Imagined cities : urban experience and the language of the novel / Robert Alter.

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Alter, Robert.

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Imagined cities : urban experience and the language of the novel / Robert Alter.

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xiii, 175 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Flaubert -- the demise of the spectator -- Flaubert -- urban poetics -- Dickens -- the realism of metaphor -- Dickens -- intimations of apocalypse -- Bely -- phantasmatic city -- Woolf -- urban pastoral -- Joyce -- metropolitan shuffle -- Kafka -- suspicion and the city.

Summary:

A literary investigation of how the modern metropolis--intoxicating, disturbing, powerful--changed perceptions and irrevocably altered the Western imagination. Alter traces the arc of literary development triggered by the runaway growth of urban centers from the early nineteenth century through the first two decades of the twentieth. As new technologies and arrangements of public and private space changed the ways people experienced time and space, the urban panorama became less coherent--a metropolis defying traditional representation and definition, a vast jumble of shifting fragments and glimpses--and writers were compelled to create new methods for conveying the experience of the city. In interpretations of novels by Flaubert, Dickens, Bely, Woolf, Joyce, and Kafka, Alter reveals the ways the city entered the literary imagination.--From publisher description.

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ISBN:

0300108028 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780300108026 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780300175547
030017554X
9780300127072 (ebk.)
0300127073

Subject:

Andrae, A.
Belyj, Andrej.
Woolf, Virginia.
Joyce, James.
Kafka, Franz.
Flaubert, Gustave.
Dickens, Charles.
European fiction 19th century History and criticism.
European fiction 20th century History and criticism.
Cities and towns in literature.
Roman européen 19e siècle Histoire et critique.
Roman européen 20e siècle Histoire et critique.
Villes dans la littérature.
17.93 themes and motives in literature.
European fiction.
Stadt
Literatur
Letterkunde.
Steden.
Europa

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Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Location: Library main 236000
Call No.: BIB 165844
Status: Available

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