TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harding, Desmond
AU  - Cain, William E., ed.
TI  - Writing the city: urban visions and literary modernism
T2  - Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory: Outstanding Dissertations
SN  - 0415942764
U1  - 823.912 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - English Literature
KW  - Literature, comparative- Irish and American
KW  - Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Modernism (Literature)- United States
KW  - Modernism (Literature)- Ireland
KW  - Dublin (Ireland)- in literature
KW  - City and town life in literature
N2  - Writing the City examines and challenges the traditional transatlantic axis of urban modernism, London-Paris-New York, an axis that has often elided the historical importance of other centers that have shaped metropolitan identities and discourses. According to Desmond Harding, James Joyce's internationalist vision of Dublin generates powerful epistemic and cultural tropes that reconceive the idea of the modern city as a moral phenomenon in transcultural and trans historical terms. Taking up the works of both Joyce and John Dos Passos, Harding investigates the lasting contributions these author's made to transatlantic intellectual thought in their efforts to envisage the city
ER  -