Honor, Face, and Violence: Cross-Cultural Literary Representations of Honor Cultures and Face Cultures, Michael Steppat, Mine Krause, Yan SUN

Автор: Ren? Girard
Название: Violence and the Sacred
ISBN: 1472520815 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472520814
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Violence and the Sacred is Rene Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek tragedy and the lynchings and pogroms propagated by contemporary states illustrate his central argument that violence belongs to everyone and is at the heart of the sacred.

Автор: Francoise Lartillot, Ulrich Pfeil
Название: Constructions de l`espace dans les cultures d`expression allemande
ISBN: 3034306008 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034306003
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: L’existence humaine n’est pas seulement conditionnee par le temps, mais aussi par l’espace, tel fut le constat du « spatial turn », rendant necessaire un inflechissement de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales. En effet, la dimension spatiale est eminemment culturelle, et dans toutes les cultures, la mise en relation de soi avec le monde est liee a une donnee spatiale et locale. Les aires d’expression allemande forment un objet privilegie d’etude, permettant de degager des tendances se manifestant dans la construction de l’espace. En effet, il n’y a guere de pays qui ont connu autant de transformations profondes de leur espace et de leurs limites. Dans cette perspective, les auteurs de ce livre s’interrogent sur la maniere dont les espaces et leurs representations se construisent, se transmettent et se perpetuent. Ils interrogent les interactions entre les experiences directes et les necessites pratiques, les codes et les vecteurs culturels du savoir sur l’espace, les identites et les projections. Ce livre contient des contributions en francais et en allemand.

Автор: Caroline Davis
Название: Print Cultures
ISBN: 0230280900 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230280908
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This reader is the most comprehensive selection of key texts on twentieth and twenty-first century print culture yet compiled. Illuminating the networks and processes that have shaped reading, writing and publishing, the selected extracts also examine the effect of printed and digital texts on society. Featuring a general introduction to contemporary print culture and publishing studies, the volume includes 42 influential and innovative pieces of writing, arranged around themes such as authorship, women and print culture, colonial and postcolonial publishing and globalisation.  Offering a concise survey of critical work, this volume is an essential companion for students of Literature or Publishing with an interest in the history of the book.

Автор: Mayako Murai, Luciana Cardi
Название: Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures
ISBN: 0814345360 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814345368
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures seeks to "re-orient" the fairy tale across different cultures, media, and disciplines and proposes new approaches to the ever-expanding fairy-tale web in a global context with a special emphasis on non-Euro-American materials. Editors Mayako Murai and Luciana Cardi bring together emerging and established researchers in various disciplines from around the world to decenter existing cultural and methodological assumptions underlying fairy-tale studies and suggest new avenues into the increasingly complex world of fairy-tale cultures today. Divided into three parts, the fourteen essays cover a range of materials from Hawaiian wonder tales to Japanese heroine tales to Spanish fairy-tale film adaptation. Chapters include an invitation from Cristina Bacchilega to explore the possibilities related to the uncanny processes of both disorientation and re-orientation taking place in the "journeys" of wonder tales across multiple media and cultures. Aleksandra Szugajew's chapter outlines the strategies adopted by recent Hollywood live-action fairy-tale films to attract adult audiences and reveals how this new genre offers a form of global entertainment and a forum that invites reflection on various social and cultural issues in today's globalizing world. Katsuhiko Suganuma draws on queer theory and popular musicology to analyze the fairy-tale intertexts in the works of the Japanese all-female band Princess Princess and demonstrate that popular music can be a medium through which the queer potential of ostensibly heteronormative traditional fairy tales may emerge. Daniela Kato's chapter explores the ecological dimensions of Carter's literary fairy tale and offers an ecofeminist interpretation of a fairy-tale forest as a borderland that lies beyond the nature-culture dichotomy. Readers will find inspiration and new directions in the cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches to fairy tales provided by Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale .

Автор: Mayako Murai, Luciana Cardi
Название: Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures
ISBN: 0814345352 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814345351
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures seeks to "re-orient" the fairy tale across different cultures, media, and disciplines and proposes new approaches to the ever-expanding fairy-tale web in a global context with a special emphasis on non-Euro-American materials. Editors Mayako Murai and Luciana Cardi bring together emerging and established researchers in various disciplines from around the world to decenter existing cultural and methodological assumptions underlying fairy-tale studies and suggest new avenues into the increasingly complex world of fairy-tale cultures today. Divided into three parts, the fourteen essays cover a range of materials from Hawaiian wonder tales to Japanese heroine tales to Spanish fairy-tale film adaptation. Chapters include an invitation from Cristina Bacchilega to explore the possibilities related to the uncanny processes of both disorientation and re-orientation taking place in the "journeys" of wonder tales across multiple media and cultures. Aleksandra Szugajew's chapter outlines the strategies adopted by recent Hollywood live-action fairy-tale films to attract adult audiences and reveals how this new genre offers a form of global entertainment and a forum that invites reflection on various social and cultural issues in today's globalizing world. Katsuhiko Suganuma draws on queer theory and popular musicology to analyze the fairy-tale intertexts in the works of the Japanese all-female band Princess Princess and demonstrate that popular music can be a medium through which the queer potential of ostensibly heteronormative traditional fairy tales may emerge. Daniela Kato's chapter explores the ecological dimensions of Carter's literary fairy tale and offers an ecofeminist interpretation of a fairy-tale forest as a borderland that lies beyond the nature-culture dichotomy. Readers will find inspiration and new directions in the cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches to fairy tales provided by Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale .

Автор: David Kieran, Rebecca A. Adelman
Название: Remote Warfare: New Cultures of Violence
ISBN: 1517907470 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517907471
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare Drone warfare is now a routine, if not predominant, aspect of military engagement. Although this method of delivering violence at a distance has been a part of military arsenals for two decades, scholarly debate on remote warfare writ large has remained stuck in tired debates about practicality, efficacy, and ethics. Remote Warfare broadens the conversation, interrogating the cultural and political dimensions of distant warfare and examining how various stakeholders have responded to the reality of state-sponsored remote violence.The essays here represent a panoply of viewpoints, revealing overlooked histories of remoteness, novel methodologies, and new intellectual challenges. From the story arc of Homeland to redefining the idea of a “warrior,” these thirteen pieces consider the new nature of surveillance, similarities between killing with drones and gaming, literature written by veterans, and much more. Timely and provocative, Remote Warfare makes significant and lasting contributions to our understanding of drones and the cultural forces that shape and sustain them.Contributors: Syed Irfan Ashraf, U of Peshawar, Pakistan; Jens Borrebye Bjering, U of Southern Denmark; Annika Brunck, U of T?bingen; David A. Buchanan, U.S. Air Force Academy; Owen Coggins, Open U; Andreas Immanuel Graae, U of Southern Denmark; Brittany Hirth, Dickinson State U; Tim Jelfs, U of Groningen; Ann-Katrine S. Nielsen, Aarhus U; Nike Nivar Ortiz, U of Southern California; Michael Richardson, U of New South Wales; Kristin Shamas, U of Oklahoma; Sajdeep Soomal; Michael Zeitlin, U of British Columbia. 

Название: African Cultures and Literatures: A Miscellany
ISBN: 9042036478 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789042036475
Издательство: Brill
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Описание: Besides searching book reviews, an interview with the writer Tijan M. Sallah, a full report on the 6th Ethiopian International Film Festival, and a stimulating selection of creative writing (including a showcase of recent South African poetry), this issue of Matatu offers general essays on African women’s poetry, anglophone Cameroonian literature, and Zimbabwean fiction of the Gukurahundi period, along with studies of J.M. Coetzee, Kalpana Lalji, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Aminata Sow Fall, Wole Soyinka, and Yvonne Vera.The bulk of this issue, however, is given over to coverage of cultural and sociological topics from North Africa to the Cape, ranging from cultural identity in contemporary North Africa, two contributions on Kenyan naming ceremonies and initiation songs, and three studies of the function of Shona and Ndebele proverbs, to national history in Zimbabwean autobiography, traditional mourning dress of the Akans of Ghana, and the precolonial origins of traditional leadership in South Africa. Contributors: Jude Aigbe Agho, Nasima Ali, Uchenna Bethrand Anih, Aboneh Ashagrie, Francis T. Cheo, Gordon Collier, Abdel Karim Daragmeh, Geoffrey V. Davis, Nozizwe Dhlamini, Kola Eke, Phyllis Forster, Frances Hardie, James Hlongwana, Pede Hollist, John M. Kobia, Samuelson Freddie Khunou, Mea Lashbrooke, Maria J. Lopez, Brian Macaskill, Evans Mandova, Richard Sgadreck Maposa, Michael Mazuru, Corwin L. Mhlahlo. Zanoxolo Mnqobi Mkhize, Kobus Moolman, Thamsanqa Moyo, Felix M. Muchomba, Collins Kenga Mumbo, Tabitha Wanja Mwangi, Bhekezakhe Ncube, Christopher Joseph Odhiambo, Ode S. Ogede, H. Oby Okolocha, Wumi Raji, Dosia Reichhardt, Rashi Rohatgi, Kamal Salhi, Ekremah Shehab, Faith Sibanda, John A Stotesbury, Nick Mdika Tembo, Kenneth Usongo, Wellington Wasosa.

Автор: Adelman Rebecca A., Kieran David
Название: Remote Warfare: New Cultures of Violence
ISBN: 1517907489 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517907488
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare Drone warfare is now a routine, if not predominant, aspect of military engagement. Although this method of delivering violence at a distance has been a part of military arsenals for two decades, scholarly debate on remote warfare writ large has remained stuck in tired debates about practicality, efficacy, and ethics. Remote Warfare broadens the conversation, interrogating the cultural and political dimensions of distant warfare and examining how various stakeholders have responded to the reality of state-sponsored remote violence.The essays here represent a panoply of viewpoints, revealing overlooked histories of remoteness, novel methodologies, and new intellectual challenges. From the story arc of Homeland to redefining the idea of a “warrior,” these thirteen pieces consider the new nature of surveillance, similarities between killing with drones and gaming, literature written by veterans, and much more. Timely and provocative, Remote Warfare makes significant and lasting contributions to our understanding of drones and the cultural forces that shape and sustain them.Contributors: Syed Irfan Ashraf, U of Peshawar, Pakistan; Jens Borrebye Bjering, U of Southern Denmark; Annika Brunck, U of T?bingen; David A. Buchanan, U.S. Air Force Academy; Owen Coggins, Open U; Andreas Immanuel Graae, U of Southern Denmark; Brittany Hirth, Dickinson State U; Tim Jelfs, U of Groningen; Ann-Katrine S. Nielsen, Aarhus U; Nike Nivar Ortiz, U of Southern California; Michael Richardson, U of New South Wales; Kristin Shamas, U of Oklahoma; Sajdeep Soomal; Michael Zeitlin, U of British Columbia. 

Название: Mythes et erotismes dans les litteratures et les cultures francophones de l`extreme contemporain
ISBN: 9042037628 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789042037625
Издательство: Brill
Цена: 119540.00 T
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Описание: Mythes et erotismes propose une reflexion neuve sur l’Erotisme en rapprochant l’erotique et le mythe dans la production litteraire et culturelle de l’extreme contemporain. Par la diversite des themes et des ecrivains analyses, la multitude des approches et des points de vue theoriques, methodologiques et textuels proposes, l’ouvrage se veut une exploration profonde de la litterature erotique, une cartographie moderne des nouvelles tendances d’ecriture, masculine et feminine, et des mariages des genres de l’extreme contemporain. Le mythe de l’erotisme constitue un outil de l’ideologie, des croyances de la societe, un discours et un metadiscours. Par sa double approche epistemologique, du Mythe et de l’Erotisme, cette etude vise a renouveler les etudes feminines et les etudes de genre dans les litteratures et les cultures francaises et francophones.

Автор: Kolenda Karolina
Название: Englishness Revisited: Contemporary Literary Representations of English National and Cultural Identity
ISBN: 8323346046 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788323346043
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: This book discusses selected works of literature written in Great Britain in the final decades of the twentieth century in the context of contemporary debates on English national and cultural identity. It investigates how Peter Ackroyd, Julian Barnes, and Adam Thorpe address the issue of Englishness and how they revisit its traditional formulations

Автор: Gustavo Subero
Название: HIV in World Cultures: Three Decades of Representations
ISBN: 1409453987 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409453987
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book analyses the way that HIV/AIDS is often narrativised and represented in contemporary world cultures, as well as the different strategies of remembrance deployed by different (sub)cultural groups affected by the illness. Through a close study of a variety of cultural texts; including cinema, literature, theatre.

Автор: Sandy Alexandre
Название: The Properties of Violence: Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching
ISBN: 161703665X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781617036651
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Focuses on two connected issues: representations of lynching in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American photographs, poetry, and fiction; and the effects of those representations. Alexandre compellingly shows how putting representations of lynching in dialogue with the history of lynching uncovers the profound investment of African American literature.