Time, the city, and the literary imagination / Anne-Marie Evans, Kaley Krame, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Anne-Marie.

Kramer, Kaley A., 1977-

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

Literary urban studies

Literary Urban Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns in literature.

Time in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Kaley Kramer and Anne-Marie Evans, Introduction

Section 1: Time and Memory

Adam James Smith, Nightmares and Cityscapes: Contradictory visions of the city in James Montgomerys York Prison Poetry (1795-1797)

Alice Levick, Memory and Grief in Urban Spaces: Marshall Berman, D.J. Waldie, and the Modern American City

Anne-Marie Evans, No Safe Sanctuary: Race, Space and Time in Colson Whiteheads Speculative Cities

Section 2: Time and Movement

Helena Ifill, The Sensation of a Moment: Telepathy on the Omnibus in Wilkie Collinss Basil (1852)

Quyen Nguyen, Like holding water in your hand: the Textual City and Time in Ulysses

Sarah Lawson Welsh, This is London, this is Life: Migrant experiences of time and space in Sam Selvons The Lonely Londoners

Lena Mattheis, Peeling Layers: Transnational Urban Time

Section 3: Time and Material Space

Steven Nardi, The Skyscraper Primitives: Urban Space and Primordial Time in the 1920s American Avant-garde

Megan Cannella, Indirect Memorialization of Trauma in Murakami's after the quake and Delilo's Point Omega

Spencer Jordan, 'Totaled City': The Post-Digital Textualities of Ben Lerner's 10:04

Section 4: Time and Melancholy

Sarah Trott, The City as No Man's Land: Generational War Trauma in Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles

Jean Amato, Reconfiguring Public and Private Urban Queer Space in Pai Hsien-yungs Nieh Tzu (1983)

Michael P. Moreno, 'No Centre Other than Ourselves': Istanbul, Huzun, and the Heterotopic Portal between Civilization and Time

Deirdre Flynn, Our narrative is reminscence: Clinging to Lost Time in Kevin Barrys City of Bohane. .

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 9, 2021).

References -- Chapter 3: Marshall Berman and D.J. Waldie: Memory and Grief in Urban and Suburban Spaces -- Marshall Berman's Modern City -- Memory and Grief -- Becoming the Grid -- References -- Chapter 4: No Safe Sanctuary: Race, Space, and Time in Colson Whitehead's Speculative Cities -- Alternative New York: Verticality and Notoriety -- City of the Future: Manhattan in Ruins -- Unsafe Spaces -- References -- Part II: Time and Motion -- Chapter 5: 'The Sensation of a Moment': Speed, Stillness, and Victorian London in Wilkie Collins's Basil -- The Omnibus.

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Print version:

ISBN:

9783030559618

3030559610

Publisher Number:

99986820384

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