Welcome to the Chemical Theatre: The Urban Chronotope in Peter Ackroyd’s Fiction

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The book discusses the evolution of the urban chronotope in the selected novels by Peter Ackroyd, an acclaimed British author. The examined narratives illustrate the transformation from the postmodern tenets of historiographic metafiction into a unique urban mythopoetics by means of a semiotic analysis.