Until the mid-twentieth century the Western imagination seemed intent on viewing Rome purely in terms of its classical past or as a stop on the Grand Tour. This collection of essays looks at Rome from a postmodern perspective, including analysis of the city’s ‘unmappability’, its fragmented narratives and its iconic status in literature and film.
Until the mid-twentieth century the Western imagination seemed intent on viewing Rome purely in terms of its classical past or as a stop on the Grand Tour. This collection of essays looks at Rome from a postmodern perspective, including analysis of the city’s ‘unmappability’, its fragmented narratives and its iconic status in literature and film.
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‘The essays collected here all contribute to a positive redefinition of Rome: by unanchoring Rome from its past, they pave the way for a wider investigation of the city. Rome has been elevated from a model of “classicity” to a model of postmodernity for postmodern cities.’ Colloquy ‘offers an engaging exploration of Rome … The reader who has never visited Rome will feel compelled to do it. The one who has already visited it will wish to do it again, in order to savour it in a new way.’ Nordicum-Mediterraneum ‘This collection of essays by scholars of literature, film, architecture and history retains an absolutely rigorous focus on the postmodernism of a city that may, at first or any glance, seem to resist such a label.’ Karen Pinkus, Cornell University
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