Title: Writing the city : urban visions & literary modernism /
Authors: Harding, Desmond, 1967-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Dos Passos, John, Criticism and interpretation.; Joyce, James, Knowledge Dublin (Ireland); Joyce, James, Views on city and town life.; Cities and towns in literature; City and town life in literature; Modernism (Literature) Ireland; Modernism (Literature) United States; Comparative literature American and Irish.; Comparative literature Irish and American.; Dublin (Ireland) In literature.
Contents: "Saxa Loquuntur": the modernist city -- Dubliners: the city betrayed -- Grave memories: the epitaphic consciousness of "The dead" -- The metropolitan consciousness of A portrait of the artist as a young man -- Ulysses and Manhattan transfer: a poetics of transatlantic literary modernism.