Urban Space and Late Twentieth-Century New York Literature [electronic resource] : Reformed Geographies /
Neculai, C.author.
Interdisciplinary in nature, this project draws on fiction, non-fiction and archival material to theorize urban space and literary/cultural production in the context of the United States and New York City. Spanning from the mid-1970s fiscal crisis to the 1987 Market Crash, New York writing becomes akin to geographical fieldwork in this rich study.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: Urban hermeneutics and the problem of the fetish space -- The paradigmatic exceptionality of New York: scaffolding a radical literary urbanism -- Downtown, uptown and the urbanization of literary consciousness -- Scale, culture and real estate: the reproduction of lowliness in Great Jones Street -- Kill the poor: low rent aesthetics and the new housing order -- Uneven city: brightness falls and the ethnography of fictitious finance -- Epilogue: The politics of urban writing and the hegemony of fire.
Interdisciplinary in nature, this project draws on fiction, non-fiction and archival material to theorize urban space and literary/cultural production in the context of the United States and New York City. Spanning from the mid-1970s fiscal crisis to the 1987 Market Crash, New York writing becomes akin to geographical fieldwork in this rich study.
America-Literatures.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature-Philosophy.
Sociology, Urban.
Urban geography.
North American Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).