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The Literary Psychogeography of London: Otherworlds of Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair: Literary Urban Studies

Autor 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030529826
ISBN-10: 3030529827
Pagini: 116
Ilustrații: XIII, 116 p. 4 illus., 3 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2020
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Literary Urban Studies

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Chapter 1/ Infinite London: the London-ness of London.- Chapter 2/ The Disintegration of London in Alan Moore’s Psychogeography.- Chapter 3/ Peter Ackroyd’s Sensuous Detective Method in Hawksmoor.- Chapter 4/ Writing Psychogeography, Writing London through a Screen Darkly: White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings .- Chapter 5/ London-ness: a Marriage of the Literary and the Psychogeographical.

Notă biografică

Ann Tso is Instructor of English at Lethbridge College, Canada. Much of her research concerns popular re-imaginings of world cities, particularly theories of worlding and alternate histories. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Neo-Victorian Studies, The Literary London Journal, and Journal of Narrative Theory.


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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.

Caracteristici

Argues Moore, Ackroyd, and Sinclair present counter-representations of London that unsettle a romanticizing of Englishness Defines psychogeography as a form of urban literature Explores the concepts of “city-ness”, “London-ness”, and Englishness