Visions of the Modern City Essays in History, Art, and Literature |
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| Author:
| Sharpe, William Chapman
Wallock, Leonard |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-3540-7 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1987 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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Steven Marcus analyzes the breakdown of the city as signifying system in the novels of Saul Bellow and Thomas Pynchon, writers who question whether the indecipherable contemporary city has any meaning left at all.
Steven Marcus analyzes the breakdown of the city as signifying system in the novels of Saul Bellow and Thomas Pynchon, writers who question whether the indecipherable contemporary city has any meaning left at all.