Martin Kindermann

Rebekka Rohleder

Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity explores the narrative formations of urbanity from an interdisciplinary perspective. Within the framework of the “spatial turn,” contributors from disciplines ranging from geography and history to literary and media studies theorize narrative constructions of the city and cities, and analyze relevant examples from a variety of discourses, media, and cities. Subdivided into six sections, the book explores the interactions of city and text—as well as other media—and the conflicting narratives that arise in these interactions. Offering case studies that discuss specific aspects of the narrative construction of Berlin and London, the text also considers narratives of urban discontinuity and their theoretical implications. Ultimately, this volume captures the narratological, artistic, material, social, and performative possibilities inherent in spatial representations of the city.

Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity

Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts

Springer Nature

Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity explores the narrative formations of urbanity from an interdisciplinary perspective. Within the framework of the "spatial turn," contributors from disciplines ranging from geography and history to literary and media studies theorize narrative constructions of the city and cities, and analyze relevant examples from a variety of discourses, media, and cities. Subdivided into six sections, the book explores the interactions of city and text--as well as other media--and the conflicting narratives that arise in these interactions. Offering case studies that discuss specific aspects of the narrative construction of Berlin and London, the text also considers narratives of urban discontinuity and their theoretical implications. Ultimately, this volume captures the narratological, artistic, material, social, and performative possibilities inherent in spatial representations of the city.

Exploring the Spatiality of the City Across Cultural Texts

Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich

Stefanie Kadenbach

»The more things change, the more they stay the same.« Dieses Buch widmet sich dem Verhältnis von Innovation und Konvention und zeigt: Ein dichotomisches und positivistisches Verständnis der auch im gegenwärtigen hegemonialen Diskurs zentralen Begriffe greift notwendigerweise zu kurz. Es gilt hingegen, das Verhältnis von Innovation und Konvention als wechselseitig vermittelt zu begreifen. Die literatur-, kultur- und medienwissenschaftlichen Beiträge setzen sich kritisch-theoretisch mit diesem Verhältnis auseinander, indem sie es jeweils unterschiedlich als historisch kontingente und medial disponierte Differenzierung, Dialektik oder Hybridität denken und an (kulturellen) Texten, Medien und Praxen von der Romantik bis in die Gegenwart explizieren.

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