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Author:
Görner, Rüdiger.
Title:
London fragments : a literary expedition / by Rüdiger Görner ; translated by Debra Marmor and Herbert Danner.
Publisher:
Haus,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
xviii, 254 p. : ill., map (folded) ; 17 cm.
Subject:
Görner, Rüdiger--Travel--London.--London.
Literary landmarks--London.--London.
London (England)--Description and travel.
Other Titles:
Londoner Fragmente. English
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-254).
Contents:
Arriving in the nowhere by the Thames -- Real city, London as a literary theme -- Diversion I : London Underground -- What defines London -- Diversion II : The Green In The Square -- Southwark, or where late modernism builds on primitive rocks -- The city, the heart of which world? -- Diversion III : nocturnal wanderings through London -- The omega of Bloomsbury -- Diversion IV : in the London of emigrants -- Westminster, poetry in the shadow of power -- Diversion V : in London with Fontane -- Chelsea, for example -- Hampstead as an intellectual way of life -- Diversion VI : en route to a London man of letters -- Suburbia as literary locale, Notes from London's suburbs -- Epilogue, or : The path to freedom with variations on a theme in Oscar Wilde's poem 'Symphony In Yellow'.
Series:
ArmchairTraveller
ISBN:
1905791097 (hbk.)
9781905791095 (hbk.)
Locations:
BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

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