After-Images of the City - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0801487897 ISBN 13 : 9780801487897

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Criticism on the textual and iconographic construction of the city is extensive, yet the problem of historical change in representations of "the urban" has received little attention. Believing traditional accounts are limited by their reflection of a specific historical moment, Joan Ramon Resina and Dieter Ingenschay focus, by contrast, on transition. In essays written for this volume, scholars of literary and visual studies, the history of architecture, cultural theory, and urban geography explore the ways perceptual or conceptual paradigms of the city supersede or replace others, while at the same time retaining the "after-image" of what went before.

The writers touch on a wide variety of issues related to contemporary urban cultures as they journey through cities including New York, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Tijuana, Berlin, and London. Drawing on the work of Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Camilo José Cela, Honoré de Balzac, and Alfred Stieglitz, their approach is broadly cultural rather than technical. After-Images of the City takes into account the intrinsic instability of the image and reveals that representations of the modern metropolis cannot be fixed in time and history.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joan Ramon Resina is Professor of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University; among his previous books is Iberian Cities, which he edited.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801487897
• ISBN 13: 9780801487897
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Éditeur: Resina Joan Ramon, Ingenschay Dieter
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• Personne responsable: non disponible