 Why do we hardly ever notice that?" "Because nobody imagines living here," said Thaw. McAlpin lit a cigarette and said, "If you want to explain that I'll certainly listen." "Then think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the...  Culture, Nation, and the New Scottish Parliament - 48 페이지 편집 - 2007 - 279 페이지일부보기 - 도서 정보
 | John Sturrock - 1997 - 516 페이지
...response to Sharp and Hind, he writes particularly of the need to imagine the places one inhabits: Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York, Nobody...not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.' In order for a city to exist imaginatively, however, the writer must first come into possession of... | |
 | Paul Smethurst - 2000 - 354 페이지
...contrasts these with the representational spaces of other cities that are found in books and films: if a city hasn't been used by an artist not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively, What is Glasgow to most of us? A house, the place we work, a football park or golf course, some pubs... | |
 | Robert Crawford - 2003 - 268 페이지
...writes it into our imagination. Alasdair Gray's meditation on the claim has become a locus dassicus: 'Glasgow is a magnificent city', said McAlpin. 'Why...not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively. What is Glasgow to most of us? A house, the place we work, a football park or golf course, some pubs... | |
 | Paul Henderson Scott - 2003 - 372 페이지
...they establish and express the "myths and memories". A character in Alasdair Gray's Lanark says that "if a city hasn't been used by an artist not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively". In the same way, I doubt if a people can be aware of a national character if it has not been expressed... | |
 | Dietmar Böhnke - 2004 - 364 페이지
...Thaw. McAlpin lit a cigarette and said, "If you want to explain that I'll certainly listen." — "Then think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody...not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively." [L, 241] The need to "imagine" Glasgow, voiced here by Gray's alter ego Duncan Thaw, has since been... | |
 | Jørgen Sevaldsen, Jens Rahbek Rasmussen - 2007 - 160 페이지
...magnificent city/ said McAlpin. 'Why do we hardly ever notice that?' 'Because nobody imagines living there,' said Thaw. [...] '[Think] of Florence, Paris, London,...even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.' (243) Alasdair Gray places Glasgow on the map by actively re-imagining it as a place of contrasts, juxtapositions,... | |
 | Brian McIlroy - 2007 - 302 페이지
...Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger, because he has already visited them in paintings, novels, history...by an artist, not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively."(McArthur 1997: 19) There is, in other words, a cinematic city of the imagination that... | |
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