Edward J. Ahearn

Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848-2001 (eBook, PDF)

European Contexts, American Evolutions

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Produktbeschreibung

Edward J. Ahearn shows that together, works from literature and the social sciences can illuminate city life in ways that neither can accomplish separately. Whether viewing Charles Baudelaire alongside Emile Durkheim and Georg Simmel or Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" as a challenge to James Q. Wilson's Bureaucracy, Ahearn does justice to the complexity of his subject matter. Ultimately, Ahearn suggests, neither literature nor the social sciences can capture the experience of urban misery.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317003977
• Artikelnr.: 44778132

Autorenporträt

Edward J. Ahearn is University Professor and Professor of Comparative Literature and French Studies at Brown University, USA. He has received the Workman and Harbison awards for teaching, and held Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. His publications include Rimbaud, Visions and Habitations, Marx and Modern Fiction, and Visionary Fictions: Apocalyptic Writing from Blake to the Modern

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: breaking the glass; Part I The Heroism of Modern
Life? Baudelaire, Brecht and the Founders of Urban Sociology: City visions
of the poet and social scientist; 'Let's beat up the poor!' Baudelaire on
urban conflict and the failure of policy; In the jungle of Brecht's cities.
Part II Chicago Black and White: Immigration and Race in Native Son and The
Adventures of Augie March: Introduction to Part II; The native son we
didn't (and still don't) want to see; Augie's immigrant adventures. Part
III Power, Governance and the Struggle for Human Realization: Bureaucracy
and the lone city dweller: James Q. Wilson - and Michel Foucault - meet
Bartleby; Jazz and The Power Broker: urban tycoon versus the real lives of
ordinary Black people; Immigrant women writing against the urban regime:
The House on Mango Street and Bone; Epilogue: DeLillo's global city;
Bibliography; Index.