Includes bibliographical references and index Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of...
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Includes bibliographical references and index Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have represented cultural modernity, political idealism and architectural innovation. Writing the Modern City explores the diverse and fascinating relationships between literature, architecture and modernity and considers how they have shaped the world today. This collection of thirteen original essays examines the ways in which literature and architecture have shaped a range of recognis
Front Cover; Writing the Modern City; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Time, space and narrative: reflections on architecture, literature and modernity: Jonathan Charley; Part I: Memory, nation, identity; 2. Remembering and forgetting: private and public lives in the imagined nation: Sarah Edwards; 3. Poets, tramps and a town planner: a survey of Raymond Unwin's on-site persona: Brian Ward; 4. Unhomely desire: dismantling the walls of difference in Gora's Kolkata: Mark Mukherjee Campbell
5. 'The past forsworn': colonialism and counterhistory in the work of Doris Lessing: Victoria RosnerPart II: Movement, culture, genre; 6. Drugs, crime and other worlds: Jonathan Charley; 7. Architectural crimes and architectural solutions: Peter Clandfield; 8. Philip K. Dick's disturbanism: towards psychospatial readings of science fiction: David T. Fortin; 9. Alexander Trocchi: Glasgow through the eye of a needle: Gary A. Boyd; Part III: Narrative, form, space; 10. Anonymous encounters: the structuring of space in postmodern narratives of the city: Sarah Edwards
11. The novel architecture of Georges Perec: Stefanie Elisabeth Sobelle12. Sex happens: a phenomenological reading of the casual encounter: Renée Tobe; 13. 'There are different ways of making the streets tell': narrative, urban space and orientation: Inga Bryden; Index
