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Modernism, space and the city : outsiders and affect in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and London /

This innovative text examines the development of modernist writing in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thacker, Andrew, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Geographical Emotions and the Modernist City; A Typical Modernist City; Structure and Method; Four Cities; 1. Paris; Introduction: A New Babel; T. S. Eliot and the Sordid City; Technology, Boulevards, and the Tour Unique: Apollinaire and Cendrars; Hope Mirrlees on the Metro; Jean Rhys: Being Faithful to Paris; Paris Noir; Swooning in Paris; 2. Vienna; Introduction; German Modernism and Regional Transnationalism; Vienna and Die Moderne; After the War: Red Vienna; Vienna Diary: Naomi Mitchison; City in Ruins; 3. Berlin; Introduction: Hellhole and Paradise; Restless and Spacious; Expressionist Voices and Cries; Post-war Visitors; Heterotopias: Cafés and Queer Spaces; Geographical Emotions: Goodbye to Berlin and The Heart to Artemis; Berlin in the Cold; 4. London; Introduction: A Larger University; The Modernist Underground; Metro-Land; Spatial Phobias; Overcoming Modernity; Locations of Culture; Queer Foreign Fish: Joseph Conrad; London Unplaced: Sam Selvon; Afterword: Other Cities, Other Modernisms; Bibliography; Index.