 |
 |
Dear colleagues,
Some of you might be interested in this book:
Public Speaking in the City
Debating and Shaping the Urban Experience
Janet Stewart
http://www.palgrave.com/PRODUCTS/title.aspx?PID=304006
'This book breaks new ground in the exploration of the modern metropolis. For far too long we have been preoccupied with the visual
modes of communication in urban settings. This excellently researched, well articulated and stimulating study examines the transformation of communication in this period. Specifically, Stewart chooses to focus upon the neglected study of the spoken word, public
speaking and dialogue with urban publics in diverse urban spatial contexts. In a richly textured series of chapters, she explores the varied settings for dialogues on the city by architects, sites such as exhibitions, the street, the coffee house and the salon.'
-
David Frisby, Professor in Sociology and Cities Programme,
Dazzled, perhaps, by the seductive charms of new communication technology and equating modernity exclusively with the new, most accounts
of the modern city around 1900 remain silent on the role that public speaking played in shaping and framing the urban experience. Janet Stewart sets out to break this scholarly silence, using primary material, and case studies of acclaimed speakers such as
Karl Kraus, Adolf Loos and Georg Simmel, to reveal connections between location, speech and the metropolis in two archetypal modern cities:
CONTENTS:
List of Figures
Introduction: Public Speaking in the
Look Who's Talking
Architects and the Urban Public
Appearing in Public
Locating the Voices
Epilogue: Public Speaking and the City of the Future
Notes
Bibliography
Palgrave MacMillan
2009 Hardback £55.00 978-0-230-21809-3
Dr Janet Stewart
Senior Lecturer in German
Programme Co-ordinator, MLitt in Visual Culture
Programme Co-ordinator, Literature in a World Context
Centre for Modern Thought
ABERDEEN AB24 3UB
Tel. 01224 272488
http://abdn.ac.