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Villes, vies, visions : les villes, propriétés de l'écrivain
Présentation par l'éditeur : Dans un monde de plus en plus urbanisé, les écrivains, habitants de mégalopoles et arpenteurs d'espaces imaginaires, occupent une place singulière, à la fois…
Le goût des villes imaginaires
Présentation par l'éditeur : Dans le vaste atlas des villes imaginaires, où commence le rêve, où s'arrête la réalité ? Plus l'on tente d'en fixer la frontière, plus la démarcation…
Porto : poètes et bâtisseurs
Présentation par l'éditeur : 25 portraits des acteurs culturels et sociaux de Porto présentant les différentes facettes de la ville et de ses habitants : • Un socle d’art et de culture : Manoel de Oliveira,…
Le Territoire littéraire du Havre dans la première moitié du XXe siècle
Ce livre étudie les représentations du Havre par plusieurs écrivains du XXe siècle et dessine les contours d'un "territoire littéraire" havrais.
Après avoir proposé des outils de lecture, empruntés notamment à la géocritique, qui permettent…
Après avoir proposé des outils de lecture, empruntés notamment à la géocritique, qui permettent…
Imagining the urban : Sanskrit and the city in early India
Abstract from the publisher : In Imagining the Urban, Shonaleeka Kaul turns to Sanskrit literature to discover the characteristics—both physical and social—of ancient Indian cities. Kaul examines nearly a thousand years of Sanskrit…
Cities surround the countryside: urban aesthetics in postsocialist China
Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual and collective identity in China. Cities envelop the countryside, not only geographically 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…