"Where are your factories that produce culture? Where are your painters, your composers, your architects, your writers, your filmmakers?" The book opens with Leonardo da Vinci and Qin Shi Huang asking embarrassed contemporary policy makers these questions. The first part of the book is therefore devoted to elaborating a model for producing culture. The model takes into account both the role played by creativity in the production of culture in a technologically advanced knowledge society. The sec...
Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter (Dialogue, #6)
This collection of essays focuses on one of Harold Pinter's most popular and challenging plays, The Dumb Waiter, while addressing also a range of significant issues current in Pinter studies and which are applicable beyond this play. The interesting and provocative dialogues between established and emerging scholars featured here provide close readings of The Dumb Waiter, within relevant cultural and historical contexts and from a range of theoretical perspectives. The essays range over issues...
Deux constats appliques a l'oeuvre de Claude Simon sont au fondement de cette etude. En premier lieu, il convient de donner toute sa force a la conception simonienne de l'ecriture comme fabrication ; en second lieu, de mesurer l'ampleur des echos tisses de livre en livre et qui erigent lentement le " portrait d'une memoire ". Embrassant l'ensemble des romans simoniens, nous nous proposons d'analyser les enjeux de ces retours, aux manifestations proteiformes. Intimement liee a la poetique romanes...
The Mother in/and French Literature (French Literature, #27)
The essays in this volume investigate maternity and the figure of the mother in French literature from France, Switzerland, Quebec and Africa, from the seventeenth century to the present. Drawing on cultural history, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory, as well as more traditional methods, they present maternity as a source of frustration and of joy, mothers as repressed and revered, daughters as wounded and loving, sons as domineering and dependent. Indeed, few things are simple where mothers -...
Mother Teresa was one of the most written about and publicised women in modern times. Apart from Pope John Paul II, she was arguably the most advertised religious celebrity in the last quarter of the twentieth century. During her lifetime as well as posthumously, Mother Teresa continues to generate a huge level of interest and heated debate. Gezim Alpion explores the significance of Mother Teresa to the mass media, to celebrity culture, to the Church and to various political groups. A section ex...
Dans le palais des glaces de la litterature romande (Faux Titre, #227)
Du sommaire: Vittorio FRIGERIO: La litterature romande - un tour d'horizon. - Jerome MEIZOZ: Une langue perdue. - Monique LAEDERACH: Traductions du pays, traductions de France: quelles qualites? - David J. BOND: Jacques Chessex: la nature vue par un calviniste. - Habiba SEBKHI: L'apres-origines ou l'identite rhizomatique. - Bernard WILHELM: Dualite jurassienne dans l'ouvre d'Yvette Wagner-Berlincourt."
Goodbye Yeats and O'Neill is a reading of one or two books recently written by the following major authors: Roddy Doyle, Colm Toibin, John McGahern, William Trevor, Seamus Deane, Nuala O'Faolain, Patrick McCabe, Colum McCann, Nick Laird, Gerry Adams, Claire Boylan, Frank McCourt, Tim O'Brien, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Alice McDermott, Edward J. Delaney, Beth Lordan, William Kennedy, Thomas Kelly, and Mary Gordon. The study argues that farce has been a major mode of recent Irish and Irish-Americ...
Ce livre aborde pour la première fois la totalité de l'œuvre de Benoît Peeters, jeune écrivain franco-belge dont la production protéiforme illustre les changements radicaux que subissent aujourd'hui tant l'écriture littéraire que le métier d'écrivain. La production de Benoît Peeters échappe en effet de toutes parts à la notion d'œuvre et au concept d'auteur. Travaillant dans des genres et pour des publics on ne peut plus hétérogènes, mélangeant les médias, écrivant presque systématiquement en co...
The Extreme in Contemporary Culture (Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics)
by Pramod K Nayar
This is a study of vulnerability as a dominant cultural discourse today, especially as it manifests in 'extreme cultures'. These are cultural practices and representations of humans in risky, painful or life-threatening conditions where the limits of their humanity are tested, and producing heightened sensations of pain and pleasure. Extreme cultures in this book signal the social ontology of humans where, in specific conditions, vulnerability becomes helplessness. We see in these cultures the...
Katty Stewart, Elizabeth (Moosie), Walker Ellis and Walter Stauffer were socialites born in New Orleans around the turn of the 20th century. Among their ancestors were Confederate soldiers, plantation owners, self-made millionaires and even a U.S. President. This book tells the story of four flawed, socially connected people who used newspaper society columns to craft highly curated images of themselves. But the newspapers of the time did not include the more salacious, messy, complicated and se...
Latinos in the End Zone: Conversations on the Brown Color Line in the NFL (Latino Pop Culture)
by Frederick Luis Aldama
Cultural Struggles: Performance, Ethnography, Praxis
by Dwight Conquergood
Project Love launched their debut journal Goodbye 2018, Hello 2019 in November 2018 - an end-of-year guide that helps you to say a proper farewell to one year as it comes to an end and create a vision and a plan for the year to come. Since then, they have created the follow-ups Goodbye 2019, Hello 2020 and Goodbye 2020, Hello 2021. The next in the series, Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022 is a prompted journal that takes you on a journey to reflect on the year you've just been through and then make a pl...
"And Never Know the Joy" : Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry promises the reader much to enjoy and to reflect on: riddles and sex games; the grammar of relationships; the cunning psychology of bodily fantasies; sexuality as the ambiguous performance of words; the allure of music and its instruments; the erotics of death and remembrance, are just a few of the initial themes that emerge from the twenty-five articles to be found in this volume, with many an invitation "to seize the day". Reprod...
What do martial arts signify today? What do they mean for East-West cross cultural exchanges? How does the representation of martial arts in popular culture impact on the wide world? What is authentic practice? What does it all mean? From Kung Fu to Jiujitsu and from Bruce Lee to The Karate Kid, Mythologies of Martial Arts explores the key myths and ideologies in martial arts in contemporary popular culture. The book combines the author's practical, professional and academic experience of marti...
Le present ouvrage aborde la representation de la blessure, image recurrente dans la litterature du XXe siecle. Quatre oeuvres ecrites par des auteurs majeurs tels que Camus, Celine, Faulkner et Hemingway, sont mises en regard et permettent le va-et-vient que toute critique comparatiste se doit d'effectuer entre les textes et l'elaboration progressive du sens. Destine aux amateurs d'etudes comparatistes aussi bien qu'aux etudiants de litteratures francaise ou americaine, ce travail ne cherche pa...
Der vorliegende Band versammelt die Arbeiten von spanischen und oesterreichischen Literaturwissenschaftlern, die im Rahmen eines von Marisa Siguan (Universitat Barcelona) und Karl Wagner (Universitat Wien) geleiteten bilateralen Forschungsprojekts intertextuelle und interkulturelle Beziehungen zwischen oesterreichischer und spanischer Literatur im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert erforscht haben. Die Beitrage des Bandes konzentrieren auf folgende symptomatische Aspekte der literarisch-kulturellen Entwic...
Historische Kulturwissenschaften (Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften, #1)
A unique and timely exploration of the cultural impact of sport on American society, including lifestyles, language, and thinking.Sport in American Culture is the first and only reference work to provide an in-depth and up-to-date exploration of sport and its impact on American culture. Essays from more than 200 scholars, professionals, and sports enthusiasts address how sport has changed our lifestyles, language, and thinking.Arranged alphabetically, the work introduces key sport figures and na...
Neighbours or Enemies? (On the Boundary of Two Worlds, #12)
by John Hiden and Martyn Housden
This is the first attempt to redress the injustice done to the memory of German minorities by the popular equation of 'Lebensraum' and Nazism; minorities, many of whom chose to be neighbours rather than enemies and who over time peacefully shared with other nationalities the territorial space east of the Reich. Their borderland experiences, particularly in the Baltic region, the historic interface between East and West, are all the more relevant as Hitler's regime recedes into the past and Europ...
This work covers Scottish illicit distilling. It examines the historical events and legislation that gave rise to, and sustained, its "boom" years. During those times, the Scottish countryside, and even city centres, teemed with "sma' stills" and were awash with whiskey which had been distilled without payment of excise duty. It follows the fortunes of the illicit distillers as successive governments tried to prevent them from plying their trade, and chronicles its decline after the first quarte...