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Writing the City Square
The history of cities is also the history of city squares. The agora, the forum, the piazza, the plaza: All presuppose the idea of a center. It’s a material and mental phenomenon. Literature is an important part of this history, and the interplay between the square as physical space and the square as literature is the topic of this book. This is an encyclopedic book combining an overview of the history of city squares with a plethora of analytical examples of its reflection in literature: Literature uses the city square as a frame; city squares serve as frames for drama; novels and other kinds of literature comment on city squares; city squares are sources of inspiration for all sorts of literary activities. Socrates in the agora, Cicero in the Forum, Calderón in the Plaza Mayor, Corneille in the Place Royale, Richardson in Grosvenor Square, James in Washington Square, Woolf in Bloomsbury Square, Döblin and Gröschner in Alexanderplatz, Rodoreda in Diamond Square in Barcelona, DeLillo in Times Square, Al Aswany in Tahrir Square, the Maidanistas in the Maidan of Kyiv: These are just some of the examples presented and analyzed in this book. The book is of direct interest for researchers, students, and professionals such as architects and urban planners, but it is written in a way that makes it accessible for all readers with an interest in urban culture, architecture, history, literature, and cultural studies.
States of Desire
Author: Vicki Mahaffey
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 1998-12-03
This book is an intimate study of the three giants in Irish literary history: Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats, and James Joyce. In addition to constructing a narrative of Irelands political and literary past, Vicki Mahaffey interweaves the lives and writing of the authors into a portrait of national imagination, shaped not only by a vast cultural and mythic heritage, but also by the hard fact of English political domination. States of Desire argues that what people desire is fundamentally connected to how they write and read. Not only do language and narrative shape desire (and vice versa), but because these processes are socially conditioned, some political circumstances, such as those present in Ireland at the turn of the century, foster experimental desire more successfully than others. Mahaffey's contribution to the critical discourse on literary modernism is to assign a political motive to the art of modernist wordplay; in doing so, she offers a more compelling and socially driven version of the oft-told tale of literary modernism. Irish writers, she argues, sought to disrupt the rigidity of political thinking and social control by turning language into a weapon; by opening up infinite new possibilities of meaning and association, linguistic play makes it impossible for thought to be monopolized by the state or any other institutional power. In this light, the text becomes a prism of political, cultural, and erotic desires: a fountain of conscious and unconscious linguistic suggestion. Defying semantic control and refuting societal repression, Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce literally fought, in their lives and in their work, for a freedom of expression which--as was painfully evidenced in the case of Wilde--was not to be had for the asking.
Goodbye New York
Author: Nicoletta Ros Luigino Vador
language: it
Publisher: Attilio Fortini
Release Date: 2017-06-26
James guida rilassato, lungo il tragitto che porta verso Villa Margherita, residenza di Elisabetta, nel piccolo paesino della campagna friulana. Lui vorrebbe che quel viaggio non avesse fine, sarebbe come stare in un mondo creato solo per loro due e vivere nel respiro l’uno dell’altra. James ferma il suo maggiolino rosso, nel punto dove, esattamente due mesi prima, si era scontrato con la Volvo di Elisabetta. Ora lì c’è un piedistallo di pietra con sopra un cestello pieno di foglie di vite secche, dove spicca un biglietto. Scendono, James lo prende, glielo porge: «Qui sono arrivato da New York con la speranza di trovare il senso vero della mia vita. Qui ho incontrato il tuo sorriso e la mia vita si è illuminata. Desidero vivere con te Ely ogni giorno a venire, se anche tu lo vuoi. Solo per questo dirò: Goodbye New York!».