Title Spatial turns : space, place, and mobility in German literary and visual culture / edited by Jaimey Fisher and Barbara Mennel

Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (469 pages) : illustrations Series Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik ; 75 Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik ; Bd. 75. Contents Jaimey Fisher and Barbara Mennel: Introduction -- Mapping Spaces -- Spaces of the Urban -- Spaces of Encounter -- Visualized Space Summary The phrase "spatial turns" signals the growing importance of space as an analytical as well as representational category for culture. The volume addresses such emerging modes of inquiry by bringing together, for the first time, essays that engage with spatial turns, spatiality, and the theoretical implications of both in the context of German culture, history, and theory. Migrating from fields like geography, urban studies, and architecture, the new centrality of space has transformed social-science fields as diverse as sociology, philosophy, and psychology. In cultural studies, productive analyses of space increasingly cut across the studies of literature, film, popular culture, and the visual arts. Spatial Turns brings together essays that apply a spatial analysis to German literature and other media and engages with specifically German theorizations of space by such figures as Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin. The volume is organized in four sections: "Mapping Spaces" addresses cartography in all forms and in its intersection with culture; "Spaces of the Urban" takes up one of the key sites of spatial studies, the city; "Spaces of Encounter" considers how Germany has become a contact zone for multiple ethnicities; and "Visualized Spaces" concerns the theorization of space in film and new media studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Illustrative passages in German Print version record Subject German literature -- History and criticism Space in literature. Cartography in literature. Setting (Literature) Place (Philosophy) in literature. Cities and towns in literature. Cities and towns in motion pictures. Motion pictures, German. Motion pictures -- Germany. Motion pictures -- Setting and scenery -- Germany Place (Philosophy) in art. setting (surroundings) LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German. Cartography in literature Cities and towns in literature Cities and towns in motion pictures Civilization Ethnic relations German literature Motion pictures Motion pictures, German Motion pictures -- Setting and scenery Place (Philosophy) in art Place (Philosophy) in literature Setting (Literature) Space in literature SUBJECT Germany -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054483 Germany -- Ethnic relations Subject Germany Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Fisher, Jaimey. Mennel, Barbara Caroline. ISBN 9789042030022 904203002X

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