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Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity: Pedestrian Mobility in Literature and the Arts

Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity: Pedestrian Mobility in Literature and the Arts

Benesch, Klaus
Specq, François

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PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGeneral Art

ISBN10: 1349930865
ISBN13: 9781349930869
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Mar 27 2021
Pages: 331
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
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.

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