This dissertation is about non-places in contemporary American literature and film. Non-places are public spaces that are nevertheless transitory, efficient, and impersonal, dedicated mostly to logistics and straightforward tasks rather than community formation or personal identity—primary examples include things like highways, hotel rooms, convenience stores, and airports. I use these spaces here to discuss the challenges of everyday life in the highly mobile and interconnected world that they themselves have helped build, and how its high speeds, complex programs, and loose ties are illustrated and worked through in the popular imagination. On a practical basis, such infrastructure represents a series of simple bargains or trade-offs, as ...
Narratives employed when writing about a place and building a place have a central theme in common: ...
The term non-place is defined by Marc Augé as 'a space that cannot be defined as relational, or hist...
Narratives employed when writing about a place and building a place have a central theme in common: ...
We spend more and more of our everyday lives in what Marc Augé calls non-places – homogenous, but bl...
<p>This dissertation examines space as a privileged yet <italic>repressed</italic> site of cultural ...
Motorways, airports and supermarkets; French anthropologist, Marc Augé called them nonplaces to m...
Motorways, airports and supermarkets; French anthropologist, Marc Augé called them nonplaces to m...
This dissertation proposes a new approach to conceptualizing the French city through a series of rea...
This thesis investigates what formal problems globalisation and the loss of anthropological place po...
This project traces and theorizes a history and aesthetics of abstract space in American literature ...
This dissertation reads twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. multicultural literatures, women’s l...
The article focuses on the non-places – areas occurring in the real and virtual worlds. In the case ...
This dissertation examines the city as space and place in select French texts and films from the 197...
This dissertation examines the city as space and place in select French texts and films from the 197...
As the titles of the two books suggest, Cities, Borders, and Spaces in Intrercultural American Liter...
Narratives employed when writing about a place and building a place have a central theme in common: ...
The term non-place is defined by Marc Augé as 'a space that cannot be defined as relational, or hist...
Narratives employed when writing about a place and building a place have a central theme in common: ...
We spend more and more of our everyday lives in what Marc Augé calls non-places – homogenous, but bl...
<p>This dissertation examines space as a privileged yet <italic>repressed</italic> site of cultural ...
Motorways, airports and supermarkets; French anthropologist, Marc Augé called them nonplaces to m...
Motorways, airports and supermarkets; French anthropologist, Marc Augé called them nonplaces to m...
This dissertation proposes a new approach to conceptualizing the French city through a series of rea...
This thesis investigates what formal problems globalisation and the loss of anthropological place po...
This project traces and theorizes a history and aesthetics of abstract space in American literature ...
This dissertation reads twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. multicultural literatures, women’s l...
The article focuses on the non-places – areas occurring in the real and virtual worlds. In the case ...
This dissertation examines the city as space and place in select French texts and films from the 197...
This dissertation examines the city as space and place in select French texts and films from the 197...
As the titles of the two books suggest, Cities, Borders, and Spaces in Intrercultural American Liter...
Narratives employed when writing about a place and building a place have a central theme in common: ...
The term non-place is defined by Marc Augé as 'a space that cannot be defined as relational, or hist...
Narratives employed when writing about a place and building a place have a central theme in common: ...