Spatial Practices – serie
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31 produkter
Tales of Berlin in American Literature up to the 21st Century
Inbunden, 2016
2914 kr
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Of all European cities, Americans today are perhaps most curious about Berlin, whose position in the American imagination is an essential component of nineteenth-century, postwar and contemporary transatlantic imagology. Over various periods, Berlin has been a tenuous space for American claims to …
English Topographies in Literature and Culture
Space, Place, and Identity
Inbunden, 2016
2272 kr
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English Topographies in Literature and Culture takes a spatial approach to the study of English culture. In order to gain a fresh perspective on constructions of English cultural identity, the collection treats geography, social spaces and spatial practices as well as representations of space and …
London post-2010 in British Literature and Culture
Inbunden, 2017
2201 kr
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London post-2010 in British Literature and Culture explores cultural and literary representations of London since around 2010 and focuses on a period in which a string of celebratory national and global media events, but also riots and anti-capitalist protests have cemented London’s status as a …
Writing London and the Thames Estuary
1576-2016
Av Len Platt
Inbunden, 2017
2201 kr
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Writing London and the Thames Estuary is an ambitious study of place and identity which resonates deeply against the troubled politics of contemporaneity. Drawing on a broad range of cultural materials including novels, film, theatre, tourist literature, topography, chorology and sociological …
Resistance and the City
Challenging Urban Space
Inbunden, 2018
2150 kr
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The essays collected in this volume unfold a panorama of urban phenomena of resistance that reach from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, thus revealing the essential vulnerability of urban space to all forms of subversion. Taking their readers to diverse places and moments in history, …
Negotiating Space in Latin America
Inbunden, 2019
2148 kr
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Winner of the 2020 “Outstanding Academic Title” Award, created by Choice Magazine.In Negotiating Space in Latin America, edited by Patricia Vilches, contributors approach spatial practices from multidisciplinary angles. Drawing on cultural studies, film studies, gender studies, geography, history, …
Picturing America
Photography and the Sense of Place
Inbunden, 2018
2301 kr
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Picturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place argues that photography is a prevalent practice of making American places. Its collected essays epitomize not only how pictures situate us in a specific place, but also how they create a sense of such mutable place-worlds. Understanding …
Artistic Reconfigurations of Rome
An Alternative Guide to the Eternal City, 1989-2014
Inbunden, 2019
2186 kr
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In Artistic Reconfigurations of Rome Kaspar Thormod examines how visions of Rome manifest themselves in artworks produced by international artists who have stayed at the city’s foreign academies. Structured as an alternative guide to Rome, the book represents an interdisciplinary approach to …
Timescapes of Waiting
Spaces of Stasis, Delay and Deferral
Inbunden, 2019
1944 kr
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Timescapes of Waiting explores the intersections of temporality and space by examining various manifestations of spatial (im-)mobility. The individual articles approach these spaces from a variety of academic perspectives – including the realms of history, architecture, law and literary and …
Reading(s) / across / Borders
Studies in Anglophone Borders Criticism
Av Ciaran Ross
Inbunden, 2020
2117 kr
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This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the relevance of borders and bordering as a spatial paradigm in Anglophone studies. It sets out to provide a critical counter-narrative to the 1990s globalization argument of a “borderless” world by insisting on the significant roles …
Literary Invention and the Cartographic Imagination
Early Modern to Late Modern
Av Monika Szuba
Inbunden, 2022
2086 kr
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Literary Invention and the Cartographic Imagination: Early Modern to Late Modern is a wide-ranging, inter- and transdisciplinary approach grounded in the twin rigors of theory and history, which, through close readings of authors from Edmund Spenser to Olga Tokarczuk, and through considered …
Modern Architecture, Empire, and Race in Fascist Italy
Inbunden, 2021
2429 kr
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In Modern Architecture, Empire, and Race in Fascist Italy, Brian L. McLaren examines the architecture of the late-Fascist era in relation to the various racial constructs that emerged following the occupation of Ethiopia in 1936 and intensified during the wartime. This study is conducted through a …
Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture
Central Europe and the West
Av Ágnes Györke
Inbunden, 2020
2129 kr
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Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture opens a dialogue between the literary and filmic works produced in Central Europe and in the Anglophone world. It relies on the concept of translocality to explore this corpus, offering new readings of contemporary Hungarian films …
Negotiating Institutional Heritage and Wellbeing
Inbunden, 2021
1787 kr
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The Spatial Practices series is premised on the observation that places are inscribed with cultural meaning, not least of all in terms of collective constructions of identity. Such space-based constructions can manifest in material and immaterial, explicit and implicit forms of heritage, and they …
Pictorial Photography and the American West, 1900-1950
The Broad Movement
Inbunden, 2022
2086 kr
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This book is an investigation of the widely overlooked photographic style of pictorialism in the American West between 1900 and 1950 and argues that western pictorialist photographers were regionalists that had their roots in the formidable photographic heritage of the nineteenth-century West. …
Cultural Construction of Hidden Spaces
Essays on Pockets, Pouches and Secret Drawers
Av James Brown
Inbunden, 2024
2094 kr
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This essay collection focuses on enclosure, deception and secrecy in three spatial areas – the body, clothing and furniture. It contributes to the study of private life and explores the micro-history of hidden spaces. The contents of pockets may prove a surer index to their owner’s real thoughts …
Walls and Cultural Spaces
An Exploration of Historical, Literary and Conceptual Barriers
Inbunden, 2025
1986 kr
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This volume focuses on “walls” in cultural as much as material terms. It uncovers far-reaching notions of wall and border as landmarks of civilisation, but also as (necessary) boundaries for creativity. Barriers can separate human and non-human identities, but they can also segregate the “rejects” …
Inside Out
Women negotiating, subverting, appropriating public and private space
Inbunden, 2008
1953 kr
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The incursions of women into areas from which they had been traditionally excluded, together with the literary representations of their attempts to negotiate, subvert and appropriate these forbidden spaces, is the underlying theme that unites this collection of essays. Here scholars from Australia, …
Cultural Construction of London’s East End
Urban Iconography, Modernity and the Spatialisation of Englishness
Av Paul Newland
Häftad, 2008
1874 kr
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Paul Newland’s illuminating study explores the ways in which London’s East End has been constituted in a wide variety of texts – films, novels, poetry, television shows, newspapers and journals. Newland argues that an idea or image of the East End, which developed during the late nineteenth …
Poetics and Politics of the Desert
Landscape and the Construction of America
Inbunden, 2009
1928 kr
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This study explores the ways in which the desert, as topographical space and cultural presence, shaped and reshaped concepts and images of America. Once a territory outside the geopolitical and cultural borders of the United States, the deserts of the West and Southwest have since emerged as …
Space in Theory
Kristeva, Foucault, Deleuze
Häftad, 2009
1644 kr
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Space in Theory: Kristeva, Foucault, Deleuze seeks to give a detailed but succinct overview of the role of spatial reflection in three of the most influential French critical thinkers of recent decades. It proposes a step-by-step analysis of the changing place of space in their theories, focussing …
Roads of Her Own
Gendered Space and Mobility in American Women’s Road Narratives, 1970-2000
Inbunden, 2009
2044 kr
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Reading Jack Kerouac’s classic On the Road through Virginia Woolf’s canonical A Room of One’s Own, the author of this book examines a genre in North American literature which, despite its popularity, has received little attention in literary and cultural criticism: women’s road narratives. The …
Futurescapes
Space in Utopian and Science Fiction Discourses
Inbunden, 2009
1996 kr
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This book testifies to the growing interest in the many spaces of utopia. It intends to ‘map out’ on utopian and science-fiction discourses some of the new and revisionist models of spatial analysis applied in Literary and Cultural Studies in recent years. The aim of the volume is to side-step the …
Process
Landscape and Text
Häftad, 2010
2158 kr
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While the relationship between place and creative effort has been the focus of pronounced new interest in various disciplines, the contours and co-ordinates of the process by which one informs the other, by which landscape shapes text and vice versa, have yet to be delineated in any systematic …
Land & Identity
Theory, Memory, and Practice
Häftad, 2012
1698 kr
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This collection of essays aims to investigate the complex issues surrounding contemporary cultural discourses on land and identity – their production, construction, and reconstruction across a range of different texts and materials. The chapters offer disciplinary and trans-disciplinary approaches …
Topodynamics of Arrival
Essays on Self and Pilgrimage
Inbunden, 2012
1405 kr
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Travelling is the art of motion, motion results in moments of human encountering, and such moments manifest themselves in unsettling linguistic repercussions and crises of meaning. Places of arrival also function as inscriptions of such meaningful repercussions, inscriptions of the past crossing …
Placing Poetry
Av Ian Davidson
Häftad, 2013
2021 kr
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The essays in this volume present a thorough re-evaluation of the idea of place for the twenty-first century, linking across theoretical interests in space and spatialisation and in motion and mobility. ‘Placing’ becomes an active process that happens in different parts of the world, and there is …
Cormac McCarthy and the Writing of American Spaces
Häftad, 2013
1501 kr
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In Cormac McCarthy and the Writing of American Spaces Andrew Estes examines ideas about the land as they emerge in the later fiction of this important contemporary author. McCarthy's texts are shown to be part of larger narratives about American environments. Against the backdrop of the emerging …
Perspectives on Mobility
Häftad, 2013
1501 kr
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Literature as cultural discourse has always courted mobility. From the nomadic wanderings of the heroes of Homer and Virgil through the adventures of the medieval knight-errants to the travellers of modern times, movement and mobility have been constitutive elements of story-telling. Since writers …
Navigating Cultural Spaces: Maritime Places
Häftad, 2014
1631 kr
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Abstract space becomes concrete place by being bound to individual and historical experience. Sea and coast – in texts from antiquity to the present mostly seen as mere spaces of transit and division between geographical places – are hotly contested topographical phenomena, which instigate the …
