Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity: Pedestrian Mobility in Literature and the Arts 2016 Edition Contributor(s): Benesch, Klaus (Editor), Specq, François (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1137602821 ISBN-13: 9781137602824 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $123.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General - Art |
Dewey: 809.933 |
LCCN: 2016952088 |
Physical Information: 0.96" H x 6.09" W x 8.63" (1.24 lbs) 331 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book gathers together an array of international scholars, critics, and artists concerned with the issue of walking as a theme in modern literature, philosophy, and the arts. Covering a wide array of authors and media from eighteenth-century fiction writers and travelers to contemporary film, digital art, and artists' books, the essays collected here take a broad literary and cultural approach to the art of walking, which has received considerable interest due to the burgeoning field of mobility studies. Contributors demonstrate how walking, far from constituting a simplistic, na ve, or transparent cultural script, allows for complex visions and reinterpretations of a human's relation to modernity, introducing us to a world of many different and changing realities. |