Writing the City

Urban Visions and Literary Modernism
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-415-51282-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 351 g

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Writing the City examines and challenges the traditional transatlantic axis of urban modernism, London-Paris-New York, an axis that has often elided the historical importance of other centers that have shaped metropolitan identities and discourses. According to Desmond Harding, James Joyce's internationalist vision of Dublin generates powerful epistemic and cultural tropes that reconceive the idea of the modern city as a moral phenomenon in transcultural and transhistorical terms. Taking up the works of both Joyce and John Dos Passos, Harding investigates the lasting contributions these author's made to transatlantic intellectual thought in their efforts to envisage the city.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harding, Desmond

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Desmond Harding