Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity
Pedestrian Mobility in Literature and the Arts
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, History, Criticism, & Surveys, Art & Architecture, General Art, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
| Author: | ISBN: | 9781137603647 | |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US | Publication: | August 31, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | |
| ISBN: | 9781137603647 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Publication: | August 31, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
This book gathers together an array of international scholars, critics, and artists concerned with the issue of walking as a theme in modern literature, philosophy, and the arts. Covering a wide array of authors and media from eighteenth-century fiction writers and travelers to contemporary film, digital art, and artists’ books, the essays collected here take a broad literary and cultural approach to the art of walking, which has received considerable interest due to the burgeoning field of mobility studies. Contributors demonstrate how walking, far from constituting a simplistic, naïve, or transparent cultural script, allows for complex visions and reinterpretations of a human’s relation to modernity, introducing us to a world of many different and changing realities.
This book gathers together an array of international scholars, critics, and artists concerned with the issue of walking as a theme in modern literature, philosophy, and the arts. Covering a wide array of authors and media from eighteenth-century fiction writers and travelers to contemporary film, digital art, and artists’ books, the essays collected here take a broad literary and cultural approach to the art of walking, which has received considerable interest due to the burgeoning field of mobility studies. Contributors demonstrate how walking, far from constituting a simplistic, naïve, or transparent cultural script, allows for complex visions and reinterpretations of a human’s relation to modernity, introducing us to a world of many different and changing realities.
