Klaus (Hrsg.) Benesch

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 visi… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Specq, François (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-349-93086-9
EAN: 9781349930869
Produktnummer: 29587895
Verlag: Springer Nature EN
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 331 S.
Masse: 1 Ex.; H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm 0 g
Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
Abbildungen: Book; schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, farbige Illustrationen
Sonstiges: Research

Über den Autor

Klaus Benesch is Professor of English and American Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. He is the author of Romantic Cyborgs: Authorship and Technology in the American Renaissance. François Specq is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France.