The Literary Psychogeography of London

Otherworlds of Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-52982-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 116 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 182 g

Reihe: Literary Urban Studies

This Pivot book examines literary elements of urban topography that have animated Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair’s respective representations of London-ness. Ann Tso argues these authors write London “psychogeographically” to deconstruct popular visions of London with colonial and neoliberal undertones. Moore’s psychogeography consists of bird’s-eye views that reveal the brute force threatening to unravel Londonscape from within; Ackroyd’s aims to detect London sensuously, since every new awareness recalls an otherworldly London; Sinclair’s conjures up a narrative consciousness made erratic by London’s disunified landscape. Drawing together the dystopian, the phenomenological, and the postcolonial, Tso explores how these texts characterize “London-ness” as estranging.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tso, Ann

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1/ Infinite London: the London-ness of London.- Chapter 2/ The Disintegration of London in Alan Moore’s Psychogeography.- Chapter 3/ Peter Ackroyd’s Sensuous Detective Method in Hawksmoor.- Chapter 4/ Writing Psychogeography, Writing London through a Screen Darkly: White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings .- Chapter 5/ London-ness: a Marriage of the Literary and the Psychogeographical.

Über Autor(innen)

Ann Tso is Instructor of English at Lethbridge College, Canada. Much of her research concerns popular re-imaginings of world cities, particularly theories of worlding and alternate histories. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Neo-Victorian Studies, TheLiterary London Journal, and Journal of Narrative Theory.