...Paula E. Geyh Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 From. Cities of Things to Cities of Signs: Urban Spaces and Urban Subjects in Sister Carrie and Manhattan Transfer Paula E. Geyh However the city may really be, beneath this thick coating of signs...

...Thomas Heise © 2015 by Hofstra University 2009 Degenerate Sex and the City: Djuna Barnes’s Urban Underworld Degenerate Sex and the City: Djuna Barnes’s Urban Underworld Thomas Heise In a remarkable but largely overlooked 1918 interview with New York City Police Commissioner...

...Gyllian Phillips Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Imaginary Africa and London’s Wasteland in Sitwell’s “Gold Coast Customs” Imaginary Africa and London’s Urban Wasteland in Edith Sitwell’s “Gold Coast Customs” Gyllian Phillips After reading Edith Sitwell’s Gold Coast...

...Lee Rozelle Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 w Ecocritical City: Modernist Reactions to Urban Environments in Miss Lonelyhearts and Paterson Lee Rozelle e can no longer dismiss ecocriticism as a marginal mode of literary and cultural practice. Academic presses...

.... Specifically, the most characteristic poetic landscape in Eliot’s early poems (the urban cityscape) develops within a tradition dominated by Walt Whitman, the most significant American urban poet prior to Eliot. Rejecting the notion that Eliot was a disconnected and detached cultural observer so immersed...

... of transient sociability from language philosophy, urban sociology, and modernist studies. [email protected] © 2023 Hofstra University 2023 Charlie Chaplin language philosophy lyric studies modernism urban sociology We make our meek adjustments, Contented with such random...

...Andrew P. Hoberek Urban Triage: Race and the Fictions of Multiculturalism , by Lee James Kyung-Jin , Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2004 . 254 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 Why Multiculturalism Still Matters Urban Triage: Race and the Fictions...

... inclusive. True, women authors are perhaps underrepresented in Lambert’s book, but they are also underrepresented among writers of the interwar period more broadly, particularly in several of the subgenres Lambert examines (hunting fiction, Hollywood films, urban Bildungsromane , and science fiction...

... how profoundly the relationship with Langston Hughes contributed to the South African writers’ development of an urban, cosmopolitan identity at a time when the apartheid government was determined to “fossilize” Africans into “tribal inventions,” in Can Themba’s phrase (qtd. in Nixon 28...

... interrelation with nonhuman subjects (2010, 47). By “defamiliarization,” I mean to suggest that Butts’s characters express distinctive perspectives upon landscapes, objects, and phenomena as a result of their peripatetic experiences, shuttling between sites associated with rural tradition and urban...

... and addressed the urban frustration, fury, and despair of African Americans stirring up the riots—is a depraved, merely individual destroyer of the affluent city: “A whole business is going down the drain because of that son of a bitch LeRoi Jones” ( AP 163). And African American rioters are the ones who self...

... and its relationship to the real. Focusing on its status as both structurally experimental and deeply engaged with questions of war, urbanism, and gender, I will suggest that Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room illustrates how the modernist English novel interweaves ethical, political...

... of critical work on Jean Toomer and Cane is the way in which binary systems of ordering experience—form and content, black and white, rural and urban, bourgeois and peasant, unity and fragmentation, female and male—have come to dictate readings of Cane in much the same way that they dictated Toomer’s...

... of the philosophy’s privileged perspective, phenomenology can serve as a leveler in some ways—all bodies have sensorial capacity despite race, class, and gender—and in this way it is useful in establishing a theory of how movement through and access to varied urban spaces makes an urban subject. Phenomenology aids...

... manufacturing would begin to bring about in the mid-1920s, making glass more flexible than previously imaginable. 10 For further discussion of the construction of female identity and the urban spectator as flâneuse vis-à-vis changes in glass display and consumer culture, see Bowlby 1985 , Friedberg...

... Englander who has deliberately chosen not to migrate away from his gothic native milieu, as an invitation for deeper reflection on regional decay and the creative reinvention of older literary forms. Arthur describes Banks as productively anti-urban, focused most directly on “dramatizing...

... and fantasy—prompted in her case by the “fourth dimensional temptation” (289) of Kensington’s Victorian facades—that might enliven urban flânerie but had no place in modern literature or criticism. West’s own literary venture into fantasy modes, the novel Harriet Hume (1929), was to extend...

... a direct historical line from the civil rights movement to the LA Riots, his novel underscores the urban dimension and class politics of the movement as they persist into the neoliberal present. Johnson’s fiction thereby encourages us to rethink black freedom struggles not as frozen in history...

... of pollution, urbanization, and technologization” (5). Here we come to understand the generous way that Houser’s book treats the notion of environment, which might be broad enough to encompass, essentially, experience. This becomes clear as the environments that Houser elaborates throughout the books (from...

... (131). Radović provides some interesting background about the actual urban planner who inspired the text, and whom Chamoiseau thanks in the novel. As opposed to Mr. Biswas in Naipaul’s novel, the residents of Chamoiseau’s Texaco reappropriate their exclusion and manage to own their own stories...