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>From: Robert Brazeau <[log in to unmask]>
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>Writing the City
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>This issue of the journal Studies in the Literary Imagination will be
>guided by the assumption that studying the city allows us to grasp the
>ways in which it is subtended by an order that is in a perpetual state of
>derealization. The artistic and literary works studied in this volume do
>not simply "represent" the city, as if a stable sociological form
>underwrites the various stagings of metropolitan modernity. In fact,
>these essays will show that the city disrupts the assumption that
>realities can be simply rendered or represented in works of art; rather,
>artistic works on the city can at best offer a single, possible, and above
>all tentative glimpse into an urban reality that is always in transit.
>Despite its appearance of ontological and sociological stability, the city
>is a shifting series of images, signifiers, allegories, performers and
>heterotopic sites.
>
>Essays on any urban space are sought; the editors are interested in any
>theoretical approach to the study of the city.
>
>Queries may be sent to either of the editors, but decisions will only be
>made on final papers. Essays must be submitted in hard copy to either
>editor (no email submissions please) by July 31, 2005:
>
>Dr. Robert Brazeau, Asst. Professor
>Department of English and Film Studies
>HC 3-5
>University of Alberta
>Edmonton, AB
>T6G 2E5
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>Or
>
>Dr. Michael Borshuk
>Assistant Professor
>Department of English
>Texas Tech University
>P.O. Box 43091
>Lubbock, Texas
>79409-3091
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