Streetwalking the Metropolis : Women, the City and Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Streetwalking the Metropolis : Women, the City and Modernity write by Deborah L. Parsons. This book was released on 2000-03-02. Streetwalking the Metropolis : Women, the City and Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Can there be a flaneuse, and what form might she take? This is the central question of Streetwalking the Metropolis, an important contribution to ongoing debates on the city and modernity in which Deborah Parsons re-draws the gendered map of urban modernism. Assessing the cultural and literary history of the concept of the flaneur, the urban observer/writer traditionally gendered as masculine, the author advances critical space for the discussion of a female 'flaneuse', focused around a range of women writers from the 1880's to World War Two. Cutting across period boundaries, this wide-ranging study offers stimulating accounts of works by writers including Amy Levy, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, Rosamund Lehmann, Jean Rhys, Janet Flanner, Djuna Barnes, Anais Nin, Elizabeth Bowen and Doris Lessing, highlighting women's changing relationship with the social and psychic spaces of the city, and drawing attention to the ways in which the perceptions and experiences of the street are translated into the dynamics of literary texts.
Globalization, Modernity and the City
Globalization, Modernity and the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Globalization, Modernity and the City write by John Rennie Short. This book was released on 2013-03-01. Globalization, Modernity and the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We live in a world of big cities. Urbanization, globalization and modernization have received considerable attention but rarely are the connections and relations between them the subjects of similar attention. Cities are an integral part of the network of globalization and important sites of modernization. Globalization, Modernity and The City weaves together broad social themes with detailed urban analysis to explore the connections between the rise of big cities, the creation of a global network and the making of the modern world. It explains the growth of big cities, the urban bias of global flows and the creation of metropolitan modernities. The text develops broad theories of the subtle and complex interactions between urbanization, globalization and modernization in a sweep of the urban experience across the globe. Thematic chapters explore the making of the modern city in profiles of the growth of urban spectaculars, the role of flanerie, the traffic issues of the modernist city, recurring issues of urban utopias and the rise of the primate city. Detailed case studies are drawn from cities in Australia, China and the USA. Urban snapshots of cities such as Atlanta, Barcelona, Istanbul, Mumbai and Seoul provide a truly global coverage. The book links together broad social themes with deep urban analysis. This well-written, accessible and illustrated text will appeal to the broad audience of all those interested in the urban present and the metropolitan future.
Woolf and the City
Woolf and the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Woolf and the City write by Elizabeth F. Evans. This book was released on 2010-09-01. Woolf and the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Edited collection from acclaimed contemporary Woolf scholars, focusing on urban issues. These include addressing the ethical and political implications of Virginia Woolf’s work, a move that suggests new insights into Woolf as a “real world” social critic.
Women's Experience of Modernity, 1875-1945
Women's Experience of Modernity, 1875-1945 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women's Experience of Modernity, 1875-1945 write by Leslie W. Lewis. This book was released on 2003-01-27. Women's Experience of Modernity, 1875-1945 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analyzing such cultural practices as selling and shopping, political and social activism, urban field work and rural labor, radical discourses on feminine sexuality, and literary and artistic experimentation, this volume contributes to the rich vein of current feminist scholarship on the "gender of modernism" and challenges the assumption that modernism rose naturally or inevitably to the forefront of the cultural landscape at the turn of the twentieth century.".
Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity
Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity write by Peta Mitchell. This book was released on 2013-01-11. Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The last fifty years have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of the figure of the map in critical, theoretical, and fictional discourse. References to mapping and cartography are endemic in poststructuralist theory, and, similarly, geographically and culturally diverse authors of twentieth-century fiction seem fixated upon mapping. While the map metaphor has been employed for centuries to highlight issues of textual representation and epistemology, the map metaphor itself has undergone a transformation in the postmodern era. This metamorphosis draws together poststructuralist conceptualizations of epistemology, textuality, cartography, and metaphor, and signals a shift away from modernist preoccupations with temporality and objectivity to a postmodern pragmatics of spatiality and subjectivity. Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity charts this metamorphosis of cartographic metaphor, and argues that the ongoing reworking of the map metaphor renders it a formative and performative metaphor of postmodernity.
