IPP WORKSHOP SERIES | Mortada Haidar: “Literary Depictions of the City as a Character”
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- IPP WORKSHOP SERIES | Mortada Haidar: “Literary Depictions of the City as a Character”
- 2024-11-21T14:00:00+01:00
- 2024-11-21T16:00:00+01:00
The city has occupied a central role in literature from the 19th century onwards. Whether it is Charles Dickens’ London, James Joyce’s Dublin, or Scott Fitzgerald’s New York, the city is personified, lively, and full of contrasts. The city in the aforementioned works can be considered a character in its own right. This workshop explores the literary city through the intersection of theories from literary studies and sociology, with particular attention to cultural and social geography and memory studies. The workshop will begin with a brief overview of depictions of the city in Western literature, but will move beyond that to compare and contrast the place of the city in literature from around the world, using my current work on Lebanese literature as an example. Through this, I aim to investigate how is memory explored through literary depictions of the city, and what does it mean for a city to be “in flux”. One of the main aims of this workshop is to explore the literary depictions of the city as a character in novels from outside the Western world, offering an insight into how post-conflict cities are depicted.
To register: Winter Term 2024/25 — The Graduate Centre (uni-giessen.de)