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The intelligible metropolis : urban mentality in contemporary London novels /

Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. Nora Pleßke de...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Plesske, Nora
Formato: Tesis Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript, 2014.
Colección:Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. Nora Pleßke develops a model of urban mentality to be employed for cities worldwide. Against the background of the Spatial Turn, she identifies dominant urban-specific structures of London mentality in contemporary London novels, such as Monica Ali's "Brick Lane", J.G. Ballard's "Millennium People", Nick Hornby's
Descripción Física:1 online resource (574 pages) : some color illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9783839426722
3839426723
1322079447
9781322079448