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UNINA9910461036703321 |
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Cityscaping : constructing and modelling images of the city / / edited by Therese Fuhrer, Felix Mundt, Jan Stenger |
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Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Walter de Gruyter, , 2015 |
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3-11-040096-0 |
3-11-040114-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (328 p.) |
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Philologus. Supplemente / Philologus. Supplementary Volumes, , 2199-0255 ; ; Volume 3 |
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Disciplina |
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Imagery (Psychology) |
Cities and towns - History |
Cities and towns in art |
Imagination |
Cities and towns in motion pictures |
Cities and towns in literature |
Semantics |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Vergilian Cities -- Cityscaping in Propertius and the Elegists -- Triumphal Milestones -- ‚In jeder Stadt steckt ein großer Roman‘ -- Die Imagination der Stadt Rom bei Claudian -- The Soul and the City -- Kartâgô in Heinrichs von Veldeke Eneasroman -- Der Mensch, das Licht und die Stadt -- Edward Gibbon and the City of Rome -- Spiel mit der Tradition und Darstellung der Gegenwart in Le città invisibili von Italo Calvino -- Die erzählte Wahrnehmung der Großstadt im Kontext des modernen epischen Erzählens -- Städtische Ikonographien, narrative Räume und filmische Geschichtsbilder in Gladiator und Rome -- List of figures -- Index |
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Der hier neu in die Forschung eingeführte Begriff des ‚Cityscaping‘ charakterisiert den kreativen Prozess, in dem ein Stadtbild in |
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verschiedenen Medien – Text, Film und Artefakten – erschaffen und repräsentiert wird. Er lenkt damit die Aufmerksamkeit von gebauten Stadträumen auf mentale Bilder von Städten. Im Zentrum steht einerseits die Frage, mit welchen literarischen, visuellen und akustischen Mitteln die räumliche Imagination der Rezipienten angeregt wird; andererseits wird untersucht, welche Semantik und Funktionen einem medial konstruierten Stadtbild beigelegt werden. An Beispielen antiker Texte und Kunstwerke, neuzeitlicher Literatur und Filme werden das künstlerische Potenzial und die Techniken der Semantisierung von Stadtbildern beleuchtet. Mit seinem interdisziplinären Ansatz macht der Band erstmals deutlich, wie stark die mentalen Bilder städtischer Räume in der Antike und Neuzeit von medialen Techniken geformt wurden. |
The term ‘cityscaping’ is here introduced to characterise the creative process through which the image of the city is created and represented in various media – text, film and artefacts. It thus turns attention away from built urban spaces and onto mental images of cities. One focus is on the question of which literary, visual and acoustic means prompt their recipients’ spatial imagination; another is to inquire into the semantics and functions that are ascribed to the image of a city as constructed in various media. The examples of ancient texts and works of art, and modern literature and films, are used to elucidate the artistic potential of images of the city and the techniques by which they are semanticised. With its interdisciplinary approach, the volume for the first time makes clear how strongly mental images of urban space, both ancient and modern, have been shaped by the techniques of their representation in media. |
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UNINA9910970626203321 |
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Roshwald Mordecai <1921-> |
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Level 7 / / Mordecai Roshwald ; edited and with a new foreword by David Seed |
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Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004 |
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9786612424229 |
9781282424227 |
128242422X |
9780299200633 |
0299200639 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Library of American fiction |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Civilization, Subterranean |
Life on other planets |
Nuclear bomb shelters |
Underground areas |
Nuclear warfare |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction by David Seed -- Looking Back in Wonder: The Author's Reminiscences and Reflections -- Preface by The Martian Institute for Archaeological Excavations in the Solar System -- Level 7 -- Appendix A: Training the Nuclear Warrior: A Manual for Level 7 -- Appendix B: The Politics of Ratology (a fantasy) -- Further Reading. |
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Level 7 is the diary of Officer X-127, who is assigned to stand guard at the "Push Buttons, " a machine devised to activate the atomic destruction of the enemy, in the country's deepest bomb shelter. Four thousand feet underground, Level 7 has been built to withstand the most devastating attack and to be self-sufficient for five hundred years. Selected according to a psychological profile that assures their willingness to destroy all life on Earth, those who are sent down may never return. Originally published in 1959, and with over 400, 000 |
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copies sold, this powerful dystopian novel remains a horrific vision of where the nuclear arms race may lead, and is an affirmation of human life and love. Level 7 merits comparison to Huxley's A Brave New World and Orwell's 1984 and should be considered a must-read by all science fiction fans. |
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