A01=Mary Ann Caws
Author_Mary Ann Caws
brooklyn
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city representation theory
classic
crossing
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Du Mal
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ferry
interdisciplinary urban cultural analysis
Lambert Strether
landscape
Le Cygne
Le Spleen De Paris
Lemmy Caution
Les Chants De Maldoror
Les Fleurs Du Mal
literary modernism studies
long
Long Term Parking
Marianne Moore
Martin Chuzzlewit
MIAMI
Miami Vice
Modern Woman Writer
Napoleon III
narrative space analysis
National Library
PARIS
parking
Pastoral Images
Prose Poems
Repo Men
Side Walk
spatial theory
Superb
Tableaux Parisiens
term
urban phenomenology
urban semiotics
virginia
woolf
Work Specific Studies
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9782881244643
- Weight: 362g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Oct 1991
- Publisher: Gordon & Breach Science Publishers SA
- Publication City/Country: NL
- Product Form: Paperback
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First Published in 1991. Knowing any real city, and still more so, knowing what it is to know a city, may be as much about passive as about active experience. What we read in the field-that field of the city in all its bizarre mixture of culture and nature-is bound to determine, to some non-fictional extent, what we know of it, what we imagine it could be, what we fear it may be, or become. These essays are meant to be, albeit in their critical mode, the recountings of knowing something through something else: they are the projected imagination, through reading, of the reading by the self and/or others (a wide range of each) of a city, or cities as such, of what city-knowing or city-thinking is. The city as stage, market, and labyrinth, variously trafficked and aestheticized, dreamt and politicized, as passionately written by authors from Cicero to Kazin, from Wordsworth, Dickens, Whitman, and Woolf, to Williams, Ashbery, and Bonnefoy, is the place the essays play themselves out, through architecture and metaphor.
Mary Ann Caws Graduate School City University of New York
