The Literary Psychogeography of London : Otherworlds of Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair / / by Ann Tso
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2020. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (XIII, 116 p. 4 illus., 3 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina: | 741.5942 |
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| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This Pivot book examines literary elements of urban topography that have animated Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair’s respective 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The literary psychogeography of London |
| ISBN: | 3-030-52980-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910483282603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Literary Urban Studies, . 2523-7896