verso aug 2008 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The novels of Wyndham Lewis have generally been associatedwith the work of the great modernists-Joyce, Pound, Eliot,Yeats-who were his sometime friends and collaborators.Lewis's originality, however, is born of the fact that, unlike thesewriters, he was in essence a political novelist. Fredric Jamesonproposes a framework in which Lewis's explosive languagepractice can be grasped as a symbolic and political act.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Los Angeles is a city which has long thrived on the continual re-creation of its own myth.In this extraordinary work, Norman Klein examines the process of memory erasure in LA.Using a provocative mixture of fact and fiction, the book takes us on an 'anti-tour' ofdowntown LA, examines life for Vietnamese immigrants in the City of Dreams, imaginesWalter Benjamin as a Los Angeleno, and finally looks at the way information technologyhas recreated the city, turning cyberspace into the last suburb. In this new edition, NormanKlein explores the evolution of the Latino majority, how the Pacific economy is changingthe structure of urban life, the impact of collapsing infrastructure in the city, and therestructuring of those very districts that had been 'forgotten.