Sebastian Groes, The Making of London. London in Contemporary Literature
From its very title, Sebastian Groes’s study of London in contemporary literature points to the notion of ‘making’, i.e. ‘the constructed and artificial nature of the city’ (2), and comes to the conclusion that ‘the making of London is also its unmaking’ (3). Instead of reducing London (that T. S. ...
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Études britanniques contemporaines
2013
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| On-line přístup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Shrnutí: | From its very title, Sebastian Groes’s study of London in contemporary literature points to the notion of ‘making’, i.e. ‘the constructed and artificial nature of the city’ (2), and comes to the conclusion that ‘the making of London is also its unmaking’ (3). Instead of reducing London (that T. S. Eliot famously called an ‘Unreal City’ in The Waste Land), to a virtual hyper-reality or to the postmodern representation of the city-as-text, Groes chooses to emphasize its materiality, ‘half of s... |
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