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Writing the Modern City: Literature, Architecture, Modernity book cover

1st Edition

Writing the Modern City Literature, Architecture, Modernity

Edited By Sarah Edwards, Jonathan Charley Copyright 2012
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge
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Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have represented cultural modernity, political idealism and architectural innovation.  Writing the Modern City  explores the diverse and fascinating relationships between... Read more

Preface Jonathan Charley and Sarah Edwards  Time, Space and Narrative: Reflections on Architecture, Literature and Modernity Jonathan Charley  Part 1. Memory, Nation, Identity  Remembering and Forgetting: Private and Public Lives in the Imagined Nation Sarah Edwards  Poets, Tramps and a Town-Planner: A Survey of Raymond Unwin’s On-Site Persona Brian Ward  Unhomely Desire: Dismantling the Walls of Difference in Gora’s Kolkata Mark Mukherjee Campbell  ‘The Past Forsworn’: Colonialism and Counterhistory in the Work of Doris Lessing Victoria Rosner  Part 2. Movement, Culture, Genre  Drugs, Crime and Other Worlds Jonathan Charley  Architectural Crimes and Architectural Solutions Peter Clandfield  Philip K. Dick’s Disturbanism: Towards Psychospatial Readings of Science Fiction David T. Fortin  Alexander Trocchi: Glasgow through the Eye of a Needle Gary A. Boyd  Part 3. Narrative, Form, Space Anonymous Encounters: The Structuring of Space in Postmodern Narratives of the City Sarah Edwards  The Novel Architecture of Georges Perec Stefanie Elisabeth Sobelle  Sex Happens: a Phenomenological Reading of the Casual Encounter Renée Tobe  ‘There Are Different Ways of Making the Streets Tell’: Narrative, Urban Space and Orientation Inga Bryden

Biography

Sarah Edwards lectures in English Studies at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. Her publications include articles in Women’s Writing, Journal of Gender Studies, Life Writing, Journal of Popular Culture, Adaptation and Review of English Studies. She is currently completing a monograph, The Edwardians Since 1910, and is the leader of an ESRC seminar series, Nostalgia in the 21st Century (2010–11).

Jonathan Charley is Director of Cultural Studies in the Department of Architecture at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. He studied architecture in London and Moscow and works mainly on the political and social history of buildings and cities.

This is an ideal foundation text, and one that operates too as a springboard in its breadth as well as its finely detailed analyses. - Review 31
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