Lecturer：Mariam Veliashvili (PhD Student in Comparative literature, UMR Litt&Arts, Université Grenoble Alpes)

 

Outline：The urban chronicle, a hybrid form between journalism and literature, flourished in the 1920s and 1930s across vastly different cultural contexts. Regularly published in newspapers and magazines of the big cities like Tokyo, Paris, New York, and Moscow, these short, serial texts (by writers as different as Kawabata, Fargue, Mitchell, Bulgakov, among others) developed a distinct way to render the experience of the rapidly transforming modern city. This lecture examines how the urban chronicle, through its focus on the ordinary, the ephemeral, and the sensory, became a privileged medium for writing urban modernity, and what its global circulation reveals about the relationship between literary form and modern city experience.

 

Language: English. No Interpretaion.
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