This is a lucid study of Walter Benjamin’s lifelong fascination with the city and forms of metropolitan experience, highlighting the relevance of Benjamin’s work to our contemporary understanding of modernity.
Innehållsförteckning
Acknowledgements.
List of Abbreviations.
Introduction.
1. Urban Images: From Ruins to Revolutions.
2. Urban Memories: Labyrinth and Childhood.
3. Dialectical Images: Paris and the Phantasmagoria of
Modernity.
4. Urban Allegories: Paris, Baudelaire and the Experience of
Modernity.
Conclusion.
Notes.
Biography.
Index.
Om författaren
Graeme Gilloch is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Salford. His research interests include contemporary social and cultural theory and visual culture.
Köp den här e-boken och få 1 till GRATIS!
Språk Engelska ● Formatera PDF ● Sidor 240 ● ISBN 9780745677323 ● Filstorlek 21.1 MB ● Utgivare John Wiley & Sons ● Publicerad 2014 ● Utgåva 1 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 3352419 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM
Kräver en DRM-kapabel e-läsare