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The Representation of the City in the Novel: A Taxonomic Study of the Major Critical Approaches

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 College of Arts, University of Anbar

2 College of Education for Women, University of Anbar

Abstract
his is a taxonomic study of the major theoretical approaches to the textual representation of the city in novels. Taxonomy, here, is not r estricted to establishing classifications as much as to use the established classifications as an integrated paradigm of critical inquiry. It is the premises of this study that no single approach can fully account for the representation of the city and its urban space in the novel because each approach, however comprehensive, seeks to explore or address a specific aspect of the representation or work within a single critical perspective which eventually yields a partial view of this representation and its underlying critical premises. It is Asst. Ins.

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Volume 3, Issue 3
Summer 2020
Pages 1-14

  • Receive Date 20 March 2020
  • Accept Date 04 April 2020
  • Publish Date 01 July 2020