The essays in this collection discuss how the city is 'textualized', and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, and about, cities. They demonstrate how urban texts and images provoke reactions, in city-dwellers, visitors, civic and political actors, that, in turn, impact upon the shape of the city itself. Many kinds of urban texts - both manuscript and print - are discussed, including chapbooks, periodicals, poetry, graffiti and street-signs. The essays derive from a range of disciplines ...
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The essays in this collection discuss how the city is 'textualized', and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, and about, cities. They demonstrate how urban texts and images provoke reactions, in city-dwellers, visitors, civic and political actors, that, in turn, impact upon the shape of the city itself. Many kinds of urban texts - both manuscript and print - are discussed, including chapbooks, periodicals, poetry, graffiti and street-signs. The essays derive from a range of disciplines including book history, urban history, cultural history, literary studies, art history and urban planning, and explore some key questions in urban cultural history, including the relationship between text, image and the city; the function of the text or image within an urban environment; how urban texts and images have been used by those in positions of power and by those with little or no power; the ways in which urban identity and values have been reflected in 'street literature', graffiti and subversive texts and images; and whether theories of urban space can help us to understand the relationship between text, image and the city. As such, this volume will serve to enhance the reader's understanding of the nature of urbanism from a historical perspective, the creation and representation of urban space, and the processes of urbanization. It investigates how the creation, distribution and consumption of urban texts and images actively affect the shaping of the city itself - a mutually constitutive process whereby text, image and city create and sustain each other.
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Fine in near fine jacket. Black & white illustrations. xv, 172 pages. Slim 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering at the spine, pictorial d.w. (small area of damage on spine from removed sticker). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (2017). A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. With essays by Caroline Archer, Jack Mockford, Rathna Ramanathan, Rosa Smurra, Daliah Bond, and Geraldine Marshall.
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