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Urban Underworlds

Author : Thomas Heise
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813547849
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Urban Underworlds written by Thomas Heise and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Underworlds is an exploration of city spaces, pathologized identities, lurid fears, and American literature. Surveying one hundred years of history, and fusing sociology, urban planning, and criminology with literary and cultural studies, it chronicles how and why marginalized populations-immigrant Americans in the Lower East Side, gays and lesbians in Greenwich Village and downtown Los Angeles, the black underclass in Harlem and Chicago, and the new urban poor dispersed across American cities-have been selectively targeted as "urban underworlds" and their neighborhoods.

Metropolis on the Styx

Author : David L. Pike
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501729462
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Metropolis on the Styx written by David L. Pike and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 previous book, Subterranean Cities, Pike details the emergence of a vertical city in the imagination of nineteenth-century Paris and London, a city overseen by hosts of devils and undermined by subterranean villains, a city whose ground level was replete with passages between above and below. Metropolis on the Styx brings together a rich variety of visual and written sources ranging from pulp mysteries and movie serials to the poetry of Charles Baudelaire and the novels of Marcel Proust, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Elinor Glyn to the broadsheets and ephemera of everyday urban life. From these materials, Pike conjures a working theory of modern underground space that explains why our notions about urban environments remain essentially nineteenth-century in character, even though cities themselves have since changed almost beyond recognition.Highly original in subject matter, methodology, and conclusions, Metropolis on the Styx synthesizes a number of critical approaches, periods of study, and disciplines in the analysis of a single category of space—the underground. Pike studies the built environments and the textual and visual ephemera (including little-known or unknown archival material) of Paris, London, and other cities in conjunction with canonical modern literature and art. This book integrates a rich visual component—photographs, movie stills, prints, engravings, paintings, cartoons, maps, and drawings of actual and imagined subterranean spaces—into the fabric of the argument.

Urban Anthropology

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Urban Anthropology written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Metropolis on the Styx

Author : David Lawrence Pike
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Metropolis on the Styx written by David Lawrence Pike and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pike considers how underground spaces and their many myths have organized ways of seeing, thinking about, and living in the modern city. He details the emergence of the vertical city in the imagination of 19th century Paris and London, a city whose ground level was replete with passages between above and below.

Organizing Crime

Author : Alan A. Block
Publisher : Elsevier Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Organizing Crime written by Alan A. Block and published by Elsevier Publishing Company. This book was released on 1981 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Urban Community

Author : American Sociological Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Urban Community written by American Sociological Society and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vice, Crime, and Poverty

Author : Dominique Kalifa
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231547269
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Vice, Crime, and Poverty written by Dominique Kalifa and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates—part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld, the dark inverse of our everyday world. Lurking in the mirror that we hold up to our society, they are our counterparts and our doubles, repelling us and yet offering the tantalizing promise of escape. Although these images testify to undeniable social realities, the sordid lower depths make up a symbolic and social imaginary that reflects our fears and anxieties—as well as our desires. In Vice, Crime, and Poverty, Dominique Kalifa traces the untold history of the concept of the underworld and its representations in popular culture. He examines how the myth of the lower depths came into being in nineteenth-century Europe, as biblical figures and Christian traditions were adapted for a world turned upside-down by the era of industrialization, democratization, and mass culture. From the Parisian demimonde to Victorian squalor, from the slums of New York to the sewers of Buenos Aires, Kalifa deciphers the making of an image that has cast an enduring spell on its audience. While the social conditions that created that underworld have changed, Vice, Crime, and Poverty shows that, from social-scientific ideas of the underclass to contemporary cinema and steampunk culture, its shadows continue to haunt us.

The City

Author : Robert Ezra Park
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The City written by Robert Ezra Park and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The City

Author : American Sociological Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The City written by American Sociological Association and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Republican Gothic

Author : Shelley Suzanne Streeby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Republican Gothic written by Shelley Suzanne Streeby and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New York History

Author : New York State Historical Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book New York History written by New York State Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Subterranean Cities

Author : David Lawrence Pike
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801472565
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Subterranean Cities written by David Lawrence Pike and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New life underground -- Modern necropolis -- Charon's bark -- Urban apocalypse.

Underwords

Author : Maggie Hamand
Publisher : Arcadia Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Underwords written by Maggie Hamand and published by Arcadia Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "London has always been a chameleon figure, revealing itself in a multitude of different guises, each as individual as the dreams and aspirations of its many inhabitants. The theme of this collection is the hidden city, and each of the fourteen stories vividly expresses a different mood and aspect of the city, and the undercurrents of emotion that surge through the capital - the irrepressible mixture of excitement or tension, fear or freedom."--BOOK JACKET.

Metropolis

Author : Robert Zecker
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metropolis written by Robert Zecker and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2008 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the dawn of the talkies, one of the most popular genres was the gangster film, through which the city was often portrayed as a powerful force that sent poor souls to their doom. This work considers the development of the "cyber-city" where urban exiles use their computers to re-imagine the cities of their youth as safe, and warm places.

Historical Approaches to Crime

Author : James A. Inciardi
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Approaches to Crime written by James A. Inciardi and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1977-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Passage through Hell

Author : David L. Pike
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501729470
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Passage through Hell written by David L. Pike and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the culturally resonant motif of the descent to the underworld as his guiding thread, David L. Pike traces the interplay between myth and history in medieval and modernist literature. Passage through Hell suggests new approaches to the practice of comparative literature, and a possible escape from the current morass of competing critical schools and ideologies. Pike's readings of Louis Ferdinand Céline and Walter Benjamin reveal the tensions at work in the modern appropriation of structures derived from ancient and medieval descents. His book shows how these structures were redefined in modernism and persist in contemporary critical practice. In order to recover the historical corpus of modernism, he asserts, it is necessary to acknowledge the attraction that medieval forms and motifs held for modernist literature and theory. By pairing the writings of the postwar German dramatist and novelist Peter Weiss with Dante's Commedia, and Christine de Pizan with Virginia Woolf, Pike argues for a new level of complexity in the relation between medieval and modern poetics. Pike's supple and persuasive reading of the Commedia resituates that text within the contradictions of medieval tradition. He contends that the Dantean allegory of conversion, altered to suit the exigencies of modernism, maintains its hold over current literature and theory. The postwar writers Pike treats—Weiss, Seamus Heaney, and Derek Walcott—exemplify alternate strategies for negotiating the legacy of modernism. The passage through hell emerges as a way of disentangling images of the past from their interpretation in the present.

Downtown Juárez

Author : Howard Campbell
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477323910
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Downtown Juárez written by Howard Campbell and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At least 200,000 people have died in Mexico’s so-called drug war, and the worst suffering has been in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. How did it get so bad? After three decades studying that question, Howard Campbell doesn’t believe there is any one answer. Misguided policies, corruption, criminality, and the borderland economy are all factors. But none of these reasons explain how violence in downtown Juárez has become heartbreakingly “normal.” A rigorous yet moving account, Downtown Juárez is informed by the sex workers, addicts, hustlers, bar owners, human smugglers, migrants, and down-and-out workers struggling to survive in an underworld where horrifying abuses have come to seem like the natural way of things. Even as Juárez’s elite northeast section thrives on the profits of multinational corporations, and law-abiding citizens across the city mobilize against crime and official malfeasance, downtown’s cantinas, barrios, and brothels are tyrannized by misery. Campbell’s is a chilling perspective, suggesting that, over time, violent acts feed off each other, losing their connection to any specific cause. Downtown Juárez documents this banality of evil—and confronts it—with the stories of those most affected.