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Imagined Cities (Paperback)
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In Imagined Cities, Robert Alter traces the arc of literary
development triggered by the runaway growth of urban centers from
the early nineteenth century through the first two decades of the
twentieth. As new technologies and arrangements of public and
private space changed the ways people experienced time and space,
the urban panorama became less coherent-a metropolis defying
traditional representation and definition, a vast jumble of
shifting fragments and glimpses-and writers were compelled to
create new methods for conveying the experience of the city. In a
series of subtle and convincing interpretations of novels by
Flaubert, Dickens, Bely, Woolf, Joyce, and Kafka, Alter reveals the
ways the city entered the literary imagination. He shows how
writers of diverse imaginative temperaments developed innovative
techniques to represent shifts in modern consciousness. Writers
sought more than a journalistic representation of city living, he
argues, and to convey meaningfully the reality of the metropolis,
the city had to be re-created or reimagined.His book probes the
literary response to changing realities of the period and
contributes significantly to our understanding of the history of
the Western imagination.
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