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Literary Second Cities
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Literary Second Cities
von: Jason Finch, Lieven Ameel, Markku Salmela
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
ISBN: 9783319627199
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  Literary Second Cities 2  
     Preface and Acknowledgements 5  
     Contents 8  
     Editors and Contributors 10  
     List of Figures 13  
  Part I Defining the Second City 15  
  Chapter 1 The Second City in Literary Urban Studies: Methods, Approaches, Key Thematics 16  
     Secondariness in Urban Studies 19  
     From Second Cities as Sites of Contestation to the Post-Urban Cittá Diffusa 21  
     Overview of Contributions to This Book 24  
     Conclusions: Second Cities, Literary Urban Studies and the Spatial Humanities 30  
     Works Cited 31  
  Chapter 2 World Cities and Second Cities: Imagining Growth and Hybridity in Modern Literature 34  
     On the Concept of “Second City” 34  
        World Cities and Other Cities 34  
        The Growth of Cities 36  
        Late Modern Urbanity and Its “States of Matter” 38  
     The Representation of Second Cities 44  
        Second Cities as Sites of Growth and Modernization 44  
        Hybrid Urbanity in Second Cities 47  
     Closing Observations: Second Cities in a Network Society and Their Potential as Mediopolitan Utopias 52  
     Works Cited 54  
  Part II In the Shadow of the Alpha City 56  
  Chapter 3 Comic Novel‚ City Novel: David Lodge and Jonathan Coe Reinterpreted by Birmingham 57  
     Departing from the Comic 59  
     Becoming City Novels 60  
     The South-Western Sector of Birmingham: Spatial Partiality 62  
     The Uses of Precision 64  
     Names and Structuring Contrasts 67  
     The Brown Heart of England 69  
     Panoramic Visions and a Birmingham Symphony 71  
     Conclusion 74  
     Works Cited 76  
  Chapter 4 “A Sort of Second London in Every Thing but Vitiousness”: Bristol in Eighteenth-Century Poetry, 1700–1750 79  
     Bristol as Britain’s “Second” City 82  
        A Poetical Description of Bristol (1712) 83  
        London and Bristol Delineated (1744) 90  
     Conclusion 96  
     Works Cited 98  
  Chapter 5 Cities Within a Second City: The Case of Literary Tartu 101  
     The Evolution of Tartu’s Literary Image 102  
     A Different Tartu 107  
     Tartu on Jaan Kaplinski’s Map 111  
     Kaplinski’s Urbanature 113  
     Works Cited 119  
  Chapter 6 Still Learning from Las Vegas: Imagining America’s Urban Other 121  
     Navigating Vegas Literature 123  
     City of Excess 126  
     City of Exception 130  
     City of Reflection 134  
     Works Cited 138  
  Part III Frontier Second Cities 141  
  Chapter 7 The Capital of Otherness: A Geocritical Exploration of Diyarbak?r, Turkey 142  
     Introduction 142  
     Turkish Modernization and Its Others 144  
     Memory Surfaces 150  
     Amed: Capital of the Homeland 153  
     Conclusions 159  
     Works Cited 159  
  Chapter 8 Narva: A Literary Border Town 162  
     Border Town Cultural and Literal: Narva Since 1703 164  
     Narva in Literature, 1700–2000 166  
        Travelogues 167  
        The Divided Town in the Late Nineteenth Century: Raudsed käed on the Border of the Modern Era 167  
        Remembering Old Narva After World War II: Soviet Estonia on the Border of the Past 169  
        Abroad: The Last Border 170  
     The Reconciliatory Purpose of Literature and Architecture 172  
        The Building of Narva College 174  
        “Võõrad lood” and “Leegionärid” 176  
     Conclusion 178  
     Works Cited 180  
  Part IV The Diffuse Second City 184  
  Chapter 9 Riku Korhonen’s Kahden ja Yhden Yön Tarinoita as Reflection on the Suburban Fragmentation of Community 185  
     Writing the Concrete Suburb 187  
     The Episode Novel: The Narrative Form of a Fragmenting Social Cohesion 188  
     Satirizing Twentieth-Century Planning Discourse: Contact in the Compact City 192  
     Panorama and Diorama 195  
     Up and Down 198  
        The Mansion of the Gods 200  
     Conclusion 201  
     Works Cited 202  
  Chapter 10 “Away from Here to Tjottahejti”: Spatial and Sexual (Re-)Orientation in Places of Secondariness in Contemporary Swedish Fiction 204  
     Body and Place: Phenomenological Approaches 207  
     The Body not at Home in the Swedish People’s Home 211  
     The Literary Second City as the Bodily Experienced City 215  
     Spatial and Sexual (Re)Orientation 220  
     Works Cited 224  
  Chapter 11 Moving Beyond Venice: Literary Landscapes of Movement in Northern Italy’s “Diffused City” 226  
     Introduction: Leaving Venice Behind 226  
     Practicing Space in the Diffused City: A Geocritical Approach 230  
     Enacting Territorial Prose: Roads as Chronotopes and Cognitive Tools 232  
     Travelling Literary Routes Through North-Eastern Italy’s Road Network 235  
     Conclusion 245  
     Works Cited 246  
  Afterword 250  
  Second to None: Literary Geographies of Second Cities 250  
  Thinking of Second Cities as Literary Geographers 252  
  Second Cities for Writers 257  
  Works Cited 260  
  Index 263  


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