05477oam 2200661I 450 991077976080332120230803020933.01-136-77795-41-138-54750-60-203-55341-11-136-77788-110.4324/9780203553411 (CKB)2550000001064816(StDuBDS)AH25283731(SSID)ssj0000917120(PQKBManifestationID)11483948(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000917120(PQKBWorkID)10892183(PQKB)10291033(MiAaPQ)EBC1221505(Au-PeEL)EBL1221505(CaPaEBR)ebr10723468(CaONFJC)MIL499780(OCoLC)849935537(EXLCZ)99255000000106481620180706d2013 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrSpatial politics in contemporary London literature writing architecture and the body /Laura ColombinoNew York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (199 pages ) illustrationsRoutledge studies in contemporary literature ;9Routledge studies in contemporary literature ;9Formerly CIP.Uk0-415-62480-0 1-299-68530-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Modular bodies and architecture as skin: J. G. Ballard (1956-1975) -- Human ruins and architectural spectres (the 1980s and beyond) -- Traumatized subjects and chaotic substances: Iain Sinclair (the 1990s and the millennium) -- Corporeality within abstract space (from the 1970s to the post-millennial).This work analyses the spatial politics of a range of British novelists writing on London since the 1950s, emphasizing spatial representation as an embodied practice at the point where architectural space and the body enter into relation with each other.This book analyses the spatial politics of a range of British novelists writing on London since the 1950s, emphasizing spatial representation as an embodied practice at the point where the architectural landscape and the body enter into relation with each other. Colombino visits the city in connection with its boundaries, abstract spaces and natural microcosms, as they stand in for all the conflicting realms of identity; its interstices and ruins are seen as inhabited by bodies that reproduce internally the external conditions of political and social struggle. The study brings into focus the fiction in which London provides not a residual interest but a strong psychic-phenomenological grounding, and where the awareness of the physical reality of buildings and landscape conditions shape the concept of the subject traversing this space. Authors such as J. G. Ballard, Geoff Dyer, Michael Moorcock, Peter Ackroyd, Iain Sinclair, Geoff Ryman, Tom McCarthy, Michael Bracewell and Zadie Smith are considered in order to map the relationship of body, architecture and spatial politics in contemporary creative prose on the city. Through readings that are consistently informed by recent developments in urban studies and reflections formulated by architects, sociologists, anthropologists and art critics, this book offers a substantial contribution to the burgeoning field of literary urban studies. This book analyses the spatial politics of a range of British novelists writing on London since the 1950s, emphasizing spatial representation as an embodied practice at the point where the architectural landscape and the body enter into relation with each other. Colombino visits the city in connection with its boundaries, abstract spaces and natural microcosms, as they stand in for all the conflicting realms of identity; its interstices and ruins are seen as inhabited by bodies that reproduce internally the external conditions of political and social struggle. The study brings into focus the fiction in which London provides not a residual interest but a strong psychic-phenomenological grounding, and where the awareness of the physical reality of buildings and landscape conditions shape the concept of the subject traversing this space. Authors such as J. G. Ballard, Geoff Dyer, Michael Moorcock, Peter Ackroyd, Iain Sinclair, Geoff Ryman, Tom McCarthy, Michael Bracewell and Zadie Smith are considered in order to map the relationship of body, architecture and spatial politics in contemporary creative prose on the city. Through readings that are consistently informed by recent developments in urban studies and reflections formulated by architects, sociologists, anthropologists and art critics, this book offers a substantial contribution to the burgeoning field of literary urban studies.Routledge studies in contemporary literature ;9.English literatureHistory and criticismHuman body in literatureSpace (Architecture) in literatureEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Human body in literature.Space (Architecture) in literature.820.9/358421Colombino Laura.705409MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779760803321Spatial politics in contemporary London literature3711226UNINA