£85.41

Cornell University Press After-Images of the City

Name: After-Images of the City
Brand: Cornell University Press
Price: 85.1 GBP
Availability: InStock

Criticism & Theory

Price History & Forecast

Last 41 days • 41 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 41 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £85 (41 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £85 - £85

Price levels: 1 different prices over 41 days

Description

Product Description 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. Review This collection of intriguing conference papers explores the culturally constructed imageries that crystallize, complement, and redefine urban experiences and futures--a multifaceted concept Resina (romance studies and comparative literature, Cornell Univ.) elaborates in his theoretical overview. Apart from an insightful exploration of multiple after-images in Steiglitz, photography, and New York (by Mary Woods), essays generally address this central concept through literary texts and related theories, leavened with references to anthropology and planning.... Summing Up: Recommended.-- "Choice" In testing the concept of an 'after-image' as an analytical tool, the editors of this volume, Joan Ramon Resina and Dieter Ingenschay--both professors of literature--contribute fruitfully to the project of developing interdisciplinary methodological approaches to urban studies.... On the whole... the writing is direct and inventive.--Ocean Howell "Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians" About the Author Joan Ramon Resina is Professor of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University; among his previous books is Iberian Cities, which he edited. Dieter Ingenschay is Professor of Hispanic Languages at Humboldt University of Berlin and the author of several books in German.

Product Specifications

Brand: Cornell University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0801440211
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Criticism & Theory
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 04 February 2003
Listed Since: 15 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Cornell University Press After-Images of the City

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Writing the Modern City: Literature, Architecture, Modernity

Constructing Imperial Berlin: Photography and the Metropolis

Unnatural Narratives - Unnatural Narratology: 9 (linguae & litterae, 9)

The Built Surface: v. 1: Architecture and the Visual Arts from Antiquity to the Enlightenment: v. 1: Architecture and the Visual Arts from Antiquity to the Enlightenment (Routledge Revivals)

Cities and the Super-Rich: Real Estate, Elite Practices and Urban Political Economies (The Contemporary City)

English Language Teaching in Moroccan Higher Education

Curating the Digital: Space for Art and Interaction (Springer Series on Cultural Computing)

The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run (Directors' Cuts)

From Allies to Enemies: Spain, Japan and the Axis in World War II (New Directions in East Asian History)

Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914

Revolution and Its Narratives: China's Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949-1966

Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature, 1900-2001: Screening the Word (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies)

Russian Function Words: Meanings and Use: Conjunctions, Interjections, Parenthetical Words, Particles, and Prepositions

Global Perspectives on Football in Africa: Visualising the Game (Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives)

American Literary Magazines: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Historical Guides to the World's Periodicals and Newspapers)

Visibilities and Invisibilities in Smart Cities: Emerging Research and Opportunities

America and Other Myths: Photographs by Robert Frank and Todd Webb, 1955

Urban Design and Representation: A Multidisciplinary and Multisensory Approach

Extraordinary Cities: Millennia of Moral Syndromes, World-Systems and City/State Relations

Texte, Fragmentation, Créativité I / Text, Fragmentation, Creativity I: Penser le fragment en linguistique / Studies on a fragment in linguistics: 32 ... Littérature Et Arts / Studi Di Lingu)

Imagining London, 1770-1900

Global Perspectives on Football in Africa: Visualising the Game (Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives)

Digital Science: DSIC 2021: 381 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 381)

Creativity in the Design Process: Exploring the Influences of the Digital Evolution: 18 (Springer Series in Design and Innovation, 18)