Entrée principale:

Attlee, James.

Titre et auteur:

Isolarion : a different Oxford journey / James Attlee.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Description:

xviii, 278 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
pt. 1. Embarkation -- Purification -- Of music and cannibalism -- Doing my part -- The melancholy pilgrim -- Bread and circuses -- Boucherie chatar -- Designated desire-lines: planning a new road -- Further purification of the pilgrim -- Enrobed -- Of love and jewels -- Behind the blue door (inside the private shop) -- From the literal to the allegorical and back -- Wittgenstein's lion and a Cappuccino Sea -- Virtual streets and gateways: the plans revisited -- Cosmonauts and coleslaw -- St. Edmund's Well and a faded warning -- pt. 2. -- Making do and getting by -- Egyptian vagabonds, afternoon men, and the Malus Genius of our nation -- Losing the key -- Bed-sits and Birardari -- What they think you can bear: football, religion, and nightmares on the Cowley Road -- Between two fires: pulling the dragon's teeth -- Melancholy, an American photographer, and the Irish writer -- Cowley Road calling -- Just less lucky -- Dreadlocks and rim-shots: Reggae at the Zodiac -- Of lepers, lunatics, and layabouts -- Dancing sand and Zum-Zum water -- Junior Jihad -- Of books and bitumen -- Carnival -- Returning to the source -- pt. 3. A journey in the Hinterland -- Into the furnace -- Blessings and tribulation -- A graveyard reborn -- Finding a clue -- Of bats and mutton curry -- Margaret's story -- A hidden pool -- The liquid kingdom -- The gateways close -- Of robots, wild rhubarb, and the new Oxford way -- Things fall apart: an ending of sorts.

Résumé:

Attlee investigates every aspect of the Cowley Road's appealingly eclectic culture, where halal shops jostle with craft jewellers and reggae clubs pulsate alongside churches. He is a guide who revels in the extraordinary embedded in the everyday.

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ISBN:

9780226030937 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226030938 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Sujet:

Attlee, James Homes and haunts Cowley (Oxfordshire, England)
Attlee, James.
Homes.
Manners and customs.
Cowley (Oxfordshire, England) Social life and customs 20th century.
England Cowley (Oxfordshire)

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 252994
Cote: BIB 182659
Statut: Disponible