London in Literature: Visionary Mappings of the Metropolis

Riassunto

Table of Contents:

1. Approaching Visionary London:
- Patrick Parrinder: "These fragments I have shored against my ruins": Visions of Ruined London from Edmund Spenser to J. G. Ballard
- Francesca Cuojati: De Quincey's Opiate London: From Labyrinth to Palimpsest
- Timothy Webb: Dangerous Plurals: William Wordsworth, Bartholomew Fair, and the Challenges of an Urban Poetics
- John Mepham: London as Auditorium: Public Spaces and Disconnected Talk in Works by Ford Madox Ford, Patrick Hamilton and Virginia Woolfs
- John A Stotesbury: A Postcolonial Reading of Metropolitan Space in Graham Green's The End of the Affair

2. Visionary London:
- Silvia Mergenthal: Whose Cityi Contested Spaces and Contesting Spatialities in Contemporary London Fiction
- Heike Hartung: Walking and Writing the City: Visions of London in the Works of Peter Ackroyd and Ian Sinclair
- Doris Teske: Jim Crace's Arcadia: Public Culture in the Postmodern City
- Susana Onega: The Plato Papers: Peter Ackrody's "Contrary" to Blake's Jerusalem
- Jean-Michel Ganteau: London: The Biography, or, Peter Ackrody's Sublime Geographies
- Mark Rowlinson: Physical Graffiti: The Making of the Represenation of Zone One and Two

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Susana Onega
• Con la collaborazione di: John A. Stotesbury (Editore), Susana Onega (Editore), John A Stotesbury (Editore)
• Editore: Universitätsverlag Winter
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 01.01.2002
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese
• EAN: 9783825314071
• ISBN: 978-3-8253-1407-1
• Numero di pagine: 257
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 16.8 x 1.3 x 24.6 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 434 g
• Serie: Anglistische Forschungen > 309; Anglistische Forschungen > 309
• Categorie: Literaturwissenschaft, London : Geschichte, Woolf, Virginia, London, De Quincey, Thomas, Ackrody, Peter, Green, Graham