Inspired by Walter Benjamin's classical Arcades Project, Consuming Media is a pioneering
exploration of the interface between communication, shopping and everyday life. Based on …

Die Aufmerksamkeit auf die Rolle des Web als eine ńeue Technologieíst momentan in der
Auflösung begriffen. Vor zehn Jahren aber kam das Web mit diversen Utopien im Gepäck …

Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction is an interdisciplinary study that presents
masculinity as a key thematic concern in contemporary New York fiction. This study argues …

Guidebooks to brothels and prostitutes flourished in mid-nineteenth century Britain and
America, particularly in the great cities of London and New York. This paper treats such …

This paper describes a cross-disciplinary method of encountering place and place-specific
art work. This involves two stages: a close sensory observation of the place's details …

The article introduces a methodological tool investigating literary representations of 21st
century American Masculinity. As stated the article argues close readings of EB White's" …

I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to a number of people who contributed in one
way or the other to this book. First and foremost, I am very grateful to Martin Middeke, who …

Mit der Entwicklung der Medien und ihrer sozialen, kulturellen und persönlichen Bedeutung
verändern sich auch die Fragestellungen und Forschungsfelder der Medien-und …

The flâneur is intrinsically associated with nineteenth-century Paris through the work of
Baudelaire and Benjamin. But his antithetical relationship with the dirt and chaos which …

Lately the concept of flânerie has raised an intense academic debate: The flâneur can be
found much more frequently, not only in literary texts and in literary studies, but also in …