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New York and Toronto novels after postmodernism : explorations of the urban / Caroline Rosenthal.
Van Pelt Library PS374.N43 R67 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosenthal, Caroline, 1969-
- Series:
- European studies in North American literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Book Committee.
- Canadian fiction.
- American fiction.
- New York (N.Y.)--In literature.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Toronto (Ont.)--In literature.
- Toronto (Ont.).
- Cities and towns in literature.
- National characteristics in literature.
- American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- Canadian fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 313 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2011.
- Contents:
- Imagining national space: symbolic landscapes and national canons
- Articulating urban space: spatial politics and difference
- "The inadequacy of symbolic surfaces": urban space, art, and corporeality in Siri Hustvedt's What I loved
- Rewriting the melting pot: Paule Marshall's Brownstone City in The fisher king
- Specular images: sub/urban spaces and "echoes of art" in Carol Shields's Unless
- "The end of traceable beginnings": poetics of urban be/longing in Dionne Brand's What we all long for
- Synthesis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781571134899
- 1571134891
- OCLC:
- 679940786
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