Author: Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107028035
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This Companion offers readers an accessible survey of the historical and symbolic relationships between literature and the city.
The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature
Author: Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107028035
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This Companion offers readers an accessible survey of the historical and symbolic relationships between literature and the city.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107028035
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This Companion offers readers an accessible survey of the historical and symbolic relationships between literature and the city.
The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature
Author: Ato Quayson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009058347
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises, it shows how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic conceptualizations, global imaginaries, and narratives of self-fashioning that are central to understanding World Literature and its debates. Alongside an introduction and three theoretical chapters, each chapter focuses on a particular city in the Global North or Global South, and brings World Literary debates—on translation, literary networks, imperial and migrant imaginaries, centers and peripheries—into conversation with the urban literary histories of Beijing, Bombay/Mumbai, Dublin, Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Lagos, London, Mexico City, Moscow and St Petersburg, New York, Paris, Singapore, and Sydney.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009058347
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises, it shows how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic conceptualizations, global imaginaries, and narratives of self-fashioning that are central to understanding World Literature and its debates. Alongside an introduction and three theoretical chapters, each chapter focuses on a particular city in the Global North or Global South, and brings World Literary debates—on translation, literary networks, imperial and migrant imaginaries, centers and peripheries—into conversation with the urban literary histories of Beijing, Bombay/Mumbai, Dublin, Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Lagos, London, Mexico City, Moscow and St Petersburg, New York, Paris, Singapore, and Sydney.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York
Author: Cyrus R. K. Patell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139825410
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
New York holds a special place in America's national mythology as both the gateway to the USA and as a diverse, vibrant cultural center distinct from the rest of the nation. From the international atmosphere of the Dutch colony New Amsterdam, through the expansion of the city in the nineteenth century, to its unique appeal to artists and writers in the twentieth, New York has given its writers a unique perspective on American culture. This Companion explores the range of writing and performance in the city, celebrating Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, Eugene O'Neill, and Allen Ginsberg among a host of authors who have contributed to the city's rich literary and cultural history. Illustrated and featuring a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is the ideal guide for students of American literature as well as for all who love New York and its writers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139825410
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
New York holds a special place in America's national mythology as both the gateway to the USA and as a diverse, vibrant cultural center distinct from the rest of the nation. From the international atmosphere of the Dutch colony New Amsterdam, through the expansion of the city in the nineteenth century, to its unique appeal to artists and writers in the twentieth, New York has given its writers a unique perspective on American culture. This Companion explores the range of writing and performance in the city, celebrating Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, Eugene O'Neill, and Allen Ginsberg among a host of authors who have contributed to the city's rich literary and cultural history. Illustrated and featuring a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is the ideal guide for students of American literature as well as for all who love New York and its writers.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles
Author: Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521514703
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521514703
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.
The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature
Author: Ato Quayson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009048613
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises, it shows how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic conceptualizations, global imaginaries, and narratives of self-fashioning that are central to understanding World Literature and its debates. Alongside an introduction and three theoretical chapters, each chapter focuses on a particular city in the Global North or Global South, and brings World Literary debates-on translation, literary networks, imperial and migrant imaginaries, centers and peripheries-into conversation with the urban literary histories of Beijing, Bombay/Mumbai, Dublin, Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Lagos, London, Mexico City, Moscow and St Petersburg, New York, Paris, Singapore, and Sydney.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009048613
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises, it shows how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic conceptualizations, global imaginaries, and narratives of self-fashioning that are central to understanding World Literature and its debates. Alongside an introduction and three theoretical chapters, each chapter focuses on a particular city in the Global North or Global South, and brings World Literary debates-on translation, literary networks, imperial and migrant imaginaries, centers and peripheries-into conversation with the urban literary histories of Beijing, Bombay/Mumbai, Dublin, Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Lagos, London, Mexico City, Moscow and St Petersburg, New York, Paris, Singapore, and Sydney.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature of the American West
Author: Steven Frye
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107095379
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107095379
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris
Author: Anna-Louise Milne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107005124
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A comprehensive exploration of Paris through the texts and experiences of a vast and vibrant range of authors.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107005124
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A comprehensive exploration of Paris through the texts and experiences of a vast and vibrant range of authors.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene
Author: John Parham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108498531
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
From catastrophe to utopia, the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can speak to the 'Anthropocene'.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108498531
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
From catastrophe to utopia, the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can speak to the 'Anthropocene'.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London
Author: Lawrence Manley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107495555
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
London has provided the setting and inspiration for a host of literary works in English, from canonical masterpieces to the popular and ephemeral. Drawing upon a variety of methods and materials, the essays in this volume explore the London of Langland and the Peasants' Rebellion, of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage, of Pepys and the Restoration coffee house, of Dickens and Victorian wealth and poverty, of Conrad and the Empire, of Woolf and the wartime Blitz, of Naipaul and postcolonial immigration, and of contemporary globalism. Contributions from historians, art historians, theorists and media specialists as well as leading literary scholars exemplify current approaches to genre, gender studies, book history, performance studies and urban studies. In showing how the tradition of English literature is shaped by representations of London, this volume also illuminates the relationship between the literary imagination and the society of one of the world's greatest cities.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107495555
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
London has provided the setting and inspiration for a host of literary works in English, from canonical masterpieces to the popular and ephemeral. Drawing upon a variety of methods and materials, the essays in this volume explore the London of Langland and the Peasants' Rebellion, of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage, of Pepys and the Restoration coffee house, of Dickens and Victorian wealth and poverty, of Conrad and the Empire, of Woolf and the wartime Blitz, of Naipaul and postcolonial immigration, and of contemporary globalism. Contributions from historians, art historians, theorists and media specialists as well as leading literary scholars exemplify current approaches to genre, gender studies, book history, performance studies and urban studies. In showing how the tradition of English literature is shaped by representations of London, this volume also illuminates the relationship between the literary imagination and the society of one of the world's greatest cities.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Berlin
Author: Andrew Webber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107062004
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This book provides an informative overview of literary developments in Berlin since 1750, with more detailed readings of exemplary key texts.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107062004
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This book provides an informative overview of literary developments in Berlin since 1750, with more detailed readings of exemplary key texts.