'A Reader's Guide to the Intersection of Time and Space': Urban Spatialization in Hugh Hood's Around the Mountain

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Title
'A Reader's Guide to the Intersection of Time and Space': Urban Spatialization in Hugh Hood's Around the Mountain
Abstract
The author notes that Montreal novelist Hugh Hood's Around the Mountain: Scenes from Montréal Life (1967) is a response to a specific sociohistorical circumstance: the development of a new and boundless urbanism, one which escapes the power of vision through its very dispersal. Emphasizing the palimpsestic nature of urban space, the author explains that Hood uses a number of strategies to draw the reader's attention to alternative spatial practices. The representation of the city as a process is emphasized by the text's attention in a number of stories at the margins of urban expansion. The author concludes that by making visible the process that produces and reproduces the urban, the Hood’s text works to make the city comprehensible to its inhabitants, and to "desalinate" them.
Publication
Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne
Volume
Vol 23
Issue
no. 1
Pages
238-249
Date
Winter 1998
Language
en
URL
Citation
Ivison, Douglas. “‘A Reader’s Guide to the Intersection of Time and Space’: Urban Spatialization in Hugh Hood’s Around the Mountain.” Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne Vol 23, no. 1 (Winter 1998): 238–249. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/8284/9347.
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