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Topics in Cultural Studies: The City
Course code: EUROG004.
Credits: 30.
This course offers an interdisciplinary and comparative study of ways in which the City has been understood and culturally represented in modernity. The City will be approached through five different themes, each of which will draw on a variety of sources and theoretical approaches.
EUROG004.
Credits: 30.
This course offers an interdisciplinary and comparative study of ways in which the City has been understood and culturally represented in modernity. The City will be approached through five different themes, each of which will draw on a variety of sources and theoretical approaches.
Geometries (Peter Zusi)
Water (Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen)
Water in the City of Words: Epidemics, Entropy and the Environment
Mapping (Roland Lack)
Mapping London in Literature and Film: Conrad, Hitchcock, Bakhtin and Moretti
Apocalypse (Florian Mussgnug)
The City without us: Atget, Glavinic, North and Wyndham
Angels (Tim Mathews)
Angels in the City: History and Aura in Nooteboom, Wenders, Benjamin, and Giacometti
Assessment: one assessed 6 000 word essay/project (100%).
Tutor: Dr Stephanie Bird.
Introductory and background reading
