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Название: Beholding Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
ISBN: 1138251615 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138251618
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Описание: Interested in the ways in which medieval and early modern communities have acted as participants, observers, and interpreters of events and how they ascribed meaning to them, the essays in this interdisciplinary collection explore the concept of beholding and the experiences of individual and collective beholders of violence during the period. Addressing a range of medieval and early modern art forms, including visual images, material objects, literary texts, and performances, the contributors examine the complexities of viewing and the production of knowledge within cultural, political, and theological contexts. In considering new methods to examine the process of beholding violence and the beholder's perspective, this volume addresses such questions as: How does the process of beholding function in different aesthetic conditions? Can we speak of such a thing as the 'period eye' or an acculturated gaze of the viewer? If so, does this particularize the gaze, or does it risk universalizing perception? How do violence and pleasure intersect within the visual and literary arts? How can an understanding of violence in cultural representation serve as means of knowing the past and as means of understanding and potentially altering the present?

Автор: Curtin Adrian
Название: Avant-Garde Theatre Sound
ISBN: 1137324783 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137324788
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Описание: Sound experimentation by avant-garde theatre artists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries is an important but ignored aspect of theatre history. Curtin explores how artists engaged with the sonic conditions of modernity through dramatic form, characterization, staging, technology, performance style, and other forms of interaction.

Автор: Carney Jason Ray
Название: Weird Tales of Modernity: The Ephemerality of the Ordinary in the Stories of Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and H.P. Lovecraft
ISBN: 1476668035 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476668031
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Literary artists such T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf loom large in most accounts of the literary art of the first half of the 20th century. And yet, working in the shadows casts by these modernists were science fiction, horror, and fantasy writers like the "Weird Tales Three": H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard.

Автор: Clark
Название: Blake, Modernity and Popular Culture
ISBN: 0230008445 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230008441
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Описание: This book explores the ways in which Blake reacted to the subcultures of his day, as well as how he has inspired popular, modernist and postmodernist figures until the present day. Blake`s influence on later generations of writers and artists is more important than ever, extending into film, psychology, children`s literature and graphic novels.

Автор: Brooker
Название: Modernity and Metropolis
ISBN: 0333801687 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333801680
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Описание: A study of urban identity and community looks at selected twentieth century literary and film texts in the context of theorizations of modernism, postmodernism, postcoloniality and globalization. Brooker draws on Beck and Giddens to propose a `reflexive modernism` which rewrites and re-imagines the urban scene.

Автор: Dinerstein, Joel,
Название: Swinging the machine :
ISBN: 1558493832 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781558493834
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Описание: During the interwar period in 20th century America, innovative forms of music and dance helped a newly urbanized population cope with the increased mechanization of modern life. This work argues that it was African American culture that ultimately provided the means of this social adaptation.

Автор: Joskowicz Ari
Название: Modernity of Others
ISBN: 0804787026 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804787024
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The most prominent story of nineteenth-century German and French Jewry has focused on Jewish adoption of liberal middle-class values. The Modernity of Others points to an equally powerful but largely unexplored aspect of modern Jewish history: the extent to which German and French Jews sought to become modern by criticizing the anti-modern positions of the Catholic Church. Drawing attention to the pervasiveness of anti-Catholic anticlericalism among Jewish thinkers and activists from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, the book turns the master narrative of Western and Central European Jewish history on its head. From the moment in which Jews began to enter the fray of modern European politics, they found that Catholicism served as a convenient foil that helped them define what it meant to be a good citizen, to practice a respectable religion, and to have a healthy family life. Throughout the long nineteenth century, myriad Jewish intellectuals, politicians, and activists employed anti-Catholic tropes wherever questions of political and national belonging were at stake: in theoretical treatises, parliamentary speeches, newspaper debates, the founding moments of the Reform movement, and campaigns against antisemitism.

Автор: Sterenberg Matthew
Название: Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain
ISBN: 1137354968 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137354969
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Описание: A variety of thinkers used the concept of myth to articulate their anxieties about modernity. By telling the story of mythic thinking in Britain from its origins in Victorian social anthropology to its postwar cultural mainstreaming, this book reveals a yearning for transcendence in an age long assumed to be disenchanted.

Автор: John B. Lyon
Название: Out of Place: German Realism, Displacement and Modernity
ISBN: 1441133402 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441133403
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: In late nineteenth-century Germany, the onset of modernity transformed how people experienced place. In response to increased industrialization and urbanization, the expansion of international capitalism, and the extension of railway and other travel networks, the sense of being connected to a specific place gave way to an unsettling sense of displacement. Out of Place analyzes the works of three major representatives of German Realism-Wilhelm Raabe, Theodor Fontane, and Gottfried Keller-within this historical context. It situates the perceived loss of place evident in their texts within the contemporary discourse of housing and urban reform, but also views such discourse through the lens of twentienth-century theories of place. Informed by both phenomenological (Heidegger and Casey) as well as Marxist (Deleuze, Guattari, and Benjamin) approaches to place, John B. Lyon highlights the struggle to address issues of place and space that reappear today in debates about environmentalism, transnationalism, globalization, and regionalism.

Название: Travel Writing in Dutch and German, 1790-1930
ISBN: 1138999504 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138999503
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Описание: This volume focuses on how travel writing contributed to cultural and intellectual exchange in and between the Dutch- and German-speaking regions from the 1790s to the twentieth-century interwar period. Drawing on a hitherto largely overlooked body of travelers whose work ranges across what is now Germany and Austria, the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking Belgium, the Dutch East Indies and Suriname, the contributors highlight the interrelations between the regional and the global and the role alterity plays in both spheres. They therefore offer a transnational and transcultural perspective on the ways in which the foreign was mediated to audiences back home. By combining a narrative perspective on travel writing with a socio-historically contextualized approach, essays emphasize the importance of textuality in travel literature as well as the self-positioning of such accounts in their individual historical and political environments. The first sustained analysis to focus specifically on these neighboring cultural and linguistic areas, this collection demonstrates how topographies of knowledge were forged across these regions by an astonishingly diverse range of travelling individuals from professional scholars and writers to art dealers, soldiers, (female) explorers, and scientific collectors. The contributors address cultural, aesthetic, political, and gendered aspects of travel writing, drawing productively on other disciplines and areas of scholarly research that encompass German Studies, Low Countries Studies, comparative literature, aesthetics, the history of science, literary geography, and the history of publishing.

Автор: Macnamara, Trent (
Название: Birth control and american modernity
ISBN: 1316519589 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316519585
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: With a novel focus on the words and deeds of ordinary Americans, Trent MacNamara explores the democratic underpinnings of birth control`s legitimacy in America. He charts a mass movement in which men as well as women built a new reproductive ethic around hotly contested ideas about time, money, divinity, family, and health.

Автор: Kimaid Michael
Название: Modernity, Metatheory, and the Temporal-Spatial Divide: From Mythos to Techne
ISBN: 1138832618 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138832619
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Описание: This book is about how modernity affects our perceptions of time and space. Its main argument is that geographical space is used to control temporal progress by channeling it to benefit particular political, economic and social interests, or by halting it altogether. By incorporating the ancient Greek myth of the Titanomachy as a conceptual metaphor to explore the elemental ideas of time and space, the author argues that hegemonic interests have developed spatial hierarchy into a comprehensive system of technocratic monoculture, which interrupts temporal development in order to maintain exclusive power and authority. This spatial stasis is reinforced through the control of historical narratives and geographical settings. While increasingly comprehensive, the author argues that this state of affairs can best be challenged by focusing on the development of "unmappable places" which presently exist within the socio-spatial matrix of the modern world.