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1 online resource (xvii, 269 pages) : illustrations |
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The concept of after-image and the scopic apprehension of the city / Joan Ramon Resina -- City future in city past : Balzac's cartographic imagination / David Harvey -- London : tomorrow's yesterday, future images of the past / Jorgen Schlaeger -- Berlin 2000 : "the image of an empty place" / Mark Seltzer -- From rose of fire to city of ivory / Joan Ramon Resina -- Bees at a loss : images of Madrid (before and) after La Colmena / Dieter Ingenschay -- The world in our head : images and after-images of the city in the works of Albert Cohen / Ottmar Ette -- Tijuana : shadowtext for the future / Debra Castillo -- After-images of the "new" New York and the Alfred Stieglitz circle / Mary N. Woods -- The city vanishes / Tom Conley |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-257) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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City and town life in literature.
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City and town life.
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City and town life in art.
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Cities and towns -- Study and teaching.
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Sociology, Urban -- Study and teaching
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Intellectual life.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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Cities and towns -- Study and teaching.
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City and town life.
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City and town life in art.
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City and town life in literature.
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Intellectual life.
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Sociology, Urban -- Study and teaching.
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Geschichte
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Literatur
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Stadt Motiv
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Steden.
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Beeldvorming.
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Letterkunde.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Resina, Joan Ramon
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Ingenschay, Dieter
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| ISBN |
9781501729669 |
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1501729667 |
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