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Isolarion : a different Oxford journey /
Isolarion takes its title from a type of fifteenth-century map that isolates an area in order to present it in detail, and thats just what James Attlee does here for Cowley Road in Oxford. The former site of a leper hospital, a workhouse, and a medieval well said to have miraculous healing powers, C...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.