"The papers collected in this volume are based on oral versions delivered at the conference "Cityscaping -- Constructing and Modelling Images of the City in Literature, Film, and Art", held at Dahlem, Berlin, on 4-6 October 2012"--Preface. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Therese Fuhrer, Felix Mundt and Jan Stenger -- Vergilian cities : Visions of Troy, Carthage and Rome / Damien Nelis -- Cityscaping in Propertius and the Elegists / Alison Keith -- Triumphal milestones : The equus maximus in foro and the Domitianic project on the Palatine Hill / Manuel Royo -- In jeder Stadt steckt ein grosser Roman : Hypata, eine erzählte Stadt in Apuleius' Metamorphosen / Therese Fuhrer -- Die Imagination der Stadt Rom bei Claudian : weibliche Allegorie und Herrscherlob / Lydia Krollpfeifer -- The soul and the city : John Chrysostom's modelling of urban space / Jan R. Stenger -- Kartâgô in Heinrichs von Veldeke Eneasroman / Maximilian Benz -- Der Mensch, das Licht und die Stadt : Rhetorische Theorie und Praxis antiker und humanistischer Städtebeschreibung / Felix Mundt -- Edward Gibbon and the City of Rome / Catharine Edwards -- Spiel mit der Tradition und Darstellung der Gegenwart in Le città invisibili von Italo Calvino / Christian Rivoletti -- Die erzählte Wahrnehmung der Großstadt im Kontext des modernen epischen Erzählens : Zum doppelten Beginn von Alfred Döblins Berlin Alexanderplatz / Katrin Dennerlein -- Städtische Ikonographien, narrative Räume und filmische Geschichtsbilder in Gladiator und Rome / Margrit Tröhler.
Summary:
"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"--Publisher's website.
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