The Making of London London in Contemporary Literature 1st Edition by Sebastian Groes 9780230348363 023034836X

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ISBN 10: 023034836X

ISBN 13: 9780230348363

Author: Sebastian Groes

London has become the focus of a ferocious imaginative energy since the rise of Thatcher. The Making of London analyses the body of work by writers who have committed their writing to the many lives of a city undergoing complex transformations, tracing a major shift in the representation of the capital city.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction

2. From ‘Ellowen Deeowen’ to ‘Babylondon’: London is a Language

3. ‘Fabricked Out Of Literature and Myth’: Maureen Duffy’s Londons

4. ‘Of Real Experience Mixed with Myth’: Michael Moorcock

5. ‘A Zoo Fit for Psychopaths’: J.G. Ballard versus London

6. ‘Struck Out of Pure Invention’: Iain Sinclair’s London

7. ‘In Pre-Ordained Patterns’: Peter Ackroyd’s London Palimpsests

8. ‘Beyond the Responsibility of Place’: Ian McEwan’s Londons

9. ‘In a Prose so Diagonal and Mood Warped’: Martin Amis’s London Scatology

10. ‘Through a Confusion of Languages’: Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi

11. ‘Kyan you Imagine Dat?’: The New London Languages of Zadie Smith and Monica Ali

12. Conclusion: London Undone?

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