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  1. Modernism in the green
    public greens in modern literature and culture
    Contributor: Daniel, Julia E. (Publisher); Konkol, Margaret (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Taylor Group, New York, NY

    Modernism in the Green traces a trans-Atlantic modernist fascination with the creation, use, and representation of the modern green. From the verdant public commons in the heart of cities to the lookout points on mountains in national parks, planned... more

     

    Modernism in the Green traces a trans-Atlantic modernist fascination with the creation, use, and representation of the modern green. From the verdant public commons in the heart of cities to the lookout points on mountains in national parks, planned green spaces serve as felicitous stages for the performance of modernism. In its focus on designed and public green zones,Modernism in the Green offers a new perspective on modernism's overlapping investments in the arts, politics, urbanism, race, class, gender, and the nature-culture divide. This collection of essays is the first to explore the prominent and diverse ways greens materialize in modern literature and culture, along with the manner in which modernists represented them. This volume presents the idea of "the green" as a point of exploration, as our contributors analyze social-organic spaces ranging from public parks to roadways and refuse piles. Like the term "green," one that evokes both more-than-human natural zones and crafted public meeting places, these chapters uncover the social and spatial intersection of nature and culture in the very architecture of parks, gardens, buildings, highways, and dumps. This book argues that such greens facilitate modernists' exploration of how nature can manifest in an era of increasing urbanization and mechanization and what identities and communities the green now enables or prevents

     

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  2. Modernism in the green
    public greens in modern literature and culture
    Contributor: Daniel, Julia E. (HerausgeberIn); Konkol, Margaret (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Taylor Group,, New York, NY

    Free land : central park and racial erasure in the proslavery United States -- Hospital, parlor, fresco, posey : metaphors for parks in the public lectures of Frederick Law Olmsted -- Modernist picturesque : representing urban green space on London... more

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    Free land : central park and racial erasure in the proslavery United States -- Hospital, parlor, fresco, posey : metaphors for parks in the public lectures of Frederick Law Olmsted -- Modernist picturesque : representing urban green space on London transport posters, 1908-1940 -- By Chicago, for Chicago? Listening for the city in the creation of Grant Park Music Festival -- A modernist walk in the park with Virginia Woolf -- Green agoraphobia : architectural cures in Baudelaire and Kafka -- Park blues : Langston Hughes, racial exclusion, and the park ballad -- A more-than-human green : national parks and animality in Marianne Moore's An octopus -- The way of the road : traveling through Yosemite National Park in Gertrude Stein's Everybody's autobiography -- The imagination's meadows in William Carlos William's Spring and all.

     

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  3. Modernism in the green
    public greens in modern literature and culture
    Contributor: Daniel, Julia E. (HerausgeberIn); Konkol, Margaret (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Taylor Group,, New York, NY

    Free land : central park and racial erasure in the proslavery United States -- Hospital, parlor, fresco, posey : metaphors for parks in the public lectures of Frederick Law Olmsted -- Modernist picturesque : representing urban green space on London... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Free land : central park and racial erasure in the proslavery United States -- Hospital, parlor, fresco, posey : metaphors for parks in the public lectures of Frederick Law Olmsted -- Modernist picturesque : representing urban green space on London transport posters, 1908-1940 -- By Chicago, for Chicago? Listening for the city in the creation of Grant Park Music Festival -- A modernist walk in the park with Virginia Woolf -- Green agoraphobia : architectural cures in Baudelaire and Kafka -- Park blues : Langston Hughes, racial exclusion, and the park ballad -- A more-than-human green : national parks and animality in Marianne Moore's An octopus -- The way of the road : traveling through Yosemite National Park in Gertrude Stein's Everybody's autobiography -- The imagination's meadows in William Carlos William's Spring and all.

     

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