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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"urban novel"”.
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"The Structural And Thematic Function Of Walking In The Modernist European Urban Novel: Bely's ""peterburg"", Joyce's ""ulysses"" And Doeblin's ""berlin Alexanderplatz"". (andrei Bely, Russia, James Joyce, Ireland, Alfred Doeblin, Germany)"
… specimens of the modernist European urban novel. This dissertation offers, for the first time, a comparative examination of these works through a feature which is common to all three on both a thematic and a structural level: walking.
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Parisian Social Studies: Positivism and the Novels of Balzac, Paul de Kock and Zola
… and its influence on the nineteenth-century urban novel must be re-imagined in the context of the proto-sociological movement of positivism. Existing criticism on panoramic literature typically views this movement as emerging from early-nineteenth-century urban upheaval. I focus here instead …