Having arrived, time to move on: Coupland's Brentwood as an experiment with space and time.
Part of a special section on the theorization of time and space. The writer examines Douglas Coupland's “Brentwood Notebook: a day in the life: August 4, 1994,” which appeared in Polaroids from the Dead, 1997, pp. 145–199, as an example of an experiment with time and space. He contends that Coup...
| Publicado en: | Environment & Planning A Vol. 33; no. 12; pp. 2109 - 2126 |
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Pion Limited
December 2001
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| Sumario: | Part of a special section on the theorization of time and space. The writer examines Douglas Coupland's “Brentwood Notebook: a day in the life: August 4, 1994,” which appeared in Polaroids from the Dead, 1997, pp. 145–199, as an example of an experiment with time and space. He contends that Coupland reveals that Brentwood, an affluent Los Angeles suburb, is especially characterized by a tension between presence and absence, between the visible and the covert, as well as between progress, the unchanged, and decay. |
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