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City Codes - Reading the Modern Urban Novel (Hardcover, New)
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City Codes - Reading the Modern Urban Novel (Hardcover, New)
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City Codes is a study of the representation of the city in the
modern novel that takes difference as its point of departure, so
that cities are read according to the cultural and social position
of the urbanite. These urban narratives are analysed in the context
of a cultural repertoire of city codes, from the architectural
features of window and street to the social and historical signs of
the landmark and the passer-by, with the emphasis on the subject's
construction of his or her place as shaped by history, politics,
nationality, gender, class and race. The study moves from
boundaries inscribed onto the cityscape to distances experienced by
the city dwellers; its 'real' and textual cities are Warsaw,
Jerusalem, New York, Chicago, Paris, London and Dublin. The novels
discussed are by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Amos Oz, Theodore Dreiser,
Ralph Ellison, Henry James, Henry Roth, James Joyce and Virginia
Woolf.
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