfully combines philosophy and poetry, rigid structure and free play, theo...
Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles in Fictionoffers an innovative analytical framework to explore sound in different media and across two distinct urban soundscapes. Studying a wide range of novels, films, and radio dramas, using Dublin and Los Angeles as case studies, Annika Eisenberg asks how sounds are aestheticised to signify urban space in fiction, and how sounds allow such fictional urban spaces to be navigated, both byauscultators,the characters listening within a work of fiction, and byauditeurs,the implied audience of a fictional work. Eisenberg argues that the...
Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles in Fictionoffers an innovative analytical framework to explore sound in different media and acros...
This book develops our understanding of the global literary field in the long nineteenth century by discussing nine different places outside the established metropoles. It shows how different economic, geographical and political factors combined to give each place its own distinctive literary culture and symbolic capital. Taking a geocritical approach, the book shows how its different case studies can be seen as ‘literary capitals’ in terms of their role within the wider nation, region or empire. The volume is divided into three parts. Part One discusses Kolkata, Hong Kong and Buenos...
This book develops our understanding of the global literary field in the long nineteenth century by discussing nine different places outside the estab...
The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literatureexplores transnational perspectives of modern city life in Europe by engaging with the fantastic tropes and metaphors used by writers of short fiction. Focusing on the literary city and literary representations of urban experience throughout the nineteenth century, the works discussed incorporate supernatural occurrences in a European city and the supernatural of these stories stems from and belongs to the city. The argument is structured around three primary themes. “Architectures”, “Encounters” and “Rhythms” make...
The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literatureexplores transnational perspectives of modern city life in Europe by engaging with the fa...
Utopia, Equity and Ideology in Urban Texts: Fair and Unfair Citiesexplores the complex interrelations of three key critical topics across a diverse range of urban writing. Interrogating the links and tensions between aesthetic and political priorities in the representation and imagining of urban life, the volume engages with work from a wide variety of linguistic and cultural origins and across a range of textual practices having the urban phenomenon as a common framing concern. Individual contributions discussing genre and literary fiction, poetic writing, documentary and essayistic texts,...
Utopia, Equity and Ideology in Urban Texts: Fair and Unfair Citiesexplores the complex interrelations of three key critical topics across a diverse ra...
