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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

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PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGeneral Art

ISBN10: 1137602821
ISBN13: 9781137602824
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 14 2016
Pages: 331
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.96 Width: 6.09 Depth: 8.63
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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