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The Literary Psychogeography of London : Otherworlds of Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair | 1st edition

by Ann Tso

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Publisher Springer Nature
Language English
Book type Hardcover
Utgiven 2020-09-22
Edition 1
Pages 116
ISBN 9783030529796
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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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