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The reality of the unreal; city as metaphor in Henry James and his contemporaries.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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The reality of the unreal; city as metaphor in Henry James and his contemporaries.

Borbely, Judit.

Akademiai Kiado

2005

175 pages

$29.00

Paperback

Philosophiae doctores

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They were the places of light and the places of darkness, the source of new technologies that promised to lift humanity aloft and also the source of disease, depravity and death. Cities had ceased to be simply a place where a lot of people gathered for purposes of protection and trade and had become metaphors, utopian or dystopian. Borbely searches ...

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