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Culture on Two Wheels : The Bicycle in Literature and Film /
"Analyzes how print and visual texts of various kinds reflect, refract, and respond to the social and political significance of the bicycle from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present"--
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.