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The London Object: Writing London at the End of Capitalism: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

Autor Grant Hamilton
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Étienne Balibar writes that today we are at the end of capitalism. This is not because capitalism has run its course or has met an irresistible force, but because there can be no purer form of capitalism than the one we have today. Taking seriously the idea that this strain of capitalism has not only seized the urban environment but is the urban environment, works by Michael Moorcock, Iain Sinclair, Penelope Lively, Peter Ackroyd, and J.G. Ballard are read as representative of a loosely allied group of London writers who have anticipated, critiqued, and offered up various avenues of resistance to the deleterious effects of this most vigorous strain of capitalism.
Writing on the city by charting a politics of reconnection to the real that necessarily unsettles the epistemological and ontological ground upon which both modernity and capitalism sit, this stable of writers make clear the ways in which the sheer materiality of the urban environment profoundly influences the being and thinking of individuals. In so doing, these writers produce works which when read together give the coordinates of an altermodernity that might just allow capitalism to reach its final conclusion.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032006178
ISBN-10: 103200617X
Pagini: 152
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

Introduction:
Writing London at the end of capitalism
 
Chapter 1:
Michael Moorcock’s Mother London and the viscous city
 
Chapter 2:
Iain Sinclair’s Downriver and the allure of the I-city
 
Chapter 3:
Penelope Lively’s City of the Mind and the simultaneous city
 
Chapter 4:
Peter Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor and the churches of absolute space
 
Chapter 5:
J. G. Ballard’s Crash and the seduction of objects
 
Conclusion:
The coordinates of an altermodernity

Notă biografică

Grant Hamilton is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He teaches and researches in the areas of twentieth century world literatures in English and literary theory.

Descriere

This book argues that certain works by Michael Moorcock, Iain Sinclair, Penelope Lively, Peter Ackroyd, and J.G. Ballard constitute the coordinates of an altermodernity that might bring to an end the most deleterious effects and affects of today’s hyper-aggressive strain of capitalism.