After-images of the City

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Joan Ramon Resina, Dieter Ingenschay
Cornell University Press, 2003 - Architecture - 269 pages

Criticism on the textual and iconographic construction of the city is extensive, yet the problem of historical change in representations of "the urban" has received little attention. Believing traditional accounts are limited by their reflection of a specific historical moment, Joan Ramon Resina and Dieter Ingenschay focus, by contrast, on transition. In essays written for this volume, scholars of literary and visual studies, the history of architecture, cultural theory, and urban geography explore the ways perceptual or conceptual paradigms of the city supersede or replace others, while at the same time retaining the "after-image" of what went before.

The writers touch on a wide variety of issues related to contemporary urban cultures as they journey through cities including New York, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Tijuana, Berlin, and London. Drawing on the work of Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Camilo José Cela, Honoré de Balzac, and Alfred Stieglitz, their approach is broadly cultural rather than technical. After-Images of the City takes into account the intrinsic instability of the image and reveals that representations of the modern metropolis cannot be fixed in time and history.

 

Contents

The Concept of AfterImage and the Scopic
1
Illustrations
3
Balzacs Cartographic
23
Tomorrows Yesterday Future Images
49
Millennium Dome
53
The Image of an Empty Place
61
1
63
5
73
From Rose of Fire to City of Ivory
117
Images of Madrid before and
123
Images and AfterImages
139
Shadowtext for the Future
159
AfterImages of the New New York and
183
1
185
Flatiron postcards 1900s
191
The City Vanishes
209

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About the author (2003)

Joan Ramon Resina is Professor of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University; among his previous books is Iberian Cities, which he edited. Dieter Ingenschay is Professor of Hispanic Languages at Humboldt University of Berlin and the author of several books in German.

Bibliographic information

TitleAfter-images of the City
After-images of the City, Joan Ramon Resina
Cornell Paperbacks
EditorsJoan Ramon Resina, Dieter Ingenschay
Editionillustrated
PublisherCornell University Press, 2003
ISBN0801487897, 9780801487897
Length269 pages
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Architecture / Urban & Land Use Planning
History / Civilization
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General
Social Science / Demography
Social Science / Sociology / Urban
  
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