Reflecting on the City Through Literature
Urban Spaces, Differences and Embodiments
Series: Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 30 January 2025
- ISBN 9781032527376
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages160 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 294 g
- Language English 658
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Short description:
This book develops and demonstrates an interdisciplinary method that reads literary works as a way of thinking about the city. Literary works do not only provide reflections of the city ? depictions of the city as an aesthetically compelling setting ? but the literary reflection of the city also offers a critical reflection on the city.
MoreLong description:
This book develops and demonstrates an interdisciplinary method that reads literary works as a way of thinking about the city. Literary works do not only provide reflections of the city ? depictions of the city as an aesthetically compelling setting ? but the literary reflection of the city also offers a critical reflection on the city.
How can spatial difference be conceived in cities that are changing beyond the form of the classical modern metropolis of the early 20th century? How can one think of the relation between individual urban subjects and their urban environment, when neither spaces nor discourses of the city provide them with an answer to the question where they might "belong"? How does the human body interact with its urban surroundings, and how should technological mediations be thought of? This book approaches these questions through analysing literary texts, focusing on concepts like heterotopia, non-place and the posthuman.
This book will be of interest to interdisciplinary scholars and students of the city, particularly in the fields of Urban Studies, Literary Studies, Geography, and Architecture.
MoreTable of Contents:
1. Introduction: Reflections of the city, reflections on the city
2. Spatialities, differences and practices: "The Balloon" and City of Glass
3. Beyond the Negative: Non-location and The Crying of Lot 49
4. Bodies in Urban Space: Cosmopolis
5. Conclusion: Narrativity and the City
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