The Legacy of the Water: A Comparative Study of the Literary and Urban Identities of Glasgow and Genoa

研究问题/问题：在这个博士项目中，我的研究问题探讨了格拉斯哥和热那亚的历史演变的相似之处，以及它们如何阐明和告知这些后工业城市的文学描绘。本研究将解释20世纪晚期文学作品中所描绘的城市现象，这些作品被主要文学和文化评论家认为具有文化代表性。它讨论并比较了苏格兰作家阿拉斯代尔·格雷、阿格尼斯·欧文斯（1926-2014）和詹姆斯·凯尔曼（1946-）的作品，以及意大利作家尤金尼奥·蒙塔莱和法布里齐奥·德·安德罗等人的诗歌。这次调查将突出苏格兰和意大利城市格拉斯哥和热那亚的历史演变的相似之处，通过特定地点的文学作品的镜头来看。这将使我们更好地理解城市环境如何影响作者的文学创作，以及与相关作品相关的相关理论批评，这些作品产生了他们所产生的两种文化地理的特征。格拉斯哥和热那亚有着共同的重要历史，它们都是造船业的重镇，都是人口逐渐减少的地方，都有重新塑造文化城市品牌的战略。我的主要目标是确定它们的平行发展也可能奠定了不成文的亲缘关系和/或文化敏感性的基础，通过弹性和自豪的工业遗产，体现在两个城市的基本现代身份中。该分析完全与原始蚀刻和浮雕作品的补充相结合，这些作品不仅体现了作者对特定城市城市结构的考虑，而且体现了其更广泛的文化子结构。一个特别感兴趣的领域将是对大都市结构在文化范式中影响和塑造虚构叙事的手段的整体评估（例如格雷的“更好的国家”比喻）。两个城市对立的地形条件起着辅助但至关重要的作用。这将通过横截面的制作来衡量，作为热那亚卓越的垂直组织的解释性图形组件，与格拉斯哥的水平布局并列，通过Nolli地图（1748）可以明显理解，这是一幅依赖于二维平面图的城市空间的图形描绘。

Research question(s)/problem: In this PhD project, my research questions explore the similarities in the historical evolution of Glasgow and Genoa, and how they have articulated and informed the literary portrayals of these post-industrial cities. This study will interpret the urban phenomena depicted in late twentieth-century literary works that are considered culturally representative by major literary and cultural critics. It discusses and compares the writing of Scottish authors including Alasdair Gray, Agnes Owens (1926-2014) and James Kelman (1946-), with the poetry of Italian authors such as Eugenio Montale and Fabrizio De André. This investigation will highlight the similarities in the historical evolution of the Scottish and Italian cities-Glasgow and Genoa, seen through the lens of site-specific literary works. This will allow a better understanding of how the urban context might have conditioned the literary production of the authors as well as the relevant theoretical criticism associated with pertinent works that engender the character of the two cultural geographies from which they emerged.Glasgow and Genoa share momentous histories as shipbuilding powerhouses, progressive demographic declines, and strategies of re-branding as cities of culture. My primary objective is to establish that their parallel development might also have laid the foundations of an unwritten kinship and/or cultural sensibility which, by way of a resilient and proud industrial heritage, is embodied in both cities' essential modern identity.The analysis is wholly integrated with a complement of original etched and embossed works that exemplify not only the authors' consideration of the specific city's urban fabric but also their wider cultural substructures. An area of specific interest will be the holistic evaluation of the means in which metropolitan structures can influence and shape fictional narratives within the cultural paradigm (e.g. Gray's better nation trope). An auxiliary but critically vital role is played by the antagonistic topographical condition of the two cities. This will be measured by the manufacture of cross-sections as the explanatory graphical component of the pre-eminently vertical organization of Genoa, in juxtaposition with the horizontal layout of Glasgow, signally intelligible through the Nolli Map (1748), a pictorial delineation of the urban space reliant on a two-dimensional plan drawing.