LEADER 05497oam 2200673I 450 001 9910817099303321 005 20240314001416.0 010 $a1-136-77795-4 010 $a1-138-54750-6 010 $a0-203-55341-1 010 $a1-136-77788-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203553411 035 $a(CKB)2550000001064816 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25283731 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000917120 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11483948 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000917120 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10892183 035 $a(PQKB)10291033 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1221505 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1221505 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10723468 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL499780 035 $a(OCoLC)849935537 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001064816 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSpatial politics in contemporary London literature $ewriting architecture and the body /$fLaura Colombino 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (199 pages ) $cillustrations 225 1 $aRoutledge studies in contemporary literature ;$v9 225 0$aRoutledge studies in contemporary literature ;$v9 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 $a0-415-62480-0 311 $a1-299-68530-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aModular 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). 330 8 $aThis work analyses the spatial politics of a range of British novelists writing on London since the 1950s, emphasizing spatial representation as an embodied practice at the point where architectural space and the body enter into relation with each other.$bThis 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. 410 0$aRoutledge studies in contemporary literature ;$v9. 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHuman body in literature 606 $aSpace (Architecture) in literature 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHuman body in literature. 615 0$aSpace (Architecture) in literature. 676 $a820.9/358421 700 $aColombino$b Laura.$0705409 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817099303321 996 $aSpatial politics in contemporary London literature$93951390 997 $aUNINA