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Mapping Urban Spaces: The City in Literature, with reference to works on Delhi and Mumbai
Unit I
“The Metropolis as a Text” by David Frisby from The Hieroglyphics of Space (pp. 15-19)
Unit II
“The City as an Image” by Burton Pike from The Image of the City in Modern Literature (pp. 243-49)
Unit III
Genette, Gerard, Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. Translated by Jane E.Lewin, Ithaca: Cornell University Press,1980. pp. 228-43
Unit IV
Khushwant Singh’s Delhi: A Novel (1990)
Unit V
Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (2004)
Suggested Reading:
Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space, Translated by Maria Jolas. Penguin, 1994.
Barthes, Roland. “Semiology and the Urban” Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory. Ed. Neil Leach. Routledge, 1997. pp. 166-72
Bryden, Inga. “Crossing the Street: Literature and Urban Space”. Univ. of Nottingham. https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/documents/working-with-english/volu...
Finnegan, Ruth. Tales of the City: A Study of Narrative and Urban Life. Cambridge UP, 1998.
Genette,Gerard. Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. Translated by Jane E.Lewin, Ithaca: Cornell U P, 1980.
Lucie Guillemette and Cynthia Lévesque (2016), “Narratology”, in Louis Hébert (dir.), Signo [online], Rimouski (Quebec), http://www.signosemio.com/genette/narratology.asp.
Mc Namara, Kevin. Ed. Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature. CUP, 2014.
Miles, Malcolm. Cities and Literature. Routledge, 2018.