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Walking and the aesthetics of modernity
pedestrian mobility in literature and the arts
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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, naïve, 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.
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a performative art?
pp.3-14
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7_1walking as an art in Diderot's promenade vernet (salon de 1767)
pp.15-28
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7_2Baudelaire and De Quincey's flâneurs
pp.29-41
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7_3an excursion to Gary Snyder's wild poetics
pp.43-61
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7_4A. R. Ammons, Charles Olson, and Jonathan Williams
pp.63-81
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7_5gendering the picturesque in journal of a tour in France, Switzerland, and Italy
pp.85-98
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7_6photography, writing, and the artist's book in art walking
pp.99-114
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7_7Tsai Ming-liang's Walker and Lav Diaz's Melancholia
pp.115-127
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7_8the quest for London
pp.129-140
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7_9toward an ecological approach to performative art practice
pp.141-154
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7_10the pains of wandering, the pains of remembering
pp.157-171
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7_11Nerval, Collins, and Charlotte Brontë
pp.173-185
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7_12walking as destructive force in R. L. Stevenson's Strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde
pp.187-196
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7_13walking, modernism, and myth
pp.197-211
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7_14Gerry, Elephant, and Last days
pp.213-226
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7_15Henry David Thoreau and the politics of "walking"
pp.229-240
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7_16Edith Wharton's "The look of Paris"
pp.241-252
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7_17pp.253-266
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7_18a walk along the Irish border (1987)
pp.267-277
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7_19moving toward the posthuman
pp.279-295
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60364-7_20Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Ort: Basingstoke
Year: 2016
Seiten: 331
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-137-60282-4
ISBN (digital): 978-1-137-60364-7
Referenz:
Benesch Klaus, Specq François (2016) Walking and the aesthetics of modernity: pedestrian mobility in literature and the arts. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.