Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity : Pedestrian Mobility in Literature and the Arts / / edited by Klaus Benesch, François Specq

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (343 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.933579
• Soggetto topico: Literature—History and criticism; Philosophy; Arts; Literary History; History of Philosophy
• Persona (resp. second.): BeneschKlaus; SpecqFrançois
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Klaus Benesch and François Specq, Modern(s) Walking: An Introduction -- Part I. Poetics -- Emmanuelle Peraldo, Walking the streets of London in the eighteenth century: a performative art? -- Juliette Fabre, Musing, Painting & Writing: Walking as an Art in Diderot’s Promenade Vernet (Salon de 1767) -- Estelle Murail, “Du croisement de leurs innombrables rapports”: Baudelaire and De Quincey’s flâneurs -- Thomas Pughe, How Poetry Comes to Him: An Excursion to Gary Snyder’s Wild Poetics -- Lacy Rumsey, Revisiting the American “walk poem”: A.R. Ammons, Charles Olson, and Jonathan Williams -- Part II. Performance -- Isabelle Baudino, Marianne Colston’s Art of Walking: Gendering the Picturesque in Journal of a Tour in France, Switzerland, and Italy -- Bridget Sheridan, Following Footprints: photography, writing and the artist’s book in art walking -- Gabrielle Finnane, Wayfaring in the Megacity: Tsai Ming Liang’s Walker and Lav Diaz’s Melancholia -- Tatiana Pogossian, The Art of Walking in Space and Time: the Quest for London -- Andrew Goodman, Walking with the world: towards an ecological approach to performative art practice -- Part III. Pathology -- Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay, The Art of Walking and the Mindscapes of Trauma in Thomas De Quincey’s Autobiographical Works: The Pains of Wandering, the Pains of Remembering -- Sarah Mombert, Writing Dromomania in the Romantic Era: Nerval, Collins and Charlotte Brontë -- Catherine M. Welter, A Juggernaut in the Streets of London: Walking as Destructive Force in R.L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- Amélie Moisy, Thomas Wolfe and the urban night prowl: walking, modernism and myth -- Sophie Walon, Existential wanderings in Gus Van Sant's “Walking Trilogy”: Gerry, Elephant, and Last Days -- Part IV. Politics -- Julien Nègre, Perambulating the village: Henry David Thoreau and the politics of “Walking” -- Virginia Ricard, Walking in Wartime: Edith Wharton’s “The Look of Paris” -- Andrew S. Gross, Pound, Peripatetic Verse, and the Postwar Liberal Aesthetic -- Marie Mianowski, The art of the ‘good step’ in Colm Tóibín’s Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border (1987) -- Andrew Estes, Walking and Technology in the Fiction of Jennifer Egan: Moving towards the Posthuman. .
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity
• ISBN: 1-137-60364-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910255236603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II