Metropolis on the Styx - The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 18002001

Klappentext David L. Pike is Professor of Literature at American University. He is the author of Subterranean Cities: The World beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945 and Passage through Hell: Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds (winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities), both from Cornell. Zusammenfassung In Metropolis on the Styx, David L. Pike considers how underground spaces and their many myths have organized ways of seeing, thinking about, and living in the modern city. Expanding on the cultural history of underground construction in his acclaimed...

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• Authors: David L. Pike
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.10.2007
• EAN: 9780801473043
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-7304-3
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies