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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, naive, 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.
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, naive, 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.
Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, The Methuen
Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights surveys and
analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical work
to emerge from America over the last fifty years. This
authoritative guide leads you through the work of 25 major
contemporary American playwrights, discussing more than 140 plays
in detail. Written by a team of 25 eminent international scholars,
each chapter provides: * a biographical introduction to the
playwright's work; * a survey and concise analysis of the writer's
most important plays; * a discussion of their style, dramaturgical
concerns and critical reception; * a bibliography of published
plays and a select list of critical works. Among the many Tony,
Obie and Pulitzer prize-winning playwrights included are Sam
Shepard, Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, August Wilson, Paula Vogel
and Neil LaBute. The abundance of work analysed enables fresh,
illuminating conclusions to be drawn about the development of
contemporary American playwriting.
Whether struggling in the wake of postindustrial decay or
reinventing themselves with new technologies and populations,
cities have once again moved to the center of intellectual and
political concern. Rethinking the American City brings together
leading scholars from a range of disciplines to examine an array of
topics that illuminate the past, present, and future of cities.
Rethinking the American City offers a lively and fascinating survey
of contemporary thinking about cities in a transnational context.
Utilizing an innovative format, each chapter opens with an iconic
image and includes a brief and provocative essay on a single topic
followed by an extended dialogue among all the essayists. Topics
range from energy use, design, and digital media to transportation
systems and housing to public art, urban ruins, and futurist
visions. By engaging with key contemporary concerns-public and
private space, sustainability, ethnic and racial divisions, and
technology-this volume illuminates how global society has imagined
American urban life. Contributors: Klaus Benesch, Dolores Hayden,
David M. Lubin, Malcolm McCullough, Jeffrey L. Meikle, David E.
Nye, Miles Orvell, Andrew Ross, Mabel O. Wilson, Albena Yaneva.
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