London Narratives: Post-War Fiction and the CityBloomsbury Academic, 25.11.2006 - 192 Seiten The post-war redevelopment of London has been the most extensive in its history, and has been accompanied by a dramatic social and cultural upheaval. |
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... attempt to evoke a material London in words or paint can only be an illusive project and produce the ' distortions ... attempts to assert meaning and order on a world , or more specifically a city , that has become threateningly mutable ...
... attempt to encourage the reader to impose an order that is not there . The reader is discursively drawn into the text , becoming a replace- ment for the protagonist , and is invited to attempt what Ella and Albert have failed to achieve ...
... attempt to fill the gap of her absence such an epis- tolary narrative is rather apt , given his specialism in the eighteenth century . He is clearly out of love with himself as much as people are with the city , and this is the likely ...
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Rewriting London | 1 |
The Centre Cannot Hold | 35 |
Love in a Cold Climate | 56 |
Urheberrecht | |
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