Ahearn Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848-2001 9781138266049

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Автор: Ahearn
Название: Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848-2001
ISBN: 9781138266049
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Литература: история и критика

Литературоведение: с 1900 г.

ISBN-10: 1138266043
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 246
Вес: 0.46 кг.
Дата издания: 15.11.2016
Язык: English
Размер: 234 x 156
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Ключевые слова: Literary studies: from c 1900 -, LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Основная тема: 20th Century Literature
Подзаголовок: European Contexts, American Evolutions
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Поставляется из: Европейский союз
Описание: In an innovative contribution to the challenging of disciplinary boundaries, Edward J. Ahearn juxtaposes works of literature with the writings of social scientists to discover how together they illuminate city life in ways that neither can accomplish separately. Ahearns argument spans from the second half of the nineteenth century in Western Europe to the present-day United States and encompasses a wide range of literary genres and sociological schools. For example, Charles Baudelaires essays on the city are viewed alongside the work of Emile Durkheim and Georg Simmel; Bertolt Brechts Jungle of Cities heightens the arguments of Louis Wirth and Robert Park; Richard Wrights Native Son and Saul Bellows The Adventures of Augie March are re-visioned in tandem with works by William Julius Wilson and others; Herman Melvilles Bartleby the Scrivener poses a challenge to James Q. Wilsons Bureaucracy; Toni Morrisons historical novel Jazz is buttressed by the career of Robert Moses and the revisionist work of historians Hilary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson; and Don DeLilloss Cosmopolis comes into brilliant focus in the light of arguments on world cybercities by David Harvey, Saskia Sassen, and Manuel Cassels. Resisting the temptation to ignore contradictions for the sake of interpretation, Ahearn instead offers the reader a view of the modern city as complex as his subject matter. Here the methodologies and knowledge generated by the social sciences are both complemented and subverted by the experience of city life as portrayed in literature. With its diverse narrative tactics and shifting points of view, which can be as disorienting to the reader as a foreign city is to an arriving immigrant, literature reinforces the importance of method and outlook in the social sciences. Ultimately, Ahearn suggests, neither literature nor the social sciences can capture the experience of urban misery.

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