Materialising colour, Withers, Jane

Автор: Withers Charles W. J.
Название: Geographies of the Book
ISBN: 0754678504 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754678502
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Divided into three main sections: Geographies of Production; Geographies of Circulation; Geographies of Reception, this title makes clear that the relationships between the making of books in certain geographical contexts, the movement of books (epistemologically as well as geographically) and the reception of and reaction to books are complex.

Автор: Withers Jeremy, Shea Daniel P.
Название: Culture on Two Wheels: The Bicycle in Literature and Film
ISBN: 0803269722 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803269729
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Bicycles have more cultural identities than many realize, functioning not only as literal vehicles in a text but also as “vehicles” for that text’s themes, ideas, and critiques. In the late nineteenth century the bicycle was seen as a way for the wealthy urban elite to reconnect with nature and for women to gain a measure of personal freedom, while during World War II it became a utilitarian tool of the French Resistance and in 1970s China stood for wealth and modernization. Lately it has functioned variously as the favored ideological steed of environmentalists, a means of community bonding and aesthetic self-expression in hip hop, and the ride of choice for bike messenger–idolizing urban hipsters. Culture on Two Wheels analyzes the shifting cultural significance of the bicycle by examining its appearances in literary, musical, and cinematic works spanning three continents and more than 125 years of history.


Bringing together essays by a variety of cyclists and scholars with myriad angles of approach, this collection highlights the bicycle’s flexibility as a signifier and analyzes the appearance of bicycles in canonical and well-known texts such as Samuel Beckett’s modernist novel Molloy, the Oscar-winning film Breaking Away, and various Stephen King novels and stories, as well as in lesser-known but equally significant texts, such as the celebrated Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Sacrifice and Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s nineteenth-century travelogue A Canterbury Pilgrimage, the latter of which traces the route of Chaucer’s pilgrims via bicycle.

Автор: Withers Jeremy
Название: The War of the Wheels: H. G. Wells and the Bicycle
ISBN: 0815635265 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815635260
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Amid apocalyptic invasions and time travel, one common machine continually appears in H.G. Wells`s works: the bicycle. In The War of the Wheels, Withers examines this mode of transportation as both something that played a significant role in Wells`s personal life and as a literary device for creating elaborate characters and exploring complex themes.

Автор: Withers, Charles W. J.
Название: Geography and science in britain, 1831-1939
ISBN: 1526116715 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526116710
Издательство: NBN International
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Описание: Using as its central example the British Association for the Advancement of Science this is the first book-length treatment of this leading body for the promotion of science for more than 25 years and the first ever of British geography`s civic history. -- .