Signs And Cities
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Signs And Cities
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Author : Madhu Dubey
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2007-11-01
Signs And Cities written by Madhu Dubey and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-01 with Social Science categories.
Signs and Cities is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature. Dubey argues that for African-American studies, postmodernity best names a period, beginning in the early 1970s, marked by acute disenchantment with the promises of urban modernity and of print literacy. Dubey shows how black novelists from the last three decades have reconsidered the modern urban legacy and thus articulated a distinctly African-American strain of postmodernism. She argues that novelists such as Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Ishmael Reed, Sapphire, and John Edgar Wideman probe the disillusionment of urban modernity through repeated recourse to tropes of the book and scenes of reading and writing. Ultimately, she demonstrates that these writers view the book with profound ambivalence, construing it as an urban medium that cannot recapture the face-to-face communities assumed by oral and folk forms of expression.
Semiotic Approaches To Urban Space
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Author : Federico Bellentani
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2024-02-12
Semiotic Approaches To Urban Space written by Federico Bellentani and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-12 with Political Science categories.
This book outlines the future of semiotic research in the study of urban spaces, with chapters authored by leading scholars in the field. It offers thought-provoking explanations of semiotic theory, methodology and applications with the goal of exploring recently developed approaches to the interpretive aspects of urban space. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
Signs And Cities
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Author : Elizabeth Sewell
language : en
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 1968
Signs And Cities written by Elizabeth Sewell and has been published by Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with American poetry categories.
Poems with a Catholic focus and "Five Mississippi Poems, 1963-64."
Imagining Cities
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Author : Sallie Westwood
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
Imagining Cities written by Sallie Westwood and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Social Science categories.
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Tourists Signs And The City
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Author : Michelle M. Metro-Roland
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-24
Tourists Signs And The City written by Michelle M. Metro-Roland and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-24 with Business & Economics categories.
Drawing upon the literature of landscape geography, tourism studies, cultural studies, visual studies and philosophy, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban environments and tourists. This is a necessary prerequisite for cities as they make themselves into enticing destinations and compete for tourists' attention. It argues that tourists make sense of, and draw meaningful conclusions about, the places in which they tour based upon the interpretation of the signs or elements encountered within the built environment, elements such as graffiti and lamp posts. The writings of the American pragmatist Charles S. Peirce on interpretation provide the theoretical model for explaining the way in which mind and world, or thoughts and objects, result in tourists interacting with place. This theoretical framework elucidates three applied studies undertaken with foreign visitors to the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Based upon extensive ethnographic field work, these studies focus on tourists' interpretation of the urban landscape, with particular attention paid to the encounters with national culture, the role of architecture and the importance of the prosaic in urban tourism.
Cities Of Signs
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Author : Andrew T. Hickey
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 2012
Cities Of Signs written by Andrew T. Hickey and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Cities and towns categories.
Signs exist as fundamental markers of the urban landscape. Whether in the form of street signs offering directions, the airbrushed promises of advertising media or the vandalized détournements of street art, signs pervade urban spaces and provide a tangible 'text' upon which the logics of both cities and ourselves are written. Cities of Signs charts the way that signs exist as key elements of contemporary urban space, and explores what it means to live within these spaces, amongst cities of signs. This refreshing take on the way that urban space is lived and experienced is a timely contribution to the literature in urban studies, sociology and education alike. In decoding the cultural production at play in urban environments, Cities of Signs presents a dynamic approach to understanding how culture is produced and consumed within the cityscape.
Signs For The City Traveller
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Author : Russell P. Nystedt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Signs For The City Traveller written by Russell P. Nystedt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Civil engineering categories.
The City And The Sign
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Author : M. Gottdiener
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986-03-02
The City And The Sign written by M. Gottdiener and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-03-02 with categories.
Imagining Cities
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Author : Sallie Westwood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Imagining Cities written by Sallie Westwood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Cities and towns categories.
This book brings together some of the most recent and exciting work from within sociology and cultural studies. It examines urban theory, ethnic diversity and the politics of difference, nostalgia and memory and the image of the city.
Imagining Cities
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Author : Sallie Westwood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Imagining Cities written by Sallie Westwood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Cities and towns categories.