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Author:   Sarah Edwards ,  Jonathan Charley
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9780415591508

ISBN 10:   0415591503
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   21 November 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Time, Space and Narrative: Reflections on Architecture, Literature and Modernity Part 1. Memory, Nation, Identity Remembering and Forgetting: Private and Public Lives in the Imagined Nation Poets, Tramps and a Town-Planner: A Survey of Raymond Unwin’s On-Site Persona Unhomely Desire: Dismantling the Walls of Difference in Gora’s Kolkata ‘The Past Forsworn’: Colonialism and Counterhistory in the Work of Doris Lessing Part 2. Movement, Culture, Genre Drugs, Crime and Other Worlds Architectural Crimes and Architectural Solutions Philip K. Dick’s Disturbanism: Towards Psychospatial Readings of Science Fiction Alexander Trocchi: Glasgow through the Eye of a Needle Part 3. Narrative, Form, Space Anonymous Encounters: The Structuring of Space in Postmodern Narratives of the City The Novel Architecture of Georges Perec Sex Happens: a Phenomenological Reading of the Casual Encounter ‘There Are Different Ways of Making the Streets Tell’: Narrative, Urban Space and Orientation

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This is an ideal foundation text, and one that operates too as a springboard in its breadth as well as its finely detailed analyses. - Review 31

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Sarah Edwards lectures in English Studies at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. Her publications include articles in Women's Writing, Journal of Gender Studies, Life Writing, Journal of Popular Culture, Adaptation and Review of English Studies. She is currently completing a monograph, The Edwardians Since 1910, and is the leader of an ESRC seminar series, Nostalgia in the 21st Century (2010--11). Jonathan Charley is Director of Cultural Studies in the Department of Architecture at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. He studied architecture in London and Moscow and works mainly on the political and social history of buildings and cities.

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