Unreal city : urban experience in modern European literature and art / edited by Edward Timms and David Kelley.

Title & Author:

Unreal city : urban experience in modern European literature and art / edited by Edward Timms and David Kelley.

Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1985.

Description:

vi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Unreal city-theme and variations / Edward Timms -- Metropolis and the emergence of modernism / Raymond William -- Nineteenth-century Paris : vision and nightmare / Peter Collier -- City in painting / Frank Whitford -- Mechanical millenium : Sant'Elia and the poetry of Futurism / Judy Davies -- Defeat and rebirth : the city poetry of Apollinaire / David Kelley -- Rilke's Paris -- cité pleine de reves / Naomi Segal -- Expressionists and Georgians : demonic city and enchanted village / Edwards Timms -- Occupied city : Ostaijen's Antwerp and the impact of the First World War / Elsa Strietman -- Eliot, Pound, Joyce : unreal city? / Michael Long -- Petersburg -- Moscow -- Petropolis / Jana Howlett -- Asphalt jungle : Brecht and German poetry of the 1920s / David Midgley -- City in early cinema : Metropolis, Berlin and October / Michael Minden -- Surrealist city narrative : Breton and Aragon / Peter Collier -- Lorca : poet in New York / Alison Sinclair -- Musil's Vienna and Kafka's Prague : the quest for a spiritual city / Edward Timms.
English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

ISBN:

0312833482
9780312833480

Subject:

Cities and towns in art.
Arts, European 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Europe History 20th century.
Cities and towns in literature.
Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism.
Arts européens 20e siècle.
Arts, European
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Kunst
Literatur
Stadt
Geschichte (1890-1930)
Europe
Europa

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Timms, Edward, editor, writer of introduction.
Kelley, David, 1941-1999, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 182012
Call No.: ID:85-B17823
Status: Available

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