London Narratives: Post-War Fiction and the City

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Bloomsbury 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.
This book explores the literary re-imagining of the city in post-war fiction and argues that the image, history, and narrative of the city has been transformed alongside the physical rebuilding and repositioning of the capital. Drawing on the ideas of Michel de Certeau, Henri Lefebvre, Anthony Vigler and others as well as the latest work on urban representation, this book is an important contribution to the study of the intersection between place, lived experience, and the literary imagination.
Texts covered include novels by some of the most significant and lesser known authors of the period, including Graham Greene, George Orwell, J. G. Ballard, Stella Gibbons, David Lodge, Doris Lessing, B. S. Johnson, Sam Selvon, V. S. Naipaul, Peter Ackroyd and Iain Sinclair.

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... finds its official counterpart in the Festival of Britain . Perhaps surprisingly , given the span of almost twenty years between the two texts , this particular mixture of occupations is similar to those we find in the exclusive tower ...
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... finds among the concrete façades of London : " The great city , centre of the world , in which fleeing disorder , I had hoped to find the beginning of order ' ( Mimic 22 ) . Like Selvon , Naipaul finds his inspiration in modernist repre ...
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... finds her status still defined by her awful marriage and the patriarchy she has always resisted : ' This old friend ... find themselves upon . But Tanty's ability to mould her locality into an accommodation with her values and as ...

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Rewriting London
1
The Centre Cannot Hold
35
Love in a Cold Climate
56
Urheberrecht

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Autoren-Profil (2006)

Lawrence Phillips is Reader in English Literature at the University of Northampton, UK. He is the founding editor of the academic e-journal Literary London Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London (www.literarylondon.org) and an organiser of the annual Literary London Conference which has run since 2002.

Bibliografische Informationen

TitelLondon Narratives: Post-War Fiction and the City
Continuum Literary Studies
Autor/inLawrence Phillips
Ausgabeillustriert
VerlagBloomsbury Academic, 2006
Original vonUniversity of Michigan
Digitalisiert27. Mai 2008
ISBN0826484522, 9780826484529
Länge192 Seiten
  
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