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by Olivia Bloechl
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of the absolute monarchy, and its ties to the crown remain at the heart of our understanding of this opera tradition (especially its foremost genre, the tragédie en musique).
In Opera...
Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart
Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Wye Jamison Allanbrook’s widely influential Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart challenges the view that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music was a “pure play” of key and theme, more abstract than that of his predecessors. Allanbrook’s innovative work shows that Mozart used a vocabulary of symbolic gestures...
Guitar Makers
The Endurance of Artisanal Values in North America
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
It whispers, it sings, it rocks, and it howls. It expresses the voice of the folk—the open road, freedom, protest and rebellion, youth and love. It is the acoustic guitar. And over the last five decades it has become a quintessential American icon. Because this musical instrument is significant...
Bounding Biomedicine
Evidence and Rhetoric in the New Science of Alternative Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
During the 1990s, an unprecedented number of Americans turned to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), an umbrella term encompassing chiropractic, energy healing, herbal medicine, homeopathy, meditation, naturopathy, and traditional Chinese medicine. By 1997, nearly half the US population...
Mobile Secrets
Youth, Intimacy, and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Now part and parcel of everyday life almost everywhere, mobile phones have radically transformed how we acquire and exchange information. Many anticipated that in Africa, where most have gone from no phone to mobile phone, improved access to telecommunication would enhance everything from entrepreneurialism...
Sonic Flux
Sound, Art, and Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
From Edison’s invention of the phonograph through contemporary field recording and sound installation, artists have become attracted to those domains against which music has always defined itself: noise, silence, and environmental sound. Christoph Cox argues that these developments in the sonic...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
The landscape of social theory has changed significantly over the three decades since the publication of Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner’s seminal Social Theory Today. Sociologists in the twenty-first century desperately need a new agenda centered around central questions of social theory. In...
by Paul Tillich
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
In this volume, the second of his three-volume reinterpretation of Christian theology, Paul Tillich comes to grips with the central idea of his system—the doctrine of the Christ. Man's predicament is described as the state of "estrangement" from himself, from his world, and from the divine...
On Hysteria
The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 and 1820
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
These days, hysteria is known as a discredited diagnosis that was used to group and pathologize a wide range of conditions and behaviors in women. But for a long time, it was seen as a legitimate category of medical problem—and one that, originally, was applied to men as often as to women.
In...
Someone
The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Hervé Guibert
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words. What if the mere attempt at expression was bound to misfire, to efface the truth of that ineluctable something?
In Someone, Michael Lucey considers characters from twentieth-century French...
Objects as Actors
Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Objects as Actors charts a new approach to Greek tragedy based on an obvious, yet often overlooked, fact: Greek tragedy was meant to be performed. As plays, the works were incomplete without physical items—theatrical props. In this book, Melissa Mueller ingeniously demonstrates the importance of...
Reproduction by Design
Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Modernity in interwar Europe frequently took the form of a preoccupation with mechanizing the natural; fears and fantasies revolved around the notion that the boundaries between people and machines were collapsing. Reproduction in particular became a battleground for those debating the merits of the...
Five Words
Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Blood. Invention. Language. Resistance. World. Five ordinary words that do a great deal of conceptual work in everyday life and literature. In this original experiment in critical semantics, Roland Greene considers how these words changed over the course of the sixteenth century and what their changes...
Making Time
Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything—it is an abstract and universal phenomenon. In Making Time, Yulia Frumer upends this assumption, using changes in the conceptualization of time in Japan to show that humans perceive time as constructed...