The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies

Author:   Lieven Ameel (University of Turku, Finland)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367645212


Pages:   498
Publication Date:   10 August 2022
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Author:   Lieven Ameel (University of Turku, Finland)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.020kg
ISBN:  

9780367645212


ISBN 10:   0367645211
Pages:   498
Publication Date:   10 August 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of contents 1. Literary Urban Studies: An Introduction Lieven Ameel, Tampere University 2. Teaching Literary Urban Studies Lieven Ameel, Tampere University; Chen Bar-Itzhak, Stanford University; Patricia Garcia, University of Alcala; Jason Finch, Abo Akademi; Silja Laine, Abo Akademi; Liam Lanigan, Governors State University; Anni Lappela, Helsinki University; Juho Rajaniemi, Tampere University; Markku Salmela, Tampere University Key Themes 3.The Map in City Literature Liam Lanigan, Governors State University 4. The Spatial Practice of Idling as a Bridge Between Victorian and Modernist City Literature Heidi Liedke, University of Koblenz-Landau 5. The Aesthetics of the City Bart Keunen, Ghent University 6.The Palimpsest Jens Gurr, University of Duisburg-Essen 7. Recursive Cities: Seriality and Literary Urban Studies Maria Sulimma, University of Duisburg-Essen Key Genres 8. Urban Satire in Ancient Rome Grace A Gillies, Bates College 9. Medieval Civic Encomium: A Theme and Variations in Praise of Italian Cities Carrie Benes, New College of Florida, and Laura Morreale, independent scholar/Georgetown University 10.The Metropolitan Miniature Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University 11. The City in Crime Fiction: The Case of Bologna as a Branching CityBarbara Pezzotti, Monash University 12. Infrastructural Forms: Comics, Cities, Conglomerations Dominic Davies, City, University of London Case Studies 13. The North African city: Literary Portraits of Colonial, Socialist, and Neoliberal Spaces Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed, Columbia University 14. Embodying City Writing: Theatre as Bridge between the Literary and the Urban in Johannesburg Alex Halligey, University of Johannesburg 15. Urban Mobilities in Francophone African Return Narratives Anna-Leena Toivanen, University of Eastern Finland 16. Fictions and Frictions of Race and Space: Excavating the Transatlantic Urban Memoryscapes of Stuart Hall's Familiar Stranger (2017) and Hazel Carby's Imperial Intimacies (2019) Julia Hori, University of Cambridge 17. The Form of a City: Geographies of Constraint in Contemporary Urban Writing from France Michael G. Kelly, University of Limerick 18. Literary representations of the 2008 revolt in Athens: The Urban Minds' viewpoint Riikka P. Pulkkinen, University of Helsinki 19. The Russian provincial town and the modernist Bildungsroman: Leonid Dobychin's The Town of N Tintti Klapuri, University of Helsinki 20. Shaping the Right to the Megalopolis: Earthquake Cronicas in Mexico CityLiesbeth Francois, KU Leuven 21. Mobilities in Montreal fiction Ceri Morgan, Keele University 22. Black Metropolis Patrice Nganang, Stony Brook University 23. Make the Neighborhood Great Again! Haifa's Literature of Urban Decline and the Palimpsestic Imagination Chen Bar-Itzhak, Stanford University 24. Writing Urban Warfare: Pedestrian Perspectives in post-2003 BaghdadAnnie Webster, SOAS, University of London 25. City Imaginaries from the Margins: Anosh Irani's Bombay Novels Rita Nnodim, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts 26. Contemporary travel writing of Delhi: from belatedness and decay to globalist eruption in William Dalrymple's City of Djinns and Rana Dasgupta's Capital Tim Hannigan, Technological University of the Shannon 27. The Urban Child, Hong Kong's Public Housing and Public Space in Yeung Hok-Tat's How Blue Was My ValleyLiz Ho, University of Hong Kong 28. An Invitation to the Critical Literary Urban Vocabularies of 1970s Japan Franz Prichard, Princeton University New Debates 29. City outcasts: perspectives from the Hispanic female fantastic Patricia Garcia, University of Alcala 30. Mapping the Informal City in World Literature Eric Prieto, UC Santa Barbara 31. Queer and Trans Theories of Urban Change Davy Knittle, College of New Jersey 32. Future cities in literature Paul Dobraszczyk, Bartlett School of Architecture 33. Translocality in City LiteratureLena Mattheis, University of Duisburg-Essen

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Lieven Ameel is Senior Lecturer in comparative literature at Tampere University, Tampere, Finland. He has published widely on literary experiences of space, narrative planning, and urban futures. He is co-founder and currently president of the Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS).

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