City Codes: Reading the Modern Urban Novel
by Hana Wirth-nesher
2020-12-29 09:54:02
City Codes: Reading the Modern Urban Novel
by Hana Wirth-nesher
2020-12-29 09:54:02
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. City Codes argues that the modern urb...
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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. City Codes argues that the modern urban novel, in contrast to earlier novels, is characterized by an intersection of public and private space, but that this intersection is mapped differently according to the position of the city dweller in terms of history, politics, nationality, gender, class, and race.
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