عنوان

Modernity and metropolis

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0333801687 )cloth(

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Modernity and metropolis

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Peter Brooker

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2002

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ix, 230 p.

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Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Beginnings in Endings 1 -- Modernity and metropolis 1 -- Reflexivity 11 -- Community 16 -- A reflexive aesthetic 23 -- 1 American Modernists in Modern London 30 -- Ezra Pound: Vortex South Kensington 31 -- Iris Barry: life and contacts 38 -- T.S. Eliot: between lives 45 -- 2 Modernism Deferred: Harlem Montage 55 -- Blues on 1814 N. Street, NW Washington 55 -- Renaissance jazz 57 -- Modernisms: Langston Hughes and Melvin B. Tolson 65 -- 3 Inside Ethnicity: Suburban Outlooks 75 -- Black Britishness 75 -- A little identity crisis: Hanif Kureishi 78 -- Real magic: Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Bernadine Evaristo 86 -- 4 Re-imagining London 96 -- Vortex Spitalfields: lain Sinclair and Syed Manzarul Islam 97 -- The problem of London: Patrick Keiller 105 -- Drifting, disappearing: lain Sinclair and Rachel Lichtenstein 109 -- Untold stories: Janet Cardiff 115 -- 5 'Hymn to the Great People's Republic of Brooklyn' 120 -- Place and identity 122 -- Paul Auster: time for stories 127 -- Dialogic community: Paul Auster and Wayne Wang 132 -- 6 'Witness to my times': Sarah Schulman and the -- Lower East Side 141 -- Neighbourhoods 141 -- Fictions of lesbian community 145 -- The power of straight thinking 153 -- UnAmerican activity 157 -- 7 In the Matrix: East West Encounters 162 -- Turning the globe 162 -- 'The street finds its own use for things': Edward Yang 168 -- and William Gibson -- Starting over: Wong Kar-Wai and Lawrence Chua. 179 -- Coda: Postmetropolis and the Art of Fabrication 186 -- Simcity and the shanty town 189 -- 'A poor man is like a dog'. Latife Tekin and John Berger 192.

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Includes bibliographical references )p. 206-218( and index.

Variant Title

writing, film, and urban formations

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Cities and towns in literature

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Literature, Modern^a20th century--History and criticism

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Cities and towns in motion pictures

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Brooker, Peter

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English Book