Transnational Railway Cultures
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Transnational Railway Cultures

Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art

  1. 270 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Transnational Railway Cultures

Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art

About this book

Since the advent of train travel, railways have compressed space and crossed national boundaries to become transnational icons, evoking hope, dread, progress, or obsolescence in different cultural domains. Spanning five continents and a diverse range of contexts, this collection offers an unprecedentedly broad survey of global representations of trains. From experimental novels to Hollywood blockbusters, the works studied here chart fascinating routes across a remarkably varied cultural landscape.

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Yes, you can access Transnational Railway Cultures by Benjamin Fraser,Steven D. Spalding in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Literary Criticism History & Theory. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Transnational Railway Cultures
  2. Contents
  3. Illustrations
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1 — The Railway Arts: Sound and Space beyond Borders
  6. Chapter 2 — The Sonic Force of the Machine Ensemble: Transnational Objectification in Steve Reich’s Different Trains (1988)
  7. Chapter 3 — A Genealogy of Apocalyptic Trains: Snowpiercer (2013) and Its Precursors in the Transnational Literature of Transport
  8. Chapter 4 — Dangerous Borders: Modernization and the Gothic Mode in Pánico en el Transiberiano (1972) and Howl (2015)
  9. Chapter 5 — Anachronism, Ambivalence, and (Trans)National Self-Reference: Tracking the English Literary Chunnel from 1986 On
  10. Chapter 6 — Crossing Borders on and beyond the Train in Joan of Arc of Mongolia (1989)
  11. Chapter 7 — The Cosmopolitan Writer: Exploring Representations on the Underground Railways of Buenos Aires and Paris through Julio Cortázar
  12. Chapter 8 — Literary Railway Bazaars: Transnational Discourses of Difference and Nostalgia in Contemporary India
  13. Chapter 9 — Memories of Trains and Trains of Memory: Journeys from Past-Futures to Present-Pasts in El tren de la memoria (2005)
  14. Chapter 10 — Nord-Sud: The Paris Metro and Transnational Avant-Garde Artistic Mobilities and Movements in Early Twentieth-Century Paris
  15. Conclusion — Mind the Gap
  16. Index