Abstract
Language | English |
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Place of Publication | Abingdon |
Number of pages | 240 |
Publication status | Published - 18 Nov 2011 |
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Keywords
- architecture
- modern literature
- modernity
- cultural and political values
- literature
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Writing the modern city : literature, architecture, modernity. / Edwards, Sarah; Charley, Jonathan.
Abingdon, 2011. 240 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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N2 - This collection of thirteen original essays examines the ways in which literature and architecture have shaped a range of recognisably ‘modern’ identities. It focuses on the cultural connections between prose narratives – the novel, short stories, autobiography, crime and science fiction – and a range of urban environments, from the city apartment and river to the colonial house and the utopian city. It explores how the themes of memory, nation and identity have been represented in both literary and architectural works in the aftermath of early twentieth-century conflict; how the cultural movements of modernism and postmodernism have affected notions of canonicity and genre in the creation of books and buildings; and how and why literary and architectural narratives are influenced by each other’s formal properties and styles.
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