The modern city, literally speaking : or how to read what fiction writers say about urban settlements.
The article presents an analysis on the role that metaphors play in the relation between literature and the city, firstly, as the characteristic literary speculation of postmodern theorists that look into those paradigmatic books of world literature in search of implicit keys and clues to decipher t...
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oai:editorial.ucatolica.edu.co:article-7222021-03-16T17:19:14Z The modern city, literally speaking : or how to read what fiction writers say about urban settlements. La ciudad moderna, literalmente hablando : o cómo leer lo que dicen los escritores de ficción sobre los asentamientos. Muñoz, Mauricio architecture foundations and urbanism imaginary urban theory and critic urban life social representations fundamentos de arquitectura y urbanismo imaginarios urbanos teoría y crítica vida urbana representaciones sociales The article presents an analysis on the role that metaphors play in the relation between literature and the city, firstly, as the characteristic literary speculation of postmodern theorists that look into those paradigmatic books of world literature in search of implicit keys and clues to decipher the urban phenomena by means of sophisticated comparisons with several bodies of knowledge, and secondly, as the more literal interpretations of late outlooks in which the city is read based on the explicit descriptions given by writers on their novels. Finally, the article concludes that, despite the fact that architects do not take into account the point of view of literature precisely because its metaphoric content, it is quite evident that the novel above all offers an unswerving way to be acquainted with what city inhabitants have to say about the experience of the physical space of the city, a more than clear motivation to consider it more seriously. Se presenta un análisis acerca del papel que juega la metáfora en la relación entre ciudad y literatura, primero como la especulación literaria característica de los teóricos del posmodernismo que, ayudados de sofisticadas comparaciones con distintos cuerpos de conocimiento, escrutan las obras paradigmáticas de la narrativa mundial en busca de claves y pistas implícitas para descifrar el fenómeno urbano, y segundo como la interpretación literal propia de las nuevas aproximaciones en la cual se lee la ciudad con base en las descripciones explícitas que hacen los escritores en sus novelas. Finalmente se concluye que, si bien la visión literaria no es tenida en cuenta por parte de los arquitectos debido a esa carga metafórica, es evidente que la novela en particular ofrece una manera directa para conocer la experiencia que tienen los pobladores del espacio físico de las ciudades, razón más que obvia para ser considerada con más ponderación. Universidad Católica de Colombia 2012-07-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html https://revistadearquitectura.ucatolica.edu.co/article/view/722 Revista de Arquitectura; Vol. 14 No. 1 (2012): January - December; 12-19 Revista de Arquitectura (Bogotá); Vol. 14 Núm. 1 (2012): Enero - diciembre; 12-19 Revista de Arquitectura; Vol. 14 No. 1 (2012): Enero - diciembre; 12-19 Revista de Arquitectura; v. 14 n. 1 (2012): Janeiro - dezembro; 12-19 2357-626X 1657-0308 spa https://revistadearquitectura.ucatolica.edu.co/article/view/722/737 https://revistadearquitectura.ucatolica.edu.co/article/view/722/932 Derechos de autor 2012 Mauricio Muñoz info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 |
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The article presents an analysis on the role that metaphors play in the relation between literature and the city, firstly, as the characteristic literary speculation of postmodern theorists that look into those paradigmatic books of world literature in search of implicit keys and clues to decipher the urban phenomena by means of sophisticated comparisons with several bodies of knowledge, and secondly, as the more literal interpretations of late outlooks in which the city is read based on the explicit descriptions given by writers on their novels. Finally, the article concludes that, despite the fact that architects do not take into account the point of view of literature precisely because its metaphoric content, it is quite evident that the novel above all offers an unswerving way to be acquainted with what city inhabitants have to say about the experience of the physical space of the city, a more than clear motivation to consider it more seriously. |
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