|
This collection of essays brings together a
plurality of approaches to the Metropolis, bearing witness to its multifaceted
appearance from the 18th century to the present, from realistic descriptions to
fantastic inventions, from factual accounts of historical and recent projects to
the counterfactual imagery of magic realism or graphic
novels.
Contents:
Christoph Houswitschka: ‘‘London defies the
imagination and breaks the heart’’: The Metropolis and the Materiality of Urban
Biographies; Jürgen Klein: Albertopolis; Wolfgang Wicht: Metropolis and Nation,
Dublin and Trieste; Stefan Plasa: The metropolitan labyrinth and the path
towards the self: The theme of the individual quest in T. S. Eliot’s poetry;
Gesa Mackenthun: The Mighty Heart Is Lying Still: Philadelphia and the Specters
of New World Colonialism; Kevin L. Cope: Augusta and Columbia, Or, Cherry Trees
in Green Belts: Urban and Urbane Conceptions of the Frontier from Dryden and
George Washington to Twain, NASCAR, and Beyond; Neal Chandler: In the Heart of
the Heart of the City: Urban Silence in Contemporary American Writing; Anne
Hegerfeldt: ‘‘A Living City’’: Venice in Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion; Dirk
Vanderbeke (with Christoph Gossel): The City as a Superorganism; Laurenz
Volkmann: Urban/Human Bodies: Destructive Analogies in Ian McEwan’s Berlin
Novels; Bruno Arich-Gerz: Empty spaces and the virtual reconstruction of a
traumatic past. The case of the synagogues of Germany.
|
