Walking and the aesthetics of modernity : pedestrian mobility in literature and the arts /: pedestrian mobility in literature and the arts. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Klaus Benesch, François Specq.
• Editors: Benesch, Klaus, 1958-; Specq, François, 1965-
• Contents: Table of contents 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 Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (331 pages)
• Subjects: 809.933579; Literature -- History and criticism; Walking in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137603647
• Related ISBNs: 9781137602824
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