Screen LibraryLiterary Second Cities /
This book brings together geographers and literary scholars in a series of engagements near the boundaries of their disciplines. In urban studies, disproportionate attention has been given to a small set of privileged first cities. This volume problematizes the dominance of such alpha cities, offeri...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62719-9 |
| Summary: |
This book brings together geographers and literary scholars in a series of engagements near the boundaries of their disciplines. In urban studies, disproportionate attention has been given to a small set of privileged first cities. This volume problematizes the dominance of such alpha cities, offering a wide perspective on second cities and their literature. The volume is divided into three themed sections. In the Shadow of the Alpha City problematizes the image of cities defined by their function and size, bringing out the contradictions and contestations inherent in cultural productions of |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XVI, 267 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9783319627199 |
| Index Number: | PN695 |
| CLC: | I106 |
| Contents: | 1. The Second City in Literary Urban Studies: Methods, Approaches, Key Thematics - Jason Finch, Lieven Ameel and Markku Salmela -- 2. World Cities and Second Cities: Imagining Growth and Hybridity in Modern Literature - Bart Keunen -- 3. Comic Novel, City Novel: David Lodge and Jonathan Coe Reinterpreted by Birmingham - Jason Finch -- 4. A Sort of Second London in Every Thing but Vitiousness : Bristol in Eighteenth-Century Poetry, 1700 50 - Adam Borch -- 5. Cities within a Second City: The Case of Literary Tartu - Mart Velsker and Ene-Reet Soovik -- 6. Still Learning from Las Vegas: Imaginin |