From ‘The City and The Body’ (Smith 2001, pp. 170–1)In this piece there are many different kinds of genre: both literary and
non-literary. So there are not simply poems and narratives, but also signs,
advertisements, warnings and theoretical interjections. Many styles of
writing emerge in the piece: there are surreal scenarios such as the woman
standing naked in the middle of the square, or the woman throwing her
eye down into the street; satirical and futuristic interjections, factual,
documentary-like passages and so on. The fragments are separate but they
are interwoven by recurring images, such as the references to maps and
mirrors. There are also many common concerns: many of the texts refer to
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