The making of London :
Groes, Sebastian.
The making of London : London in contemporary literature / Sebastian Groes ; with photographs by Sarah Baxter. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - xiii, 309 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (P. 289-300) and index.
Introduction From 'Ellowen Deeowen' to 'Babylondon': London is a Language 'Fabricked Out Of Literature and Myth': Maureen Duffy's Londons 'Of Real Experience Mixed with Myth': Michael Moorcock 'A Zoo Fit for Psychopaths': J.G. Ballard versus London 'Struck Out of Pure Invention': Iain Sinclair's London 'In Pre-Ordained Patterns': Peter Ackroyd's London Palimpsests 'Beyond the Responsibility of Place': Ian McEwan's Londons 'In a Prose so Diagonal and Mood Warped': Martin Amis's London Scatology 'Through a Confusion of Languages': Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi 'Kyan you Imagine Dat?': The New London Languages of Zadie Smith and Monica Ali Conclusion: London Undone? Chronology of Contemporary London Notes Bibliography Index
9780230234789 (alk. paper) 023023478X (alk. paper) 9780230348363 (pbk. : alk. paper) 023034836X (pbk. : alk. paper)
2011011818
015780468 Uk
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
London (England)--In literature.
PR 478 .L66 / G76 2011
820.9/358421085
The making of London : London in contemporary literature / Sebastian Groes ; with photographs by Sarah Baxter. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - xiii, 309 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (P. 289-300) and index.
Introduction From 'Ellowen Deeowen' to 'Babylondon': London is a Language 'Fabricked Out Of Literature and Myth': Maureen Duffy's Londons 'Of Real Experience Mixed with Myth': Michael Moorcock 'A Zoo Fit for Psychopaths': J.G. Ballard versus London 'Struck Out of Pure Invention': Iain Sinclair's London 'In Pre-Ordained Patterns': Peter Ackroyd's London Palimpsests 'Beyond the Responsibility of Place': Ian McEwan's Londons 'In a Prose so Diagonal and Mood Warped': Martin Amis's London Scatology 'Through a Confusion of Languages': Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi 'Kyan you Imagine Dat?': The New London Languages of Zadie Smith and Monica Ali Conclusion: London Undone? Chronology of Contemporary London Notes Bibliography Index
9780230234789 (alk. paper) 023023478X (alk. paper) 9780230348363 (pbk. : alk. paper) 023034836X (pbk. : alk. paper)
2011011818
015780468 Uk
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
London (England)--In literature.
PR 478 .L66 / G76 2011
820.9/358421085