Contemporary British Literature And Urban Space
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Author | : K. Duff |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2014-12-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137429356 |
Looking at writers such as Will Self, Hani Kureishi, JG Ballard, and Iain Sinclair, Kim Duff's new book examines contemporary British literature and its depiction of the city after the time of Thatcher and mass privatization. This lively study is an important and engaging work for students and scholars alike.
Author | : Magali Cornier Michael |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-07-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783319897271 |
The essays in this edited collection offer incisive and nuanced analyses of and insights into the state of British cities and urban environments in the twenty-first century. Britain’s experiences with industrialization, colonialism, post-colonialism, global capitalism, and the European Union (EU) have had a marked influence on British ideas about and British literature’s depiction of the city and urban contexts. Recent British fiction focuses in particular on cities as intertwined with globalization and global capitalism (including the proliferation of media) and with issues of immigration and migration. Indeed, decolonization has brought large numbers of people from former colonies to Britain, thus making British cities ever more diverse. Such mixing of peoples in urban areas has led to both racist fears and possibilities of cosmopolitan co-existence.
Author | : Kimberly Duff |
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Release | : 2012 |
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Author | : Nick Hubble |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2016-07-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 144119147X |
Contemporary writers such as Peter Ackroyd, J.G. Ballard, John King, Ian McEwan, Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Zadie Smith have been registering the changes to the social and cultural London landscape for years. This volume brings together their vivid representations of the capital. Uniting the readings are themes such as relationship between the country and the city; the capacity of satirical forms to encompass the 'real London'; spatio-temporal transformations and emergences; the relationship between multiculturalism and universalism; the underground as the spatial equivalent of London's unconsciousness and the suburbs as the frontier of the future. The volume creates a framework for new approaches to the representation of London required by the unprecedented social uncertainties of recent years: an invaluable contribution to studies of contemporary writing about London.
Author | : A. Beaumont |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2015-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137393726 |
By examining the representation of urban space in contemporary British fiction, this book argues that key to the political left's strategy was a model of action which folded politics into culture and elevated disenfranchisement to the status of a political principle.
Author | : David James |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2011-10-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1441145702 |
This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. David James considers the work of more than fifteen major British novelists to offer a wide-ranging and accessible commentary on the relationship between landscape and narrative design, demonstrating an approach to the geography of contemporary fiction enriched by the practice of aesthetic criticism. Moving between established and emerging novelists, the book reveals that spatial poetics allow us to chart distinctive and surprising affinities between practitioners, showing how writers today compel us to pay close attention to technique when linking the depiction of physical places to new developments in novelistic craft.
Author | : Philippe Laplace |
Publisher | : Presses Univ. Franche-Comté |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : British literature |
ISBN | : 9782848670188 |
Author | : Z. Skoulding |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2013-10-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137368047 |
This book focuses on the role of the city, and its processes of mutual transformation, in poetry by experimental women writers. Readings of their work are placed in the context of theories of urban space, while new visions of the contemporary city and its global relationships are drawn from their innovations in language and form.
Author | : C. Neculai |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2014-03-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137340207 |
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.
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Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2011 |
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