Urban Space and Late Twentieth-Century New York Literature

Reformed Geographies
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-46476-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3261 g

Reihe: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

Interdisciplinary in nature, this project draws on fiction, non-fiction and archival material to theorize urban space and literary/cultural production in the context of the United States and New York City. Spanning from the mid-1970s fiscal crisis to the 1987 Market Crash, New York writing becomes akin to geographical fieldwork in this rich study.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Neculai, C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: Urban Hermeneutics and the Problem of the Fetish Space PART I: MAPPINGS 1. The Paradigmatic Exceptionality of New York: Scaffolding a Radical Literary Urbanism 2. Downtown, Uptown, and the Urbanization of Literary Consciousness PART II: A NEW YORK TRILOGY INC. 3. Scale, Culture, and Real Estate: The Reproduction of Lowliness in Great Jones Street 4. Kill the Poor: Low-Rent Aesthetics and the New Housing Order 5. Uneven City: Brightness Falls and the Ethnography of Fictitious Finance Epilogue: The Politics of Urban Writing and the Hegemony of FIRE Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Catalina Neculai is Lecturer in Academic Writing at the Centre for Academic Writing at Coventry University, UK.