1st Edition

Writing the City Urban Visions and Literary Modernism

By Desmond Harding Copyright 2003
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

Writing the City examines and challenges the traditional transatlantic axis of urban modernism, London-Paris-New York, an axis that has often elided the historical importance of other centers that have shaped metropolitan identities and discourses. According to Desmond Harding, James Joyce's internationalist vision of Dublin generates powerful epistemic and cultural tropes that reconceive the... Read more
Acknowledgments Preface Chapter One: Saxa Loquuntur: The Modernist City Chapter Two: dubliners : The City Betrayed Chapter Three: Grave Memories: The Epitaphic Consciousness of The Dead Chapter Four: The Metropolitan Consciousness of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter Five: ulysses and Manhattan Transfer : A Poetics of Transatlantic Literary Modernism Afterword Notes Works Cited Index

Biography

Desmond Harding