VERNYIK, Zénó. Cities of Saviors: Urban Space in E. E. Cummings' Complete Poems, 1904-1962 and Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor. Szeged: AMERICANA eBooks, 2015, 154 pp. ISBN 978-615-5423-11-6.
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Original name Cities of Saviors: Urban Space in E. E. Cummings' Complete Poems, 1904-1962 and Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor
Authors VERNYIK, Zénó (348 Hungary, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Szeged, 154 pp. 2015.
Publisher AMERICANA eBooks
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Original language English
Type of outcome Book on a specialized topic
Field of Study Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
Country of publisher Hungary
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form printed version "print"
RIV identification code RIV/46747885:24510/15:#0001292
Organization Faculty of Science, Humanities and Education – Technical University of Liberec – Repository
ISBN 978-615-5423-11-6
Keywords in English urban space; heterotopia; sacred; occult; London; E. E. Cummings; Peter Ackroyd
Changed by Changed by: Zeno Vernyik, učo 536. Changed: 15/4/2016 19:30.
Abstract
Cities of Saviors is a short study of the urban spaces of E. E. Cummings’ poetry and Peter Ackroyd’s seminal novel, Hawksmoor. Although at first sight a comparison of these two authors might seem surprising, the analysis offered by this new book shows that such a reading can be revelatory for the understanding of both authors. Relying on close readings informed by the spatial theories of Mircea Eliade, Michel Foucault and Gaston Bachelard, it sheds light on a common understanding of space: one that is immersed in a dark sacrality. By doing so, it also radically reinterprets the oeuvre of both authors, in that it positions Cummings away from the accepted image of the neo-Romantic poet of transcendence and situates Ackroyd in the continuing tradition of (late) Modernism.
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