(Re-)Mapping London: Visions of the metropolis in the contemporary novel in english - Softcover

Guignery, Vanessa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2748343425 ISBN 13: 9782748343427

Verlag: Publibook/Société des écrivains, 2008

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The aim of this collection is to explore representations of London in contemporary literature from two main perspectives: the city as observed by British-born Londoners and the new multicultural London. The British capital is sometimes presented as a labyrinthine, hostile and even occult city which is now no longer the centre of the Empire and is a place of chaos, decay, disorder, corruption and alienation. But it can also be considered in a creative and dynamic perspective as the source of endless imagination and regeneration, as the place for growth and change, for new beginnings and possibilities. This volume examines fresh ways of re-mapping the metropolis and redefining its contours in novels from the 1960’s to the present, with special focus on Graham Swift, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, Peter Ackroyd, Will Self, Caryl Phillips, Doris Lessing, Jenny Diski, Tibor Fischer and Monica Ali.

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• Verlag: Publibook/Société des écrivains
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 2748343425
• ISBN 13: 9782748343427
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 252