After-Images of the City
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Joan Ramon Resina (Contributor) Dieter Ingenschay (Contributor)
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Criticism on the textual and iconographic construction of the city is extensive, yet the problem of historical change in representations of "the urban" has received little attention. Believing traditional accounts are limited by their reflection of a specific historical moment, Joan Ramon Resina and Dieter Ingenschay focus, by contrast, on transition. In essays written for this volume, scholars of literary and visual studies, the history of architecture, cultural theory, and urban geography explore the ways perceptual or conceptual paradigms of the city supersede or replace others, while at the same time retaining the "after-image" of what went before.
The writers touch on a wide variety of issues related to contemporary urban cultures as they journey through cities including New York, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Tijuana, Berlin, and London. Drawing on the work of Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Camilo Jose Cela, Honore de Balzac, and Alfred Stieglitz, their approach is broadly cultural rather than technical. After-Images of the City takes into account the intrinsic instability of the image and reveals that representations of the modern metropolis cannot be fixed in time and history. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
About the Author
Joan Ramon Resina is Professor of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University; among his previous books is Iberian Cities, which he edited. Dieter Ingenschay is Professor of Hispanic Languages at Humboldt University of Berlin and the author of several books in German.
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- Contributor: Joan Ramon Resina
- Imprint: Cornell University Press
- ISBN13: 9780801487897
- Number of Pages: 304
- Packaged Dimensions: 155x235x18mm
- Packaged Weight: 454
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
- Release Date: 2003-02-04
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Joan Ramon Resina is Professor of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University; among his previous books is Iberian Cities, which he edited. Dieter Ingenschay is Professor of Hispanic Languages at Humboldt University of Berlin and the author of several books in German.
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