Writing the City : Urban Visions and Literary Modernism
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| Title: | Writing the City : Urban Visions and Literary Modernism |
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| Description: | Writing the City examines and challenges the traditional transatlantic axis of urban modernism, London-Paris-New York, an axis that has often elided the historical importance of other centers that have shaped metropolitan identities and discourses. According to Desmond Harding, James Joyce's internationalist vision of Dublin generates powerful epistemic and cultural tropes that reconceive the idea of the modern city as a moral phenomenon in transcultural and transhistorical terms. Taking up the works of both Joyce and John Dos Passos, Harding investigates the lasting contributions these author's made to transatlantic intellectual thought in their efforts to envisage the city. |
| Authors: | Desmond Harding |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Modernism (Literature)--United States, Modernism (Literature)--Ireland, Comparative literature--Irish and American, Comparative literature--American and Irish, Cities and towns in literature, City and town life in literature |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Writing the City examines and challenges the traditional transatlantic axis of urban modernism, London-Paris-New York, an axis that has often elided the historical importance of other centers that have shaped metropolitan identities and discourses. According to Desmond Harding, James Joyce's internationalist vision of Dublin generates powerful epistemic and cultural tropes that reconceive the idea of the modern city as a moral phenomenon in transcultural and transhistorical terms. Taking up the works of both Joyce and John Dos Passos, Harding investigates the lasting contributions these author's made to transatlantic intellectual thought in their efforts to envisage the city. |
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| ISBN: | 9780203603451 9780415942768 9780415512824 9781135947477 9781135947460 9781135947446 9780203500866 |
