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“beth muellner”

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  • Trains, Literature, and Culture

    Reading and Writing the Rails

    by Beth Muellner, Beth Muellner, Alessio Lerro, Claudie Massicotte, Claudia May, Scott Palmer, Matt Thompson, Michael Velez, Roxanna Curto0 ...
    Trains, Literature and Culture: Reading and Writing the Rails delves into the rich connections between rail travel and the creation of cultural products from short stories to novels, from photographs to travel guides, and from artistic manifestos of the avant-garde to Freud’s psychology. Each of the contributions engages in critical readings of textual or visual representations of trains across a ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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    Edited by Rachel DeLue, James Elkins ...
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    Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from these multiple disciplines to establish new ways of thinking about landscape in art. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Expo 67

    Not Just a Souvenir

    Edited by Johanne Sloan, Rhona Richman Kenneally ...
    Expo 67, the world's fair held in Montreal during the summer of 1967, brought architecture, art, design, and technology together into a glittering modern package. Heralding the ideal city of the future to its visitors, the Expo site was perceived by critics as a laboratory for urban and architectural design as well as for cultural exchange, intended to enhance global understanding and ... Read more

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  • Translating Montreal

    Episodes in the Life of a Divided City

    by Sherry Simon ...
    Translating Montreal follows the trajectories of adventurous cultural translators such as Malcolm Reid, F.R. Scott, and A.M. Klein - pioneers of the 1950s and 1960s - Pierre Anctil, whose translations from Yiddish to French are emblematic of the dramatic reroutings now occurring across the Montreal landscape, and contemporary writer-translators such as Gail Scott, Erin Mouré, Jacques Brault, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Thinking About Exhibitions

    by Bruce W. Ferguson, Reesa Greenberg, Sandy Nairne ...
    An anthology of writings on exhibition practice from artists, critics, curators and art historians plus artist-curators. It addresses the contradictions posed by museum and gallery sited exhibitions, as well as investigating the challenge of staging art presentations, displays or performances, in settings outside of traditional museum or gallery locales. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Predicament of Culture

    Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art

    by James Clifford ...
    The Predicament of Culture is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, James Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be contingent fictions, now actively contested in post-colonial contexts. His critique raises questions ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Contemporary Mise en Scène

    Staging Theatre Today

    by Patrice Pavis ...
    Translated by Joel Anderson ...
    ‘We have good reason to be wary of mise en scène, but that is all the more reason to question this wariness ... it seems that images from a performance come back to haunt us, as if to prolong and transform our experience as spectators, as if to force us to rethink the event, to return to our pleasure or our terror.’ – Patrice Pavis, from the forewordContemporary Mise en Scène is Patrice Pavis’s ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Urban Enigmas

    Montreal, Toronto, and the Problem of Comparing Cities

    by Johanne Sloan ...
    Series Book 2 - Culture of Cities Series
    Contributors, part of the collaborative research project The Culture of Cities: Montreal, Toronto, Dublin, and Berlin, address theoretical and methodological aspects of comparison, while case-studies examine the mutually constituted identities of Montreal and Toronto through examples of travel writing, public art, film festivals, theatrical performances, diasporic communities, ethnic festivals, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Claude Lévi-Strauss

    The Father of Modern Anthropology

    by Patrick Wilcken ...
    When Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away in 2009 at age 100, France celebrated the life and contributions of not only a preeminent anthropologist, but one of the defining intellectuals of the 20th century. Just as Freud had shaken up the antiquarian discipline of psychiatry, so had Lévi-Strauss revolutionized anthropology, transforming it from the colonial-era study of “exotic” tribes to one consumed ... Read more

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  • The Flaneur (RLE Social Theory)

    by Keith Tester ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
    Timely and original, this collection of essays from the leading figures in their fields throws new and valuable light on the significance and future of flânerie. The flâneur is usually identified as the ‘man of the crowd’ of Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Baudelaire, and as one of the heroes of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. The flâneur’s activities of strolling and loitering are mentioned ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Urban Cinematics

    Understanding Urban Phenomena through the Moving Image

    by Andong Lu ...
    François Penz is an architect and a teacher in the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art at the University of Cambridge.Andong Lu is a research associate at the University of Cambridge. ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Intimate Metropolis

    Urban Subjects in the Modern City

    Edited by Vittoria Di Palma, Diana Periton, Marina Lathouri ...
    Intimate Metropolis explores connections between the modern city, its architecture, and its citizens, by questioning traditional conceptualizations of public and private.Rather than focusing purely on public spaces—such as streets, cafés, gardens, or department stores—or on the domestic sphere, the book investigates those spaces and practices that engage both the urban and the domestic, the public ... Read more

    $79.99 USD