Cityscaping: Constructing and Modelling Images of the City

Published by De Gruyter 2015

Cityscaping

Constructing and Modelling Images of the City

Edited by: Therese Fuhrer , Felix Mundt and Jan Stenger

Volume 3 in the series Philologus. Supplemente / Philologus. Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110400960

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About this book

The term ‘cityscaping’ is here introduced to characterise the creative process through which the image of the city is created and represented in various media – text, film and artefacts. It thus turns attention away from built urban spaces and onto mental images of cities. One focus is on the question of which literary, visual and acoustic means prompt their recipients’ spatial imagination; another is to inquire into the semantics and functions that are ascribed to the image of a city as constructed in various media. The examples of ancient texts and works of art, and modern literature and films, are used to elucidate the artistic potential of images of the city and the techniques by which they are semanticised. With its interdisciplinary approach, the volume for the first time makes clear how strongly mental images of urban space, both ancient and modern, have been shaped by the techniques of their representation in media.

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T. Fuhrer, LMU Munich, F. Mundt, HU Berlin, J. Stenger, University of Glasgow.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Therese Fuhrer, Felix Mundt and Jan Stenger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Vergilian Cities Visions of Troy, Carthage and Rome Damien Nelis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Cityscaping in Propertius and the Elegists Alison Keith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Triumphal Milestones The equus maximus in foro and the Domitianic Project on the Palatine Hill Manuel Royo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
‚In jeder Stadt steckt ein großer Roman‘ Hypata – eine erzählte Stadt in Apuleius’ Metamorphosen Therese Fuhrer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Die Imagination der Stadt Rom bei Claudian Weibliche Allegorie und Herrscherlob Lydia Krollpfeifer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
The Soul and the City John Chrysostom’s Modelling of Urban Space Jan R. Stenger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Kartâgô in Heinrichs von Veldeke Eneasroman Maximilian Benz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Der Mensch, das Licht und die Stadt Rhetorische Theorie und Praxis antiker und humanistischer Städtebeschreibung Felix Mundt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Edward Gibbon and the City of Rome Catharine Edwards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Spiel mit der Tradition und Darstellung der Gegenwart in Le città invisibili von Italo Calvino Christian Rivoletti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Die erzählte Wahrnehmung der Großstadt im Kontext des modernen epischen Erzählens Zum doppelten Beginn von Alfred Döblins Berlin Alexanderplatz Katrin Dennerlein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Städtische Ikonographien, narrative Räume und filmische Geschichtsbilder in Gladiator und Rome Margrit Tröhler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
List of figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311

(Deutsch)

Languages: English, German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: All those interested in Classical Philology and Archaeology, Literary Studies, Media Science, History of Art, Urban Sociology
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 317
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 14
- Coloured Illustrations: 26
Keywords: Urban space; cityscape; ecphrasis; mental maps and images; referentiality; intertextuality

eBook

Published: May 19, 2015
ISBN: 9783110400960

Hardcover

Published: May 27, 2015
ISBN: 9783110376821