The Resource Imagined cities : urban experience and the language of the novel, Robert Alter
Imagined cities : urban experience and the language of the novel, Robert Alter
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- Summary
- 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 first two decades of the twentieth. As new technologies and arrangements of public and private space changed the ways people experienced time and space, the urban panorama became less coherent--a metropolis defying traditional representation and definition, a vast jumble of shifting fragments and glimpses--and writers were compelled to create new methods for conveying the experience of the city. In interpretations of novels by Flaubert, Dickens, Bely, Woolf, Joyce, and Kafka, Alter reveals the ways the city entered the literary imagination.--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 175 pages)
- Contents
-
- 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
- Isbn
- 9781281740663
- Label
- Imagined cities : urban experience and the language of the novel
- Title
- Imagined cities
- Title remainder
- urban experience and the language of the novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Robert Alter
- Subject
-
- 1800-1999
- Cities and towns in literature
- Cities and towns in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- European fiction
- European fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- European fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- Letterkunde
- Steden
- TRAVEL -- Special Interest | Literary
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 first two decades of the twentieth. As new technologies and arrangements of public and private space changed the ways people experienced time and space, the urban panorama became less coherent--a metropolis defying traditional representation and definition, a vast jumble of shifting fragments and glimpses--and writers were compelled to create new methods for conveying the experience of the city. In interpretations of novels by Flaubert, Dickens, Bely, Woolf, Joyce, and Kafka, Alter reveals the ways the city entered the literary imagination.--From publisher description
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Alter, Robert
- Dewey number
- 809.3/9321732
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- PN3352.C5
- LC item number
- A48 2005eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- European fiction
- European fiction
- Cities and towns in literature
- TRAVEL
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Cities and towns in literature
- European fiction
- Letterkunde
- Steden
- Label
- Imagined cities : urban experience and the language of the novel, Robert Alter
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 123167239
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 175 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781281740663
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt111whz
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)123167239
- Label
- Imagined cities : urban experience and the language of the novel, Robert Alter
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 123167239
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 175 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781281740663
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt111whz
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)123167239
Subject
- 1800-1999
- Cities and towns in literature
- Cities and towns in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- European fiction
- European fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- European fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- Letterkunde
- Steden
- TRAVEL -- Special Interest | Literary
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