Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity

Author:   Martin Kindermann ,  Rebekka Rohleder
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
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Pages:   338
Publication Date:   21 October 2021
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Author:   Martin Kindermann ,  Rebekka Rohleder
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Weight:   0.475kg
ISBN:  

9783030552718


ISBN 10:   3030552713
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   21 October 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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1          Introduction: Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts Rebekka Rohleder and Martin Kindermann Part 1 The City and the Text/ the City as a Text 2          City Scripts / City Scapes. On the Intertextuality of Urban Experience Andreas Mahler 3          (Urban) Sacred Places and Profane Spaces—Theological Topography in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land Verena Keidel 4          Traveling Discourses: The Works of Pavel Ulitin (1918-1986) and the Problem of Narrative Alternatives Daria Baryshnikova Part 2 Television Reading the City 5          “This America, man.” Narrating and Reading Urban Space in The Wire Christopher Schliephake 6          Reading the City: ‘Mind Mapping’ in the BBC’s Sherlock Janina Wierzoch Part 3 Conflicting Narratives 7          Transcription: Addressing the Interactivity between Urban and Architectural Spaces and their Use Klaske Maria Havik 8          Politics and the Production of Space: Downtown and Out with Rancière and Lefebvre Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich 9          The People of New Jerusalem: Narratives of Social In- and Exclusion in Rotterdam after the Blitz of 1940 Stefan Couperus 10        Smart City Narratives and Narrating Smart Urbanism Anke Strüver and Sybille Bauriedl Part 4 Contesting the City I: Women on the Streets of London 11        Poetic Mobility and the Location of an Anglo-Jewish Self: Amy Levy’s and Elaine Feinstein’s Cityscapes Martin Kindermann 12        Gender and the City: Virginia Woolf’s London between Promise of Freedom and Structural Confinement Claudia Heuer Part 5 Contesting the City II: Berlin, History and Memory 13        The City Stripped Bare of its Histories, Even: Crisis and Representation in two German Trümmerfilme of 1948 Daniel Jonah Wolpert 14        “A ‘bridgehead’ in the visible domain”: Chloe Aridjis’s, J.S. Marcus’s and Theodore Sedgwick Fay’s Tales of Berlin Joshua Parker Part 6 Dis/Continuities 15        Finding Causes for Events: The City as Normative Narrative Rebekka Rohleder 16        Private Topographies: Visions of Tōkyō in Modern Japanese Literature Gala Maria Follaco 17        Reading Against the Grain—Black Presence in Lower Manhattan, New York City Tazalika M. te Reh

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Martin Kindermann is an English teacher. Previously, he worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and was a Research Fellow at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. He has published on religious poetry in the 19th and 20th century, Anglo-Jewish and Anglo-Muslim Writing, and the construction of space in literature as well as questions of post-coloniality and interculturality. Rebekka Rohleder is Research Assistant at the University of Flensburg, Germany. Previously, she worked at the University of Hamburg’s Department for English and American Studies. Her research interests include British Romanticism, literary space, and depictions of work in contemporary culture. In 2019, she published “A Different Earth”: Literary Space in Mary Shelley’s Novels.

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