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Cities, Words and Images

From Poe to Scorsese

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. Patrizia Lombardo

    1. University of Geneva, Switzerland

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Part of the book series: Language, Discourse, Society (LDS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Edgar Allan Poe: The Domain of Artifice

    • Patrizia Lombardo
    Pages 1-45

  3. Van Gogh and Hofmannsthal: Colours and Silence

    • Patrizia Lombardo
    Pages 46-61

  4. Baudelaire, Haussmann, Fustel de Coulanges: The Modern Metropolis and the Ancient City

    • Patrizia Lombardo
    Pages 62-79

  5. Trieste as Frontier: From Slataper to Bazlen and Del Giudice

    • Patrizia Lombardo
    Pages 80-95

  6. Aldo Rossi: The White Walls of the City

    • Patrizia Lombardo
    Pages 96-107

  7. Massimo Cacciari and the Philosophy of the City

    • Patrizia Lombardo
    Pages 108-149

  8. Absence and Revelation: Photography as the Art of Nostalgia

    • Patrizia Lombardo
    Pages 150-173

  9. The Image versus the Visible: From Baudelaire’s The Painter of Modern Life to David Lynch’s Lost Highway

    • Patrizia Lombardo
    Pages 174-185

  10. Martin Scorsese and the Rhythm of the Metropolis

    • Patrizia Lombardo
    Pages 186-215

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 216-251
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About this book

The city is an essential theme of modernity in literature, architecture, photography and film. This book first focuses on ardent reactions to the metropolitan explosion in the nineteenth century, with Baudelaire and Poe as key figures. More recent representations of the city are then investigated, in Europe and the United States. Lombardo reflects on the way in which the changes in human perception created by urbanization are expressed in the various arts, in terms of form and content.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Geneva, Switzerland

    Patrizia Lombardo

About the author

PATRIZIA LOMBARDO teaches French, Film, and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She is the author of The Three Paradoxes of Roland Barthes and numerous articles in Critique and Critical Quarterly.

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