Writing the City: Urban Visions and Literary Modernism

by Desmond Harding

Overview

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 transhistorical 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415942768
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/04/2003
Series:	Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Preface Chapter One: Saxa Loquuntur: The Modernist City Chapter Two: dubliners : The City Betrayed Chapter Three: Grave Memories: The Epitaphic Consciousness of The Dead Chapter Four: The Metropolitan Consciousness of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Chapter Five: ulysses and Manhattan Transfer : A Poetics of Transatlantic Literary Modernism Afterword Notes Works Cited Index