Book contents
- Front matter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Series editor’s foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Maps of the London Underground
- 1 Space and time, myth and place
- 2 Whitechapel autopsy: An East End apocalypse
- 3 The widow; or, the critical baroque
- 4 Internal exiles
- 5 The visual text
- 6 Driven to the margins
- 7 Borderlands
- References
- Index
Book contents
- Front matter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Series editor’s foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Maps of the London Underground
- 1 Space and time, myth and place
- 2 Whitechapel autopsy: An East End apocalypse
- 3 The widow; or, the critical baroque
- 4 Internal exiles
- 5 The visual text
- 6 Driven to the margins
- 7 Borderlands
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter discusses the intense visual imagery that has become characteristic of Sinclair's poetry. It considers the visual apparatus of Sinclair's major works, including Slow Chocolate Autopsy. It also studies the importance of the cinematic and visual, the diagrammatic mapping of fictional texts, Sinclair's geometric conception of urban space, and the visual components of Sinclair's texts. This chapter also identifies the strategies Sinclair uses to improve the effects of the ‘semantic drag’, which is a retardation of the narrative and syntactic flow caused by the intensity of the individual sentence.
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- Iain Sinclair , pp. 117 - 137Publisher: Manchester University PressFirst published in: 2026
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