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Imagined cities : urban experience and the language of the novel /
A literary investigation of how the modern metropolis--intoxicating, disturbing, powerful--changed perceptions and irrevocably altered the Western imagination. Alter traces the arc of literary development triggered by the runaway growth of urban centers from the early nineteenth century through the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Flaubert--the demise of the spectator
- Flaubert--urban poetics
- Dickens--the realism of metaphor
- Dickens--intimations of apocalypse
- Bely--phantasmatic city
- Woolf--urban pastoral
- Joyce--metropolitan shuffle
- Kafka--suspicion and the city.