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The branded city - La ville marquée : Paroles gelées (Vol. 26, No. 1)
From the Introduction by Michelle Bumatay and Katelyn Knox : The theme of the 2009 conference, the "Branded City,' carries a double meaning : first, it references both the city as it has been recorded by artists (writers, painters,…
Restless cities
Leading intellectuals reimagine the city as a site of ceaseless change and motion. The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. Restless Cities celebrates the ceaselessly inventive character of the metropolitan city from the nineteenth…
Performance and the contemporary city : An interdisciplinary reader
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Cities, with their rising populations and complex configurations, have become key symbols of a fast-changing modernity. This timely collection gathers together various urban writings from a range of relevant…
Berlin : Divided city, 1945 - 1989
Abstract from the publisher : A great deal of attention continues to focus on Berlin’s cultural and political landscape after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but as yet, no single volume looks at the divided city through an interdisciplinary…
Petersburg / Petersburg : Novel and city, 1900 - 1921
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Since its founding three hundred years ago, the city of Saint Petersburg has captured the imaginations of the most celebrated Russian writers, whose characters map the city by navigating its streets from the…
Urban narratives : Building Barcelona through literature
Abstract from the distributor : In a trajectory that follows not only the topographic and social changes undergone by the city, but also the succession of narrative models that reflect these changes, this book proposes a historical and critical…
Cultures of the city : Mediating identities in urban Latin/o America
Abstract from the publisher : Cultures of the City explores the cultural mediation of relationships between people and urban spaces in Latin/o America and how these mediations shape the identities of cities and their residents. Addressing a broad…
Havana beyond the ruins : Cultural mappings after 1989
Abstract from the publisher : In Havana beyond the Ruins, prominent architects, scholars, and writers based in and outside of Cuba analyze how Havana has been portrayed in literature, music, and the visual arts since Soviet subsidies of Cuba…
Joyce, Benjamin and magical urbanism. European Joyce Studies 21
Abstract from the publisher: Joyce, Benjamin and Magical Urbanism offers for the first time a sustained exploration of parallels between the fiction of James Joyce and the cultural criticism of Walter Benjamin. Benjamin is perhaps modernism’s…
Writing the modern city: Literature, architecture, modernity
Abstract from the publisher: Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have…
Du Bellay et la poésie de la ville. Rome n'est plus Rome...
Cette étude revisite le mythe de Rome comme "Ville éternelle" dans l'oeuvre poétique de Joachim Du Bellay. L'analyse de ses recueils offre, dans une première lecture, l'image d'une ville d'où le rêve, le sens et le sacré se sont retirés.
Du Bellay…
Du Bellay…
L'étranger dans la ville
Cet ouvrage se propose d'explorer la problématique de "l'étranger dans la ville" dans le monde anglophone, à la fois dans le champ de la littérature britannique et américaine, ainsi que dans le domaine du cinéma américain.
On trouvera dans ce…
On trouvera dans ce…
Expositions : Literature and architecture in nineteenth-century France
Abstract from the publisher : In Expositions, Philippe Hamon leads us on an engaging intellectual stroll through the spaces and representations of the nineteenth-century French metropolis. Inspired by the cultural histories of Walter Benjamin and…
The postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay
Abstract from the publisher : This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it. Varma offers a reading of both historical and…