Literature and the Peripheral City

2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-49287-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4287 g

Cities have always been defined by their centrality. But literature demonstrates that their diverse peripheries define them, too: from suburbs to slums, rubbish dumps to nightclubs and entire failed cities. The contributors to this collection explore literary urban peripheries through readings of literature from four continents and numerous cities.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finch, Jason

Salmela, Markku

Ameel, L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Peripherality and Literary Urban Studies; Lieven Ameel, Jason Finch and Markku Salmela PART I: CITY PERIPHERIES 1. Detroit and Paris, Paris as Detroit; Jeremy Tambling 2. 'It's Six A.M. Do You Know Where You Are?' Urban Peripherality and the Narrative Framing of Literary Beginnings; Lieven Ameel 3. The Peripheries of London Slumland in George Gissing and Alexander Baron; Jason Finch 4. A Topography of Refuse: Waste, the Suburb, and Pynchon's 'Low-lands'; Markku Salmela 5. London's East End in Peter Ackroyd's Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem; Aleksejs Taube 6. The Configuration of Boundaries and Peripheries in Johannesburg as Represented in Selected Works by Ivan Vladislavi? and Zakes Mda; Marita Wenzel PART II: PERIPHERAL CITIES, GENRES AND WRITERS 7. Hungry and Alone: The Topography of Everyday Life in Knut Hamsun and August Strindberg; Tone Selboe 8. A Forest on the Edge of Helsinki: Spatiality in Henrika Ringbom's Novel; Martina Dagers längtan and Topi Lappalainen 9. Eduard Vilde and Tallinn's Dynamic Peripheries, 1858-1903; Elle-Mari Talivee and Jason Finch 10. A Suburban Revision of Nostalgia: The Case of Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra; Bieke Willem 11. From Windowsill to Underpass: Young Women's Spatial Orientation in Swedish Young Adult Literature; Lydia Wistisen 12. Centrifugal City: Centre and Periphery in Ricardo Piglia's La ciudad ausente; Nettah Yoeli-Rimmer Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lieven Ameel, University of Helsinki, Finland
Jason Finch, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Topi Lappalainen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Markku Salmela, University of Tampere, Finland
Aleksejs Taube, University of Latvia, Latvia
Tone Selboe, University of Oslo, Norway
Jeremy Tambling, independent scholar, UK
Elle-Mari Talivee, Tuglas and Under Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Estonia
Marita Wenzel, North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa
Bieke Willem, Ghent University, Belgium
Lydia Wistisen, University of Stockholm, Sweden
Nettah Yoeli-Rimmer, Ghent University, Belgium