Cultural studies Books
University of Chicago Press Terror and Wonder
Book SynopsisOffers a look at the extraordinary ways that architecture mirrors our values - and shapes our everyday lives. This title gathers the best of the author's writings along with reflections on an era framed by the destruction of the World Trade Center and the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper.Trade Review"An elegant and thought-provoking book.... Crisp and colorful, expert and witty, Kamin's involving essays address the complexities of architecture and how the built world affects every aspect of life." (Booklist) "Chicago is lucky to have Kamin, whose architectural criticism in that city's Tribune continues the spirited tradition of Allan Temko and Ada Louise Huxtable. This collection from the past decade shows a deft eye for the latest Windy City tower but also the larger weave of culture and design." (San Francisco Chronicle) "Kamin is a keen, trenchant observer of the contemporary urban scene, and his engaging criticism enjoys a welcome second life in this anthology." (Choice) "A highly informative and accessible survey of the architecture and planning of the past decade.... Poignant and timely." (Architect's Newspaper) "[Kamin] reminds us of the role buildings have in our economic and physical environment and how the past decade has changed how we interact with the structures around us." (Kai Ryssdal, Marketplace, Best Books of 2010) "Blair Kamin, Pulitzer Prize - winning architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune, thoughtfully and provocatively defines the emotional and cultural dimensions of architecture. He is one of the nation's leading voices for design that uplifts and enhances life as well as the environment. Terror and Wonder assembles some of his best writing from the past ten years." (Huffington Post)"
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The University of Chicago Press Custom Confrontation The Kwaio Struggle for
Book SynopsisAnthropologists and students of anthropology may read this book because it is a superior ethnography, detailed and enriched by theoretical insights. But at the heart of this book is a moral take, a simple but powerful story about an indigenous people who were wronged, who resisted for more than 100 years, and who may yet prevail. This message, ultimately, lends the book its true meaning and value.William Rodman, AnthropologicaA major contribution to the ethnography and history of Malaita and Melanesia, and to the growing literature on cultural resistance. But above all, his humane and painful analysis of the meeting of peoples living in different worlds and constructing their agendas and moralities on incommensurateand apparently equally arbitraryprinciples, represents a major contribution and challenge to anthropological thought, addressing the basic issue of what it is to be human.Fredrik Barth
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University of Chicago Press Postmodern Sophistications Paper Philosophy
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University of Chicago Press Asia in the Making of Europe Volume III A
Book SynopsisAsia in the Making of Europe traces European encounters with Asia, and the ways in which those encounters have altered the development of western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance. In doing so, this work provides a much-needed perspective necessary for a balanced view of European and Asian history. A Century of Advance, the third volume of this monumental work, is devoted to the seventeenth century. Donald F. Lach and Edwin Van Kley have researched virtually all the writings on Asia published in Europe at this time, in an effort to understand how contemporaries saw Asian societies and peoples. During this century, more and better information became available as merchants and missionaries pushed deeper into the interiors of the Asian lands previously known only on their peripheries. While conducting commerce and spreading Christianity, westerners discovered Manchuria, Korea, Tibet, Formosa, and Australia; they also learned much more than their predecessors about Buddhism, Hinduism, and Confucianism and about their importance in Asian life. Their countrymen, eager for news from the East, read of their exploits in the widely published Jesuit letterbooks, mission reports, and merchant travelogues. These sources are valuable to modern scholars for the insights they provide on the development of European culture. They also provide details of everyday life not included in native Asian sources, and aspects of Asian culture that have passed out of existence and thus are unfamiliar to modern scholars. The authors' extraordinarily detailed and insightful readings of the documents of discovery, contribute greatly to a more balanced understanding of Asian history, in addition to deepening our understanding of this critical era in European history.
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University of Chicago Press Ring of Liberation Deceptive Discourse in
Book SynopsisBased on eighteen months of intensive participant-observation, Ring of Liberation offers both an in-depth description of capoeira--a complex Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines feats of great strength and athleticism with music and poetry--and a pioneering synthetic approach to the analysis of complex cultural performance. Capoeira originated in early slave culture and is practiced widely today by urban Brazilians and others. At once game, sport, mock combat, and ritualized performance, it involves two players who dance and battle within a ring of musicians and singers. Stunning physical performances combine with music and poetry in a form as expressive in movement as it is in word. J. Lowell Lewis explores the convergence of form and content in capoeira. The many components and characteristics of this elaborate black art form--for example, competing genre frameworks and the necessary fusion of multiple modes of expression--demand, Lewis feels, to be given body as well as voice.In response, he uses Peircean semiotics and recent work in discourse and performance theory to map the connections between physical, musical, and linguistic play in capoeira and to reflect on the general relations between semiotic systems and the creation and recording of cultural meaning.
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The University of Chicago Press Music in the Culture of the Renaissance and Other
Book SynopsisThe writings gathered here finally make available in one place Lowinsky's major essays--including four previously unpublished ones--in two volumes that are lavishly provided with musical examples and illustrations. Professor Lowinsky's method is the only kind of 'writing about music' that I value.--Igor Stravinsky
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The University of Chicago Press Cultural Producers in Perilous States Editing
Book SynopsisA collection of ten interviews explore how producers of documentary media - filmmakers, journalists, and artists - located in societies considered marginal to the high-tech global centres respond to local and international audiences in creating their works.
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The University of Chicago Press Corporate Futures The Diffusion of the
Book SynopsisThis is part of a series of annuals designed to probe cultural, institutional and geopolitical change as the 20th century closes. The books provide in-depth interviews with those closely involved with these changes. This volume focuses on the investment of corporations in the concept of culture.
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The University of Chicago Press Paranoia within Reason A Casebook on Conspiracy
Book SynopsisThis text examines conspiracy theories and tackles paranoia as a style of debate within science, psychotherapy, and popular entertainment. A conspiracy theory emerges as a way to address the inadequacies of rational expertise and organization in the face of the changes that undermine them.
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The University of Chicago Press Zeroing in on the Year 2000 The Final Edition 8
Book SynopsisThe final volume in the series devoted to documenting the diverse social and cultural transitions of the fin-de-siecle, this work offers a look back at the inception and progress of the series.
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The University of Chicago Press ExtremeOccident French Intellectuals and America
Book SynopsisA systematic examination of French texts that address matters relating to America. The book shows how prominent French intellectuals have represented America as myth and metaphor, covering the entire ideological spectrum from Maurras to Duhamel, and from Sartre to Aron.
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The University of Chicago Press The Power of Babel
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University of Chicago Press American Gay Worlds of Desire
Book SynopsisThis text examines the emergence in America of gay and lesbian social life, the creation of "lesbigay" communities, and the development of a group identity. It also provides coverage of relevant issues such as the extent to which there is a single "modern" homosexuality.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Ch. 1: Social Theory and the Anomalous Development of Gay Resistance Ch. 2: The Growth and Diversification of Gay Culture Ch. 3: After Gay Liberation: S & M and Gender Uniformity? Ch. 4: The Promiscuity Paradigm, AIDS, and Gay Complicity with the Remedicalization of Homosexuality Ch. 5: The Initial Surrender and Eventual Tentative Reassertion of Autonomy under the Shadow of AIDS Ch. 6: "The Homosexual Role" and Lesbigay Roles Ch. 7: Couples Ch. 8: Gay Community Ch. 9: Ethnic and Temporal Differences in Coming Out and In Moving to San Francisco Ch. 10: Absent Laiuses: Psychiatric Fantasies in Black and Gay Ch. 11: Some Gay African American Self-Representations from the 1980s and 1990s Ch. 12: Mexican American Homosexuality Ch. 13: Gay Asian/Pacific Americans Valediction Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Creativity on Demand The Dilemmas of Innovation
Book SynopsisBusiness consultants everywhere preach the benefits of innovation--and promise to help businesses reap them. A trendy industry, this type of consulting is centered around courses, workshops, books, and conferences, all claiming to hold the secrets of success. But what kind of promises does the notion of innovation entail? What is it about the ideology and practice of business innovation that has made these consulting firms so successful at selling their services to everyone from small start-ups to Fortune 500 companies? Most importantly, what does business innovation actually mean for work and our economy in general in 2019? In Creativity on Demand, cultural anthropologist Eitan Wilf seeks to answer these questions by returning to the fundamental and pervasive expectation of continual business innovation. Wilf focuses a keen eye on how our obsession with innovation stems from the long-standing value of acceleration in capitalist society. Based on ethnographic work with innovation cons
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The University of Chicago Press Trustees of Culture Power Wealth and Status on
Book SynopsisWhy do wealthy people choose to serve on the boards of fine arts institutions? How do they exercise their influence as trustees, and how does this affect the way arts institutions operate? This study, based on trustee interviews, addresses these, and other issues.Trade Review"With shrewd insights into the tensions between the social elites who serve as trustees and the professionals who administer these major cultural institutions, Ostrower has useful observations about the many challenges now facing the cultural sector: motivating donors, reconciling the conflicts between fund-raising and governance duties, recruiting more diverse boards, building new audiences, and sustaining artistic innovation and excellence." - James Allen Smith, former board president, Center for Arts and Culture
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The University of Chicago Press Signs of the Americas A Poetics of Pictography
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University of Chicago Press The Arts of the Hausa VT
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The University of Chicago Press May It Fill Your Soul
Book SynopsisThis ethnography documents and interprets the history of folk music, song and dance in Bulgaria over a 70-year period of dramatic change. It aims to contribute to ethnomusicological theory and method, and provide a better understanding of Slavic folklore and Eastern European anthropology.
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The University of Chicago Press The Reason of Following Christology and the
Book SynopsisIn the Reason of Following noted scholar Robert P. Scharlemann takes Christology in a radically new direction, suggesting that Christology itself represents a form of reason and an understanding of selfhood. For the first time, Scharlemann establishes a logical place for Christology in philosophical theology. Scharlemann presents a christological phenomenology of the self, tracing the connections between the I am of the God who spoke to Moses, the I am of Christ, and the I am of autonomous self-identification. How, he asks, can the self that spontaneously responds to Jesus' Follow me! be compared with the everyday, autonomous self? What is the nature of following on the part of those who answer the summons of one whose name is I am? Pursuing these questions, Scharlemann develops a christological phenomenology of the selfan account in which following means not the expression of the self in action or reflection but rather self-discovery in another person. With a deep sense of both cultur
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The University of Chicago Press Culture Enchantment
Book SynopsisShows that students of culture today operate in social and intellectual circumstances similar to those of 17th century natural philosophers. Just as Newton was drawn to alchemy, scholars today are fascinated by ghostly and mercurial agents thought to account for the meanings of cultural entities.
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The University of Chicago Press Welcome to Middle Age Other Cultural Fictions
Book SynopsisThe construction of midlife, most often rendered in chronological, biological and medical terms, has become an accepted reality to European Americans. This study explores the significance of this pervasive cultural representation compared to other cultures where middle age does not exist.Table of ContentsPreface by Richard A. Shweder Introduction: Welcome to Middle Age! by Richard A. Shweder 1: Midlife Discourses in the Twentieth-Century United States: An Essay on the Sexuality, Ideology, and Politics of "Middle-Ageism" Margaret Morganroth Gullette 2: Deconstructing the Change: Female Maturation in Japan and North America Margaret Lock 3: The Search for Middle Age in India Sudhir Kakar 4: Status Reversal: The Coming of Aging in Samoa Bradd Shore 5: The Return of the "White Man's Burden": The Moral Discourse of Anthropology and the Domestic Life of Hindu Women Usha Menon, Richard A. Shweder. 6: Fertility and Maturity in Africa: Gusii Parents in Middle Adulthood Robert A. LeVine, Sarah LeVine. 7: Children of the 1960s at Midlife: Generational Identity and the Family Adaptive Project Thomas S. Weisner, Lucinda P. Bernheimer. 8: Place and Race: Midlife Experience in Harlem Katherine Newman Contributors Index
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University of Chicago Press Romanticism Nationalism the Revolt Against
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The University of Chicago Press Academic Postmodern the Rule of Literature A
Book SynopsisThis critique of the postmodern turn discusses the distinctive aspects of postmodern scholarship: the pervasiveness of the literary and the flight from grand theory to local knowledge. Defining features of postmodern thought are also discussed here such as storytelling and localism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Academic Postmodern? 1: The Return of the Storyteller and the Circulation of "Literature" 2: Anecdotes and Conversations: The Method of Postmodernity 3: Speaking Personally: The Culture of Autobiography in the Postmodern 4: Feminisms and Feminizations in the Postmodern 5: Localism, Local Knowledge, and Literary Criticism 6: Romanticism and Localism 7: The Urge for Solutions and the Relief of Fiction Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Selling the Air A Critique of the Policy of
Book SynopsisIn this study of the laws and policies associated with commercial radio and television, the author shows that government regulation creates rather than intervenes in the market. It shows that liberal marketplace principles have come into contradiction with themselves.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1: The Fact of Television: A Theoretical Prologue 2: Liberalism, Corporate Liberalism 3: A Revisionist History of Broadcasting, 1900-1934 4: Inside the Beltway as an Interpretive Community: The Politics of Policy 5: Postmodern Property: Toward a New Political Economy of Broadcasting 6: "But Not the Ownership Thereof": The Peculiar Property Status of the Broadcast License 7: Broadcast Copyright and the Vicissitudes of Authorship in Electronic Culture 8: Viewing as Property: Broadcasting's Audience Commodity 9: Toward a New Politics of Electronic Media Index
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University of Chicago Press Nots Religion and Postmodernism Series
Book SynopsisNots is a virtuoso exploration of negation and negativity in theology, philosophy, art, architecture, postmodern culture, and medicine. In nine essays that range from nihility in Buddhism to the embodiment of negativity in disease, Mark C. Taylor looks at the surprising ways in which contrasting concepts of negativity intersect. In the first section of this book, Taylor discusses the question of the not in the religious thought of Anselm, Hegel, Derrida, and Nishitani. In the second part, he analyzes artistic efforts to figure not in the work of artists Arakawa and Madeline Gins, architect Daniel Libeskind, pop artist David Sallee, and pop icon Madonna. The final section consists of a deeply personal and scientifically informed chapter that discusses the workings of negativity in immunology and illness. Taylor's essays work toward a sense of the not as unnameable as it is irrepressible--an unthinkable third that falls between being and nonbeing. Bringing together concerns that span Taylor's early investigations of Hegel and Kierkegaard and recent studies of art and architecture, Nots is an important contribution by one of the most original and distinctive voices now writing on the American scene. Religion and Postmodernism series
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The University of Chicago Press Literary Intellectuals the Dissolution of the
Book SynopsisThis collection of interviews with more than two dozen writers and literary scholars, including several Stasi informants, provides a survey of the motivations, compromises and illusions of East German intellectual life.
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The University of Chicago Press The Philadelphia Barrio The Arts Branding and
Book SynopsisHow does a so-called bad neighborhood go about changing its reputation? Is it simply a matter of improving material conditions or picking the savviest marketing strategy? This title examines one neighborhood's fight to erase the stigma of devastation.
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The University of Chicago Press Managing Turbulent Hearts A Balinese Formula for
Book SynopsisHow do Balinese manage to present to the world the clear, bright face, the grace and poise, that they regard as crucial to self-respect and social esteem? How can the anthropologist pass behind the conventions of such a complex culture to recognize what is going on between people, in terms that convey their own experience?Wikan's study of the Indonesian island of Bali is an absorbing debate with previous anthropological interpretations as well as an innovative development of the anthropology of experience. This is indeed an important book, a landmark in studies of Bali and one surely destined to have major theoretical impact on anthropological research well beyond that famous Indonesian island.Anthony R. Walker, Journal of Asian and African Studies
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University of Chicago Press Desiring Theology Religion and Postmodernism
Book SynopsisArgues for the possibility of theological thinking in a postmodern secular milieu, equating a desire to think theologically with a desire for thinking that does not disappoint. Winquist suggests that, in the wake of psychoanalysis, theology must elaborate the meaning of desire in its own discourse.Table of ContentsPreface 1: The Exigency of Theological Thinking 2: Beginnings 3: The Incorrigibility of Mind and Transcendental Method 4: The Incorrigibility of the Body and the Refiguring of Discourse 5: Theological Text Production 6: Theological Surfaces: Heterology, Ontology, and Eschatology 7: Interventions 8: Theological Singularities: Following and Erring 9: Theology as a Minor Literature 10: Desiring Community Index
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The University of Chicago Press Making Men Making Class The YMCA Workingmen
Book SynopsisDuring the late 19th and early 20th centuries the US transformed from an essentially agrarian society into an urban, industrialized economy. This work explores the impact of these changes on constructions of manhood, using the YMCA's new ideals of masculinity as a case study.
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The University of Chicago Press Animal Rites American Culture the Discourse of
Book SynopsisIn 'Animal rites', Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism, ethics, and animals by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal.Trade Review"Animal Rites offers exciting new readings of a rich variety of texts. This is an original and provocative work that will open up important new arenas of discussion in literary and cultural studies, as well as the discourse of animal rights." - N. Katherine Hayles, author of How We Became Posthuman
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The University of Chicago Press Covering the Body The Kennedy Assassination the
Book SynopsisImages of the assassination of John F. Kennedy are burned deeply into the memories of millions who watched the events of November 1963 unfold live on television. Never before had America seen an event of this magnitude as it happened. But what is it we remember? How did the near chaos of the shooting and its aftermath get transformed into a seamless story of epic proportions? In this book, Barbie Zelizer explores the way we learned about and came to make sense of the killing of the president. Covering the Body (the title refers to the charge given journalists to follow a president) is a powerful reassessment of the media's role in shaping our collective memory of the assassination--at the same time as it used the assassination coverage to legitimize its own role as official interpreter of American reality. Of the more than fifty reporters covering Kennedy in Dallas, no one actually saw the assassination. And faced with a monumentally important story that was continuously breaking, most
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MIT Press Cultural Analytics
Book SynopsisA book at the intersection of data science and media studies, presenting concepts and methods for computational analysis of cultural data.How can we see a billion images? What analytical methods can we bring to bear on the astonishing scale of digital culture--the billions of photographs shared on social media every day, the hundreds of millions of songs created by twenty million musicians on Soundcloud, the content of four billion Pinterest boards? In Cultural Analytics, Lev Manovich presents concepts and methods for computational analysis of cultural data. Drawing on more than a decade of research and projects from his own lab, Manovich offers a gentle, nontechnical introduction to the core ideas of data analytics and discusses the ways that our society uses data and algorithms.
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MIT Press Ltd A Theory of Everyone
Book SynopsisA blueprint for a better future that offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society.Playing on the phrase “a theory of everything” from physics, Michael Muthukrishna’s ambitious, original, and deeply hopeful book A Theory of Everyone draws on the most recent research from across the sciences, humanities, and the emerging field of cultural evolution to paint a panoramic picture of who we are and what exactly makes human beings different from all other forms of life on the planet. Muthukrishna argues that it is our unique ability to create culture, a shared body of knowledge, skills, and experience passed on from generation to generation, that has enabled our current dominance. But it is only by understanding and applying the laws of life—the need for energy, innovation, cooperation, and evolution—that we can solve the practical and existential challenges we face as a species. A Theory of Everyone
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MIT Press Ltd This Is Why We Cant Have Nice Things Mapping the
Book SynopsisWhy the internet troll problem is actually a culture problem: how online trolling fits comfortably within today’s media landscape. Internet trolls live to upset as many people as possible, using all the technical and psychological tools at their disposal. They gleefully whip the media into a frenzy over a fake teen drug crisis; they post offensive messages on Facebook memorial pages, traumatizing grief-stricken friends and family; they use unabashedly racist language and images. They take pleasure in ruining a complete stranger’s day and find amusement in their victim’s anguish. In short, trolling is the obstacle to a kinder, gentler Internet. To quote a famous Internet meme, trolling is why we can’t have nice things online. Or at least that’s what we have been led to believe. In this provocative book, Whitney Phillips argues that trolling, widely condemned as obscene and deviant, actually fits comfortably within the contemporary media lands
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MIT Press Ltd Rock My Religion Writings and Projects 196590
Book SynopsisRock My Religion collects eighteen of Graham's essays from all periods of his work, beginning with his essays on minimalist artists such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, continuing with his writings on punk rock and popular culture, and concluding with his more recent considerations of architecture, urban space, and power.Dan Graham's artworks and critical writings have had an enormous influence on the course of contemporary art over the past quarter century. Rock My Religion collects eighteen of Graham's essays from all periods of his work, beginning with his essays on minimalist artists such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, continuing with his writings on punk rock and popular culture, and concluding with his more recent considerations of architecture, urban space, and power.Alternating with these theoretical essays are descriptions and documentations of Graham's own works and installations—projects that trace his explorations in conceptual art, video
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MIT Press Ltd Looking Awry
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University of Washington Press Out of Inferno
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University of Washington Press W. G. Sebald A Critical Companion
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsA Note on References and TranslationsW. G. Sebald ChronologyPart I: Contexts1. Introduction--J. J. Long and Anne Whitehead2. Meeting Austerlitz--George Szirtes3. Theoretical Reflections on the Work of W. G. Sebald--Martin SwalesPart II: Landscape and Nature4. On the Misery of Nature and the Nature of Misery: W. G. Sebald's Landscapes--Greg Bond5. Econcentrism in Sebald's After Nature--Colin Riordan6. Ruins and Poetics in the Works of W. G. Sebald--Simon WardPart III: Travel and Walking7. Reading Room: Erosion and Sedimentation in Sebald's Suffolk--John Beck8. Textual Wanderings: A Vertiginous Reading of W. G. Sebald--Massimo Leone9. Sebald's Uncanny Travels: The Impossibility of Getting Lost--John ZilcoskyPart IV: Intertextuality and Intermediality10. Infinite Journey: From Kafka to Sebald--Martin Klebes11. Architecture and Cinema: The Representation of Memory in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz--Russell J. A. Kilbourn12. Traumatic Photographs: Remembrance and the Technical Media in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz--Carolin DuttlingerPart V: Haunting, Trauma, Memory13. Taboo and Repression in W. G. Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction--Wilfried Wilms14. Seeing Things: Spectres and Angels in W. G. Sebald's Prose Fiction--Jan Ceuppens15. Facing the Past and the Female Spectre in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants--Maya BarzilaiNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex
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University of Washington Press W. G. Sebald A Critical Companion
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsA Note on References and TranslationsW. G. Sebald ChronologyPart I: Contexts1. Introduction--J. J. Long and Anne Whitehead2. Meeting Austerlitz--George Szirtes3. Theoretical Reflections on the Work of W. G. Sebald--Martin SwalesPart II: Landscape and Nature4. On the Misery of Nature and the Nature of Misery: W. G. Sebald's Landscapes--Greg Bond5. Econcentrism in Sebald's After Nature--Colin Riordan6. Ruins and Poetics in the Works of W. G. Sebald--Simon WardPart III: Travel and Walking7. Reading Room: Erosion and Sedimentation in Sebald's Suffolk--John Beck8. Textual Wanderings: A Vertiginous Reading of W. G. Sebald--Massimo Leone9. Sebald's Uncanny Travels: The Impossibility of Getting Lost--John ZilcoskyPart IV: Intertextuality and Intermediality10. Infinite Journey: From Kafka to Sebald--Martin Klebes11. Architecture and Cinema: The Representation of Memory in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz--Russell J. A. Kilbourn12. Traumatic Photographs: Remembrance and the Technical Media in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz--Carolin DuttlingerPart V: Haunting, Trauma, Memory13. Taboo and Repression in W. G. Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction--Wilfried Wilms14. Seeing Things: Spectres and Angels in W. G. Sebald's Prose Fiction--Jan Ceuppens15. Facing the Past and the Female Spectre in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants--Maya BarzilaiNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex
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University of Washington Press 100 Danish Poems
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St Martin's Press Natashas Dance A Cultural History of Russia
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Random House USA Inc Building A Bridge To 18th Century How the Past
Book SynopsisIn Building a Bridge to the 18th Century, acclaimed cultural critic Neil Postman offers a cure for the hysteria and hazy values of the postmodern world.Postman shows us how to reclaim that balance between mind and machine in a dazzling celebration of the accomplishments of the Enlightenment-from Jefferson's representative democracy to Locke's deductive reasoning to Rousseau's demand that the care and edification of children be considered an investment in our collective future. Here, too, is the bold assertion that Truth is invulnerable to fashion or the passing of time. Provocative and brilliantly argued, Building a Bridge to the 18th Century illuminates a navigable path through the Information Age-a byway whose signposts, it turns out, were there all along.
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Holy War
Book SynopsisThe New York Times bestselling author of A History of God skillfully narrates the history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and continuing influence.Holy War brings compassion, objectivity, breadth, and imagination to the most urgent crisis of our time. —The Boston Phoenix In 1095 Pope Urban II summoned Christian warriors to take up the cross and reconquer the Holy Land. Thus began the holy wars that would focus the power of Europe against a common enemy and become the stuff of romantic legend. In reality the Crusades were a series of rabidly savage conflicts in the name of piety. And, as Armstrong demonstrates in this fascinating book, their legacy of religious violence continues today in the Middle East, where the age-old conflict of Christians, Jews, and Muslims persists.
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The University of Michigan Press Understanding Cultural Narratives
Book SynopsisFeatures poems and excerpts from the work of well-known authors - including Isabel Allende, Gloria Anzaldua, Jhumpa Lahiri, V S Naipul, Pablo Neruda, and Zadie Smith - to explore questions and feelings that are part of identity formation in a second culture.
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The University of Michigan Press Immersions in Cultural Difference
Book SynopsisIn a time of intensifying xenophobia and anti-immigration measures, this book examines the impulse to acquire a deeper understanding of cultural others. Immersions in Cultural Difference takes readers into the heart of immersive simulations. The author queries the ethical stakes of these encounters, including her own in relation to the field research she undertakes.Trade ReviewThe diversity of the detailed and often gripping case studies, and their presentation in theoretically appropriate contexts, make for an original and thought-provoking take on how performance is deployed far beyond the cultural sector. Why simulations have become so pervasive and, at the same time, so often troubling forms the core of Alvarez’s discussion. The book’s attentiveness to political, ethical and moral questions is both admirable and important."" - Susan Bennett, University of Calgary""Meticulous in its research and field work, its theorization, and its interrogative self-positioning, Immersions in Cultural Difference also provides a compelling experience that takes the reader through the complexities of immersive simulation… a major contribution to performance studies."" - Ric Knowles, University of Guelph
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The University of Michigan Press Indian Sound Cultures Indian Sound Citizenship
Book SynopsisThe sounds of India are inextricably tied to issues of citizenship, identity, and belonging
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The University of Michigan Press A Users Guide to German Cultural Studies
Book SynopsisCapitalizes on the ripeness of the German case for interdisciplinary investigation
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