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UNINA9910483282603321 |
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Autore |
Tso Ann |
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Titolo |
The Literary Psychogeography of London : Otherworlds of Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair / / by Ann Tso |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2020.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XIII, 116 p. 4 illus., 3 illus. in color.) |
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Literary Urban Studies, , 2523-7896 |
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Literature - Philosophy |
European literature |
Ethnology - Great Britain |
Culture |
Cities and towns - History |
Sociology, Urban |
Culture - Study and teaching |
Literary Theory |
European Literature |
British Culture |
Urban History |
Urban Sociology |
Cultural Studies |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Chapter 1/ Infinite London: the London-ness of London -- Chapter 2/ The Disintegration of London in Alan Moore’s Psychogeography -- Chapter 3/ Peter Ackroyd’s Sensuous Detective Method in Hawksmoor -- Chapter 4/ Writing Psychogeography, Writing London through a Screen Darkly: White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings -- Chapter 5/ London-ness: a Marriage of the Literary and the Psychogeographical. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This Pivot book examines literary elements of urban topography that have animated Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair’s respective |
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representations of London-ness. Ann Tso argues these authors write London “psychogeographically” to deconstruct popular visions of London with colonial and neoliberal undertones. Moore’s psychogeography consists of bird’s-eye views that reveal the brute force threatening to unravel Londonscape from within; Ackroyd’s aims to detect London sensuously, since every new awareness recalls an otherworldly London; Sinclair’s conjures up a narrative consciousness made erratic by London’s disunified landscape. Drawing together the dystopian, the phenomenological, and the postcolonial, Tso explores how these texts characterize “London-ness” as estranging. |
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