Perspectives on Mobility by Ingo Berensmeyer
Literature as cultural discourse has always courted mobility. From the nomadic wanderings of the heroes of Homer and Virgil through the adventures of the medieval knight-errants to the travellers of modern times, movement and mobility have been constitutive elements of story-telling. Since writers have begun to explore the experiential dimension of movement their texts have embraced the essential changeability and instability of ‘mobile worlds’. In this sense literature reflects and processes the transformative force of movement on the perception of the world and is part of the broader cultural discourses of mobility.From the 1936 film Night Mail to the rapid movements of the dime novel detective and the metaphorical coding of automobility in Futurist poetry, the essays in this volume offer new perspectives on the phenomenon of mobility at the intersection between the literary imagination and cultural experience. They explore movement as a decisive force of change in the history of modernity and show how literature in its representation of mobility simultaneously aims both to mirror and to grasp the phenomenon.
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Place-ing the Prison Officer
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Sea Change
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Reflective Landscapes of the Anglophone Countries
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Cormac McCarthy and the Writing of American Spaces
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Roads of Her Own
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Topodynamics of Arrival
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Thinking Northern
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Navigating Cultural Spaces: Maritime Places
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Reading(s) / across / Borders
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Picturing America
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Negotiating Space in Latin America
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Artistic Reconfigurations of Rome
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Modern Architecture, Empire, and Race in Fascist Italy
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Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture
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Resistance and the City
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Pictorial Photography and the American West, 1900-1950
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Timescapes of Waiting
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Negotiating Institutional Heritage and Wellbeing
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Literary Invention and the Cartographic Imagination
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Tales of Berlin in American Literature up to the 21st Century
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Placing Poetry
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The Poetics and Politics of the Desert
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English Topographies in Literature and Culture
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Futurescapes
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London post-2010 in British Literature and Culture
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Writing London and the Thames Estuary
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Space in Theory
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Process
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Page and Place
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Land & Identity
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Inside Out
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The Cultural Construction of London's East End
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The Cultural Construction of Hidden Spaces
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| ISBN 13 | 9789042037083 |
| ISBN 10 | 9042037083 |
| Title | Perspectives on Mobility |
| Author | Ingo Berensmeyer |
| Series | Spatial Practices |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Year published | 2013-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 233 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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