Writing the city: urban visions and literary modernism
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TextSeries: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory: Outstanding DissertationsPublication details: New York Routledge 2003Description: xii,224pISBN: 0415942764Subject(s): English Literature | Literature, comparative- Irish and American | Criticism and interpretation | Modernism (Literature)- United States | Modernism (Literature)- Ireland | Dublin (Ireland)- in literature | City and town life in literatureDDC classification: 823.912 Summary: 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.
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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.
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