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Autore: |
Baker Brian <1969->
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Titolo: |
Iain Sinclair / / Brian Baker
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Pubblicazione: | Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013 |
©2007 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (208 pages) : digital file(s) |
Disciplina: | 828.91409 |
Soggetto topico: | Literature |
Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers | |
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh | |
Ireland | |
Soggetto geografico: | London (England) In literature |
Soggetto non controllato: | 1960s counter-culture |
British Poetry Revival | |
Chris Petit | |
Iain Sinclair | |
John Clare | |
London | |
New Labour | |
Thatcherism | |
visionary writings | |
walking | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Copyright; Contents; Series editor's foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: maps of the London Underground; 1 Space and time, myth and place; 2 Whitechapel autopsy: an East End apocalypse; 3 The widow; or, the critical baroque; 4 Internal exiles; 5 The visual text; 6 Driven to the margins; 7 Borderlands; References; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | A clearly written, comprehensive critical introduction to one of the most original contemporary British writers, providing an overview of all of Sinclair's major works and an analysis of his vision of modern London. This book places Sinclair in a range of contexts, including: the late 1960's counter-culture and the 'British Poetry Revival'; London's underground histories; the rise and fall of Thatcherism, and Sinclair's writing about Britain under New Labour; Sinclair's connection to other writers and artists, such as J.G. Ballard, Michael Moorcock and Marc Atkins. This book makes a significant... |
Titolo autorizzato: | Iain Sinclair ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-84779-483-1 |
1-78170-089-3 | |
1-84779-160-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910808247803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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