WRITING THE METROPOLIS IN P. ACKROYD’S NON-FICTION
WRITING THE METROPOLIS IN P. ACKROYD’S NON-FICTION

Summary/Abstract: In the present paper I will focus on the configuration of the contemporary urban space in P. Ackroyd’s non-fiction, with focus on the city of London as a site of memory. In his fiction as well as in his non-fiction writing, Ackroyd anticipates modern quantic physics concepts of reality while playing with the space-time continuum by permanently shifting London’s boundaries and thus turning it into a morphogenetic space. In his London. The Biography, Albion. The Origins of the English Imagination or Thames. The Biography, literature, approaching history, geography and cultural studies are interwoven in his description of the urban space and it is this interdisciplinarity that casts light on its polymorphism.

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