Overview
- Contributes to the interdisciplinary field of urban studies
- Focuses on the narrative constitution of urban space broadly
- Illustrates the diversity of interpretations of reading space by examining a range of literatures, cultures, and cities
Part of the book series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies (GSLS)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The City and the Text/the City as a Text
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Television Reading the City
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Conflicting Narratives
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Contesting the City I: Women on the Streets of London
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Contesting the City II: Berlin, History and Memory
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About this book
Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity explores the narrative formations of urbanity from an interdisciplinary perspective. Within the framework of the “spatial turn,” contributors from disciplines ranging from geography and history to literary and media studies theorize narrative constructions of the city and cities, and analyze relevant examples from a variety of discourses, media, and cities. Subdivided into six sections, the book explores the interactions of city and text—as well as other media—and the conflicting narratives that arise in these interactions. Offering case studies that discuss specific aspects of the narrative construction of Berlin and London, the text also considers narratives of urban discontinuity and their theoretical implications. Ultimately, this volume captures the narratological, artistic, material, social, and performative possibilities inherent in spatial representations of the city.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts
Book Subtitle: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity
Editors: Martin Kindermann, Rebekka Rohleder
Series Title: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55269-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55268-8Published: 20 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55271-8Published: 21 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55269-5Published: 19 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2578-9694
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5188
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 338
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary Theory, Postcolonial/World Literature, Global Cinema and TV, Urban History, Memory Studies, Urban Studies/Sociology