Amy Wigelsworth

Rewriting 'Les Mystères de Paris'

The 'Mystères Urbains' and the Palimpsest

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Key works of popular fiction are often rewritten to capitalize on their success.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 179mm x 255mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781909662360
• ISBN-10: 1909662364
• Artikelnr.: 42775416

Autorenporträt

Amy Wigelsworth completed her PhD at Durham University. She currently holds a part-time lectureship in French at the Sheffield Business School (Sheffield Hallam University), and also teaches French at the University of York.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Mystery: Narrative and Theory 2 Reading Urban Space: The City as Text 3
The Palimpsest Trope 4 Americanizations 5 The Past is a Foreign City:
Historicization 6 Future Perfect?: Utopia 7 La Suite à demain: Serializing
the City 8 The City en scène: Theatre Adaptations 9 The 'Carnivalesque' and
the Conservative: Parody as Palimpsest