The Palgrave encyclopedia of urban literary studies / / Jeremy Tambling, editor

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1977 pages)
• Disciplina: 809.93321732
• Soggetto topico: Literature, Modern; Cities and towns in literature; Literature, Modern - History and criticism
• Persona (resp. second.): TamblingJeremy
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Topics -- About the Editor -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Cities in History -- Modernity and the City -- Areas for Research -- The Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies -- References -- Further Reading -- A -- Aberdeen -- Absinthe -- Acculturation in New York -- Acropolis -- Adaptation -- African Cities: Modernity and Slums, Urban Literature, and Culture -- Introduction -- Pioneer Writers -- Colonization -- Decolonization -- Urbanization -- Urban Problems -- War in Africa -- Urban Slums -- Lagos -- Nairobi, Mombasa, and Dar-es-Salaam -- Nairobi and Kibera -- Kinshasa -- Lubumbashi -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- African Literature -- Ahmed Essop´s Johannesburg -- Synonyms -- Definition -- Introduction -- Stories of Inner City Diversity Despite Segregation -- Beyond the Inner City After Apartheid -- Cross-References -- References -- Alexander Pope -- Alexandria -- Alfred Döblin´s Journey to Poland -- Introduction -- Biographical Note -- Döblin As Objective Observer -- The Capital City: Warsaw -- Comparing Other Cities: Wilno/Vilnius, Lublin, Lwów, Cracow, Lodz -- Conclusion -- References -- Algeria -- Algerian Cities: Kateb Racine´s Nedjma -- Synonyms -- Definition -- Algeria -- Context for the Novel -- Kateb Yacine -- Nedjma -- Constantine -- Bône -- Djerba -- Bibliography and Further Reading -- Algerian War of Independence -- Allen Fisher´s Poetry and the City -- Introduction -- Place´s ``Decoherent´´ Foundations -- Against ``Symbolic Attachment´´: Tensions in Mythmaking and Research -- In Search of London´s ``Lost Rivers´´ -- Works Cited -- Works by Allen Fisher -- Other Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Recommended Further Reading -- Almodóvar and Madrid -- Almodóvar´s Early Career -- Commercial Success in Spain -- International Success -- References. ; Ambulatory Poetry -- American Cities -- American Expatriates -- Amitav Ghosh and the Ibis Trilogy -- Introduction -- Charles Dickens: From London to ``Saugur Point´´ -- The Ibis Trilogy and Imperial History -- Writing ``Calcutta´´ in Sea of Poppies -- Conclusion -- References -- André Breton -- Ann Hui´s Cinematics of the Ordinary: July Rhapsody (2002) -- Synonyms -- Definition -- Introduction -- The Story of the Son -- The Cinema of Everyday Life -- Political Allegory -- Conclusion -- References -- Anti-Semitism -- Apartheid Versus Post-Apartheid Johannesburg -- Arabic Novel -- Arcades -- Arcades Project -- Arcades Project of Walter Benjamin -- The Idea of the ``Arcades´´ -- Mapping the Arcades Project -- Benjamin´s Artists -- The Dialectical Image -- Benjamin´s Histories -- Old and New Paris -- References -- Architecture -- Argentina -- Art Deco Versus International Style in Johannesburg Architecture -- Art-House Cinema -- Arthur Hughes -- Artistic Collaboration -- Ashcan School -- Asia -- Asian Phantasmagorias of the Interior -- References -- At the Back of the North Wind, George MacDonald -- Synonyms -- Definition -- Introduction -- The North Wind in London -- Critical Reception -- Cross-References -- References -- Atget and Marville, Photographers of Paris -- Atget´s Legacy -- Charles Marville -- Atget -- References -- Athens -- Athens and Travel Literature -- Synonyms -- Introduction -- Name and Myth -- History -- Early Modern Travelers and the Reemergence of Athens -- Travelers and Tourists in Nineteenth-Century Athens -- ``Belated Wayfarers´´ in Twentieth-Century Athens -- Conclusion -- References -- Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter -- Aura -- Australian Literature -- Austria-Hungary -- Autobiografiction -- Autobiography -- B -- Bakhtin -- Bakhtin and Cities: Petersburg, Paris, and Rome -- Bakhtin: Biography -- Bakhtin and Dostoevsky. ; Rabelais and His World -- City Squares and the Chronotope -- Bibliography and Further Reading -- Baldwin, James: Multisensorial Spaces of Harlem, New York -- Harlem in James Baldwin´s Oeuvre -- Cross-sensory Awareness in ``Previous Condition´´ -- Multisensorial Harlem in Little Man, Little Man -- References -- Balzac -- Balzac´s Life -- Introductory: On Reading Balzac -- The Comédie Humaine -- Reading the Comédie Humaine -- Balzac´s Paris -- La Peau de Chagrin -- Balzac the Realist -- Cross-References -- References -- Balzac: Cousin Pons -- Synonyms -- Introduction -- The Plot -- Writing the Text -- Paris and Cousin Pons -- Paris Slums -- Cross-References -- References -- Balzac: Cousin Bette -- References -- Balzac: Le Père Goriot (Father Goriot) -- Synonyms -- References -- Balzac: Splendeurs et Misères des Courtisanes -- Synonyms -- Definition -- Prostitution -- References -- Balzac: The History of the Thirteen (Historie des Treize) -- Synonyms -- Ferragus -- La Fille aux Yeux d´Or -- References -- Barnes, Djuna -- Synonyms -- Definition -- Introduction: Urban Spaces -- Some Biography -- New York - Greenwich Village Bohemia -- Paris and the American Expatriates -- Cross-References -- References -- Barney Simon as Director, Writer, and Animator -- Barney Simon´s Johannesburg -- Synonyms -- Introduction/Definition -- Early Collaborations -- Writing and Directing the Inner City -- Simon, the Market Theatre, and Johannesburg -- Cross-References -- References -- Further Reading -- Baroque -- Baroque Venice -- Definition -- Introduction -- Cross-References -- References -- Barthes -- Basic English -- Bathos and Parodic Contrast -- Baudelaire -- Baudelaire and Benjamin: `Le vin des chiffonniers´ -- Synonyms -- Definition -- Le vin des chiffonniers -- Cross-References -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Baudelaire: Life -- Life Before Les Fleurs du Mal. ; Writings -- Life Continued: Brussels, and Death -- References -- Baudelaire: The Painter of Modern Life -- Beauty, Fashion, and Happiness -- Artist, Man of the World, Man of Crowds, and Child -- La Modernité -- The Dandy and Women -- ``Les Femmes et les Filles´´ -- References -- Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal -- Synonyms -- A Post-Theological, Post-Romantic Aesthetics -- Haussmann´s Paris -- ``Tableaux Parisiens´´ -- Humanity, Immorality, and Empathy -- Bibliography -- Be´er Sheva as Periphery -- Be´er-Sheva as a `Third Space´ -- Be´er-Sheva in Shulamit Lapid´s Lizzie Badii Series -- Synonyms -- Definition -- Introduction -- The City of Be´er-Sheva -- The Landscape of Be´er-Sheva in the Novels -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References -- Be´er-Sheva the Capital of the Negev -- Beau Brummell -- Beijing: A Cultural History -- Ji City: The beginning of Beijing -- Youzhou City: Between Chinese and Nomads -- Nanjing and Zhongdu: Becoming a Capital -- Dadu: Established Capital of All China -- Under Chinese Ming Dynasty -- Under Manchu Qing Dynasty -- Ming and Qing Traditions -- Modern Upheavals -- Rejuvenation by Westernization -- Beijing Dialect and Language Reforms -- Under the People´s Republic of China (the PRC) -- Bibliography -- Beijing: City and Film -- Beginning -- Arts -- Trades and Lifestyles -- The City -- Beijingers, Old Vs. New -- An Open Ending -- References -- Belfast -- Ben Okri: The Famished Road -- The Famished Road -- Reading Okri -- Bibliography -- Benjamin, Surrealism, and Paris -- Synonyms -- Introduction to Surrealism -- ``Dreamkitsch´´ -- Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia -- Technology and Revolution -- References -- Benjamin, Walter -- Synonyms -- References -- Benjamin, Walter, Siegfried Kraucauer, T.W. Adorno, and Companions Writing the City -- Synonyms -- Flaneuring on the Asphalt. ; A Neapolitan Light -- Books and Cities -- Bibliography -- Benjamin, Walter: Berlin Childhood Around 1900 -- Synonyms -- Definition -- Introduction: Benjamin and Berlin -- A Berlin Chronicle -- ``Berlin Childhood Around 1900´´: 1938 -- Berlin Childhood Around 1900-1934 Version -- Cross-References -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Berdychev -- Berlin -- Berlin Alexanderplatz -- Introduction -- The Author -- The Novel: Origins -- Structure -- Plot/Story -- Narrative Technique -- The City as Text -- Reception/Adaptation -- References -- Further Reading -- Berlin: An Overview -- Introduction -- Myths of the City -- History -- Modern Berlin -- Topography -- Hoffmann and ``My Co Corner Window´´ -- Berlin´s Writers -- East and West Berlin in Memory -- References -- Further Reading -- Bezmozgis -- Bilingualism -- The Billboard Community: The Visual Culture of Seoul and Its Multiplicity -- Introduction -- Ganpan as a Form of Life -- The Scholarship of Signage in Korea and Beyond -- Design Seoul: The Practice of Signage from the Outside -- The City of the Bang: On the Multiplicity of Signage -- References -- Biography -- Birmingham as ``Composite Monster´´: Roy Fisher´s City (1961) -- Planner-Preservationist Contexts -- Modernism and Urban Space -- ``A Composite Monster´´: Unifying the City -- Public and Private Cities -- Conclusion -- References -- Bleak House -- Synonyms -- Definition -- Cross-References -- References -- Bollywood -- Book Illustration -- Book Trade -- Border Crossing -- Borders -- Borges and Buenos Aires: Creating Place from Space in Poetry and Prose -- Introduction -- Buenos Aires in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Immigration and Cultural Change -- The City Center Versus the Outskirts -- The Urban Space -- A Sense of Belonging -- Early Images of Buenos Aires in Borges´s Writing. ; Borges in Short Fiction Related to Space, Place, and Buenos Aires.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies
• ISBN: 9783319624198; 9783319624181
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910624393103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II