Abstract
In their article "Tell-tale Landscapes and Mythical Chronotopes in Urban Designs for Twenty-first Century Paris" Bart Keunen and Sofie Verraest outline a methodology for the examination of narrative structures projected onto landscapes and exemplify it by analyzing four urbanist projects submitted for the international workshop for Greater Paris launched by President of France Nicholas Sarkozy in 2009. Keunen and Verraest focus on phantasmagorical urban spaces considered to be profane remnants of what Ernst Cassirer referred to as "mythical thought." Since the spatiotemporal structure of these phantasmagorical places is understood as fundamental to their affective appeal and seductiveness, they are treated as Bakhtinian "chronotopes." Four chronotopes — the oasis, the capsule, the hub, and the bazaar — are thus exposed as the cornerstones of urbanists' rhetoric strategies.
Recommended Citation
Keunen, Bart;
and Verraest, Sofie.
"Tell-tale Landscapes and Mythical Chronotopes in Urban Designs for Twenty-first Century Paris."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
14.3
(2012):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2038>
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