Will Self’s Parallactic Urban/Land-scapes in Walking to Hollywood
This paper addresses the complex relation of identity to site in Walking to Hollywood: Memories Before the Fall. In keeping with the idea of a cityscape rather experienced than observed or depicted from a distance, the analysis of scale, proportions and displacement reveals a complex interplay betwe...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2018-12-01
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| description | This paper addresses the complex relation of identity to site in Walking to Hollywood: Memories Before the Fall. In keeping with the idea of a cityscape rather experienced than observed or depicted from a distance, the analysis of scale, proportions and displacement reveals a complex interplay between the urban environment and the perception that shapes it. The perceiving subject’s identity is in turn equally shaped by the post-industrial setting it initially purported to fashion after its own views, in a Möbius strip-manner, coherent with what Slavoj Zizek defines as a ‘parallax view’, characteristic of the experience of contemporary urbanity. |
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| title | Will Self’s Parallactic Urban/Land-scapes in Walking to Hollywood |
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