Individual & city in modernity and postmodernity - With reference to "Bleeding London" by Geoff Nicholson PDF Download

Author: Matthias Grübel
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3638813355
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 27

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Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Free University of Berlin (Institut für Englische Philologie), course: PS Writing the city, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The city is an old invention. So is the idea of writing a book. For ages and ages people have been living in cities. And for ages and ages some of them have been writing books. And in all that time a lot of books about cities have been written - about cities in general or about one of them in particular. In this paper I will deal with a book called “Bleeding London”, written by Geoff Nicholson. It was published in 1997, and it is basically about... a city! From time to time the approaches to the subject city slightly changed, not only in literature, but also in what one would call social ‘reality’. I will examine the ages of modernity, and what followed – the postmodernity; so basically the focus will be on the 20th century. I will try to compare modern and postmodern urbanism, and I will have a look at a postmodern observation on urban life. Afterwards I’m going to transfer some of the things I found out onto the life of the characters in postmodern London, as one can find it in Nicholson’s novel. The last part of this paper will be about the question, whether one can categorize Bleeding London as a postmodern piece of literature.