Title & Author:

Writing urban space : exploring the relationship between imaginative writing and the built environment / edited by Liam Murray Bell & Gavin Goodwin.

Publication:

Winchester, UK ; Washington : Zero Books, 2012.

Description:

167 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Word on the street : subverting and rewriting the urbal visual landscape with street art / Pete Bearder -- Writing on the walls : discourses of violence and catharsis in the murals of Northern Ireland / Liam Murray Bell -- Mansions of the mind : Vienna and the spatial uncanny / Jane Cali-Madell -- The city exists in two states : walk don't walk walk don't walk / Becky Cremin -- Can writing shape place? / Sarah Butler -- Interstitial practices and 2 Ennerdale Drive : unauthorised biography / Rosa Ainley -- The brutalist school : a Lefebvrian poem / Gavin Goodwin -- Finding the words : using found text to write the human impact of environmental disaster / Elizabeth-Jane Burnett -- Urban space as a collection of poetry / Jan Hatt-Olsen -- "That time at St. George's : abandonment, affect and spatial agency in two novels by Nicholas Royle / Holly Prescott -- Postcards from the house of light : a critical introduction / David Ashford -- Di Brandt : a Mennonite girl in the heart of the city / Jenna Butler.

Summary:

"From William Blake through to Iain Sinclair, literature has sought to engage with and transform urban space. Architects now seek the input of poets, and storytelling is employed in urban regeneration. Writing Urban Space investigates this relationship between imaginative writing and the built environment."--Publisher.

ISBN:

9781780992549 (pbk.)
1780992548 (pbk.)

Subject:

Cities and towns in literature.

Form/genre:

Essays.

Added entries:

Bell, Liam Murray.
Goodwin, Gavin.
Bell, Liam Murray. editor.
Goodwin, Gavin. editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292572
Call No.: BIB 236933
Status: Available