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Project

Going Downtown. A Critical Analysis of the New York Downtown Literary Scene (1974-1984)
Code
01J11007
Duration
01 January 2007 → 30 September 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
Keywords
New York Fiction postmodernism urban studies
 
Project description

This research project is the first to ciritcally and systematically investigate the "Downtown Collection" at the NYU Fales Library. The "Downtown Collection" holds a corpus of highly innovative fiction, written between 1974 and 1984 in the NY Downtown region, which has played a crucial role in the transformation of the contemporary canon.