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Culture on two wheels : the bicycle in literature and film /
"Bicycles have more cultural identities than many realize, functioning not only as literal vehicles in a text but also as "vehicles" for that text's themes, ideas, and critiques. In the late nineteenth century the bicycle was seen as a way for the wealthy urban elite to reconnect...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Untitled; Foreword; Introduction: The Bicycle as Rolling Signifier; PART 1. BIKES IN LITERATURE; PART 2. BIKES IN FILM; Afterword: Form and History in the Bicycle Sculptures of Ai Weiwei; Contributors; Index; 1. Pilgrims on Wheels: The Pennells, F.W. Bockett, and Literary Cycle Travels; 2. From Charles Pratt to Mark Twain to Frank Norris: Horse versus Bicycle, Man versus Machine; 3." T he Face of the Bicyclist": Women's Cycling and the Altered Body in The Type- Writer Girl.
- 4. Bicycles and Warfare: The Effects of Excessive Mobility in H.G. Wells's The War in the Air5. Like a Furnace: Alfred Jarry's The Supermale, Doping, and the Limits of Positivism; 6. Albertine the Cyclist: A Queer Feminist Bicycle Ride through Proust's In Search of Lost Time; 7. The Existential Cyclist: Bicycles and Personal Responsibility in Simone de Beauvoir's The Blood of Others; 8. Communing with Machines: The Bicycle as a Figure of Symbolic Transgression in the Posthumanist Novels of Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien.
- 9. "Hi- Yo, Silver": The Bicycle in the Fiction of Stephen King10. "I'll Get You, My Pretty!": Bicycle Horror and the Abject Cyclicity of History; 11. Bicycles in Truffaut's Jules and Jim: Images of Emancipation and Repression; 12. We Hope, and We Lose Hope: The Postman's Bicycle in Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice; 13. Bicycle Borrowers after Neorealism: Global Nou- velo Cinema; 14. Breaking Away and Vital Materialism: Embodying Dreams of Social Mobility via the Bicycle Assemblage; 15. Beijing Bicycle: Desire, Identity, and the Wheels.