Literary Urban Studies – serie
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29 produkter
Twenty-First-Century British Fiction and the City
Häftad, 2018
1081 kr
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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) …
Literary Psychogeography of London
Otherworlds of Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair
Av Ann Tso
Inbunden, 2020
783 kr
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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 …
Literary Psychogeography of London
Otherworlds of Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair
Av Ann Tso
Häftad, 2021
783 kr
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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 …
Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination
Av Anne-Marie Evans, Kaley Kramer
Inbunden, 2020
1439 kr
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Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination explores the relationship between the constructions and representations of the relationship between time and the city in literature published between the late eighteenth century and the present. This collection offers a new way of reading the literary …
Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination
Av Anne-Marie Evans, Kaley Kramer
Häftad, 2021
1439 kr
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Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination explores the relationship between the constructions and representations of the relationship between time and the city in literature published between the late eighteenth century and the present. This collection offers a new way of reading the literary …
Right to the City Novels in Turkish Literature from the 1960s to the Present
Inbunden, 2021
1439 kr
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Right to the City Novels in Turkish Literature from the 1960s to the Present analyses the representation of rural migration to Istanbul in literature, placing Henri Lefebvre’s concept of the right to the city at the centre of the argument. Using a framework of critical urban theory, the book …
Right to the City Novels in Turkish Literature from the 1960s to the Present
Häftad, 2022
1439 kr
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Right to the City Novels in Turkish Literature from the 1960s to the Present analyses the representation of rural migration to Istanbul in literature, placing Henri Lefebvre’s concept of the right to the city at the centre of the argument. Using a framework of critical urban theory, the book …
Sydney and Its Waterway in Australian Literary Modernism
Av Meg Brayshaw
Inbunden, 2021
604 kr
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This book examines literary representations of Sydney and its waterway in the context of Australian modernism and modernity in the interwar period. Then as now, Sydney Harbour is both an ecological wonder and ladened with economic, cultural, historical and aesthetic significance for the city by its …
Sydney and Its Waterway in Australian Literary Modernism
Av Meg Brayshaw
Häftad, 2022
604 kr
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This book examines literary representations of Sydney and its waterway in the context of Australian modernism and modernity in the interwar period. Then as now, Sydney Harbour is both an ecological wonder and ladened with economic, cultural, historical and aesthetic significance for the city by its …
Translocality in Contemporary City Novels
Inbunden, 2021
1320 kr
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Translocality in Contemporary City Novels responds to the fact that twenty-first-century Anglophone novels are increasingly characterised by translocality—the layering and blending of two or more distant settings. Considering translocal and transcultural writing as a global phenomenon, this book …
Translocality in Contemporary City Novels
Häftad, 2022
1320 kr
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Translocality in Contemporary City Novels responds to the fact that twenty-first-century Anglophone novels are increasingly characterised by translocality—the layering and blending of two or more distant settings. Considering translocal and transcultural writing as a global phenomenon, this book …
Literatures of Urban Possibility
Av Markku Salmela, Lieven Ameel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1797 kr
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This book demonstrates how city literature addresses questions of possibility. In city literature, ideas of possibility emerge primarily through two perspectives: texts may focus on what is possible for cities, and they may present the urban environment as a site of possibility for individuals or …
Literatures of Urban Possibility
Av Markku Salmela, Lieven Ameel m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
1797 kr
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This book demonstrates how city literature addresses questions of possibility. In city literature, ideas of possibility emerge primarily through two perspectives: texts may focus on what is possible for cities, and they may present the urban environment as a site of possibility for individuals or …
Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature
City Fissures
Inbunden, 2022
1320 kr
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The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature explores transnational perspectives of modern city life in Europe by engaging with the fantastic tropes and metaphors used by writers of short fiction. Focusing on the literary city and literary representations of urban experience …
Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature
City Fissures
Häftad, 2023
1320 kr
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The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature explores transnational perspectives of modern city life in Europe by engaging with the fantastic tropes and metaphors used by writers of short fiction. Focusing on the literary city and literary representations of urban experience …
"Invisible Cities" and the Urban Imagination
Inbunden, 2022
1916 kr
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In 1972, Italo Calvino published Invisible Cities, a literary book that masterfully combines philosophy and poetry, rigid structure and free play, theoretical insight and glittering prose. The text is an extended meditation on urban life, and it continues to resonate not only among literary …
"Invisible Cities" and the Urban Imagination
Häftad, 2023
1916 kr
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In 1972, Italo Calvino published Invisible Cities, a literary book that masterfully combines philosophy and poetry, rigid structure and free play, theoretical insight and glittering prose. The text is an extended meditation on urban life, and it continues to resonate not only among literary …
Literary Capitals in the Long Nineteenth Century
Spaces beyond the Centres
Av Arunima Bhattacharya, Richard Hibbitt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1677 kr
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This book develops our understanding of the global literary field in the long nineteenth century by discussing nine different places outside the established metropoles. It shows how different economic, geographical and political factors combined to give each place its own distinctive literary …
Literary Capitals in the Long Nineteenth Century
Spaces beyond the Centres
Av Arunima Bhattacharya, Richard Hibbitt m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
1677 kr
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This book develops our understanding of the global literary field in the long nineteenth century by discussing nine different places outside the established metropoles. It shows how different economic, geographical and political factors combined to give each place its own distinctive literary …
Navigating Urban Soundscapes
Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction
Inbunden, 2023
1439 kr
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Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction offers an innovative analytical framework to explore sound in different media and across two distinct urban soundscapes. Studying a wide range of novels, films, and radio dramas, using Dublin and Los Angeles as case studies, Annika …
Navigating Urban Soundscapes
Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction
Häftad, 2024
1439 kr
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Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction offers an innovative analytical framework to explore sound in different media and across two distinct urban soundscapes. Studying a wide range of novels, films, and radio dramas, using Dublin and Los Angeles as case studies, Annika …
Utopia, Equity and Ideology in Urban Texts
Fair and Unfair Cities
Av Michael G. Kelly, Mariano Paz
Inbunden, 2023
1979 kr
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Utopia, Equity and Ideology in Urban Texts: Fair and Unfair Cities explores the complex interrelations of three key critical topics across a diverse range of urban writing. Interrogating the links and tensions between aesthetic and political priorities in the representation and imagining of urban …
Utopia, Equity and Ideology in Urban Texts
Fair and Unfair Cities
Av Michael G. Kelly, Mariano Paz
Häftad, 2024
1558 kr
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Utopia, Equity and Ideology in Urban Texts: Fair and Unfair Cities explores the complex interrelations of three key critical topics across a diverse range of urban writing. Interrogating the links and tensions between aesthetic and political priorities in the representation and imagining of urban …
Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism
Av Patricia García, Anna-Leena Toivanen
Inbunden, 2024
1677 kr
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Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism explores the entwinement of mobility and immobility in urban spaces by focusing on their representation in literary narratives but also in visual and performing arts. Across a range of geographical contexts, this volume builds on the new mobilities …
Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism
Av Patricia García, Anna-Leena Toivanen
Häftad, 2025
1677 kr
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Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism explores the entwinement of mobility and immobility in urban spaces by focusing on their representation in literary narratives but also in visual and performing arts. Across a range of geographical contexts, this volume builds on the new mobilities …
Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, and Resistance
Cities Under Stress
Av Eric Prieto, Liam Lanigan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1916 kr
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This volume seeks to address questions of urban crisis from an interdisciplinary perspective that foregrounds the particular roles that literature and the creative arts play in both conceptualizing and addressing the multiple challenges facing cities. Noting that the successive crises of recent …
Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, and Resistance
Cities Under Stress
Av Eric Prieto, Liam Lanigan m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
1916 kr
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This volume seeks to address questions of urban crisis from an interdisciplinary perspective that foregrounds the particular roles that literature and the creative arts play in both conceptualizing and addressing the multiple challenges facing cities. Noting that the successive crises of recent …
Twenty-First-Century British Fiction and the City
Inbunden, 2018
1558 kr
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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) …
Irish Urban Fictions
Av Maria Beville, Deirdre Flynn
Inbunden, 2018
1200 kr
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This collection is the first to examine how the city is written in modern Irish fiction. Focusing on the multi-faceted, layered, and ever-changing topography of the city in Irish writing, it brings together studies of Irish and Northern Irish fictions which contribute to a more complete picture of …
