From cities of things to cities of signs: urban spaces and urban subjects in Sister Carrie and Manhattan Transfer.(Critical essay)

From: Twentieth Century Literature | Date: December 22, 2006| Author: Geyh, Paula E. | Copyright information 
 
  However the city may really be, beneath this thick coating of signs, 
  whatever it may contain or conceal, you leave ... without having 
  discovered it. 
  --Italo Calvino (14)

While architecture has always been in part a semiotic art, the twentieth century saw an unprecedented convergence of signs and architecture across America. (1) Since the early 1920s, the architectural spaces of American cities have been awash in texts and images--advertising, street signs, n...

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