The City in Literature

Lehan, Richard

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“…3 L'idée selon laquelle la littérature offre un point de vue sur les représentations des villes n'est pas nouvelle : elle a alimenté les travaux de nombreux scientifiques, actifs dans différentes disciplines et champs. Il y a plus de vingt ans, Richard Lehan, alors professeur d'anglais à l'Université de Californie, Los Angeles, signait un ouvrage intitulé The City in Literature 2 . Ce volume cherchait notamment à démontrer que la ville est un construit en permanente évolution, lequel mérite d'être abordé conjointement par le prisme des études urbaines et littéraires.…”

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La plume et le plan. L’écrivain, l’urbaniste et la construction d’un discours social de la ville

Coste¹,

Sadoux²

2022

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Section: Villes Littérature Urbanisme Et Literary Urban Studiesunclassified

La plume et le plan. L’écrivain, l’urbaniste et la construction d’un discours social de la ville

Coste¹,

Sadoux²

2022

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“…This research will employ the modern novel Midnight and the travel notes On A Chinese Screen to explore the people and society in early twentieth-century China. Richard Lehan claims that there is a symbiosis between literary works and urban texts because when literary works endow the city with an imagined reality, its changes in turn help to transform the literary texts [2]. This also works with societies where literary text interacts with the relative social text.…”

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The Real World in Fiction: A Comparative Literary Perspective on the Portrayal of China in the Early Twentieth-Century in Midnight and on a Chinese Screen

陳怡行

2023

CHR

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Both Chinese and foreign writers cast their eyes on China during the early twentieth-century, when China was at an intersection of feudalism and modernism. They depicted and recorded this complex period from their own perspectives in different literary forms. Among them, Mao Dun and Maugham present the 1920s and 1930s China from different angles through their literary works Midnight and On a Chinese Screen, respectively. There are lots of research analyzing the two works from various perspectives, but few put them together by doing comparative studies of the early twentieth-century Chinese society and people. Therefore, this essay aims to analyze the two works together from a comparative perspective and offer a more comprehensive view through the analysis. Besides official historical records, literary and visual arts are also chroniclers of history. Fictional works might also provide the real world, even with detailed social contradictions, and even the inner world of people under specific writing purposes, like what Mao Dun and Maugham held. This comparative research focuses on the depiction of China from both domestic and foreign perspectives and analyzes the narrative of the two literary works from the fictional realism in characters as well as social and natural environments. Since the two writers held different viewpoints with diverse social backgrounds, their understanding of Chinese society and people varied accordingly. Through the comparative analysis, this research explores a great deal of the historical value of these two literary works that offer a more enlightened way to link the real historical events and the fictional characters, as well as a fuller picture of China at that time.

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“…The two discourses, and the social tensions and transformations that motivate them, meet in representations of the city in the poetry of the 1960s. In modern literature, the city has been the symbol par excellence for representation and analysis of the modernisation of society and the deep transformations it has entailed, which have affected the status of literature as well (see, for example, Alter 2005;Lehan 1998;Pike 1981). In Finland, the early modernists of the Dagdrivarna-group in the 1910s and the revues Quosego and Tulenkantajat in the 1920s and 1930s had participated in this questioning, bringing the first urban themes and characters into Finnish literature.…”

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The city as a mediating device and as a symbol in Finnish poetry of the 1960s

Veivo

2012

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In Finnish poetry of the 1960s, the city, and above all the capital Helsinki, is the scene where the metamorphosis of Finland from an agrarian into an urban society is staged, analysed and commented. It is also a symbol that serves to situate the country in the global context, with all the contradictions that were characteristic of the position of Finland in the cold war system. Writing about the city was a means to reflect on the transformations of social and political reality and of the physical environment, a means to represent the confusion these transformations produced or to work towards understanding them. The article analyses the city in texts belonging to the "new poetry" of the 1960s, as well as in texts representing the modernist poetics of the 1950s, arguing that the very co-existence of two contrasting poetic discourses was crucial for the semiotic development of Finnish culture in the period of time in question.

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The City in Literature

Cited by 281 publications

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La plume et le plan. L’écrivain, l’urbaniste et la construction d’un discours social de la ville

La plume et le plan. L’écrivain, l’urbaniste et la construction d’un discours social de la ville

The Real World in Fiction: A Comparative Literary Perspective on the Portrayal of China in the Early Twentieth-Century in Midnight and on a Chinese Screen

The city as a mediating device and as a symbol in Finnish poetry of the 1960s

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