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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Invisible Cities"”.
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Invisible Cities: Photographic Fictions of Architecture
<p>The artist's process in which she examines the built environment through the medium of black and white photography. By tracing the trajectory of her awareness of architecture from her early career as a dancer, to the making of photographic images, the artist illuminates the process of …
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Reconciling narrative spaces : conceptual blending in Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince and Calvino's Invisible Cities
… The Little Prince and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, the former a children's story and the latter a postmodern experimental work of fiction. While many narratologists and literary theorists focus on the destabilizing aspects of postmodern fiction and claim that it is "anti-narrative" …
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Desperate whispers : empathy in the context of an ecological crisis
In his text Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino (1974) describes the fictional city of Baucis, a land suspended in the clouds, in which humans maintain a purposeful and mysterious physical detachment from the earth. Calvino’s imagining of Baucis visualises a conceptualisation of humans as divorced from …
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The imperfect librarians: myth and resistance in Marcel Proust, Johannes V. Jensen, Virginia Woolf, and Jorge Luis Borges
… conclude by exploring Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities as the postmodern exemplar and successor to this kind of Modernist mythopoesis.
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Mobile limits and the limits of mobility in French representations of urban space
… detectives along the various limits of invisible cities in Michel Butor’s L’Emploi du temps and Christian Volckman’s Renaissance, demonstrating how the experience of these detectives reflects the literary and cinematic creative processes.
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Beyond the inferno : literary representations of New York City before and after 9/11
… conception of the 'infernal city' in his Invisible Cities (1974), and the work of key 9/11 theorists this dissertation will plot the trajectory of the 'before' and 'after' dialectic in order to ascertain how effectively these novels function as (re)presentations of the real-world city of …
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Invisible Logic of Space Forming - Rethinking the Urban Growth in Yueyang, China
… visible spectacles in many contemporary Chinese cities, and disconnecting modern China from its past, and the collective memory of its citizens. In response to the miracle of urban expansion in China, this thesis studies and re-envisioning the development in Yueyang, located in north corner of …