“Narrating past and future: Deindustrialized landscapes as resources“ in which she uses two novels to grasp the complex processes of deindustrialisation: “… because imaginativenarrativestell stories, and in part because theirintentis not to analyze or document but to interpret people's experiences...
The interactive short papers will explore aspects of urban studies through humanities texts such as literature, film, graphic novels, music, art, graffiti, video games, and other textual forms of culture. This session is linked to the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies with Intellect publishers and...
I wonder: do carfree characters in novels tend to be depicted as unusual and out of step? As the book unfolds, Horace starts to connect with people: he befriends a dying librarian and reads aloud to him in his hospice bed; he gives money to a small-time cocaine dealer so she can st...
Stephenson’s novels include a number of concepts and ideas such as having ‘headsets’ and ‘goggles’ that allowed people to immerse into a fictional pre-VR world before goggles and technologies—pushing the global market for these products toward profitable paths. These concepts relate ...