Culture and Sacrifice, Derek Hughes

Автор: Shirane Haruo
Название: Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons
ISBN: 0231152817 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231152815
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media. In "Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons," Haruo Shirane shows how, when, and why this practice developed and explicates the richly encoded social, religious, and political meanings of this imagery. Shirane discusses a wide array of representations of nature in the Japanese arts: textual (poetry, chronicles, tales), cultivated (gardens, flower arrangement), material (kimonos, screens), performative (noh, festivals), and gastronomic (tea ceremony, food rituals). He reveals how this kind of "secondary nature," which flourished in Japan`s urban environment, fostered and idealized a sense of harmony with the natural world just at the moment when nature began to recede from view. Illuminating the deeper meaning behind Japanese aesthetics and artifacts, Shirane also clarifies the use of natural and seasonal topics and the changes in their cultural associations and functions across history, genre, and community over more than a millennium. In this fascinating book, the four seasons are revealed to be as much a cultural construction as a reflection of the physical world.

Автор: Connelly
Название: The Grotesque in Western Art and Culture
ISBN: 1107629969 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107629967
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book establishes a fresh and expansive view of the grotesque in Western art and culture, from 1500 to the present day. By taking a historical perspective, the book reveals the grotesque to be a complex and continuous tradition comprising several distinct strands: the ornamental, carnivalesque, traumatic and profound.

Автор: Clark Katerina
Название: Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931-1941
ISBN: 0674057872 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674057876
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: The sixteenth-century monk Filofei proclaimed Moscow the Third Rome. By the 1930s, intellectuals and artists all over the world thought of Moscow as a mecca of secular enlightenment. Clark shows how Soviet officials and intellectuals sought to establish their capital as the Fourth Rome-a cosmopolitan post-Christian beacon for the rest of the world.

Автор: Karem, Jeff
Название: The purloined islands: Caribbean-U.S. crosscurrents in literature and culture 1880-1959
ISBN: 0813930863 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813930862
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Offers the first book-length exploration of literary and cultural exchanges between the United States and the Caribbean during the roughly eighty-year period of their greatest interaction, from the close of the Spanish-American War to the Cuban Revolution.

Автор: Burningham, Bruce R.
Название: Tilting Cervantes: Baroque reflections on postmodern culture
ISBN: 0826516025 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826516022
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Описание: Examines a number of contemporary cultural texts - from ""Fight Club"" and ""Toy Story"" to ""The Matrix"" and ""The Moor`s Last Sigh"" - by reflecting them against a cluster of early modern Spanish literary works, principally Miguel de Cervantes` ""Don Quixote"".

Автор: Hughes
Название: Culture and Sacrifice
ISBN: 1107402913 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107402911
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Human sacrifice has fascinated Western writers since the beginnings of European literature. Drawing on sources from literature and music, in this 2007 book Derek Hughes examines the representation of human sacrifice in Western culture from The Iliad to the invasion of Iraq.