The City as Performance : the Contemporary American Novel and the Power of the Senses

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Label

The City as Performance : the Contemporary American Novel and the Power of the Senses

Title remainder

the Contemporary American Novel and the Power of the Senses

Instantiates

• The City as Performance : the Contemporary American Novel and the Power of the Senses

Publication

• Heidelberg, Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018

Carrier category

online resource

Carrier category code

• cr

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

• Cover; Titel; Imprint; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 A Walk Through the City in Literature; 2.1 The City as Setting; 2.2 The City as Metaphor; 2.3 The City as Character; 2.4 The City as Text; 3 The City as Performance; 3.1 Exploring New Avenues; 3.2 The Spatial Turn; 3.3 The Sensory Turn; 3.4 Flânerie, or the Art of Walking; 3.5 Performing the City; 4 Touching the City; 4.1 Cosmopolis: The Failing Body; 4.2 Cosmopolis: States of Contiguity; 4.3 Lowboy: Contiguity Continued; 4.4 Lowboy: Subterranean Flânerie; 5 Hearing the City; 5.1 Architectures of Sound
• 5.2 Homer and Langley: Aural Flânerie5.3 Homer and Langley: Building New York; 5.4 Tropic of Orange: Manzanar Murakami, Conductor; 5.5 Tropic of Orange: A Transnational Symphony; 6 Smelling the City; 6.1 The Space of Smell; 6.2 Chronic City: Urban Simulacra; 6.3 Chronic City: Deconstructing New York; 6.4 Chronic City: A Whiff of the Real; 7 Seeing the City; 7.1 The Impossible Art of Seeing; 7.2 Open City: Blind Fields; 7.3 Open City: Travels into Urban Obscurity; 7.4 Gimme the Money: Motorized Flânerie; 7.5 Gimme the Money: A Psychogeography of New York
• 8 By Way of Conclusion: Synecdoche, New YorkBibliography; Backcover

Control code

1100037225

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unknown

Extent

1 online resource (288 pages)

Form of item

online

Isbn

9783825377762

Media category

computer

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• c

Record ID

.b137498020

Specific material designation

remote

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(OCoLC)1100037225