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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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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The intelligible metropolis : |b urban mentality in contemporary London novels / |c Nora Plesske. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Machine generated contents note: |g 1. |t Introduction -- |g 1.1. |t Setting the Theme: Intelligibility and Legibility -- |g 1.2. |t 'New' London (1997 -- 2007) -- |g 1.3. |t Selecting the Literary Corpus -- |g 1.4. |t Present State of Research -- |g 1.5. |t Structure and Approach -- |t Theory and Methodology -- |g 2. |t Theories and Categories of Mentality -- |g 2.1. |t Definition of Mentality -- |g 2.1.1. |t History of Mentalities -- |g 2.1.2. |t Historical and Contemporary Social Constructions of Reality -- |g 2.1.3. |t Mentality as Organon and Rhizome -- |g 2.2. |t Determinants of Mentality -- |g 2.2.1. |t Collectivity and Collective Mentality -- |g 2.2.2. |t Time and Temporal Mentality -- |g 2.2.3. |t Space and Spatial Mentality -- |g 2.2.4. |t Collective Space-Time Compressions -- |g 2.3. |t Concept of Mentality -- |g 3. |t Theories of Urbanity -- |g 3.1. |t City and Urbanity -- |g 3.1.1. |t Definition of the City -- |g 3.1.2. |t Urbanity as the Metropolitan Way of Life -- |g 3.1.3. |t Metamorphosis of the City and Transformation of Urbanity -- |g 3.2. |t Urban Theoretical Approaches to Mentalities -- |g 3.2.1. |t Georg Simmel's Sociology of Modern Urbanity -- |g 3.2.2. |t Chicago School of Urban Sociology -- |g 3.2.3. |t New Urban Political Economy and City Culture -- |g 3.2.4. |t Contemporary City and Postmodern Urbanity -- |g 4. |t Concept of Urban Mentality -- |g 4.1. |t Ambivalences of Urban-Generic Mentality -- |g 4.1.1. |t City and Country -- |g 4.1.2. |t Public and Private -- |g 4.1.3. |t Sociability and Anomie -- |g 4.1.4. |t Heterogeneity and Homogeneity -- |g 4.1.5. |t Familiarity and Strangeness -- |g 4.1.6. |t Community and Individualism -- |g 4.1.7. |t Indifference and Involvement -- |g 4.1.8. |t Apathy and Vigilance -- |g 4.2. |t Factors of Influence on Urban-Specific Mentality -- |g 4.2.1. |t Culture -- |g 4.2.2. |t Imaginary -- |g 4.2.3. |t Image -- |g 4.2.4. |t Text -- |g 4.2.5. |t Narrative -- |g 4.2.6. |t Atmosphere -- |g 4.2.7. |t Emotion -- |g 4.2.8. |t Identity -- |g 4.3. |t Model of Urban Mentality -- |g 5. |t Methodological Implications -- |g 5.1. |t Methodological Approaches to Mentality -- |g 5.1.1. |t Quantitative and Qualitative Methods -- |g 5.1.2. |t Literary and Cultural Studies and the Concept of Mentalities -- |g 5.1.3. |t Narratological Approaches -- |g 5.2. |t Spatio-Narratological Analysis of Mentality -- |g 5.2.1. |t Literary Topographies -- |g 5.2.2. |t Boundaries -- |g 5.2.3. |t Chronotopes -- |g 5.2.4. |t Metaphors -- |t Analysis of London Mentality -- |g 6. |t Cityscape -- |g 6.1. |t Public and Private -- |g 6.1.1. |t Interpenetrations of Public and Private Drama -- |g 6.1.2. |t Private Dereliction and Public Regeneration -- |g 6.1.3. |t Enclosed Privacies in the Global City -- |g 6.1.4. |t Public 'Aparthide' and Search for Intimacy -- |g 6.1.5. |t Isolationist Structures of Mentality -- |g 6.2. |t Underground London -- |g 6.2.1. |t Isotopic, Utopic, and Heterotopic Space -- |g 6.2.2. |t Subterranean Sociability -- |g 6.2.3. |t Metropolitan (Un)Conscious -- |g 6.2.4. |t Deep Collective Space-Time Compressions -- |g 6.2.5. |t Subterranean Structures of Mentality -- |g 6.3. |t Navigating the Flux -- |g 6.3.1. |t Mapping the Metropolis -- |g 6.3.2. |t Touring the Streets of London -- |g 6.3.3. |t Sensing the City -- |g 6.3.4. |t Apprehending Urbanity -- |g 6.3.5. |t (Sub)Textual Structures of Mentality -- |g 6.4. |t Palimpsestuous City -- |g 6.4.1. |t Historical Layering -- |g 6.4.2. |t Psychogeographical Tracing -- |g 6.4.3. |t Socio-Cultural Re-Con-Textualisation -- |g 6.4.4. |t Intertextual Writing -- |g 6.4.5. |t Hypertextual Simulation -- |g 6.4.6. |t Palimpsestuous Structures of Mentality -- |g 7. |t Socioscape -- |g 7.1. |t Urban Sociability -- |g 7.1.1. |t Networks of Human Interrelation -- |g 7.1.2. |t Urban Islands of Loneliness -- |g 7.1.3. |t Metropolitan Voids and Millennial Anomie -- |g 7.1.4. |t Transcultural Contact Zones -- |g 7.1.5. |t Mental Structures of Relational Fluidity -- |g 7.2. |t London Metropolarities -- |g 7.2.1. |t Urban Middle-Class Crisis -- |g 7.2.2. |t (Un)Homely Cosmopolis -- |g 7.2.3. |t Gendered (Dis)Orientations -- |g 7.2.4. |t Urban Pariah -- |g 7.2.5. |t Mental Structures of Deviation -- |g 8. |t Idioscape -- |g 8.1. |t City and the Citizen -- |g 8.1.1. |t Identityscape and Performativity -- |g 8.1.2. |t Bodyscape and Psychasthenia -- |g 8.1.3. |t Mindscape and Screening -- |g 8.1.4. |t Hypertrophic Structures of Mentality -- |g 8.2. |t Urban State of Mind -- |g 8.2.1. |t Simulated Anxiousness -- |g 8.2.2. |t Spectres of Terror -- |g 8.2.3. |t Millennial Apocalyptic Visions -- |g 8.2.4. |t Terror Structures of Mentality -- |g 9. |t Conclusion -- |t Works Cited -- |t Primary Literature -- |t Further Primary Sources -- |t Secondary Sources. |
| 520 | |a 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 | ||
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