Mapping the City - Narrating 'Complexity'
Berit Michel
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Mapping the City - Narrating 'Complexity'

Urban Space in the Contemporary Anglophone Novel

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The teeming metropolis and the way we experience overpowering urban environments has fascinated writers for centuries. Especially within the last decades, these environments have changed tremendously: They have become 'smart,' or 'intelligent,' as the infrastructures of cities become augmented with computational spaces. The narratives discussed in this study stage the ways in which we experience the complex urban environments of a digitalized world. The fictions cover different narrative modes ranging from classical print narratives (e.g. Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad, Thompson's Communio...