Journey to the Center of Things. Forms, places and experiences of the modern metropolis as a stylistic principle in “Manhattan Transfer” by John Dos Passos
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https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i5.8762Keywords:
metropolis, Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer, modernism, urban literatureAbstract
The essay aims to analyze stylistically the structural modes and formal techniques through which the places and experiences of the modern metropolis become a compositional principle in Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos. The thematic investigation focuses instead on the role experienced by urban space in diegetic construction, with the aim of bringing out the dynamics, reasons and instances through which the metropolis, as the real protagonist of the novel, conditions the progress of the plot and narrative development of the characters of the novel.
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