
Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2016
ISBN (Hardback): 9781137602824
Full citation:
Klaus Benesch, François Specq (eds), Walking and the aesthetics of modernity, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
Walking and the aesthetics of modernity
Contents
Musing, painting, and writing
walking as an art in Diderot's promenade vernet (salon de 1767)
Juliette Fabre
15-28
"Du croisement de leurs innombrables rapports"
Baudelaire and De Quincey's flâneurs
Estelle Murail
29-41
Revisiting the American "walk poem"
A. R. Ammons, Charles Olson, and Jonathan Williams
Lacy Rumsey
63-81
Marianne Colston's art of walking
gendering the picturesque in journal of a tour in France, Switzerland, and Italy
Isabelle Baudino
85-98
Following footprints
photography, writing, and the artist's book in art walking
Bridget Sheridan
99-114
Wayfaring in the megacity
Tsai Ming-liang's Walker and Lav Diaz's Melancholia
Gabrielle Finnane
115-127
Walking with the world
toward an ecological approach to performative art practice
Andrew Goodman
141-154
The art of walking and the mindscapes of trauma in Thomas De Quincey's autobiographical works
the pains of wandering, the pains of remembering
Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay
157-171
A juggernaut in the Streets of London
walking as destructive force in R. L. Stevenson's Strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde
Catherine M. Welter
187-196
Existential wanderings in Gus van Sant's "Walking trilogy"
Gerry, Elephant, and Last days
Sophie Walon
213-226
The art of the "good step" in Colm Tóibín's Bad blood
a walk along the Irish border (1987)
Marie Mianowski
267-277
Walking and technology in the fiction of Jennifer Egan
moving toward the posthuman
Andrew Estes
279-295