Visualizing the City in Central European Literature of the Twentieth Century

• Authors: Biljana Oklopcic
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is twofold. The first part of the paper discusses development of the city image in Western literature and gives insight into visual methods Central European authors of the twentieth century have used to depict the city in their works. The second part of the paper shows how the urban space is represented, documented, evoked, and performed in the novels of Michal Ajvaz, Marija Jurić Zagorka, and George Konrad.

Keywords

EN

the urban space; visual methods; literature; Central European literature; Marija Jurić Zagorka; Michal Ajvaz; George Konrad

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Przegląd Kulturoznawczy
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 4(18)
• Pages: 274–286

Dates

online

2014-04-10

Contributors

author

Biljana Oklopcic

• University of Osijek, Croatia

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/20843860PK.13.028.2080