City Images: Perspectives from Literature, Philosophy and Film

by Mary Ann Caws

Book Overview

First Published in 1991. Knowing any real city, and still more so, knowing what it is to know a city, may be as much about passive as about active experience. What we read in the field-that field of the city in all its bizarre mixture of culture and nature-is bound to determine, to some non-fictional extent, what we know of it, what we imagine it could be, what we fear it may be, or become. These essays are meant to be, albeit in their critical mode,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2881244645
• ISBN13: 9782881244643
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"