The Intelligible Metropolis
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The Intelligible Metropolis
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Author : Nora Pleßke
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2014-08-31
The Intelligible Metropolis written by Nora Pleßke and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-31 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. Nora Pleßke develops a model of urban mentality to be employed for cities worldwide. Against the background of the Spatial Turn, she identifies dominant urban-specific structures of London mentality in contemporary London novels, such as Monica Ali's »Brick Lane«, J.G. Ballard's »Millennium People«, Nick Hornby's »A Long Way Down«, and Ian McEwan's »Saturday«.
Translocality In Contemporary City Novels
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Author : Lena Mattheis
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-04-20
Translocality In Contemporary City Novels written by Lena Mattheis and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Translocality in Contemporary City Novels responds to the fact that twenty-first-century Anglophone novels are increasingly characterised by translocality—the layering and blending of two or more distant settings. Considering translocal and transcultural writing as a global phenomenon, this book draws on multidisciplinary research, from globalisation theory to the study of narratives to urban studies, to explore a corpus of thirty-two novels—by authors such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dionne Brand, Kiran Desai, and Xiaolu Guo—set in a total of ninety-seven cities. Lena Mattheis examines six of the most common strategies used in contemporary urban fiction to make translocal experiences of the world narratable and turn them into relatable stories: simultaneity, palimpsests, mapping, scaling, non-places, and haunting. Combining and developing further theories, approaches, and techniques from a variety of research fields—including narratology, human geography, transculturality, diaspora spaces, and postcolonial perspectives—Mattheis develops a set of cross-disciplinary techniques in literary urban studies.
Time The City And The Literary Imagination
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Author : Anne-Marie Evans
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-11-18
Time The City And The Literary Imagination written by Anne-Marie Evans and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination explores the relationship between the constructions and representations of the relationship between time and the city in literature published between the late eighteenth century and the present. This collection offers a new way of reading the literary city by tracing the ways in which the relationship between time and urban space can shape literary narratives and forms. The essays consider the representation of a range of literary cities from across the world and consider how an understanding of time, and time passing, can impact on our understanding of the primary texts. Literature necessarily deals with time, both as a function of storytelling and as an experience of reading. In this volume, the contributions demonstrate how literature about cities brings to the forefront the relationship between individual and communal experience and time.
Precarious Fl Nerie And The Ethics Of The Self In Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
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Author : Eva Ries
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-06-21
Precarious Fl Nerie And The Ethics Of The Self In Contemporary Anglophone Fiction written by Eva Ries and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.
Law And The Humanities Cultural Perspectives
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Author : Chiara Battisti
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-12-02
Law And The Humanities Cultural Perspectives written by Chiara Battisti and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-02 with Law categories.
The interdisciplinary series “Law & Literature” takes a systematic look at the correlation between literature and the law. The studies presented in this series analyze the complex interrelation between two cultural spheres which are not only at the basis of Western Culture and Society, but share in a common focus on texts. Bringing together contributions by jurists, historians of law, legal philosophers, and specialists in literary and cultural studies, this series reflects a trend in current inter- and transdisciplinary research which has recently shown rapid growth both in Europe and the United States.
Afterlives Of Abandoned Work
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Author : Matthew Harle
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2018-12-27
Afterlives Of Abandoned Work written by Matthew Harle and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Afterlives of Abandoned Work considers the relevance of unfinished projects to literary history and criticism, looking beyond famous posthumous work to investigate the abandoned everyday, from scrapped plans and rejected ideas to half-written novels or unfinished artistic works. It traces how the reading of abandoned creative endeavor-whether arriving in the form of a rejection letter, a disagreement with a collaborator, or the simple act of walking away from one's desk-can change the way we think about cultural production, the creative process, and the intellectual construction of everyday life. Over five distinct journeys through a variety of archives, from major research libraries to the unique collections of individual enthusiasts, Matthew Harle draws surprising connections between literary studies, media studies, and visual arts, exploring unfinished projects from Thomas Pynchon, Muriel Spark, B.S. Johnson, Harold Pinter, and others. Rooted in literary criticism, Afterlives of Abandoned Work reads unbuilt buildings, unfilmed screenplays, and unpublished novels and radio sketches as forms of text that can help us consider the enduring fragmentation and anecdotal construction of cultural form, as well as expand literary criticism's approach to the archive.
Migration Diaspora Exile
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Author : Daniel Stein
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-05-27
Migration Diaspora Exile written by Daniel Stein and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Migration is the most volatile sociopolitical issue of our time, as the current escalation of discourse and action in the United States and Europe concerning walls, border security, refugee camps, and deportations indicates. The essays by the international and interdisciplinary group of scholars assembled in this volume offer critical filters suggesting that this escalation and its historical precedents do not preclude redemptive counterstrategies. Encoded in narratives of affiliation and escape, these counterstrategies are variously launched as literary, cinematic, and civic interventions in past and present constructions of diasporic, migratory, or exilic identities. The essays trace these narratives through the figure of the “exile” as it moves across times, borders, and genres, transmogrifying into the fugitive, the escapee, the refugee, the nomad, the Other. Arguing that narratives and figures of migration to and in Europe and the Americas share tropes that link migration to kinship, community, refuge, and hegemony, the volume identifies a transhistorical, transcultural, and transnational common ground for experiences of mediated diaspora, migration, and exile at a time when public discourse and policy-making emphasize borders, divisions, and violent confrontations.
Perspectives On The Contemporary Novel
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Author : Abdulgawad Elnady
language : en
Publisher: Bayan Translation, Publishing & Distribution
Release Date : 2020-11-12
Perspectives On The Contemporary Novel written by Abdulgawad Elnady and has been published by Bayan Translation, Publishing & Distribution this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-12 with Fiction categories.
I am introducing the kind reader to a sample selection of studies on the contemporary novel. Egyptian, Ghanaian, British, Portuguese, Sudanese, and Canadian, the novels, short stories, and film-adaptation of novels discussed range also from ones grappling with man’s plight in an ever traumatized and traumatizing world to national and international politics, ecocritical issues, critical, cinematic and translational concerns, the anxiety of resistance and coexistence, geocritical horizons, and third-culture parameters. Table of Contents Dedication. Preface. Chapter One: Scatology in the Postcolonial Ghanaian and Egyptian Novel Chapter Two: A Geocritical Reading of Some of Alice Munro’s Short Stories Chapter Three: A Cixousian Reading of Alice Munro’s and Mohja Kahf’s Short Stories Chapter Four: The Anxiety of Resistance and Coexistence in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator. Error! Bookmark not defined. Chapter Five: A Reading of Jose Saramago’s Blindness in the Context of Ecocriticism Chapter Six: The Problematics of Translating Literary Criticism Chapter Seven: The Poetry of Science Writing: the Panacea of the Third Culture in Ian McEwan’s Saturday. Works Cited
Urban Walking The Fl Neur As An Icon Of Metropolitan Culture In Literature And Film
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Author : Isabel Vila-Cabanes
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
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Urban Walking The Fl Neur As An Icon Of Metropolitan Culture In Literature And Film written by Isabel Vila-Cabanes and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Literary Criticism categories.
The volume assembles fresh treatments on the flâneur in literature, film and culture from a variety of angles. Its individual contributions cover established as well as previously unnoticed textual and filmic source materials in a historical perspective ranging from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. The range of topics covered demonstrates the ongoing productivity of flânerie as a viable paradigm for the artistic approach to urban culture and the continuing suitability of flânerie as an analytic category for the scholarly examination of urban representation in the arts. This productiveness also extends to the questioning, re-evaluation, and enhancement of flânerie’s theoretical foundations as they were laid down by Walter Benjamin and others. The work will be particularly relevant for students and scholars of literary studies, film studies and gender studies, as well as for theoretical approaches to flânerie as an important aspect of urban culture.
Maggie O Farrell
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Author : Elaine Canning
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-12-28
Maggie O Farrell written by Elaine Canning and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Bringing together cultural analysis and textual readings on critically-acclaimed bestseller and winner of the prestigious Women's Prize for Fiction, Maggie O'Farrell, this collection covers her nine novels, her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am, two children's books and features an exclusive interview with the author herself. The first full-length study of O'Farrell's work, this book offers critical explorations from her earliest works to the award-winning Hamnet and most recent best-selling novel, The Marriage Portrait. With a timeline of her life and works, as well as suggested further reading, the themes explored include grief and sacrifice, longing and belonging, trauma, translation, palimpsestic texts and the relation of her work to history and the female domestic gothic.