English Literature A-Level
Urban Alienation (The City)
What Urban Alienation (The City) means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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The alienation of the modern urban experience, captured in fragmented, polyvocal verse and symbolised by the 'Unreal City'.
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- Addiction and intoxication
- Fragmentation and Modernity
- Marginalisation and the underworld
- Socio-economic deregulation
- Spiritual Decay and Regeneration
- Urban transformation and decay
- Capitalist excess and greed
- Memory and history
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