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Paris insolite
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Une plongée dans un Paris interlope, populaire et englouti, par un clochard, compagnon de Doisneau et d’autres piliers du Paris poétique.
Un texte exceptionnel digne d’un Nicolas…
La poétique de l'habiter
Suite à l’Habiter dans sa poétique première, ce livre recueille les actes du colloque tenu en septembre 2009 à Cerisy-la-Salle. Il s’agit à présent de la création, c’est-à-dire de la poïétique d’un monde autre que l’insoutenable monde actuel.…
Paris as revolution: writing the nineteenth-century city
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In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution…
A shout in the street : An excursion into the modern city
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A remarkable meditation on the topography of the modern city, A Shout in the Street offers a close and sensitive examination of four urban landscapes -- London, Paris, Leningrad, and New York. Peter Jukes pursues the…
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,…
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 imagination of class: Masculinity and the Victorian urban poor
Extract from the Introduction: The poor were always with the English. Poverty had been of broad social concern since the Elizabethan period at least: the topic of ongoing debate, periodic legislation, sporadic philanthropy. But the London poor of…