Urban Space and Late Twentieth-Century New York Literature : Reformed Geographies / by C. Neculai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neculai., Author.

Contributor:

C.

Series:

American Literature Readings in the 21st Century, 2634-5803

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

America--Literatures.

America.

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature, Modern.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Sociology, Urban.

North American Literature.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Literary Theory.

Urban Sociology.

Local Subjects:

North American Literature.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Literary Theory.

Urban Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.. 2014.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Interdisciplinary in nature, this project draws on fiction, non-fiction and archival material to theorize urban space and literary/cultural production in the context of the United States and New York City. Spanning from the mid-1970s fiscal crisis to the 1987 Market Crash, New York writing becomes akin to geographical fieldwork in this rich study.

Contents:

Prologue: Urban hermeneutics and the problem of the fetish space

The paradigmatic exceptionality of New York: scaffolding a radical literary urbanism

Downtown, uptown and the urbanization of literary consciousness

Scale, culture and real estate: the reproduction of lowliness in Great Jones Street

Kill the poor: low rent aesthetics and the new housing order

Uneven city: brightness falls and the ethnography of fictitious finance

Epilogue: The politics of urban writing and the hegemony of fire.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137340207

1137340207

OCLC:

873555846