Jens Martin Gurr

Charting Literary Urban Studies (eBook, ePUB)

Texts as Models of and for the City

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Produktbeschreibung

Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City attempts to chart the burgeoning field of literary urban studies by outlining how texts function as both representation of the city and as blueprints for its future development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000336016
• Artikelnr.: 60707134

Autorenporträt

Jens Martin Gurr is Professor of British and Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He has 12 years of research experience in the field of Literary Urban Studies with five edited collections and some 30 essays in this field alone. As Director of the interdisciplinary Joint Centre Urban Systems at the University of Duisburg-Essen and Speaker of the Competence Field Metropolitan Research in the University Alliance Ruhr, he has directed and co-directed numerous disciplinary and interdisciplinary research projects.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Interdisciplinary Urban Complexity Research and Texts as Qualitative
Models
2. Literary Models of Urban Complexity and the Problem of Simultaneity:
A Sketchy Inventory of Strategies
3. Palimpsests, Rhizomes, Nodes: Texts as Structural and Functional
Urban Models
4. Reversing Perspectives: Urban Memory in Built and Literary
Postindustrial Cities
5. Urban Activist Writing and the Transition from "Models of" to "Models
for" Urban Developments
6. Narrative Path Dependencies: From Scenario Building in Literary Texts
to the Narratology and Rhetoric of Pragmatic Texts
7. 'Scripts' in Urban Development: Procedural Knowledge,
Self-Description and Persuasive Blueprint for the Future (Barbara
Buchenau and Jens Martin Gurr)
8. From the 'Garden City' to the 'Smart City': Literary Urban Studies,
Policy Mobility Research and Travelling Urban Models
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index