Modern Urban Theory and the Study of Literature

Finch, Jason

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“…Wilson, 2023). Recent work in spatial literary studies and literary urban studies, for example, demonstrates how understanding the operation of storytelling and narrative in general can cast new light on projections of urban futures (Finch, 2016;Lanigan, 2014). In studying public transport as public space, literary urban scholarship enables insights into experience not readily accessible otherwise, for example the ways in which literary accounts convey complicated encounters and imaginations (such as Beville, 2013 on uncanny spectrality).…”

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Public transport as public space: Introduction

Tuvikene,

Sgibnev,

Kȩbłowski

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Urban Studies

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Introducing this special issue on public transport as public space, we discuss challenges in approaching public transport as public space and outline how incorporating approaches from different disciplines associated with urban studies is essential for this ambition. We offer an account of the multi-dimensional aspects of public transport as public space, including concepts of public space, questions of encounters and conviviality, linkages between micro- and macro-practices, regulations, discrepancies, conflicts and associated negative encounters, historicised experiences and political perspectives. We stress the need to expand existing perspectives on public space by embracing mobile spaces such as public transport. This entails scrutinising spaces inside public transport vehicles and stations as well as analysing the various ways across the sometimes physical and sometimes invisible barriers defined in written rules, separating public transport space from the remainder of the city’s public spaces, notably that of the street. Thus, the special issue: explores questions about the spatiality of publicness; attends to public space as a normative ideal; considers critical aspects of passengering as related to conviviality and contested encounters; and, addresses how the publicness of public transport is affected by modernisation, post-colonialism and urban politics. As we strongly feel that these questions require learning from across disciplines, the special issue includes contributions from diverse fields across the realm of urban studies and humanities alike.

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Public transport as public space: Introduction

Tuvikene,

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Kȩbłowski

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Urban Studies

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“…Prostorski obrat v humanistični in družboslovni znanosti je na prelomu 20. in 21. stoletja dosegel tudi literarno vedo, ki se je v tem času izraziteje zgledovala pri temah in teorijah s področja arhitekture, urbanizma, sociologije in antropologije (Finch 2016;Derdowska 2011: 33-54). Slovaška literarna veda je prostorski vidik raziskav spremljala, vendar v precej abstraktni meri, denimo v konceptu t. i. medliterarnih skupnosti komparativista Dionýza Ďurišina (1995, 1997).…”

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Mestna krajina Bratislave v sodobni slovaški prozi

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Šramel

2022

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Prispevek se osredotoča na analizo upodobitve mestne krajine Bratislave v sodobni slovaški prozi. Na podlagi teorije geopoetike je najprej prikazano, kako so bili kulturni artefakti (kipi in spomeniki pisateljev) v javnem prostoru uporabljeni za politično in etnično prisvojitev mesta v 20. stoletju. Interpretacija izbranih proznih del z dogajalnim prostorom Bratislave v nadaljevanju temelji na prepoznavanju tem in načinov upodobitve mesta (refleksija prekinjenega kulturnega spomina, slabljenje mestne identitete, travma, ki jo povzroča dejstvo, da je bil večji del zgodovinskega jedra v času socializma uničen, heterogenost in nekompaktnost mestnega prostora kot rezultat modernističnega razvoja itd.). Literarno podobo Bratislave sooblikujejo tudi nekateri ključni toposi, ki odražajo njen geografski položaj na politični, kulturni in naravni meji (reka Donava in Mali Karpati).

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Concrete Possibilities: The High-Rise Suburb in Swedish Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Wistisen

2021

Literary Urban Studies

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Modern Urban Theory and the Study of Literature

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Public transport as public space: Introduction

Public transport as public space: Introduction

Mestna krajina Bratislave v sodobni slovaški prozi

Concrete Possibilities: The High-Rise Suburb in Swedish Children’s and Young Adult Literature

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