Mary Ann Caws

City Images (eBook, ePUB)

Perspectives from Literature, Philosophy and Film

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134296057
• Artikelnr.: 40100917

Autorenporträt

Mary Ann Caws Graduate School City University of New York

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION The City on Our Mind 1. DISCOURSE AND THE CITY The City: Some
Classical Moments; Discourse, Polis, Finiteness, Perfection 2. COGNITIVE
MAPPING: LABYRINTHS, LIBRARIES AND CROSSROADS The Labyrinth as Sign of
City, Text, and Thought; The Labyrinth and the Library en abyme: Eco,
Borges, Dickens; On City Streets and Narrative Logic 3. CHARACTER AND
POETRY IN THE CITY From Topos to Anthropoid: The City as Character in
Twentieth-Century Texts; The Cosmopolis of Poetics: Urban World, Uncertain
Poetry; 4. THE CITY AS LANDSCAPE Virginia Woolf's London and the Feminist
Revision of Modernism; Cingria and His Cities; The New York Writer and His
Landscapes 5. NEW YORK TO PARIS The Breakup of the City and the Breakdown
of Narrative: Baudelaire's Le Cygne and James Merrill's Urban
Convalescence; From Memory Lane to Memory Boulevard: Paris Change! Paris,
Baudelaire and Benjamin: The Poetics of Urban Violence; Framing the City:
Two Parisian Windows 6. CLAIMS ON THE CITY City, Swain and Subtext in
Blake's Songs; Things Can't Go on Like This: A Beggar's Itinerary 7.
CONTEMPORARY CITIES: TRAFFICKING AND FILMING Trafficking in Philosophy:
Lines of Force in the City-Text; City/Cinema/Dream 8. ENACTMENT AND
LASTNESS; The Last Manifesto