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The City As Anthology
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Author : Kathryn Babayan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-03-12
The City As Anthology written by Kathryn Babayan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-12 with categories.
"This book offers an exploration of Isfahan through the lens of seventeenth-century anthologies, referred to in Persian as majmu'a and muraqqa', literally a "gathering together" or "patch-work." Thousands of these visual and literary anthologies assembled everyday texts and objects, ranging from portraits, letters from friends, and poems depicting public spaces to marriage contracts and talismans. An urban medium of communication, the anthology was a new kind of book--and one, Babayan argues, that can be read as a collection of city life and an artifact of urbanization. The seventeenth century was a key period in Isfahan, as the city was becoming a cosmopolitan center of imperial rule and global trade. This transformative moment provides a unique context from which to investigate the crafting of urban, religious, and sexual selves and communities, and the anthologies a unique source to bring people's lives into view for a city with no extant state or city archives"--
The City As Anthology
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Author : Kathryn Babayan
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2021-04-06
The City As Anthology written by Kathryn Babayan and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-06 with History categories.
Household anthologies of seventeenth-century Isfahan collected everyday texts and objects, from portraits, letters, and poems to marriage contracts and talismans. With these family collections, Kathryn Babayan tells a new history of the city at the transformative moment it became a cosmopolitan center of imperial rule. Bringing into view people's lives from a city with no extant state or civic archives, Babayan reimagines the archive of anthologies to recover how residents shaped their communities and crafted their urban, religious, and sexual selves. Babayan highlights eight residents—from king to widow, painter to religious scholar, poet to bureaucrat—who anthologized their city, writing their engagements with friends and family, divulging the many dimensions of the social, cultural, and religious spheres of life in Isfahan. Through them, we see the gestures, manners, and sensibilities of a shared culture that configured their relations and negotiated the lines between friendship and eroticism. These entangled acts of seeing and reading, desiring and writing converge to fashion the refined urban self through the sensual and the sexual—and give us a new and enticing view of the city of Isfahan.
Debating The City
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Author : Jennifer Barrett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Debating The City written by Jennifer Barrett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Architecture and society categories.
What makes a city worth living in? Leading architects, art and social historians, geographers, shopping mall designers and cultural planners explore a range of issues about our urban environment in DEBATING THE CITY.
No Other City
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Author : Alvin Pang
language : en
Publisher: Pagesetters Services Pte Ltd
Release Date : 2000
No Other City written by Alvin Pang and has been published by Pagesetters Services Pte Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Singapore categories.
Paper Cities
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Author : Ekaterina Sedia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Paper Cities written by Ekaterina Sedia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fantasy fiction categories.
The city has always been a place of mystery, of magic, and wonder. In cities past, present, and future, in metropoli real and imagined, meet mutilated warrior women, dead boys, mechanical dogs, escape artists and more. From the dizzying heights of rooftops and spires to the sinister secrets of underpasses and gutters, some of the most talented authors writing today will take you on a trip through the urban fantastic. Edited by Ekaterina Sedia, author of The Secret History of Moscow and the forthcoming Alchemy of Stone.
The Soul Of The City
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1923
The Soul Of The City written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1923 with American poetry categories.
An Edo Anthology
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Author : Sumie Jones
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2013-02-28
An Edo Anthology written by Sumie Jones and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
During the eighteenth century, Edo (today’s Tokyo) became the world’s largest city, quickly surpassing London and Paris. Its rapidly expanding population and flourishing economy encouraged the development of a thriving popular culture. Innovative and ambitious young authors and artists soon began to look beyond the established categories of poetry, drama, and prose, banding together to invent completely new literary forms that focused on the fun and charm of Edo. Their writings were sometimes witty, wild, and bawdy, and other times sensitive, wise, and polished. Now some of these high spirited works, celebrating the rapid changes, extraordinary events, and scandalous news of the day, have been collected in an accessible volume highlighting the city life of Edo. Edo’s urban consumers demanded visual presentations and performances in all genres. Novelties such as books with text and art on the same page were highly sought after, as were kabuki plays and the polychrome prints that often shared the same themes, characters, and even jokes. Popular interest in sex and entertainment focused attention on the theatre district and “pleasure quarters,” which became the chief backdrops for the literature and arts of the period. Gesaku, or “playful writing,” invented in the mid-eighteenth century, satirized the government and samurai behavior while parodying the classics. These entertaining new styles bred genres that appealed to the masses. Among the bestsellers were lengthy serialized heroic epics, revenge dramas, ghost and monster stories, romantic melodramas, and comedies that featured common folk. An Edo Anthology offers distinctive and engaging examples of this broad range of genres and media. It includes both well-known masterpieces and unusual examples from the city’s counterculture, some popular with intellectuals, others with wider appeal. Some of the translations presented here are the first available in English and many are based on first editions. In bringing together these important and expertly translated Edo texts in a single volume, this collection will be warmly welcomed by students and interested readers of Japanese literature and popular culture.
Common Lines And City Spaces
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Author : Gui Weihsin
language : en
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Release Date : 2014-11-07
Common Lines And City Spaces written by Gui Weihsin and has been published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of essays on the Singaporean writer and artist Arthur Yap is dedicated to his multifaceted creative work and makes it accessible to both general and academic readers. It features new and innovative essays on Yap's prose, poetry and paintings by an international group of scholars and critics. The essays approach Yap's work through literary and analytical methods drawn from postcolonial criticism, ecocriticism, studies of urban spaces, visual art and sexuality, with particular consideration for how his work contributes to a specifically Singaporean form of postcolonial critique.
The City
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Author : Davis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-09-25
The City written by Davis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-25 with categories.
City Improbable
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Author : Khushwant Singh
language : en
Publisher: Viking Adult
Release Date : 2001
City Improbable written by Khushwant Singh and has been published by Viking Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Contributed articles on history and social life of Delhi, India.