Description
| Product ID: | 9783039105328 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CH |
| Series: | Cultural History & Literary Imagination |
| Title: | Imagining the City |
| Authors: | Author: Catherine Keen, David Midgley, Christian Emden |
| Page Count: | 344 |
| Subjects: | The arts: general topics, The arts: general issues, Language: reference and general, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Regional / International studies, History, Cultural studies, Language: reference & general, Classical texts, Regional studies, History, Cultural studies |
| Description: | Urban living presents both challenges and opportunities for individuals and societies in their attempts to maintain and determine their cultural identity. Mobility, fragility, and inventive self-fashioning are common features of life in Europe’s big cities throughout the modern period. This volume is based on papers given at the conference ‘Imagining the City’ held in Cambridge in 2004. Together they examine the city as imagined space and as a matrix for imagined worlds, using French, German, English, Italian, Russian and North American examples. They analyse modes of literary representation of the city and literary readings of cultural politics; the impact of the imagination of artists and architects on the fashioning of urban landscapes; the effect of new technologies and media (flight, photography, film, and the internet) on urban perception; and the impact of artistic interventions and activist movements on the construction and use of public spaces in the world of today. A second volume will examine the cultural and political moulding of urban space in a similar comparative perspective. |
| Imprint Name: | Verlag Peter Lang |
| Publisher Name: | Verlag Peter Lang |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2006-05-15 |
