TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pleßke,Nora
TI  - The Intelligible Metropolis: Urban Mentality in Contemporary London Novels 
T2  - Lettre
SN  - 9783837626728
U1  - 823.920932421 22/ger
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Bielefeld : 
PB  - transcript Verlag, 
KW  - British Studies
KW  - City
KW  - Contemporary British Novel
KW  - General Literature Studies
KW  - Ian McEwan
KW  - J.G. Ballard
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Literature
KW  - Mentality
KW  - Monica Ali
KW  - Nick Hornby
KW  - Space
KW  - Urbanity
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. Nora Pleßke develops a model of urban mentality to be employed for cities worldwide. Against the background of the Spatial Turn, she identifies dominant urban-specific structures of London mentality in contemporary London novels, such as Monica Ali's »Brick Lane«, J.G. Ballard's »Millennium People«, Nick Hornby's »A Long Way Down«, and Ian McEwan's »Saturday«
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