Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity: Pedestrian Mobility in Literature and the Arts

ISBN-13: 9781349930869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 331 str.

Klaus Benesch;Francois Specq

Opis

This book gathers together an array of international scholars, critics, and artists concerned with the issue of walking as a theme in modern literature, philosophy, and the arts. Covering a wide array of authors and media from eighteenth-century fiction writers and travelers to contemporary film, digital art, and artists' books, the essays collected here take a broad literary and cultural approach to the art of walking, which has received considerable interest due to the burgeoning field of mobility studies. Contributors demonstrate how walking, far from constituting a simplistic, naive, or transparent cultural script, allows for complex visions and reinterpretations of a human's relation to modernity, introducing us to a world of many different and changing realities.

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Table of contents

 

Klaus Benesch and François Specq

Modern(s) Walking: An Introduction

 

Part I. Poetics

 

Emmanuelle Peraldo

Walking the streets of London in the eighteenth century: a performative art?

 

Juliette Fabre.

Musing, Painting & Writing: Walking as an Art in Diderot’s Promenade Vernet

(Salon de 1767)

 

Estelle Murail

 “Du croisement de leurs innombrables rapports”: Baudelaire and De Quincey’s flâneurs

 

Thomas Pughe

How Poetry Comes to Him: An Excursion to Gary Snyder’s Wild Poetics

 

Lacy Rumsey

Revisiting the American “walk poem”: A.R. Ammons, Charles Olson, and Jonathan Williams

 

 

Part II. Performance

 

Isabelle Baudino

Marianne Colston’s Art of Walking: Gendering the Picturesque in Journal of a Tour in France, Switzerland, and Italy

 

Bridget Sheridan

Following Footprints: photography, writing and the artist’s book in art walking

 

Gabrielle Finnane

Wayfaring in the Megacity: Tsai Ming Liang’s Walker and Lav Diaz’s Melancholia

 

Tatiana Pogossian

The Art of Walking in Space and Time:

the Quest for London

 

Andrew Goodman

Walking with the world: towards an ecological approach to performative art practice

 

 

Part III. Pathology

 

Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

The Art of Walking and the Mindscapes of Trauma in Thomas De Quincey’s Autobiographical Works: The Pains of Wandering, the Pains of Remembering

 

Sarah Mombert

Writing Dromomania in the Romantic Era: Nerval, Collins and Charlotte Brontë

 

Catherine M. Welter

A Juggernaut in the Streets of London: Walking as Destructive Force

in R.L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

 

Amélie Moisy

Thomas Wolfe and the urban night prowl: walking, modernism and myth

 

Sophie Walon

Existential wanderings in Gus Van Sant's “Walking Trilogy”: Gerry, Elephant, and Last Days

 

 

 

Part IV. Politics

 

Julien Nègre

Perambulating the village: Henry David Thoreau and the politics of “Walking”

 

Virginia Ricard

Walking in Wartime: Edith Wharton’s “The Look of Paris”

 

Andrew S. Gross

Pound, Peripatetic Verse, and the Postwar Liberal Aesthetic

 

Marie Mianowski

The art of the ‘good step’ in Colm Tóibín’s Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border (1987)

 

Andrew Estes

Walking and Technology in the Fiction of Jennifer Egan: Moving towards the Posthuman

Notes on Contributors

 

Bibliography

 

Index

O autorze

Klaus Benesch is Professor of English and American Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. He is the author of Romantic Cyborgs: Authorship and Technology in the American Renaissance.

 

François Specq is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France.

Blurb

This book gathers together an array of international scholars, critics, and artists concerned with the issue of walking as a theme in modern literature, philosophy, and the arts. Covering a wide array of authors and media from eighteenth-century fiction writers and travelers to contemporary film, digital art, and artists’ books, the essays collected here take a broad literary and cultural approach to the art of walking, which has received considerable interest due to the burgeoning field of mobility studies. Contributors demonstrate how walking, far from constituting a simplistic, naïve, or transparent cultural script, allows for complex visions and reinterpretations of a human’s relation to modernity, introducing us to a world of many different and changing realities.