New York and Toronto novels after postmodernism: explorations of the urban
Cities are material and symbolic spaces through which nations define their cultural identities. The great cities that have arisen on the North American continent have stimulated the imaginations of the United States and Canada in very different ways. This first comparative study of North American ur...
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| Summary: | Cities are material and symbolic spaces through which nations define their cultural identities. The great cities that have arisen on the North American continent have stimulated the imaginations of the United States and Canada in very different ways. This first comparative study of North American urban fiction starts out by delineating the sociohistorical and literary contexts in which cities grew into diverging symbolic spaces in American and Canadian culture. After an overview of recent developments in the cultural conception of urban space, the book takes New York and Toronto fiction as exemplary for exploring representations of the urban after postmodernism. It analyzes four twenty-first-century novels: two set in New York - Siri Hustvedt's 'What I Loved' and Paule Marshall's 'The Fisher King' - and two set in Toronto - Carol Shields's 'Unless' and Dionne Brand's 'What We All Long For.' While these texts continue to echo the specific traditions of nation building and canon formation in the United States and Canada, they also share certain features. All of them investigate the affective crossroads of the city while returning to a more realistic mode of representation. Caroline Rosenthal is Professor of American Literature at the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany |
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| spelling | Rosenthal, Caroline 1969- Verfasser (DE-588)14348995X aut New York and Toronto novels after postmodernism explorations of the urban Caroline Rosenthal New York & Toronto Novels after Postmodernism Suffolk Boydell & Brewer 2011 1 online resource (313 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015) Imagining national space : symbolic landscapes and national canons -- Articulating urban space : spatial politics and difference -- "The inadequacy of symbolic surfaces": urban space, art, and corporeality in Siri Hustvedt's What I loved -- Rewriting the melting pot : Paule Marshall's Brownstone City in The fisher king -- Specular images : sub/urban spaces and "echoes of art" in Carol Shields's Unless -- "The end of traceable beginnings" : poetics of urban longing and belonging in Dionne Brand's What we all long for -- Synthesis Cities are material and symbolic spaces through which nations define their cultural identities. The great cities that have arisen on the North American continent have stimulated the imaginations of the United States and Canada in very different ways. This first comparative study of North American urban fiction starts out by delineating the sociohistorical and literary contexts in which cities grew into diverging symbolic spaces in American and Canadian culture. After an overview of recent developments in the cultural conception of urban space, the book takes New York and Toronto fiction as exemplary for exploring representations of the urban after postmodernism. It analyzes four twenty-first-century novels: two set in New York - Siri Hustvedt's 'What I Loved' and Paule Marshall's 'The Fisher King' - and two set in Toronto - Carol Shields's 'Unless' and Dionne Brand's 'What We All Long For.' While these texts continue to echo the specific traditions of nation building and canon formation in the United States and Canada, they also share certain features. All of them investigate the affective crossroads of the city while returning to a more realistic mode of representation. Caroline Rosenthal is Professor of American Literature at the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany Geschichte 2000-2005 gnd rswk-swf Cities and towns in literature National characteristics in literature American fiction / 21st century / History and criticism Canadian fiction / 21st century / History and criticism Toronto Motiv (DE-588)4633734-9 gnd rswk-swf New York NY, Motiv (DE-588)4115380-7 gnd rswk-swf Roman (DE-588)4050479-7 gnd rswk-swf Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd rswk-swf Großstadt Motiv (DE-588)4136629-3 gnd rswk-swf New York (N.Y.) / In literature Toronto (Ont.) / In literature Kanada (DE-588)4029456-0 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 s Kanada (DE-588)4029456-0 g Roman (DE-588)4050479-7 s Großstadt Motiv (DE-588)4136629-3 s New York NY, Motiv (DE-588)4115380-7 s Toronto Motiv (DE-588)4633734-9 s Geschichte 2000-2005 z 1\p DE-604 USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g 2\p DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe 978-1-57113-489-9 http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781571137562/type/BOOK Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
| spellingShingle | Rosenthal, Caroline 1969- New York and Toronto novels after postmodernism explorations of the urban Imagining national space : symbolic landscapes and national canons -- Articulating urban space : spatial politics and difference -- "The inadequacy of symbolic surfaces": urban space, art, and corporeality in Siri Hustvedt's What I loved -- Rewriting the melting pot : Paule Marshall's Brownstone City in The fisher king -- Specular images : sub/urban spaces and "echoes of art" in Carol Shields's Unless -- "The end of traceable beginnings" : poetics of urban longing and belonging in Dionne Brand's What we all long for -- Synthesis Cities and towns in literature National characteristics in literature American fiction / 21st century / History and criticism Canadian fiction / 21st century / History and criticism Toronto Motiv (DE-588)4633734-9 gnd New York NY, Motiv (DE-588)4115380-7 gnd Roman (DE-588)4050479-7 gnd Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd Großstadt Motiv (DE-588)4136629-3 gnd |
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| title | New York and Toronto novels after postmodernism explorations of the urban |
| title_alt | New York & Toronto Novels after Postmodernism |
| title_auth | New York and Toronto novels after postmodernism explorations of the urban |
| title_exact_search | New York and Toronto novels after postmodernism explorations of the urban |
| title_full | New York and Toronto novels after postmodernism explorations of the urban Caroline Rosenthal |
| title_fullStr | New York and Toronto novels after postmodernism explorations of the urban Caroline Rosenthal |
| title_full_unstemmed | New York and Toronto novels after postmodernism explorations of the urban Caroline Rosenthal |
| title_short | New York and Toronto novels after postmodernism |
| title_sort | new york and toronto novels after postmodernism explorations of the urban |
| title_sub | explorations of the urban |
| topic | Cities and towns in literature National characteristics in literature American fiction / 21st century / History and criticism Canadian fiction / 21st century / History and criticism Toronto Motiv (DE-588)4633734-9 gnd New York NY, Motiv (DE-588)4115380-7 gnd Roman (DE-588)4050479-7 gnd Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd Großstadt Motiv (DE-588)4136629-3 gnd |
| topic_facet | Cities and towns in literature National characteristics in literature American fiction / 21st century / History and criticism Canadian fiction / 21st century / History and criticism Toronto Motiv New York NY, Motiv Roman Englisch Großstadt Motiv New York (N.Y.) / In literature Toronto (Ont.) / In literature Kanada USA |
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