Author: Raul P. Lejano
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027264279
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Raul P. Lejano offers a boldly original synthesis of narratology, psychology, and human geography. This helps him articulate his two main insights: that our identity as individuals, though not completely determined by sociocultural factors, nevertheless profoundly reflects our embeddedness in particular places; and that the way we think of, or would like to think of, our own identity is most readily captured in the stories we tell about ourselves. Most revealing of all, he suggests, are our stories about coming to grips with an entire city, especially when our experience of it is actually one of dislocation or relocation – when we in some sense or other “lose” a city to which we have hitherto belonged, or when we “find” a new one. By way of illustration the book includes four specially commissioned autobiographical stories by writers of Filipino origin, which Lejano’s analytical chapters compare and contrast with each other within his interdisciplinary frame of reference. At once learnedly sophisticated and readably empathetic, his commentaries are underpinned by a basically phenomenological orientation, which leads him to view human individuals as essentially relational beings, naturally inclined to enter into dialogue with both their fellow-creatures and the larger environment.
Narrative, Identity, and the City
Author: Raul P. Lejano
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027264279
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Raul P. Lejano offers a boldly original synthesis of narratology, psychology, and human geography. This helps him articulate his two main insights: that our identity as individuals, though not completely determined by sociocultural factors, nevertheless profoundly reflects our embeddedness in particular places; and that the way we think of, or would like to think of, our own identity is most readily captured in the stories we tell about ourselves. Most revealing of all, he suggests, are our stories about coming to grips with an entire city, especially when our experience of it is actually one of dislocation or relocation – when we in some sense or other “lose” a city to which we have hitherto belonged, or when we “find” a new one. By way of illustration the book includes four specially commissioned autobiographical stories by writers of Filipino origin, which Lejano’s analytical chapters compare and contrast with each other within his interdisciplinary frame of reference. At once learnedly sophisticated and readably empathetic, his commentaries are underpinned by a basically phenomenological orientation, which leads him to view human individuals as essentially relational beings, naturally inclined to enter into dialogue with both their fellow-creatures and the larger environment.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027264279
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Raul P. Lejano offers a boldly original synthesis of narratology, psychology, and human geography. This helps him articulate his two main insights: that our identity as individuals, though not completely determined by sociocultural factors, nevertheless profoundly reflects our embeddedness in particular places; and that the way we think of, or would like to think of, our own identity is most readily captured in the stories we tell about ourselves. Most revealing of all, he suggests, are our stories about coming to grips with an entire city, especially when our experience of it is actually one of dislocation or relocation – when we in some sense or other “lose” a city to which we have hitherto belonged, or when we “find” a new one. By way of illustration the book includes four specially commissioned autobiographical stories by writers of Filipino origin, which Lejano’s analytical chapters compare and contrast with each other within his interdisciplinary frame of reference. At once learnedly sophisticated and readably empathetic, his commentaries are underpinned by a basically phenomenological orientation, which leads him to view human individuals as essentially relational beings, naturally inclined to enter into dialogue with both their fellow-creatures and the larger environment.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Pennsylvania Records and Briefs: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
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Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Languages : en
Pages : 70
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The Exponent
Author: Iowa Engineering Society
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 884
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 884
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Turns of the Global, The
Author: Anna Maria Guasch
Publisher: Edicions Universitat Barcelona
ISBN: 8491683402
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
When we talk about the geographical, ecological, ethnographic, historical, documentary, and cosmopolitan “turns” in relation to the work of practitioners of contempory art, what exactly do we mean? Are we talking about a “reading strategy”? About an interpretive model, as would be derived from the linguistic turn of the 1970s, or rather about a stratigraphic structure that could be read across multiple cultural practices? Do we wish to read one system by means of another system, in a way that one nurtures the other so that it can open us up to other forms of being? Or is it rather about a generative movement in which a new horizon emerges in the process, leaving behind the practice that was its point of departure? The recurrence of “turn” in place of “style”, “-ism”, or “tendency” would ultimately respond to a clear urgency of the contemporary global world: a movement characterised by aesthetic pluralism, by the simultaneousness of various modi operandi, and by a great multiplicity of languages that constantly change their state while having many features in common. And “turn” would also allow within the space of the contemporary — of here and now —, a great diversity of stories from all around the world that should be confronted simultaneously in an intellectual outlook that is continuous and disjunctive, essential to understanding the present as a whole.
Publisher: Edicions Universitat Barcelona
ISBN: 8491683402
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
When we talk about the geographical, ecological, ethnographic, historical, documentary, and cosmopolitan “turns” in relation to the work of practitioners of contempory art, what exactly do we mean? Are we talking about a “reading strategy”? About an interpretive model, as would be derived from the linguistic turn of the 1970s, or rather about a stratigraphic structure that could be read across multiple cultural practices? Do we wish to read one system by means of another system, in a way that one nurtures the other so that it can open us up to other forms of being? Or is it rather about a generative movement in which a new horizon emerges in the process, leaving behind the practice that was its point of departure? The recurrence of “turn” in place of “style”, “-ism”, or “tendency” would ultimately respond to a clear urgency of the contemporary global world: a movement characterised by aesthetic pluralism, by the simultaneousness of various modi operandi, and by a great multiplicity of languages that constantly change their state while having many features in common. And “turn” would also allow within the space of the contemporary — of here and now —, a great diversity of stories from all around the world that should be confronted simultaneously in an intellectual outlook that is continuous and disjunctive, essential to understanding the present as a whole.
Fire and Water Engineering
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Category : Fire prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Category : Fire prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Consolidation of National Banking Associations, Etc
Author: United States Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Maximum City
Author: Michael Pye
Publisher: Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9780330320399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Maximum City is the biography of New York City. It has an exact purpose: to use the past to understand how New York came to be New York, and what we must do about it.
Publisher: Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9780330320399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Maximum City is the biography of New York City. It has an exact purpose: to use the past to understand how New York came to be New York, and what we must do about it.
Consolidation of National Banking Associations, Etc
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher:
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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The Exponent
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1302
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1302
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