Los Angeles As Postmodern Space
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Los Angeles As Postmodern Space
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Author : Markus Widmer
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2008-11
Los Angeles As Postmodern Space written by Markus Widmer and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Essay from the year 1998 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1 (A), University of Aberdeen (English Department), course: Read the City - Read the Text, 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Edward W. Soja called Los Angeles 'the quintessential postmodern metropolis'. This, however, shall not be the premise of my argument in this essay, because of the obvious danger of circularity. Yet I will use postmodern critics and compare my findings to postmodern models of culture, space and society. I will not discuss the term postmodernism itself, simply because the range of this essay does not allow my entering this ongoing debate. The term will be used as denoting both a period, beginning, for my purposes, in the 1960s, and a theory of cultural tendencies in contemporary life. For this essay, I will assume that postmodernism is a fact, a part of everyday reality, and that it differs substantially from modernism. The main body of this essay will consist of a discussion of the fundamental factors which define Los Angeles as postmodern space. I will focus on particularities that distinguish Los Angeles from other cities, most of all from those which have not yet crossed the threshold of postmodernity. Firstly, I will investigate the geographical instability of the city; the fact that it is threatened to be annihilated by natural forces such as earthquakes and the desert. Secondly, I will address the idea of the city as a desert, its horizontality, its vastness, its lack of centre. Thirdly, the structure on this flat surface will be addressed; the freeways as an arterial network, and the structure of segregating walls, both literal and metaphorical. Finally, I will conclude by investigating the parallels between the idea of instability that underlies all of the factors I discuss, and the notion of the unstable in postmodernism.
Los Angeles As Postmodern Space
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Author : Markus Widmer
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2003-06-30
Los Angeles As Postmodern Space written by Markus Widmer and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-30 with Literary Collections categories.
Essay from the year 1998 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1 (A), University of Aberdeen (English Department), course: Read the City - Read the Text, language: English, abstract: Edward W. Soja called Los Angeles ‘the quintessential postmodern metropolis’. This, however, shall not be the premise of my argument in this essay, because of the obvious danger of circularity. Yet I will use postmodern critics and compare my findings to postmodern models of culture, space and society. I will not discuss the term postmodernism itself, simply because the range of this essay does not allow my entering this ongoing debate. The term will be used as denoting both a period, beginning, for my purposes, in the 1960s, and a theory of cultural tendencies in contemporary life. For this essay, I will assume that postmodernism is a fact, a part of everyday reality, and that it differs substantially from modernism. The main body of this essay will consist of a discussion of the fundamental factors which define Los Angeles as postmodern space. I will focus on particularities that distinguish Los Angeles from other cities, most of all from those which have not yet crossed the threshold of postmodernity. Firstly, I will investigate the geographical instability of the city; the fact that it is threatened to be annihilated by natural forces such as earthquakes and the desert. Secondly, I will address the idea of the city as a desert, its horizontality, its vastness, its lack of centre. Thirdly, the structure on this flat surface will be addressed; the freeways as an arterial network, and the structure of segregating walls, both literal and metaphorical. Finally, I will conclude by investigating the parallels between the idea of instability that underlies all of the factors I discuss, and the notion of the unstable in postmodernism.
Postmodern Studies
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Postmodern Studies written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literature, Modern categories.
Worlds In Collision Angela Carter S Heterotopia
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Author : Eliza Claudia Filimon
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2013-10-01
Worlds In Collision Angela Carter S Heterotopia written by Eliza Claudia Filimon and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2009 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: magna cum laudae, , course: English Literature, Film Studies, language: English, abstract: Angela Carter’s work is a collage of discourses and genres tackling such issues as identity construction, marginality, myth as foundation of ideology, fluidity of boundaries. Her playful intertextual allusions to literature, psychology, politics and popular culture are infused with irony and wit, and the challenge of finding a critical framework complex and accurate enough by which to study her work has remained, since no classification seems to do her justice. My solution in this study is to move away from the urge to approach her works according to literary frames, to a discussion informed by a different metaphor, denoting enigmatic spaces, conterdiscourses, borders of otherness – heterotopia. My looking-glass examines five novels out of nine, five short stories out of thirty-five, as well as Carter’s two film adaptations. I have condensed her rich patchwork of stories, characters and techniques into a term extricated from its medical and geographical roots, befitting the rich intertextuality of her themes, her interest in boundaries between fact and fiction, margins and centres, or the interplay between sacred and profane. The concept of heterotopia emphasizes the ambiguity, as well as the dialogic interaction of Carter’s often discordant discourses. The spectacular and the pragmatic threads of her texts, framed by extreme seriousness and witty humour, have delighted and offended readers, consequently maintaining Carter’s literary and cinematic montage at the top of the literary canon, as the present study will show.
Modernity And Postmodern Culture
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Author : Jim McGuigan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Modernity And Postmodern Culture written by Jim McGuigan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Civilization, Modern categories.
Urban Space And Representation
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Author : Maria Balshaw
language : en
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Release Date : 2000
Urban Space And Representation written by Maria Balshaw and has been published by Pluto Press (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Architecture categories.
An innovative and interdisciplinary collection of new work on the forms and meanings of the modern city in literary, film and cultural studies.
Modernity Space And Power
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Author : Katharine Tehranian
language : en
Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ)
Release Date : 1995
Modernity Space And Power written by Katharine Tehranian and has been published by Hampton Press (NJ) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Architecture categories.
The central argument of this volume is that modernity, space, power and the urban discourse are intimately linked. It seeks to understand the parameters of the planning discourse in terms of the impact of varieties of ideas and practices of city planning.
Tourism By Design
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Author : Gregory Bernard Christopher Shaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Tourism By Design written by Gregory Bernard Christopher Shaw and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Historic Preservation The Imagined West
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Author : Judy Mattivi Morley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Historic Preservation The Imagined West written by Judy Mattivi Morley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Architecture categories.
She draws on extensive interviews, city council proceedings, and historic plats and photographs to construct a detailed picture of how these districts originally looked and were used, how they were renovated, and to what ends they were marketed."
Postmodernism And The Other
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Author : Ziauddin Sardar
language : en
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Release Date : 1998
Postmodernism And The Other written by Ziauddin Sardar and has been published by Pluto Press (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
'[A] critique of postmodernism - and an important...provocative book.' --Labour Left Briefing