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The Ruins of Urban Modernity - Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day (Hardcover)
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The Ruins of Urban Modernity - Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day (Hardcover)
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The Ruins of Urban Modernity examines Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel
Against the Day through the critical lens of urban spatiality.
Navigating the textual landscapes of New York, Venice, London, Los
Angeles and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Against the Day
reimagines urban modernity at the turn of the 20th century. As the
complex novel collapses and rebuilds anew the spatial imaginaries
underlying the popular fictions of urban modernity, Utku Mogultay
explores how such creative disfiguration throws light on the
contemporary urban world. Through critical spatial readings, he
considers how Pynchon historicizes issues ranging from the
commodification of the urban landscape to the politics of
place-making. In Mogultay's reading, Against the Day is shown to
offer an oblique negotiation of postmodern urban spaces, thus
directing our attention to the ongoing erosion of sociospatial
diversity in North American cities and elsewhere.
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