Urban Narratives

Thoughts on City Literature, Urban Studies and Planning

Linguistic Landscapes 7 – cfp

Posted on 1.9.2014 by Lieven Ameel

Interesting-looking cfp for a conference on linguistic landscapes at Berkeley: http://linguisticlandscapes7.berkeley.edu/ – see @LL7Berkeley

Doesn’t seem to have an immediate link with the study of the linguistic landscapes in literature. It would be great to see greater cooperation between literary urbanists and scholars interested in linguistic landscapes. Something for Linguistic Landscapes 8?

Invisible Paris – Le Paris de Zola

Posted on 1.9.2014 by Lieven Ameel

Via Invisible Paris @INVISIBLEPARIS:

Brought by Invisible Paris: a map of Paris with all places mentioned in the literary works of Zola.

Great work, but also a rather crude device. In order to become truly interesting works for an analysis and reflection of literature (and imagined cities), google maps such as these would benefit from added literary analysis, noting the relationships between spaces and between spaces and plotlines – to begin with. Regardless of this comment, thumbs up to Invisible Paris for putting this together!