Bright Light Big City Losing And Getting Lost In Postmodern New York
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Bright Light Big City Losing And Getting Lost In Postmodern New York
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Author : Kira Schneider
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-10-19
Bright Light Big City Losing And Getting Lost In Postmodern New York written by Kira Schneider and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-19 with categories.
Bright Light Big City Losing And Getting Lost In Postmodern New York
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Author : Kira Schneider
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2016-10-17
Bright Light Big City Losing And Getting Lost In Postmodern New York written by Kira Schneider and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-17 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,0, University of Cologne, language: English, abstract: The success of his debut novel "Bright Lights, Big City" brought Jay McInerney an astonishing amount of media coverage and an equivalent in book sales, but not much approval, let alone deeper analysis of his work, from critics and scholars. In fact, the hype that surrounded him and his fellow “brat-pack” writers is likely to have prevented any serious scholarly interest in this kind of new urban literature back in the day. “Bright Lights, Big City” was dismissed as a “yuppie bildungsroman- full of tortured self- searching and struggling- writer romance” (Young/Caveney 1992: 47) at first, without any considerable novelty or value. However, the enthusiasm of the large, young readership showed that there was something to McInerney’s novel that other novels did not offer- a setting and a language that were familiar and uncomplicated for them, but, at the same time, an account of relevant, postmodern issues that very well did concern the Bright Young Things of the 80s, but were usually seized in more elitist literature, and thus, eluded an audience that was ready for them to be taken up. This thesis attempts to perform a detailed analysis, starting with a brief description of the historical and cultural features of the setting and then proceeding to the interpretation of all important themes, motifs and symbols of the book in the context of postmodernism but also in general terms. Each chapter investigates the influence of a certain aspect of the protagonist’s life on his crisis, especially in how far one or the other led him to a life on the edge and to the loss of the self. In order to understand why, in the end, the protagonist has to “learn everything all over again” (BLBC 174) to get back on the right track, it is essential to point out the roles that Amanda- his opportunist model wife- his job in the fact checking department and the death of his mother played over time, and how drugs and Ray-Ban sunglasses seem to provide temporary solutions for the most acute of his troubles.
Between The World And Me
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Author : Ta-Nehisi Coates
language : en
Publisher: One World
Release Date : 2015-07-14
Between The World And Me written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and has been published by One World this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • New York • Newsday • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
Postmodernism Or The Cultural Logic Of Late Capitalism
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Author : Fredric Jameson
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1992-01-06
Postmodernism Or The Cultural Logic Of Late Capitalism written by Fredric Jameson and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.
The Walker
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Author : Matthew Beaumont
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2021-11-09
The Walker written by Matthew Beaumont and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
From Charles Dickens’ London to today’s megacities, a fascinating exploration of what urban walking tells us about modern life—for fans of Rebecca Solnit, Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City, and literary history. “A labyrinthine journey into the literature of walking and thinking,” as seen in the lives and works of Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Ray Bradbury, and other literary greats (Guardian). There is no such thing as a false step. Every time we walk we are going somewhere. Especially if we are going nowhere. Moving around the modern city is not a way of getting from A to B, but of understanding who and where we are. In a series of riveting intellectual rambles, Matthew Beaumont retraces episodes in the history of the walker since the mid-19th century. From Dickens’s insomniac night rambles to restless excursions through the faceless monuments of today’s neoliberal city, the act of walking is one of self-discovery and self-escape, of disappearances and secret subversions. Pacing stride for stride alongside literary amblers and thinkers such as Edgar Allan Poe, André Breton, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys and Ray Bradbury, Beaumont explores the relationship between the metropolis and its pedestrian life. Through these writings, Beaumont asks: Can you get lost in a crowd? What are the consequences of using your smartphone in the street? What differentiates the nocturnal metropolis from the city of daylight? What connects walking, philosophy and the big toe? And can we save the city—or ourselves—by taking to the pavement?
New York Magazine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995-01-30
New York Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-30 with categories.
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
New York Magazine
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995-08-07
New York Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-08-07 with categories.
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
New York Magazine
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989-01-16
New York Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01-16 with categories.
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
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Author : 班‧威爾森(BEN WILSON)
language : zh-CN
Publisher: 貓頭鷹出版社
Release Date : 2023-10-05
written by 班‧威爾森(BEN WILSON) and has been published by 貓頭鷹出版社 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-05 with History categories.
城市，是人類最巨大的成就，形塑人類的文明。 當2050年全球三分之二的人口居住在城市時，我們的城市生活將變成什麼模樣？ ◎本書已售出韓國、越南、巴西、荷蘭、德國、義大利、西班牙、俄羅斯等25國版權 ◎作者班‧威爾森曾榮獲毛姆文學獎 ◎譯者李易安曾獲台灣卓越新聞獎，並入圍亞洲出版協會（SOPA）新聞獎 從世界第一座城市烏魯克起始，帶你綜覽羅馬、巴格達、呂貝克、倫敦、洛杉磯、上海等26座城市的誕生與衰落、過去與未來，展示人類與城市共通的命運。 □適應氣候變遷的印度，5000年前就有沖水馬桶，普及率比現在還高！ □城市生活等同於享樂，喜歡沐浴的羅馬帝國，軍隊所到之處就是蓋浴場！ □「城」也戰爭，敗也戰爭，二戰後華沙市民只用了7年就恢復城市大部分的樣貌？ 我們天生就是「城市動物」 人類聚集一起的習性造就了城市生活。但在上個世紀，曾有人以洛杉磯郊區化為例，認為汽車與網路將能帶我們遠離城市，21世紀的Covid-19也讓我們以為遠離城市的時刻已然到來。但事實上，每一天都有20萬人移居都市，到了2050年大部分的人都將住在城市裡，我們終將難以過上遠離城囂的田居生活。 城市的超強適應力 今日我們面臨的氣候變遷、海平面上升等問題，以及過去兩年的疫病大流行，其實歷史上許多偉大城市都曾遭遇過。面對這些問題，本書作者認為正是匯聚高密度人口的城市，才能催生出創新迎接挑戰。比如19世紀的疫病流行，便促使土木工程、衛生措施和都市規劃的發展。且密集性的城市居住方式，也更能減少與大自然的衝突。透過向過去六千年的偉大城市學習，也許我們更能找到未來城市應該有的樣貌。 6000年來的偉大城市文明 城市的出現造就需求、激發創意，帶動文明的腳步。西元前4000年，世界第一座大城市烏魯克，因人口聚集而產生主管法律、稅收等行政管理階層，也有宗教性建築和先進的灌溉系統。西元前3000年的印度，因應河流改道與氣候變遷，城市居民建造了節水系統。堡壘頂部也有蓄水池，根據需求利用重力輸送到地勢較低的城區。這些發明也促使印度河流域的城市家家戶戶都有「沖水馬桶」。西元前1世紀的雅典為我們示範了人類歷史上成功城市的共有點，不斷移入的外來人口帶來創造與活力。西元1世紀羅馬城人口破百萬，6世紀起城市文明轉往亞洲發展，巴格達匯聚全世界的財富、美食還有知識，直到十三世紀遭蒙古人毀滅後，城市文明才轉由商業城鎮取代。而此時冉冉升起的呂貝克即是中世紀商業勢力凌駕政治權力的結果，也是後世新加坡與香港等商業中心的典範。 身處巨型城市的時代的我們 21世紀世界上最大的城市將是奈及利亞的拉哥斯，人口預計達到4000萬。這座1999年才發展起來的城市，目前由無數違章建築和數百萬生意人組成的微型經濟體運作著，也正以極快的速度讓我們見證人類從無到有建造城市的能力。進入巨型城市的時代，如何與自然環境共處，如何管理超級城市的生活成為現代人的課題。我們必須與過去數千年來的城市人一樣，以創造力和臨機應變生存下來，並對大環境作出回應。而人類六千年的城市史，便為我們示範了人類的下一步。 好評推薦 一項巍然的成就……閱讀這本書就像初次參觀一座令人振奮的城市，令人炫目又使人疲累，有時則兩者兼具。──《華爾街日報》 威爾遜帶領我們參觀了二十多個城市和數千年的歷史……本書是一個大膽的嘗試，引人入勝的閱讀之選。──《紐約時報書評》 這是一首對城市和國際化生活的頌歌……威爾遜是博學、有創意的文明史向導。──《時代》雜誌 歷史學家威爾遜做了廣泛的調查，探討過去六千年來城市的崛起如何塑造了人類歷史……他是一位和藹可親且博識的導遊，書中積累了許多引人入勝的知識和分析。坐在家中的讀者將受益匪淺，並感到愉悅。──《出版者周刊》 信息豐富且易於理解。對於尋求全球視野下世界各大城市影響的歷史和公共政策讀者而言，這本書非常有價值。──《圖書館期刊》 在本書中，威爾森提醒了我們，大都市的脆弱…….但他也出色地闡述了讓都市繁榮的力量。——《金融時報》 威爾森徘迴於多座城市之中，跨越了數十個世紀，將各種歷史數據、史料、軼事和藝術完美交織在這本書中。——《明星論壇報》
Photography
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Author : Mary Warner Marien
language : en
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Release Date : 2006
Photography written by Mary Warner Marien and has been published by Laurence King Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Photography categories.
Each of the eight chapters takes a period of up to forty years and examines the medium through the lenses of art, science, social science, travel, war, fashion, the mass media and individual practitioners.-Back Cover.