The City as Performance : the Contemporary American Novel and the Power of the Senses.
- Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource (288 pages)
- American Studies - A Monograph Series ; v. 288 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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 Flānerie, 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 Flānerie; 5 Hearing the City; 5.1 Architectures of Sound 5.2 Homer and Langley: Aural Flānerie5.3 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 Flānerie; 7.5 Gimme the Money: A Psychogeography of New York 8 By Way of Conclusion: Synecdoche, New YorkBibliography; Backcover
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Cities and towns in literature. American literature--Themes, motives.--20th century American literature--Themes, motives.--21st century