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Time, the city, and the literary imagination

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Evans, Anne-Marie Kramer, Kaley Springer International Publishing (Cham, Switzerland , 2021) (eng) English 9783030559618 Literary urban studies 1st ed. TIME IN LITERATURE; Unknown Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination explores the literary representation of time in writing about the city from the late eighteenth century up to the present day. Covering familiar cities (New York, Tokyo, London) as well as those less frequently the subject of analysis (Istanbul, Taiwan, York), the essays consider the connections between time and memory, motion, material space, and melancholy. By engaging with contemporary critical perspectives, as well as concepts such as the ‘spatial turn’, postdigitality, and translocalism, the book offers a new way of reading the literary city by tracing the ways in which the relationship between time and urban space shape literary narratives.
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1 online resource (xix, 270 p.) Unknown ill.
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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. .

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