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1 online resource (285 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; INTRODUCTION The City on Our Mind -- 1. DISCOURSE AND THE CITY; The City: Some Classical Moments; Discourse, Polis, Finiteness, Perfection; 2. COGNITIVE MAPPING: LABYRINTHS, LIBRARIES AND CROSSROADS; The Labyrinth as Sign of City, Text, and Thought; The Labyrinth and the Library en abyme: Eco, Borges, Dickens . . .; On City Streets and Narrative Logic; 3. CHARACTER AND POETRY IN THE CITY; From Topos to Anthropoid: The City as Character in Twentieth-Century Texts; The Cosmopolis of Poetics: Urban World, Uncertain Poetry; 4. THE CITY AS LANDSCAPE |
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Virginia Woolf's London and the Feminist Revision of ModernismCingria and His Cities; The New York Writer and His Landscapes; 5. NEW YORK TO PARIS; The Breakup of the City and the Breakdown of Narrative: Baudelaire's Le Cygne and James Merrill's Urban Convalescence -- From Memory Lane to Memory Boulevard: Paris Change!; Paris, Baudelaire and Benjamin: The Poetics of Urban Violence; Framing the City: Two Parisian Windows; 6. CLAIMS ON THE CITY; City, Swain and Subtext in Blake's Songs; Things Can't Go on Like This: A Beggar's Itinerary; 7. CONTEMPORARY CITIES: TRAFFICKING AND FILMING |
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Trafficking in Philosophy: Lines of Force in the City-TextCity/Cinema/Dream; 8. ENACTMENT AND LASTNESS; The Last Manifesto; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX |
| Summary |
First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134295982 |
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1134295987 |
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