Sounds and Colours Argentina (Latin American Culture, #4)
Ariel Leve and Robin Morgan's oral history 1963: The Year of the Revolution is the first book to recount the kinetic story of the twelve months that witnessed a demographic power shift-the rise of the Youth Quake movement, a cultural transformation through music, fashion, politics, and the arts. Leve and Morgan detail how, for the first time in history, youth became a commercial and cultural force with the power to command the attention of government and religion and shape society. While the Co...
Consuming Religion (Class 200: New Studies in Religion)
by Kathryn Lofton
What are you drawn to like, to watch, or even to binge? What are you free to consume, and what do you become through consumption? These questions of desire and value, Kathryn Lofton argues, are at bottom religious questions. Whether or not you have been inside of a cathedral, a temple, or a seminary, you live in the frame of religion. In eleven essays exploring soap and office cubicles, Britney Spears and the Kardashians, corporate culture and Goldman Sachs, Lofton shows the conceptual levers of...
Kudiyattam Theatre and the Actor's Consciousness (Consciousness, Literature and the Arts)
Contributions by Joshua T. Anderson, Chad A. Barbour, Susan Bernardin, Mike Borkent, Jeremy M. Carnes, Philip Cass, Jordan Clapper, James J. Donahue, Dennin Ellis, Jessica Fontaine, Jonathan Ford, Lee Francis IV, Enrique Garcia, Javier Garcia Liendo, Brenna Clarke Gray, Brian Montes, Arij Ouweneel, Kevin Patrick, Candida Rifkind, Jessica Rutherford, and Jorge Santos Cultural works by and about Indigenous identities, histories, and experiences circulate far and wide. However, not all films, anima...
Subjectivity is one of the central issues of twentieth-century philosophy, literature and art. Modernism, which "discovered" the subconscious, put an end to the belief in the Cartesian Subject as the autonomous centre of knowledge and self-consciousness. Instead, the subject became something uncontrollable, unreliable, incomplete and fragmentary. The attempts to recapture the unity of the subject led to the existential quest and the flight into ideology (nazism, communism). Postmodernism, the cu...
Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has brought something distorted back into the present: in our popular entertainment; in our news, our politics, and our propaganda; and in subtler ways that inform how we think about our histories, our countries, and ourselves. Each author...
The Party of Democratic Socialism in Germany (German Monitor, #42)
The Party of Democratic Socialism in Germany, which includes the papers from the first conference on the PDS in Britain, brings together a range of scholars and politicians from Germany, Britain, France and the USA. It assesses the present position of the party within the German political system shortly before the second 'Superwahljahr' in Germany. It also examines its relations with other post-communist parties in Europe and evaluates the state of its relations with the other political parties...
The Mystery Play in Madame Bovary: Moeurs de Province (Chiasma, #26)
by Peter Rogers
Drawing upon Flaubert's fictional works, travel writings, correspondence, and notes on his reading of the Bible and interest in iconography, Rogers traces the presence of a liturgical drama, a mystery play, in a text known as iconic of the realist novel. Showing how Flaubert's use of religious tales, topoi, and imagery extends beyond his retelling of saints' lives in the Tentation de Saint Antoine and the Trois contes, this study elucidates the biblical and devotional subcurrent in the story of...
The Tapestry of Health, Illness and Disease (At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries)
Investigating Identities (Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, #56)
Divided Dreamworlds? (Studies of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation) (NIOD Studies on War, Holocaust, and Genocide, #5)
While the divide between capitalism and communism, embodied in the image of the Iron Curtain, seemed to be as wide and definitive as any cultural rift, Giles Scott-Smith, Joes Segal, and Peter Romijn have compiled a selection of essays on how culture contributed to the blurring of ideological boundaries between the East and the West. This important and diverse volume presents fascinating insights into the tensions, rivalries, and occasional cooperation between the two blocs, with essays that rep...
Cultural Commodities in Japanese Rural Revitalization (Social Sciences in Asia)
by A Rausch
A history of flattery, showing it to be an art form well worth studying. Ranging from the Pyramids of Ancient Egypt, an outrageous form of physical self-flattery to the publication of "How To Win Friends and Influence People". It looks at flattery during the Renaissance and President Clinton on the opening day of his impeachment inquiry: "I trust the American people. They almost always get it right".
Ecrire en pays assiege - Haiti - Writing under Siege (Francopolyphonies, #1)
Jacques Stephen Alexis, Jacques Roumain, Rene Depestre, Marie Chauvet, Franketienne, J. J. Dominique, Jean Metellus, Dany Laferriere, Yanick Lahens, Lyonel Trouillot et Edwidge Danticat sont quelques-uns des ecrivains haitiens dont l'ecriture est marquee par le contexte politique d'Haiti. Les regimes dictatoriaux ont, en effet, affecte l'espace creatif, imposant un certain nombre de contraintes auxquelles ces ecrivains, chacun a leur maniere, ont ingenieusement riposte et reagi. Ce recueil d'ess...
El relato breve en las letras hispanicas actuales (Foro Hispanico, #11)
En este numero se reunen nueve articulos ineditos sobre aspectos del relato breve (cuento y miccorrelato) en la literatura espanola e hispanoamericana del ultimo cuarto del siglo XX. Encabezan el volumen tres colaboraciones, agrupadas juntas sea por ser de orientacion esencialmente teorica e historica, sea por presentar una vision de conjunto de un genero en un pais. Los seis articulos que siguen son comentarios a obras particulares. Los nueve trabajos son representativos al constituir un conjun...
Literaturas de Espana 1975-1998 (Foro Hispanico, #14)
The young people defined as "Gen Xers" in the media and popular imagination almost never include poor or working-class young adults. These young people - a huge and important part of our society - are misrepresented and silent in our national conversation. In The Unknown City, Michelle Fine and Lois Weis offer a groundbreaking, theoretically sophisticated ethnography of the lives of young adults (ages 23 to 35), based on hundreds of interviews. We discover their views on everything from the cons...
Exposing the forces behind the decline of the rave scene in Philadelphia and elsewhere
Reexamining the National-Philological Legacy (Studia Imagologica, #22)
Has thinking, working and teaching in terms of national literatures become obsolete in today's globalized world of hyphenated languages, literatures and cultures? Since the rise of modern European national philologies coincided with the emergence of modern European nation-states, does the dissolution of the latter in the European supranational unity imply the suspension of the former? Or we must, on the contrary, consider the fact that today's Europe is not only postnational but, in its re-natio...