Writing The Memory Of The City
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Writing The Memory Of The City
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Author : Markus Mai
language : en
Publisher: Dokument Forlag
Release Date : 2007
Writing The Memory Of The City written by Markus Mai and has been published by Dokument Forlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Architecture categories.
Berlin has long been the capital of European graffiti. Here, theory and practice have met in rare fusion, driving development forward. Writing the Memory of the City offers a unique look at the creativity of 15 Berlin graffiti artists, presenting their thoughts, ideas and studies. Driven by their love of the organic city, these writers go through town in search of remote and hidden locations. This is urbanism as it has not been in evidence since Baudelaire's celebration of the city 150 years ago.
Prague Palimpsest
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Author : Alfred Thomas
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-10-15
Prague Palimpsest written by Alfred Thomas 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 2010-10-15 with History categories.
A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. Envisioning the ancient city in central Europe as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly revised and rewritten—from the medieval and Renaissance chroniclers who legitimized the city’s foundational origins to the modernists of the early twentieth century who established its reputation as the new capital of the avant-garde—Alfred Thomas argues that Prague has become a paradoxical site of inscription and effacement, of memory and forgetting, a utopian link to the prewar and pre-Holocaust European past and a dystopia of totalitarian amnesia. Considering a wide range of writers, including the city’s most famous son, Franz Kafka, Prague Palimpsest reassesses the work of poets and novelists such as Bohumil Hrabal, Milan Kundera, Gustav Meyrink, Jan Neruda, Vítĕzslav Nezval, and Rainer Maria Rilke and engages with other famous authors who “wrote” Prague, including Guillaume Apollinaire, Ingeborg Bachmann, Albert Camus, Paul Celan, and W. G. Sebald. The result is a comparative, interdisciplinary study that helps to explain why Prague—more than any other major European city—has haunted the cultural and political imagination of the West.
Memories Of Cities
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Author : Jonathan Charley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-22
Memories Of Cities written by Jonathan Charley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-22 with Architecture categories.
Memories of Cities is a collection of essays that explore different ways of writing about the political and economic history of the built environment. Drawing upon fiction and non-fiction, and illustrated by original photographs, the essays employ a variety of narrative forms including memoirs, letters, and diary entries. They take the reader on a journey to cities such as Glasgow, Paris, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Marseille, laying bare the contradictions of capitalist architectural and urban development, whilst simultaneously revealing alternative visions of how buildings and cities might be produced and organised.
The Memory Eaters
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Author : Elizabeth Kadetsky
language : en
Publisher: UMass + ORM
Release Date : 2020-03-31
The Memory Eaters written by Elizabeth Kadetsky and has been published by UMass + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-31 with Literary Collections categories.
On autopsy, the brain of an Alzheimer's patient can weigh as little as 30 percent of a healthy brain. The tissue grows porous. It is a sieve through which the past slips. As her mother loses her grasp on their shared history, Elizabeth Kadetsky sifts through boxes of the snapshots, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and notebooks that remain, hoping to uncover the memories that her mother is actively losing as her dementia progresses. These remnants offer the false yet beguiling suggestion that the past is easy to reconstruct—easy to hold. At turns lyrical, poignant, and alluring, The Memory Eaters tells the story of a family's cyclical and intergenerational incidents of trauma, secret-keeping, and forgetting in the context of 1970s and 1980s New York City. Moving from her parents' divorce to her mother's career as a Seventh Avenue fashion model and from her sister's addiction and homelessness to her own experiences with therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder, Kadetsky takes readers on a spiraling trip through memory, consciousness fractured by addiction and dementia, and a compulsion for the past salved by nostalgia.
Writing Bodies Moving Cities
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Author : J. E. Henneberg
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2013-04-04
Writing Bodies Moving Cities written by J. E. Henneberg and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-04 with Art categories.
This book explores the dialogue between city and self through a series of short texts. Analytical, argumentative, creative and poetic writing styles converge and contrast to imitate the various ways in which a person comes to know a city. In many ways cities represent and respond to identity making processes. Its geographical map can serve as an allegory for a place in time and a version of selfhood. Cities are themselves real and active entities with personalities and traits. Like people, they have their merits, faults, habits and quirks. The texts of this book attempt to locate the intersection of portraits of cities and portraits of human character.
Writing The History Of Memory
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Author : Stefan Berger
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-02-13
Writing The History Of Memory written by Stefan Berger and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-13 with History categories.
How objective are our history books? This addition to the Writing History series examines the critical role that memory plays in the writing of history. This book includes: - Essays from an international team of historians, bringing together analysis of forms of public history such as museums, exhibitions, memorials and speeches - Coverage of the ancient world to the present, on topics such as oral history and generational and collective memory - Two key case studies on Holocaust memorialisation and the memory of Communism
Tokyo
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Author : Barbara E. Thornbury
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2017-10-17
Tokyo written by Barbara E. Thornbury and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-17 with History categories.
Tokyo: Memory, Imagination, and the City is a collection of eight essays that explore Tokyo urban space from the perspective of memory in works of the imagination—novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and films. Written by scholars of Japanese studies based in England, Germany, Japan, and the United States, the book focuses on texts produced in Japan since the 1980s. The closing years of the Shōwa period (1926-1989) were a watershed decade of spatial transformation in Tokyo. It was also a time (in Japan, as elsewhere) when conversations about the nature of memory—historical, cultural, collective, and individual—intensified. The contributors to the volume share the view that works of the imagination are constitutive elements of how cities are experienced and perceived. Each of the essays responds to the growing interest in studies on Tokyo with a literary-cultural orientation.
Istanbul
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Author : Orhan Pamuk
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-07-21
Istanbul written by Orhan Pamuk and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-21 with Travel categories.
Istanbul, through the mind of its most celebrated writer ** PRE-ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK ** Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 'A declaration of love.' Sunday Times 'A fascinating read for anyone who has even the slightest acquaintance with this fabled bridge between east and west.' The Economist 'An irresistibly seductive book' Jan Morris, Guardian In a surprising and original blend of personal memoir and cultural history, Turkey's most celebrated novelist, Orhan Pamuk, explores his home of more than fifty years. What begins as a portrait of the artist as a young man becomes a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's greatest cities. Beginning in the family apartment building where he was born, and still lives, Pamuk uses his family secrets to show how they were typical of their time and place. He then guides us through Istanbul's monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways, and introduces us to the city's writers, artists and murderers. Like Joyce's Dublin and Borges' Buenos Aires, Pamuk's Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.
In Memory Of Memory
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Author : Maria Stepanova
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2021-02-09
In Memory Of Memory written by Maria Stepanova and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-09 with Literary Collections categories.
An exploration of life at the margins of history from one of Russia’s most exciting contemporary writers Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize Winner of the MLA Lois Roth Translation Award With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. In dialogue with writers like Roland Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, and Osip Mandelstam, In Memory of Memory is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a wonderfully soft-spoken, poetic voice. Dipping into various forms—essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue, and historical documents—Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory.
Writing The Modern City
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Author : Sarah Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-03-12
Writing The Modern City written by Sarah Edwards and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-12 with Architecture categories.
Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have represented cultural modernity, political idealism and architectural innovation. Writing the Modern City explores the diverse and fascinating relationships between literature, architecture and modernity and considers how they have shaped the world today. This collection of thirteen original essays examines the ways in which literature and architecture have shaped a range of recognisably ‘modern’ identities. It focuses on the cultural connections between prose narratives – the novel, short stories, autobiography, crime and science fiction – and a range of urban environments, from the city apartment and river to the colonial house and the utopian city. It explores how the themes of memory, nation and identity have been represented in both literary and architectural works in the aftermath of early twentieth-century conflict; how the cultural movements of modernism and postmodernism have affected notions of canonicity and genre in the creation of books and buildings; and how and why literary and architectural narratives are influenced by each other’s formal properties and styles. The book breaks new ground in its exclusive focus on modern narrative and urban space. The essays examine texts and spaces that have both unsettled traditional definitions of literature and architecture and reflected and shaped modern identities: sexual, domestic, professional and national. It is essential reading for students and researchers of literature, cultural studies, cultural geography, art history and architectural history.
