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    Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts - Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity

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    Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity explores the narrative formations of urbanity from an interdisciplinary perspective. Within the framework of the “spatial turn,” contributors from disciplines ranging from geography and history to literary and media studies theorize narrative constructions of the city and cities, and analyze relevant examples from a variety of discourses, media, and cities. Subdivided into six sections, the book explores the interactions of city and text—as well as other media—and the conflicting narratives that arise in these interactions. Offering case studies that discuss specific aspects of the narrative construction of Berlin and London, the text also considers narratives of urban discontinuity and their theoretical implications. Ultimately, this volume captures the narratological, artistic, material, social, and performative possibilities inherent in spatial representations of the city.

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    Illustrations Note:
    XXI, 338 p. 5 illus.
    Table of Contents:

    1          Introduction: Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts



    Rebekka Rohleder and Martin Kindermann



    Part 1
    The City and the Text/ the City as a Text



    2          City Scripts / City Scapes. On the Intertextuality of Urban Experience



    Andreas Mahler



    3          (Urban) Sacred Places and Profane Spaces—Theological Topography in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land



    Verena Keidel



    4          Traveling Discourses: The Works of Pavel Ulitin (1918-1986) and the Problem of Narrative Alternatives



    Daria Baryshnikova



    Part 2
    Television Reading the City



    5          “This America, man.” Narrating and Reading Urban Space in The Wire



    Christopher Schliephake



    6          Reading the City: ‘Mind Mapping’ in the BBC’s Sherlock



    Janina Wierzoch



    Part 3 Conflicting Narratives



    7          Transcription: Addressing the Interactivity between Urban and Architectural Spaces and their Use



    Klaske Maria Havik



    8          Politics and the Production of Space: Downtown and Out with Rancière and Lefebvre



    Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich



    9          The People of New Jerusalem: Narratives of Social In- and Exclusion in Rotterdam after the Blitz of 1940



    Stefan Couperus



    10        Smart City Narratives and Narrating Smart Urbanism



    Anke Strüver and Sybille Bauriedl



    Part 4
    Contesting the City I: Women on the Streets of London



    11        Poetic Mobility and the Location of an Anglo-Jewish Self: Amy Levy’s and Elaine Feinstein’s Cityscapes



    Martin Kindermann



    12        Gender and the City: Virginia Woolf’s London between Promise of Freedom and Structural Confinement



    Claudia Heuer



    Part 5
    Contesting the City II: Berlin, History and Memory



    13        The City Stripped Bare of its Histories, Even: Crisis and Representation in two German Trümmerfilme of 1948



    Daniel Jonah Wolpert



    14        “A ‘bridgehead’ in the visible domain”: Chloe Aridjis’s, J.S. Marcus’s and Theodore Sedgwick Fay’s Tales of Berlin



    Joshua Parker



    Part 6
    Dis/Continuities



    15        Finding Causes for Events: The City as Normative Narrative



    Rebekka Rohleder



    16        Private Topographies: Visions of Tōkyō in Modern Japanese Literature



    Gala Maria Follaco



    17        Reading Against the Grain—Black Presence in Lower Manhattan, New York City



    Tazalika M. te Reh

    Editor:
    Kindermann, Martin;Kindermann
    Rohleder, Rebekka;Rohleder
    Remarks:
    Contributes to the interdisciplinary field of urban studies


    Focuses on the narrative constitution of urban space broadly


    Illustrates the diversity of interpretations of reading space by examining a range of literatures, cultures, and cities

    Media Type:
    Hardcover
    Publisher:
    Springer International Publishing
    Biography Artist:
    Martin Kindermann is an English teacher. Previously, he worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and was a Research Fellow at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. He has published on religious poetry in the 19th and 20th century, Anglo-Jewish and Anglo-Muslim Writing, and the construction of space in literature as well as questions of post-coloniality and interculturality.


    Rebekk
    a Rohleder is Research Assistant at the University of Flensburg, Germany. Previously, she worked at the University of Hamburg’s Department for English and American Studies. Her research interests include British Romanticism, literary space, and depictions of work in contemporary culture. In 2019, she published “A Different Earth”: Literary Space in Mary Shelley’s Novels.

    Language:
    English
    Edition:
    1st ed. 2020
    Number of Pages:
    338

    Master Data

    Product Type:
    Hardback book
    Release date:
    20 October 2020
    Package Dimensions:
    0.216 x 0.152 x 0.025 m; 0.594 kg
    GTIN:
    09783030552688
    DUIN:
    P8QPQN1CN0G
    £91.79
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