The new Asian city [[electronic resource] ] : three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form / / Jini Kim Watson |
Autore | Watson Jini Kim <1973-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (326 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933585009732 |
Soggetto topico |
East Asian fiction - History and criticism
Cities and towns in literature Urbanization in literature Space in literature Urbanization - East Asia - History Cities and towns - East Asia - Growth - History |
ISBN |
1-4529-4755-4
0-8166-7879-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: the production of space in Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei -- Part I. Colonial cities: imagining the colonial city; orphans of Asia: modernity and colonial literature; export production and the blank slate -- Part II. Postwar urbanism: narratives of human growth versus urban renewal; the disappearing woman, interiority, and private space; roads, railways, and bridges: arteries of the nation -- Part III. Industrializing landscapes: the way ahead: the politics and poetics of Singapore's developmental landscape; mobility and migration in Taiwanese new cinema; the redemptive realism of Korean Minjung literature -- Conclusion. Too late, too soon: globalization and new Asian cities. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790213403321 |
Watson Jini Kim <1973-> | ||
Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The new Asian city [[electronic resource] ] : three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form / / Jini Kim Watson |
Autore | Watson Jini Kim <1973-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (326 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933585009732 |
Soggetto topico |
East Asian fiction - History and criticism
Cities and towns in literature Urbanization in literature Space in literature Urbanization - East Asia - History Cities and towns - East Asia - Growth - History |
ISBN |
1-4529-4755-4
0-8166-7879-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: the production of space in Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei -- Part I. Colonial cities: imagining the colonial city; orphans of Asia: modernity and colonial literature; export production and the blank slate -- Part II. Postwar urbanism: narratives of human growth versus urban renewal; the disappearing woman, interiority, and private space; roads, railways, and bridges: arteries of the nation -- Part III. Industrializing landscapes: the way ahead: the politics and poetics of Singapore's developmental landscape; mobility and migration in Taiwanese new cinema; the redemptive realism of Korean Minjung literature -- Conclusion. Too late, too soon: globalization and new Asian cities. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823523803321 |
Watson Jini Kim <1973-> | ||
Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The new urban gothic : global gothic in the age of the Anthropocene / / Holly-Gale Millette, Ruth Heholt, editors |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIV, 253 p. 22 illus., 18 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 809.93321732 |
Collana | Palgrave Gothic |
Soggetto topico |
Cities and towns in literature
Social problems in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 3-030-43777-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The New Urban Gothic – Holly-Gale Millette and Ruth Heholt -- Section One – Urban Gothic Bodies -- Introductory Overview: ‘Urban Gothic, A Retrospective’ – Julian Wolfreys -- Chapter One: Paulina Palmer, ‘“I hide a great secret. One that marks me out as grotesque”: Freaks, Monstrosity and Secrets in Victorian London’ -- Chapter Two: Simon Bacon, ‘The Degenerating City: The Gothicized Disabled Body as Nexus of Pollution in the Modern Urban Space as Depicted in The Strain Trilogy’ -- Chapter Three: Wymar Strydom, ‘Queer sockets: Electricity as Relationality in the New Urban Gothic’ -- Chapter Four: Martyn Colebrook, ‘The City and the City: Monstrous Urbanities in L.A. Noire and This is the Police’ -- Chapter Five: R. M. Francis, ‘A Very Queer Black Country’ -- Section Two – Urban Gothic Ruin -- Introductory Overview: ‘New Directions: Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene’ – Holly-Gale Millette -- Chapter Six: Madelon Hoedt, ‘“Lord, what a splendid world we ruined”: The city and the underground in Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light’ -- Chapter Seven: Karl Bell, ‘The City of (Dreadful) Light: The New Urban Gothic Mindscape in China Miéville’s The Last Days of New Paris’ -- Chapter Eight: Tanya Krzywinska, ‘“Everything is True” A Weird Tale: Urban Gothic meets Urban Myth in Multiplayer Online Game, The Secret World’ -- Chapter Nine: Garth Sabo, ‘“A Weapon in the Cracks”: Wasteways Between Worlds in the New Urban Gothic’ -- Chapter Ten: Leila Taylor, ‘The Rust Belt Ruin and the Gothic Genius Loci of Detroit’ -- Section Three – New Global Gothic and Urban Hauntings -- Introductory Overview: ‘Global Gothic – Urban Hauntings’ – Ruth Heholt -- Chapter Eleven: Gina Wisker, ‘Singapore: Skyscrapers and Ghosts, Pontianaks and Pangolins in the Night’ -- Chapter Twelve: Anne-Marie Lopez, ‘Red Light East: Spaces of Corruption and Female Exploitation in Global Noir’ -- Chapter Thirteen: Michael Fuchs, ‘Never Accept—Always Question: Colonialism, Capitalism, and Neo-Victorian London in The Order: 1886’ -- Chapter Fourteen: Kwasu Tembo, ‘Cities of Night and Distant Stars: The Gothico-Surreal Aesthetic in Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) and Mamoru Oshii’s Angel’s Egg (1985)’ -- Chapter Fifteen: Molly Slavin, ‘“In Those Days The Little City of Srinigar Died With the Light”: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness as New Urban Gothic’ -- Chapter Sixteen: Xavier Alanda Reyes, ‘Gothic Barcelona, Barcelona Gothic: Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marketing and the Legacy of the Francoist Past’. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910484075903321 |
Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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October cities : the redevelopment of urban literature |
Autore | Rotella Carlo |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : University of California Press, 1998 |
Disciplina | 810.9/321732 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism - 20th century
City and town life in literature Cities and towns in literature English Languages & Literatures American Literature |
ISBN | 0-520-20763-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910495893903321 |
Rotella Carlo | ||
[Place of publication not identified], : University of California Press, 1998 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Palgrave encyclopedia of urban literary studies / / Jeremy Tambling, editor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1977 pages) |
Disciplina | 809.93321732 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern
Cities and towns in literature Literature, Modern - History and criticism |
ISBN |
9783319624198
9783319624181 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Topics -- About the Editor -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Cities in History -- Modernity and the City -- Areas for Research -- The Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies -- References -- Further Reading -- A -- Aberdeen -- Absinthe -- Acculturation in New York -- Acropolis -- Adaptation -- African Cities: Modernity and Slums, Urban Literature, and Culture -- Introduction -- Pioneer Writers -- Colonization -- Decolonization -- Urbanization -- Urban Problems -- War in Africa -- Urban Slums -- Lagos -- Nairobi, Mombasa, and Dar-es-Salaam -- Nairobi and Kibera -- Kinshasa -- Lubumbashi -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- African Literature -- Ahmed Essop´s Johannesburg -- Synonyms -- Definition -- Introduction -- Stories of Inner City Diversity Despite Segregation -- Beyond the Inner City After Apartheid -- Cross-References -- References -- Alexander Pope -- Alexandria -- Alfred Döblin´s Journey to Poland -- Introduction -- Biographical Note -- Döblin As Objective Observer -- The Capital City: Warsaw -- Comparing Other Cities: Wilno/Vilnius, Lublin, Lwów, Cracow, Lodz -- Conclusion -- References -- Algeria -- Algerian Cities: Kateb Racine´s Nedjma -- Synonyms -- Definition -- Algeria -- Context for the Novel -- Kateb Yacine -- Nedjma -- Constantine -- Bône -- Djerba -- Bibliography and Further Reading -- Algerian War of Independence -- Allen Fisher´s Poetry and the City -- Introduction -- Place´s ``Decoherent´´ Foundations -- Against ``Symbolic Attachment´´: Tensions in Mythmaking and Research -- In Search of London´s ``Lost Rivers´´ -- Works Cited -- Works by Allen Fisher -- Other Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Recommended Further Reading -- Almodóvar and Madrid -- Almodóvar´s Early Career -- Commercial Success in Spain -- International Success -- References.
Ambulatory Poetry -- American Cities -- American Expatriates -- Amitav Ghosh and the Ibis Trilogy -- Introduction -- Charles Dickens: From London to ``Saugur Point´´ -- The Ibis Trilogy and Imperial History -- Writing ``Calcutta´´ in Sea of Poppies -- Conclusion -- References -- André Breton -- Ann Hui´s Cinematics of the Ordinary: July Rhapsody (2002) -- Synonyms -- Definition -- Introduction -- The Story of the Son -- The Cinema of Everyday Life -- Political Allegory -- Conclusion -- References -- Anti-Semitism -- Apartheid Versus Post-Apartheid Johannesburg -- Arabic Novel -- Arcades -- Arcades Project -- Arcades Project of Walter Benjamin -- The Idea of the ``Arcades´´ -- Mapping the Arcades Project -- Benjamin´s Artists -- The Dialectical Image -- Benjamin´s Histories -- Old and New Paris -- References -- Architecture -- Argentina -- Art Deco Versus International Style in Johannesburg Architecture -- Art-House Cinema -- Arthur Hughes -- Artistic Collaboration -- Ashcan School -- Asia -- Asian Phantasmagorias of the Interior -- References -- At the Back of the North Wind, George MacDonald -- Synonyms -- Definition -- Introduction -- The North Wind in London -- Critical Reception -- Cross-References -- References -- Atget and Marville, Photographers of Paris -- Atget´s Legacy -- Charles Marville -- Atget -- References -- Athens -- Athens and Travel Literature -- Synonyms -- Introduction -- Name and Myth -- History -- Early Modern Travelers and the Reemergence of Athens -- Travelers and Tourists in Nineteenth-Century Athens -- ``Belated Wayfarers´´ in Twentieth-Century Athens -- Conclusion -- References -- Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter -- Aura -- Australian Literature -- Austria-Hungary -- Autobiografiction -- Autobiography -- B -- Bakhtin -- Bakhtin and Cities: Petersburg, Paris, and Rome -- Bakhtin: Biography -- Bakhtin and Dostoevsky. Rabelais and His World -- City Squares and the Chronotope -- Bibliography and Further Reading -- Baldwin, James: Multisensorial Spaces of Harlem, New York -- Harlem in James Baldwin´s Oeuvre -- Cross-sensory Awareness in ``Previous Condition´´ -- Multisensorial Harlem in Little Man, Little Man -- References -- Balzac -- Balzac´s Life -- Introductory: On Reading Balzac -- The Comédie Humaine -- Reading the Comédie Humaine -- Balzac´s Paris -- La Peau de Chagrin -- Balzac the Realist -- Cross-References -- References -- Balzac: Cousin Pons -- Synonyms -- Introduction -- The Plot -- Writing the Text -- Paris and Cousin Pons -- Paris Slums -- Cross-References -- References -- Balzac: Cousin Bette -- References -- Balzac: Le Père Goriot (Father Goriot) -- Synonyms -- References -- Balzac: Splendeurs et Misères des Courtisanes -- Synonyms -- Definition -- Prostitution -- References -- Balzac: The History of the Thirteen (Historie des Treize) -- Synonyms -- Ferragus -- La Fille aux Yeux d´Or -- References -- Barnes, Djuna -- Synonyms -- Definition -- Introduction: Urban Spaces -- Some Biography -- New York - Greenwich Village Bohemia -- Paris and the American Expatriates -- Cross-References -- References -- Barney Simon as Director, Writer, and Animator -- Barney Simon´s Johannesburg -- Synonyms -- Introduction/Definition -- Early Collaborations -- Writing and Directing the Inner City -- Simon, the Market Theatre, and Johannesburg -- Cross-References -- References -- Further Reading -- Baroque -- Baroque Venice -- Definition -- Introduction -- Cross-References -- References -- Barthes -- Basic English -- Bathos and Parodic Contrast -- Baudelaire -- Baudelaire and Benjamin: `Le vin des chiffonniers´ -- Synonyms -- Definition -- Le vin des chiffonniers -- Cross-References -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Baudelaire: Life -- Life Before Les Fleurs du Mal. Writings -- Life Continued: Brussels, and Death -- References -- Baudelaire: The Painter of Modern Life -- Beauty, Fashion, and Happiness -- Artist, Man of the World, Man of Crowds, and Child -- La Modernité -- The Dandy and Women -- ``Les Femmes et les Filles´´ -- References -- Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal -- Synonyms -- A Post-Theological, Post-Romantic Aesthetics -- Haussmann´s Paris -- ``Tableaux Parisiens´´ -- Humanity, Immorality, and Empathy -- Bibliography -- Be´er Sheva as Periphery -- Be´er-Sheva as a `Third Space´ -- Be´er-Sheva in Shulamit Lapid´s Lizzie Badii Series -- Synonyms -- Definition -- Introduction -- The City of Be´er-Sheva -- The Landscape of Be´er-Sheva in the Novels -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References -- Be´er-Sheva the Capital of the Negev -- Beau Brummell -- Beijing: A Cultural History -- Ji City: The beginning of Beijing -- Youzhou City: Between Chinese and Nomads -- Nanjing and Zhongdu: Becoming a Capital -- Dadu: Established Capital of All China -- Under Chinese Ming Dynasty -- Under Manchu Qing Dynasty -- Ming and Qing Traditions -- Modern Upheavals -- Rejuvenation by Westernization -- Beijing Dialect and Language Reforms -- Under the People´s Republic of China (the PRC) -- Bibliography -- Beijing: City and Film -- Beginning -- Arts -- Trades and Lifestyles -- The City -- Beijingers, Old Vs. New -- An Open Ending -- References -- Belfast -- Ben Okri: The Famished Road -- The Famished Road -- Reading Okri -- Bibliography -- Benjamin, Surrealism, and Paris -- Synonyms -- Introduction to Surrealism -- ``Dreamkitsch´´ -- Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia -- Technology and Revolution -- References -- Benjamin, Walter -- Synonyms -- References -- Benjamin, Walter, Siegfried Kraucauer, T.W. Adorno, and Companions Writing the City -- Synonyms -- Flaneuring on the Asphalt. A Neapolitan Light -- Books and Cities -- Bibliography -- Benjamin, Walter: Berlin Childhood Around 1900 -- Synonyms -- Definition -- Introduction: Benjamin and Berlin -- A Berlin Chronicle -- ``Berlin Childhood Around 1900´´: 1938 -- Berlin Childhood Around 1900-1934 Version -- Cross-References -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Berdychev -- Berlin -- Berlin Alexanderplatz -- Introduction -- The Author -- The Novel: Origins -- Structure -- Plot/Story -- Narrative Technique -- The City as Text -- Reception/Adaptation -- References -- Further Reading -- Berlin: An Overview -- Introduction -- Myths of the City -- History -- Modern Berlin -- Topography -- Hoffmann and ``My Co Corner Window´´ -- Berlin´s Writers -- East and West Berlin in Memory -- References -- Further Reading -- Bezmozgis -- Bilingualism -- The Billboard Community: The Visual Culture of Seoul and Its Multiplicity -- Introduction -- Ganpan as a Form of Life -- The Scholarship of Signage in Korea and Beyond -- Design Seoul: The Practice of Signage from the Outside -- The City of the Bang: On the Multiplicity of Signage -- References -- Biography -- Birmingham as ``Composite Monster´´: Roy Fisher´s City (1961) -- Planner-Preservationist Contexts -- Modernism and Urban Space -- ``A Composite Monster´´: Unifying the City -- Public and Private Cities -- Conclusion -- References -- Bleak House -- Synonyms -- Definition -- Cross-References -- References -- Bollywood -- Book Illustration -- Book Trade -- Border Crossing -- Borders -- Borges and Buenos Aires: Creating Place from Space in Poetry and Prose -- Introduction -- Buenos Aires in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Immigration and Cultural Change -- The City Center Versus the Outskirts -- The Urban Space -- A Sense of Belonging -- Early Images of Buenos Aires in Borges´s Writing. Borges in Short Fiction Related to Space, Place, and Buenos Aires. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910624393103321 |
Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Paris as revolution : writing the nineteenth-century city / / Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Ferguson Priscilla Parkhurst |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1994 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 261 p. ) : ill. ; |
Disciplina | 843/.709324436 |
Soggetto topico |
French literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Politics and literature - France - Paris - History - 19th century Literature and history - France - Paris - History - 19th century Revolutionary literature, French - History and criticism French literature - France - Paris - History and criticism City and town life in literature Cities and towns in literature Revolutions in literature |
ISBN | 0-585-17651-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910495891203321 |
Ferguson Priscilla Parkhurst | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1994 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Paysages urbains et mélancolie chez Orhan Pamuk : essai littéraire / / Maya Ombasic |
Autore | Ombasic Maya |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Paris : , : L'Harmattan, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (228 pages) |
Disciplina | 894.3533 |
Collana | Approches littéraires |
Soggetto topico |
Melancholy in literature
Cities and towns in literature |
ISBN |
2-336-77008-3
2-14-001772-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910155354103321 |
Ombasic Maya | ||
Paris : , : L'Harmattan, , [2016] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay / / Rashmi Varma |
Autore | Varma Rashmi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.93321732 |
Collana | Routledge research in postcolonial literatures |
Soggetto topico |
Cities and towns in literature
Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism Postcolonialism in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-44292-2
9786613442925 0-203-82781-3 1-136-80403-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Eccentric routes -- Different belongings -- Uncivil lines -- Situated solidarities. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457469403321 |
Varma Rashmi | ||
New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay / / Rashmi Varma |
Autore | Varma Rashmi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.93321732 |
Collana | Routledge research in postcolonial literatures |
Soggetto topico |
Cities and towns in literature
Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism Postcolonialism in literature |
ISBN |
1-136-80402-1
1-283-44292-2 9786613442925 0-203-82781-3 1-136-80403-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Eccentric routes -- Different belongings -- Uncivil lines -- Situated solidarities. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779051003321 |
Varma Rashmi | ||
New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay / / Rashmi Varma |
Autore | Varma Rashmi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.93321732 |
Collana | Routledge research in postcolonial literatures |
Soggetto topico |
Cities and towns in literature
Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism Postcolonialism in literature |
ISBN |
1-136-80402-1
1-283-44292-2 9786613442925 0-203-82781-3 1-136-80403-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Eccentric routes -- Different belongings -- Uncivil lines -- Situated solidarities. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816400103321 |
Varma Rashmi | ||
New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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