Format:
Online-Ressource (xix, 360 p)
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ill
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22 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. UK MyiLibrary 2009 Also available in print
Edition:
Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
1443804525
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9781443804523
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9781443804608
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9781282190030
Content:
Images of the City takes the reader on a fascinating journey through urban landscapes across centuries, literary periods, media, genres and borders. 27 essays gathered from Poland, UK, Romania, Italy, Hungary, and Portugal by researchers representing different academic environments and fields of speciality offer a truly interdisciplinary perspective on the issue of understanding, representing, and interpreting the city. In this respect, the volume complements other anthologies which discuss u
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Bibl. ref. & index
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; STAGING A MIRROR, ESTABLISHING HARMONY; THE MASQUES OF THE CITY; CHAPTER TWO; SLASH AND BURN?; CITY OF GOD?; THE CITY IN CHARLES WILLIAMS'S JUDGEMENT AT CHELMSFORD; THE IMAGE OF HELL AS A HIDDEN CITY IN C. S. LEWIS'S THE GREAT DIVORCE; CHAPTER THREE; THE STREET, THE LOVERS, AND THE TRAGEDY; ARS MORIENDI IN THE CITY OF VIENNA.; SHAKESPEARE'S CAMP CITY; NEW YORK CITY OF 2000 AS PARS PRO TOTO IN MICHAEL ALMEREYDA'S HAMLET; CHAPTER FOUR; LONDON AND LONDONERS IN EASTWARD HO!; CORRUPTED IMAGES OF THE CITY
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BIG CITY CORRUPTION, SMALL TOWN VENALITYCORRUPTION, ILLEGITIMATE PRACTICES, WILDERNESS; CHAPTER FIVE; WANDERING THROUGH CHARTERED STREETS OF WILLIAM BLAKE'S NOCTURNAL LONDON; DIS/LOCATIONS; CONJURING UP LONDON; FINISTERRE-ARCHIVING THE LONDON NOBODY WANTS TO KNOW; CHAPTER SIX; THE IDEAL CITY CONCEIVED, PERCEIVED, AND LIVED; IMAGINING THE CITY OF MAN IN ARNOLD WESKER'S THEIR VERY OWN AND GOLDEN CITY; TWO TALES OF A CITY; CHAPTER SEVEN; THE JOURNEY THROUGH THE DYING WORLD OF BOGHILL IN SAMUEL BECKETT'S RADIO PLAY ALL THAT FALL; "DOTS, BRICKS AND BEETLES"; CHAPTER EIGHT
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THE PARADOX OF IDENTITY IN THE MAN OF THE CROWDAND CITY OF GLASSDEATH IN VIENNA/DEATH OF VIENNA; UNRAVELLING "HOLLYLÓDZ; LOCATION LA; APPENDIX; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX;
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Electronic reproduction
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Also available in print.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Images of the City
Language:
English
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