Literatures of urban possibility

Literatures of urban possibility / Markku Salmela, Lieven Ameel, Jason Finch, editors.

This book demonstrates how city literature addresses questions of possibility. In city literature, ideas of possibility emerge primarily through two perspectives: texts may focus on what is possible for cities, and they may present the urban environment as a site of possibility for individuals or co...

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Other Authors: Salmela, Markku (Editor), Ameel, Lieven, 1978- (Editor), Finch, Jason (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Series:Literary urban studies,
Subjects:
Cities and towns in literature.
Cities and towns in literature
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Possible in Literature and Urban Life: Clearing the Field, Markku Salmela, Lieven Ameel, and Jason Finch
  • 2. The Possibilities of Urban Informality: Two Views from Istanbul, Eric Prieto
  • 3. Rising Towers, Rising Tides: Competing Visions of the Helsinki Waterfront in Planning and Fiction, Lieven Ameel
  • 4. From Utopia to Retrotopia: The Cosmopolitan City in the Aftermath of Modernity, Chen Bar-Itzhak
  • 5. Donald Barthelme's Impossible Cities, Markku Salmela
  • 6. Cartographic Ecstasy- Mapping, Provinciality and Possible Spaces in Dmitrii Danilov's City Prose, Anni Lappela
  • 7. Possibilities of Translocal Mapping in Tendai Huchu's The Maestro, the Magistrate & the Mathematician, Lena Mattheis
  • 8. Tipping Points: Gentrification and Urban Possibility, Hanna Henryson
  • 9. Concrete Possibilities: The High-Rise Suburb in Swedish Children's and Young Adult Literature, Lydia Wistisen
  • 10. Double Vision-Viennese Refugees in New York and Back Home Again, Joshua Parker
  • 11. Utopian Thinking and the (Im)Possible UK Council Estate: The Birmingham Region in Literature, Image and Experience, Jason Finch
  • 12. Afterword: Urban Possibilities in Times of Crisis, David Pinder.

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