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Guided by the multifaceted relations between city and text, Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City attempts to chart the burgeoning field of literary urban studies by outlining how texts in varying degrees function as both representations of the city and as blueprints for its future development.
1. Experiencing the City: Urban Spac. What is the Citie, but the People? True, the People are the Citie. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus. es have always held a fascination for human beings. Inhabitants or visitors – cities need people to build them and to turn them into vibrant, dynamic, pulsating and multif.
the importance of literature to the rise of the urban public sphere; the affective experience of city life; the interplay of the urban landscape and memory; the form of the literary city and its responsiveness to social, cultural, and technological change; dystopian, nocturnal, pastoral, and sublime cities; cities shaped by
The study addresses questions such as these: How do literary texts represent urban complexities-and how can they capture the uniqueness of a given city? How do literary texts simulate layers of urban memory-and how can they reinforce or help dissolve path dependencies in urban development?
27 paź 2016 · This work tested the hypotheses about the unique nature of the modern urban social experience proposed by Tönnies and others, becoming itself the foundation for twenty-first century work in cultural geography (Pinder 2005) and sociological ethnography (Hall 2015).
5 wrz 2017 · This article addresses urbanists in various fields—history, the social sciences, planning, and more—who are interested in incorporating literary works into their teaching and research and may be looking for critical approaches that connect such work to their own expertise.
Rethinking Urban Space in Contemporary British Writing argues that the prose literature of its featured authors offers a unique forum through which to perceive and account for the multifarious agency of urban space.
