Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(ΛΕ178) -  Χρυσή Μαρίνου

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

Inspired by Ezra Pound’s declaration, “All great art is born of the metropolis,” this course will focus on the literary portrayal of the city from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. In the nineteenth century, we will think about the realist London of Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Dickens. Henry James’s New York chapters from The American Scene begins our examination of the twentieth-century modernist city, while London emerges as the protagonist in both Dorothy Richardson’s long novel The Tunnel and Virginia Woolf’s less lengthy “Street Haunting.” Scrutinising the inter-war years, the course moves to the Mediterranean South through Walter Benjamin’s and Asja Lacis’s essay “Naples”. The second half of the twentieth  century and the emergence of postmodernism features Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Pedestrian” and its imaginary Los Angeles, as well as the American South with Flannery O'Connor's "Everything that Rises Must Converge". Our venture into the twenty-first century is John Berger’s memoir and travelogue The Red Tenda of Bologna. Literary genres (novel, travel writing, short story, essay, memoir) will be read as studies of the urban space that foreground a broad range of topics, such as spectatorship, pedestrianism, dwelling, war, gender, the body, race, class, and empire. What are the forms or genres, narrative strategies, tropes and motifs that texts employ to register the history, multiple layers, and sensorial experience of the city? How do texts showcase the fraught relationships between city, nation, world?

Ημερομηνία δημιουργίας

Παρασκευή 4 Οκτωβρίου 2024