A Maxim Map of Manhattan - Softcover

Reder, Kimo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1587906384 ISBN 13: 9781587906381

Verlag: Regent Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

A Maxim Map of Manhattan is a mosaic portrait of one of our planet's most iconic urban settings. Dense and teeming like the island borough it depicts, its pages form a collage of offbeat witticisms, concocted vignettes, and surreal social critiques grouped into thematic neighborhoods. Spinning an alternative and non-linear history, this parody of a tourist guide serenades its target locale's renegade spirit and offers up an ode of praise to its noted talent for reinvention. The book's fragmentary format spans an eclectic range of topics, including public art, global dialects, seasonal wardrobe, macroeconomics, civil engineering, and culinary trends on its overspilling menu. While Manhattan resists being truly captured by any single profile, several of its key features are productively distorted in this gallery of funhouse mirrors. A Maxim Map of Manhattan "maps" not by laying down grid lines of latitude and longitude, but by playfully assembling its pieces into a deliberately bottomless puzzle.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kimo RedeR is a Professor of English at CUNY's Borough of Manhattan campus, and author of books on Manhattan's semiotic grid, the Tower of Babel ur-story, the symbolism of the human hand, and the linguistics of syllable magic. Twink Reder is a layout/design/text editor whose cartographic skills inform her approach to book-making and map-making alike. She is a graduate of UCLA's Department of Geography and an avid nature-trekker with a fondness for trails as well as texts.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Regent Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1587906384
• ISBN 13: 9781587906381
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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