打印

作者

来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN HISTORY,Vol.44,Issue4,P.797-805

语言

英文

关键字

urban literature; urban film; urbanization; development; teaching

作者单位

[Rotella, Carlo] Boston Coll, Amer Studies, Stokes Hall,4th Floor S, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 USA. Rotella, C (reprint author), Boston Coll, Amer Studies, Stokes Hall,4th Floor S, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 USA. E-Mail: rotellca@bc.edu

摘要

This article addresses urbanists in various fieldshistory, the social sciences, planning, and morewho are interested in incorporating literary works into their teaching and research and may be looking for critical approaches that connect such work to their own expertise. It begins from the premise that the traits that make a city a city present writers with opportunities to tell stories, experiment with form, make meaning, and otherwise exercise the literary imagination. When we use urban literature as a category of analysis, when we try to identify relationships between cities and the writing produced in and about them, we are asserting that this writing takes shape around confronting the city as a formal, social, and conceptual challenge. This article explores examples of texts ranging from Sister Carrie to I Am Legend and beyond that engage signature urban processes such as urbanization, development, and the dense overlap of orders.