Voyeurs and Walkers in the Simultaneous City - Penelope Lively's City of the Mind

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Voyeurs and Walkers in the Simultaneous City - Penelope Lively's City of the Mind

Original language description

Unlike in the previous decade, the 1990s British literary scene witnessed an emergence of a number of novels which tend to perceive London, or the modern urban milieu in general, from a more optimistic perspective. This approach can be found, for instance, in works by Hanif Kureishi, Peter Ackroyd, Iain Sinclair and Jim Crace. A remarkable contribution to this tendency is Penelope Lively's City of the Mind (1991), a rather short yet complex novel which captures and celebrates London in its spatial, temporal and human diversity and heterogeneity. This article attempts to demonstrate the various ways in which Lively's novel (re)presents the city as both a physical environment and a mental concept, as well as to analyse the interconnectedness between hercity and its inhabitants' psyche. It also argues that due to its psychogeographic scope the novel can be taken as a fictional anticipator of Ackroyd's London: The Biography (2000).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies

ISSN

2336-3347

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Volume of the periodical

1

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

13-24

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