The Intelligible Metropolis : : Urban Mentality in Contemporary London Novels /

The Intelligible Metropolis : : Urban Mentality in Contemporary London Novels / / Nora Pleßke.

Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. Nora Pleßke de...

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Pleßke, Nora,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1. Aufl.
Language:English
Series:Lettre
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Physical Description:1 online resource (576 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • Theory and Methodology
  • 2. Theories and Categories of Mentality
  • 3. Theories of Urbanity
  • 4. The Concept of Urban Mentality
  • 5. Methodological Implications
  • Analysis of London Mentality
  • 6. Cityscape
  • 7. Socioscape
  • 8. Idioscape
  • 9. Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Appendix: London Novels (1997-2007)
  • Index
  • Acknowledgements

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