The urban space in fiction
The urban space in fiction
Author(s): Alina AntonSubject(s): Aesthetics, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Rural and urban sociology, Sociology of Culture, Theory of Literature
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: metropolis; flaneur; consumption; urban space; blasé; palimpsest; intertextuality;
Summary/Abstract: The city has always exerted a pulsating fascination on the human mind. Aristotle sought to define it through the basic analogy with the individual and his body. Freud saw it as a metaphor of our psyche, comparing the archeological layers of the city to the layered structure of the mind. Similarly, artists and writers have found in the city a prolific source of inspiration. The modern city especially has been rendered narratively time and again. The result is, inevitably, a palimpsest, a text of many texts and voices, disparate and interconnected at the same time.
Journal: Romanian Journal of Artistic Creativity
- Issue Year: 4/2016
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 54-66
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
