"The essays in this collection discuss how the city is 'textualized', and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, and about, cities. They demonstrate how urban texts and images provoke reactions, in city-dwellers, visitors, civic and political actors,...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Hinks, John, 1946- (HerausgeberIn), Armstrong, Catherine (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
Schlagworte:	City and town life in literature. Vie urbaine dans la littérature. Cultural studies. Literature & literary studies. History. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary. City and town life in literature
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	"The essays in this collection discuss how the city is 'textualized', and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, and about, cities. They demonstrate how urban texts and images provoke reactions, in city-dwellers, visitors, civic and political actors, that, in turn, impact upon the shape of the city itself. Many kinds of urban texts - both manuscript and print - are discussed, including chapbooks, periodicals, poetry, graffiti and street-signs. The essays derive from a range of disciplines including book history, urban history, cultural history, literary studies, art history and urban planning, and explore some key questions in urban cultural history, including the relationship between text, image and the city; the function of the text or image within an urban environment; how urban texts and images have been used by those in positions of power and by those with little or no power; the ways in which urban identity and values have been reflected in 'street literature', graffiti and subversive texts and images; and whether theories of urban space can help us to understand the relationship between text, image and the city. As such, this volume will serve to enhance the reader's understanding of the nature of urbanism from a historical perspective, the creation and representation of urban space, and the processes of urbanization. It investigates how the creation, distribution and consumption of urban texts and images actively affect the shaping of the city itself - a mutually constitutive process whereby text, image and city create and sustain each other."--Provided by publisher.
Beschreibung:	"A display of prints by Sarah Kirby, Leicester-based professional printmaker, formed an ideal backdrop to the workshop from which this volume sprang."
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xv, 172 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9781443879484 1443879487
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