The Making of London
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-34836-3 (ISBN)
SEBASTIAN GROES is Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University, London, UK. He has written extensively on modern and contemporary fiction, the London novel, and edited collections including Ian McEwan (Continuum, 2009), Kazuo Ishiguro (Continuum, 2010), Julian Barnes (2011) and Kazuo Ishiguro: Critical Visions of the Novels (Palgrave, 2011).
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction From 'Ellowen Deeowen' to 'Babylondon': London is a Language 'Fabricked Out Of Literature and Myth': Maureen Duffy's Londons 'Of Real Experience Mixed with Myth': Michael Moorcock 'A Zoo Fit for Psychopaths': J.G. Ballard versus London 'Struck Out of Pure Invention': Iain Sinclair's London 'In Pre-Ordained Patterns': Peter Ackroyd's London Palimpsests 'Beyond the Responsibility of Place': Ian McEwan's Londons 'In a Prose so Diagonal and Mood Warped': Martin Amis's London Scatology 'Through a Confusion of Languages': Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi 'Kyan you Imagine Dat?': The New London Languages of Zadie Smith and Monica Ali Conclusion: London Undone? Chronology of Contemporary London Notes Bibliography Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.8.2011 |
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Zusatzinfo | XIII, 309 p. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 0-230-34836-X / 023034836X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-230-34836-3 / 9780230348363 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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