Literary Psychogeography of London
Otherworlds of Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
Av Ann Tso
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This Pivot book examines literary elements of urban topography that have animated Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair’s respective representations of London-ness. Ann Tso argues these authors write London “psychogeographically” to deconstruct popular visions of London with colonial and neoliberal undertones. Moore’s psychogeography consists of bird’s-eye views that reveal the brute force threatening to unravel Londonscape from within; Ackroyd’s aims to detect London sensuously, since every new awareness recalls an otherworldly London; Sinclair’s conjures up a narrative consciousness made erratic by London’s disunified landscape. Drawing together the dystopian, the phenomenological, and the postcolonial, Tso explores how these texts characterize “London-ness” as estranging.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2020-09-22
- Mått148 x 210 x 12 mm
- Vikt293 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieLiterary Urban Studies
- Antal sidor116
- Upplaga20001
- FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
- ISBN9783030529796