Trains, Literature, and Culture: Reading and Writing the Rails - Tapa dura

 
9780739165607: Trains, Literature, and Culture: Reading and Writing the Rails
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ISBN 10: 0739165607 ISBN 13: 9780739165607
Editorial: Lexington Books, 2011

Sinopsis

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 wide spectrum of time periods and traditions-from English and American to Mexican, West African and European literary cultures. By turns trope, metaphor, and emblem of technological progress, these textual and visual representations of the train serve at times to index racial and gender inequalities, to herald the arrival of a nation's independence, and at still others to evince the trauma of industrialization. In each instance, the figure of the train emerges as a complex narrative form engaged by artists who were "Reading & Writing the Rails" as a way of assessing the competing discursive investments of cultural modernity.

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Acerca del autor

Claudia May is program director and professor of reconciliation studies, and the executive director of the Center for Community Engaged Learning (CCEL) at Bethel University.

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Editorial
Lexington Books
Año de publicación
2011
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0739165607
ISBN 13 
9780739165607
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
230
Editor
Spalding Steven D., Fraser Benjamin
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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