Unreal Cities

Unreal Cities Urban Figuration in Wordsworth, Baudelaire, Whitman, Eliot, and Williams

Hardback (01 Jun 1990)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Sharpe (English, Barnard College, Columbia U.) shows how poets from Blake to Williams have constructed "unreal" or archetypal cities from such materials as the biblical accounts of Cain's exile and Babel's confusion, the Whore of Babylon and virginal New Jerusalem. Drawing on Barthes, Benjamin, and

Book information

ISBN: 9780801839726
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint: John Hopkins University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 809.19321732
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 228
Weight: 540g
Height: 230mm
Width: 161mm
Spine width: 24mm