By Klaus Benesch,François Specq

ISBN-10: 1137602821

ISBN-13: 9781137602824

This publication gathers jointly an array of overseas students, critics, and artists eager about the difficulty of jogging as a topic in sleek literature, philosophy, and the humanities. overlaying a wide range of authors and media from eighteenth-century fiction writers and tourists to modern movie, electronic paintings, and artists’ books, the essays gathered the following take a huge literary and cultural method of the paintings of jogging, which has obtained significant curiosity a result of burgeoning box of mobility reports. participants show how jogging, faraway from constituting a simplistic, naïve, or obvious cultural script, makes it possible for advanced visions and reinterpretations of a human’s relation to modernity, introducing us to a global of many alternative and altering realities.

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