Main entry:

Wirth-Nesher, Hana, 1948- author.

Title & Author:

City codes : reading the modern urban novel / Hana Wirth-Nesher.

Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Description:

x, 244 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-238) and index.
Introduction: reading cities -- Partitioned cities: spatical and temporal walls -- Isaac Bashevis Singer's Warsaw, The Family Moskat ; Amos Oz's Jerusalem, My Michael -- Divided cities: social walls. Theodore Dreiser's Chicago and New York, Sister Carrie ; Ralph Ellison's New York, Invisible Man -- Translated cities: domesticating the foreign. Henry James's Paris, The Ambassadors ; Henry Roth's New York, Call It Sleep -- Estranged cities: defamiliarizing home. James Joyce's Dublin, Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ; Virginia Woolf's London, Mrs. Dalloway -- Epilogue: metropolitan musings.

Summary:

City Codes is a study of the representation of the city in the modern novel that takes difference as its point of departure, so that cities are read according to the cultural and social position of the urbanite City Codes argues that the modern urban novel, in contrast to earlier novels, is characterized by an intersection of public and private space, but that this intersection is mapped differently according to the position of the city dweller in terms of history, politics, nationality, gender, class, and race. City Codes foregrounds setting in the reading and writing of narrative, and specifically maps the modern urban novel as a text in which boundaries dividing private and public space disappear. It moves from boundaries inscribed onto the cityscape to distances experienced by the city dwellers; its "real" and textual cities are Warsaw, Jerusalem, New York, Chicago, Paris, London, and Dublin.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0521473144 (hardback)
9780521473149 (hardback)

Subject:

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991 Criticism and interpretation.
Oz, Amos, 1939-2018 Criticism and interpretation.
Oz, Amos, 1939- Criticism and interpretation.
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904- Critique et interprétation.
Oz, Amos Critique et interprétation.
Oz, Amos, 1939-2018
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991
Andrae, A.
Bashevis Singer, Isaac, 1904-1991. Familye Mushkat.
Oz, Amos, 1939-2018. Mikhael sheli.
American fiction 20th century History and criticism.
City and town life in literature.
English fiction 20th century History and criticism.
Literature and society English-speaking countries.
Cities and towns in literature.
Roman américain 20e siècle Histoire et critique.
Vie urbaine dans la littérature.
Roman anglais 20e siècle Histoire et critique.
Villes dans la littérature.
Littérature et société Anglophonie.
American fiction
English fiction
Literature and society
Englisch
Großstadt
Stadtleben
Roman
Letterkunde.
Steden.
Engels.
Amerikaans.
Stadscultuur.
Geschichte 1900-1990.
English-speaking countries
USA
English literature Special subjects Cities

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 109988
Call No.: ID PS374.C5.W57; ID:96-B1630
Status: Available