Trains, Literature, and Culture - 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 Trains, Literature, and Culture write by Steven D. Spalding. This book was released on 2012. Trains, Literature, and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Trains, literature and culture is the first work to thoroughly explore the railroad's connections with a full range of cultural discourses--including literature, visual art, music, graffiti, and television but also advertising, architecture, cell phones, and more ..."--Provided by publisher.
Transnational Railway Cultures
Transnational Railway Cultures - 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 Transnational Railway Cultures write by Benjamin Fraser. This book was released on 2021-10-15. Transnational Railway Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the advent of train travel, railways have compressed space and crossed national boundaries to become transnational icons, evoking hope, dread, progress, or obsolescence in different cultural domains. Spanning five continents and a diverse range of contexts, this collection offers an unprecedentedly broad survey of global representations of trains. From experimental novels to Hollywood blockbusters, the works studied here chart fascinating routes across a remarkably varied cultural landscape.
Trains, Literature, and Culture
Trains, Literature, and Culture - 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 Trains, Literature, and Culture write by . This book was released on 2012. Trains, Literature, and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Trains, literature and culture is the first work to thoroughly explore the railroad's connections with a full range of cultural discourses--including literature, visual art, music, graffiti, and television but also advertising, architecture, cell phones, and more ..."--Provided by publisher.
Trains, Culture, and Mobility
Trains, Culture, and Mobility - 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 Trains, Culture, and Mobility write by Benjamin Fraser. This book was released on 2012. Trains, Culture, and Mobility available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails goes beyond textual representations of rail travel to engage an impressive range of political, sociological and urban theory. Taken together, these essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility, and its salient relation to a number of cultural discourses. Incorporating traditionally marginal areas of cultural production such as graffiti, museums, architecture or even plunging into the social experience of travel inside the traincar itself, each essay constitutes an attempt to work from the act of riding the train toward questions of much larger significance. Crisscrossing cultures from the New World and Old, from East and West, these essays share a common preoccupation with the way in which trains and railway networks have mapped and re-mapped the contours of both cities and states in the modern period. Bringing together individual and large-scale social practices, this volume traces out the cultural implications of "Riding the Rails."
Railway Discourse
Railway Discourse - 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 Railway Discourse write by Esterino Adami. This book was released on 2019-01-15. Railway Discourse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume examines the train trope in a variety of cultural, literary and linguistic contexts, from contemporary crime fiction and dystopian graphic narratives to postcolonial railway travelogues, by employing a range of methods and frameworks. Situated within the “Discourse, Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics” collection, the book critically engages with significant areas such as discourse and narrative structure. Interpreting the railway as a powerful cultural and imaginary site in the English-speaking world that traverses a range of creative domains, this study explores the ways in which the train and its structures, symbols and metaphors are textually rendered and the type of stylistic effects they generate in readers. It introduces, frames and discusses the idea of railway discourse and focuses on specific case studies (The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, the graphic novel Snowpiercer and Monisha Rajesh’s Around India in 80 Trains). In particular, it considers how a compartment window can constrain, and shape, the point of view of a narrator, the way in which science fiction trains are conceptually imagined, and the intercultural implications of rail travel writing in India today. To analyse the role and meaning of the railway in these texts, and compare them with others, this work adopts and adapts analytical tools and critical concepts from the integration of different fields, such as stylistics and linguistics, postcolonial criticism and literary studies.
