Cities and Literature

ISBN-13: 9781138219533 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 226 str.

Malcolm Miles

Opis

This book offers a critical introduction to the relation between cities and fiction, poetry and literary criticism from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It examines examples of writing from Europe, North America and post-colonial countries.

O autorze

Malcolm Miles is a researcher and writer on critical theories of culture and society, urbanism and contemporary art. Among his publications are Cities and Culture (2007), Limits to Culture (2015), Eco-Aesthetics: art, literature and architecture in a period of climate change (2014) and Herbert Marcuse: an aesthetics of liberation (2011). He retired as Professor of Cultural Theory in the Architecture School, University of Plymouth, UK, in 2016.