Article: The Dunciad and the city: Pope and Heterotopia.(Critical essay)

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Writing on James Joyce, the critic Jeri Johnson points to the Irish writer's aspiration "to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city one day suddenly disappeared from the earth, it could be reconstructed out of my book" (Johnson 60). This prompts for Johnson the question how far literary cities are imaginative constructions and how far, on the contrary, they reflect the material realities of the city at particular stages of historical development. Johnson's view is that the latter possibility is routinely neglected in favor of the former, which she claims is the usual starting point of literary criticism. Another routine starting point, however, is ...

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