De Cock, CJL (2010) Cities in fiction: Perambulations with John Berger. Culture and Organization, 16 (3). pp. 197-210. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2010.503497
De Cock, CJL (2010) Cities in fiction: Perambulations with John Berger. Culture and Organization, 16 (3). pp. 197-210. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2010.503497
De Cock, CJL (2010) Cities in fiction: Perambulations with John Berger. Culture and Organization, 16 (3). pp. 197-210. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2010.503497
Abstract
This paper explores selected novels by John Berger in which cities play a central role. These cities are places, partially real and partially imagined, where memory, hope, and despair intersect. My reading of the novels enables me to trace important themes in recent discourses on the nature of contemporary capitalism, including notions of resistance and universality. I also show how Berger?s work points to a writing that can break free from the curious capacity of capitalism to absorb and feed of its critiques
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Berger; capitalism; fiction; resistance; universality; critique |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Essex Business School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 04 Nov 2011 16:48 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 17:47 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/1277 |
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