Rome, Postmodern Narratives of a Cityscape-Dom Holdaway

Rome, Postmodern Narratives of a Cityscape (Warwick Series in the Humanities)


Edited by Dom Holdaway

Published by Routledge in 2016

English, 234 pages PDF


Until the mid-twentieth century the Western imagination seemed intent on viewing Rome purely in terms of its classical past or as a stop on the Grand Tour. This collection of essays looks at Rome from a postmodern perspective, including analysis of the city's 'unmappability', its fragmented narratives and its iconic status in literature and film