Myth-Making Modern Cities: Paris and London in Jacques Tati’s Playtime and Penelope Lively’s City of the Mind

Focusing on Paris and London in Jacques Tati’s Playtime and Penelope Lively’s City of the Mind, I investigate how modern cities function as myth-makers. By drawing on urban theory and spatial analysis, this study explores how cities, as living and evolving beings, create stories and reflect the way...

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Published in:	Polish Journal of English Studies
Main Author:	Samira Sasani
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Polish Association for the Study of English 2025-06-01
Subjects:	heterotopia frankenstein dr. jekyll and mr hyde modern urban spaces memory and space psychogeography
Online Access:	https://pjes.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/PJES_11-1-6-Sasani.pdf

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