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by Helane Androne
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This book argues for the necessary and further examination of the sacred as it is ritualized within Chicana fiction. It suggests that religious, spiritual, linguistic and political symbolisms reveal rites that structure narrative performances of coping with and healing from trauma. Helane Androne...
by J. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Weimar Culture Revisited is the first book to offer an accessible cross-section of new cultural history approaches to the Weimar Republic. This collection uses an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on the everyday workings of Weimar culture to explain the impact and meaning of culture for German's...
Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare
Place, "Race," Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Shaul Bassi is Associate Professor of English and Postcolonial Literature at Ca'Foscari University of Venice, Italy. His publications include Visions of Venice in Shakespeare, with Laura Tosi, and Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures,with Annalisa Oboe.
Religion, National Identity, and Confessional Politics in Lebanon
The Challenge of Islamism
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Against a background of weak and contested national identity and capricious interaction between religious affiliation and confessional politics, this book illustrates in detailed analysis this "comprehensive" project of Islamism according to its ideological and practical evolutionary change.
The Texture of Culture
An Introduction to Yuri Lotman’s Semiotic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
In this introduction to the semiotic theory of one of the most innovative theorists of the twentieth century, the Russian literary scholar and semiotician Yuri Lotman, offers a new look at Lotman's profound legacy by conceptualizing his ideas in modern context and presenting them as a useful tool of cultural analysis.
Monism
Science, Philosophy, Religion, and the History of a Worldview
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The first survey in the English language of the history of naturalistic monism in the works of Haeckel, Spinoza, and others. Contributors demonstrate that, to a greater extent than previously shown, monism provided an essential epistemological framework for numerous religious, political and cultural movements between the 1840s and 1940s.
Musical Revolutions in German Culture
Musicking against the Grain, 1800-1980
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Drawing upon the philosophical insights of Friedrich Schlegel, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Blixa Bargeld, this book explores the persistence of a critical-deconstructive approach to musical production, consumption, and reception in the German cultural sphere of the last two centuries.
Narrative and Truth
An Ethical and Dynamic Paradigm for the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
In this book, Emslie establishes that narrative explanations are to be preferred over non-narrative in the humanities. They are more truthful in two senses. They both correspond more closely to reality and allow inference as to normative values. This is particularly the case when aesthetics are added to the mix.
Theodor Adorno and Film Theory
The Fingerprint of Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
What is the fundamental nature of the filmic object: is it a commodity or is it, can it be, art? What would that mean - can it still matter? This book introduces the thought of Theodor Adorno into film studies to repair the schism that characterizes the field, as historical and cultural modes of analysis displace theoretical and philosophical ones.
by D. Furr
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Through an analysis of a wide range of commercial and amateur recordings, this book describes how and why poetry was recorded in the U.S., from the 1930's through the mid-century performances of poets such as Dylan Thomas and Anne Sexton.
Rooting Memory, Rooting Place
Regionalism in the Twenty-First-Century American South
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
This timely and incisive study reads contemporary literature and visual culture from the American South through the lens of cultural memory. Rooting texts in their regional locations, the book interrupts and questions the dominant trends in Southern Studies, providing a fresh and nuanced view of twenty-first-century texts.
Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity
A Global Nineteenth-Century Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This book maps out the temporal and geographic coordinates of the trope of sensationalism in the long nineteenth century through a comparative approach. Not only juxtaposing different geographical areas (Europe, Asia and Oceania), this volume also disperses its history over a longue durée, allowing...
by C. Gala
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
This book reads the work of Salinas, Guillén, Larrea, Diego, Alberti, Méndez, and Lorca in analogical relation with Cubism and with the revolutionary discoveries of modern physics. Gala advances traditional criticism by considering these artists in the broader cultural context of Spain, Europe, and European Modernism.
Words, Space, and the Audience
The Theatrical Tension between Empiricism and Rationalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
In this unique study, Michael Y. Bennett re-reads four influential modern plays alongside their contemporary debates between rationalism and empiricism to show how these monumental achievements were thoroughly a product of their time, but also universal in their epistemological quest to understand...