Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity

Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
1 Introduction: Exploring the Spatiality of the City Across Cultural Texts
	The City in Times of the “Spatial Turn”
	Language, Narration, Semantics
	Subversion and Variation
	Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity
	Bibliography
Part I The City and the Text/the City as a Text
2 City Scripts/City Scapes: On the Intertextuality of Urban Experience
	Experiencing the City
	Turning-Point: Mimesis into Performance
	Performing the City
	Bibliography
3 (Urban) Sacred Places and Profane Spaces—Theological Topography in  T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
	Preliminary Remarks
	Sacredness and Civitas: Augustine and the Idea of the “Two Cities”
	Religious Readings of Space—“the Sacred” and Place
	“The Mundane is Sin”: London’s City in “The Burial of The Dead”
	Engaging with Urban Holiness: St Magnus the Martyr in “the Fire Sermon”
	Falling Towers and Holy Waters in “What the Thunder Said”
	Conclusion
	References
4 Traveling Discourses: The Works of Pavel Ulitin (1918–1986) and the Problem of Narrative Alternatives
	Introduction
	Textual Spaces and Cognitive Mapping
	Prose Alternatives in the Russian Literary Tradition
	Narrative Form, Spacial Composition, and the Writing Process in the Ulitin’s Prose
	Parallels Within the Global Context: W.S. Burroughs’ Cut-Ups
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Part II Television Reading the City
5 “This America, Man.” Narrating and Reading Urban Space in The Wire
	“Building a City”—The Narrative Space of The Wire
	Reading Urbanity in The Wire
	Narrating Urban Space in The Wire
	Works Cited
6 Reading the City: “Mind Mapping” in Sherlock
	Cityscape in Sherlock
	Transmediality and the Digital in Sherlock
	Navigating the City in Sherlock
	Dimensions of Deduction in Sherlock
	Merging Spaces in Sherlock
		The City as Playground in Sherlock
	Urban Mind Mapping in Sherlock
	Literature
Part III Conflicting Narratives
7 Transcription: Addressing the Interactivity Between Urban and Architectural Spaces and Their Use
	Transcription: Social, Experimental, and Interactive
	Urban Space and Social Practice
	The Role of Stories: Narrative as an Analytical Tool
	Transcription: Architectural Perspectives
	Daniel Libeskind: Experimental Processes of Writing and Design
	Peter Eisenman: Exploring the Dynamics of Text and Architecture
	References
8 Politics and the Production of Space: Downtown and Out with Rancière and Lefebvre
	Lefebvre with Rancière
	Mediation and the Parallax of the Critique of Political Economy
	Communist Geography and Circulation Struggles
	Coda
	Works Cited
9 The People of New Jerusalem: Narratives of Social In- and Exclusion in Rotterdam After the Blitz of 1940
	Introduction
	New Jerusalemism in Rotterdam
	Building the Urban Community of Rotterdam
	Social Misfits and “Unofficial” Communities
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
10 Smart City Narratives and Narrating Smart Urbanism
	Introduction
	Critical Perspectives on Smart City Narratives
		A Critique of Powerful ICT Corporations and their Modernization Promises
		A Critique of Entrepreneurial Urbanization
		A Critique of the Influence of Platform Economies on Smart Urbanism
	Narrating Smart Cities: The Production of Space
		Biopolitics and “Environmentalities”
		Re-Acting, Governing and Participation
		Digital Divide
	Smart Urbanism and Digital Urban Cultures
	References
Part IV Contesting the City I: Women on the Streets of London
11 Poetic Mobility and the Location of an Anglo-Jewish Self: Amy Levy’s and Elaine Feinstein’s Cityscapes
	Constructing Urban Relations
	Deviant Mobility
	Exploring Hybridity
	Poetic Mobility and Urban Polyvalence
	Works Cited
12 Gender and the City: Virginia Woolf’s London Between Promise of Freedom and Structural Confinement
	Works Cited
Part V Contesting the City II: Berlin, History and Memory
13 The City Stripped Bare of Its Histories, Even: Crisis and Representation in Two German Trümmerfilme of 1948
	Metalepsis and Focalization: Narrativity and Identification
	Palingenesis and Stasis: The City Between History and Futurity
	Berliner Ballade:Fatalism and Fantasy
	Und wieder ’48:Repetition, Ruin and Revolution
	Works Cited
14 “A ‘Bridgehead’ in the Visible Domain”: Chloe Aridjis’s, J. S. Marcus’s and Theodore Sedgwick Fay’s Tales of Berlin
	Introduction
	The Countess Ida. A Tale of Berlin
	The Captain’s Fire and Book of Clouds
	Conclusion
	Works Cited
Part VI Dis/Continuities
15 Finding Causes for Events: The City as Normative Narrative
	Literary Spaces and “Degenerate Inhabitants”
	Narratives of a Static City
	Narratives of Urban Transformation
	Works Cited
16 Private Topographies: Visions of Tōkyō in Modern Japanese Literature
	Cityscapes, Mindscapes, and a Foreign Modernity: Edo Becomes Tōkyō
	Edo’s Fortunes: hanjōkimono
	Tōkyō of the Water: Kōda Rohan (1867–1947)
	Marginalized Spaces: Higuchi Ichiyō (1872–1896)
	Sensing the City: Nagai Kafū
	Private Topographies
	Bibliography
17 Reading Against the Grain: Black Presence in Lower Manhattan, New York City
	The Architectural Site
	The Black Atlantic
	1. Reading Beyond the Architectural Narrative
	2. Reading the Narrative of Memory
	3. Reading the Narrative of Oblivion
	Conclusion: Reading the City Critically
	Bibliography
Index