Culture on two wheels : the bicycle in literature and film

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of Illustrations = viii
• Foreword / Zack Furness = ix
• Acknowledgments = xiii
• Introduction : The Bicycle as Rolling Signifier / Jeremy Withers ; Daniel P. Shea = 1
• PART 1 BIKES IN LITERATURE
• 1 Pilgrims on Wheels : The Pennells, F. W. Bockett, and Literary Cycle Travels / Dave Buchanan = 19
• 2 From Charles Pratt to Mark Twain to Frank Norris : Horse versus Bicycle, Man versus Machine / Peter Kratzke = 41
• 3 "The Face of the Bicyclist" : Women's Cycling and the Altered Body in The Type-Writer Girl / Alyssa Straight = 57
• 4 Bicycles and Warfare : The Effects of Excessive Mobility in H. G. Wells's The War in the Air / Jeremy Withers = 78
• 5 Like a Furnace : Alfred Jarry's The Supermale, Doping, and the Limits of Positivism / Corry Cropper = 94
• 6 Albertine the Cyclist : A Queer Feminist Bicycle Ride through Proust's In Search of Lost Time / Una Brogan = 116
• 7 The Existential Cyclist : Bicycles and Personal Responsibility in Simone de Beauvoir's The Blood of Others / Nanci J. Adler = 136
• 8 Communing with Machines : The Bicycle as a Figure of Symbolic Transgression in the Posthumanist Novels of Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien / Amanda Duncan = 152
• 9 "Hi-Yo, Silver" : The Bicycle in the Fiction of Stephen King / Don Tresca = 171
• PART 2 BIKES IN FILM
• 10 "I'll Get You, My Pretty!" : Bicycle Horror and the Abject Cyclicity of History / Matthew Pangborn = 191
• 11 Bicycles in Truffaut's Jules and Jim : Images of Emancipation and Repression / Charles L. P. Silet = 208
• 12 We Hope, and We Lose Hope : The Postman's Bicycle in Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice / Benjamin Van Loon = 226
• 13 Bicycle Borrowers after Neorealism : Global Nou-velo Cinema / Anne Ciecko = 244
• 14 Breaking Away and Vital Materialism : Embodying Dreams of Social Mobility via the Bicycle Assemblage / Ryan Hediger = 263
• 15 Beijing Bicycle : Desire, Identity, and the Wheels / Jinhua Li = 281
• 16 "Swerve! I'm on My Bike" : Mediated Images of Bicycling in Youth-Produced Hip-Hop / Melody Lynn Hoffmann = 300
• Afterword : Form and History in the Bicycle Sculptures of Ai Weiwei / Daniel P. Shea = 318
• Contributors = 329
• Index = 335