Literature and the Peripheral City [electronic resource] /
Finch, Jason.author.
Salmela, Markku.author.
Ameel, L.editor.
Cities have always been defined by their centrality. But literature demonstrates that their diverse peripheries define them, too: from suburbs to slums, rubbish dumps to nightclubs and entire failed cities. The contributors to this collection explore literary urban peripheries through readings of literature from four continents and numerous cities.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cities have always been defined by their centrality. But literature demonstrates that their diverse peripheries define them, too: from suburbs to slums, rubbish dumps to nightclubs and entire failed cities. The contributors to this collection explore literary urban peripheries through readings of literature from four continents and numerous cities.
Urban geography.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature.
European literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Literature, general.
European Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.