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The Literary Psychogeography of London: Otherworlds of Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair

By Ann Tso

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2020
ISBN
9783030529796, 9783030529802
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-52980-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1807510 bytes)
Series
Literary Urban Studies
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
XIII, 116\126
Time added
2021-01-06 05:41:07
CitiesLiterature; Literary Theory; European Literature;towns); Cultural Studies

Description

This Pivot book examines literary elements of urban topography that have animated Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair’s respective representations of London-ness. Ann Tso argues these authors write London “psychogeographically” to deconstruct popular visions of London with colonial and neoliberal undertones. Moore’s psychogeography consists of bird’s-eye views that reveal the brute force threatening to unravel Londonscape from within; Ackroyd’s aims to detect London sensuously, since every new awareness recalls an otherworldly London; Sinclair’s conjures up a narrative consciousness made erratic by London’s disunified landscape. Drawing together the dystopian, the phenomenological, and the postcolonial, Tso explores how these texts characterize “London-ness” as estranging.

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