New York and Toronto novels after postmodernism : explorations of the urban /

Cities are material and symbolic spaces through which nations define their cultural identities. The great cities that have arisen on the North American continent have stimulated the respective imaginations of the US and Canada in very different ways. Afte.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rosenthal, Caroline, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2011.
Colección:European studies in North American literature and culture.
Temas:
2000-2099
Cities and towns in literature.
National characteristics in literature.
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Canadian fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Caractéristiques nationales dans la littérature.
Roman américain > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
American fiction.
Canadian fiction.
Literature.
New York (N.Y.) > In literature.
Toronto (Ont.) > In literature.
New York (State) > New York.
Ontario > Toronto.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Imagining national space: symbolic landscapes and national canons
  • Articulating urban space: spatial politics and difference
  • "The inadequacy of symbolic surfaces": urban space, art, and corporeality in Siri Hustvedt's What I loved
  • Rewriting the melting pot: Paule Marshall's Brownstone City in The fisher king
  • Specular images: sub/urban spaces and "echoes of art" in Carol Shields's Unless
  • "The end of traceable beginnings": poetics of urban be/longing in Dionne Brand's What we all long for
  • Synthesis.

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