In Metropolis on the Styx, David L. Pike considers how underground
spaces and their many myths have organized ways of seeing, thinking
about, and living in the modern city. Expanding on the cultural
history of underground construction in his acclaimed previous book,
Subterranean Cities, Pike details the emergence of a vertical city
in the imagination of nineteenth-century Paris and London, a city
overseen by hosts of devils and undermined by subterranean
villains, a city whose ground level was replete with passages
between above and below. Metropolis on the Styx brings together a
rich variety of visual and written sources ranging from pulp
mysteries and movie serials to the poetry of Charles Baudelaire and
the novels of Marcel Proust, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Elinor Glyn
to the broadsheets and ephemera of everyday urban life. From these
materials, Pike conjures a working theory of modern underground
space that explains why our notions about urban environments remain
essentially nineteenth-century in character, even though cities
themselves have since changed almost beyond recognition.Highly
original in subject matter, methodology, and conclusions,
Metropolis on the Styx synthesizes a number of critical approaches,
periods of study, and disciplines in the analysis of a single
category of space the underground. Pike studies the built
environments and the textual and visual ephemera (including
little-known or unknown archival material) of Paris, London, and
other cities in conjunction with canonical modern literature and
art. This book integrates a rich visual component photographs,
movie stills, prints, engravings, paintings, cartoons, maps, and
drawings of actual and imagined subterranean spaces into the fabric
of the argument."
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(1)
(2)
