Harding Writing the City

Urban Visions and Literary Modernism
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-94746-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 236 Seiten

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 Literaturwissenschaft

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