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(1.1). What readers get from literary experiences of cities are subjective and often very personal impressions of city life. Therefore, readers always need to ask to what extent urban space is constructed in literature, as de-scriptions of urban space and urban experiences are never objective.
In this work, it is intended to make some considerations about the urban phenomenon image in literature and its presence in the social imaginary, taking as a base the rereading of important texts, which dealt with the relationship between literature, urban experience and modernity, such as Simmel; Berman, Bradbury; Schorske; Benjamin.
How do literary texts simulate layers of urban memory-and how can they reinforce or help dissolve path dependencies in urban development? What role can literary studies play in interdisciplinary urban research?
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
5 wrz 2017 · This article explores examples of texts ranging from Sister Carrie to I Am Legend and beyond that engage signature urban processes such as urbanization, development, and the dense overlap of orders.
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).
28 mar 2014 · The shift from “the city,” as a bounded, identifiable object, to “urban,” as an expansive, often boundary-blurring adjective, can complicate the ways in which we read modern poetry.
