Author: Publisher: Marcombo
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Marcombo
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Odisea nº 6: Revista de estudios ingleses
Author: José Ramón Ibáñez IbáñezPublisher: Universidad Almería
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Revista de Estudios Ingleses es un anuario dirigido y gestionado por miembros del Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana de la Universidad de Almería con el propósito de ofrecer un foro de intercambio de producción científica en campos del conocimiento tan diversos como la lengua inglesa, literatura en lengua inglesa, didáctica del inglés, traducción, inglés para fines específicos y otros igualmente vinculados a los estudios ingleses.
Bodycheck
Author: Luk van den DriesPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042014909
Category : Human figure in art
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In ice hockey, the term body check refers to a specific move to gain control. It is a blow from body to body, a dynamic clash of physical strength, which will determine the course of the game. In this book, too, the body is checked and there is physical confrontation. Not in the hockey ring, but on stage. This book deals with the body in contemporary (performing) arts. The focus is on exploring theoretical avenues and developing new concepts to grasp corporeal images more accurately. This theoretical research is confronted with the voice of artists whose work explicitly deals with the body. In-depth interviews with a.o. Meg Stuart, Wim Vandekeybus, Romeo Castellucci, Jerôme Bel reveal a very broad range of views on the (re)presentation of the body in today's performing arts. The combination of these two voices -the theoretician's and the artist's -shows that research by artists and cultural scientists is perfectly complementary.
Post-Global Aesthetics
Author: Gesine MüllerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110762218
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Phenomena such as the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, or the surge of political populism show that the current phase of accelerated globalization is over. New concepts are needed in order to respond to this exhaustion of the global project: the volume scrutinizes these responses in the aesthetic realm and under a "post-global" banner, while incorporating alternative, non-Western epistemologies and literatures of the post-colonial Global South.
Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe
Author: Robert MuchembledPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521845483
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
A ground-breaking reassessment of the status of information in early modern Europe, first published in 2007.
Handbook of Latin American Studies Vol. 75
Author: Katherine D. McCannPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477322787
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 701
Book Description
The 2021 volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American Studies.
Infelicities
Author: Peter MasonPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801858802
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In Infelicities Peter Mason explores the texts, paintings, drawings, photographs, and museum displays in which the exotic has been represented from the early modern period to the present. He describes the unique iconography that Europeans developed to convey the exotic and the means they employed to display it once artifacts were brought to Europe. In both instances, the exotic object is taken out of its original context and given a meaning and significance it never had; this new meaning and significance, Mason argues, are derived from the imposition of European cultural values and the need to recontextualize the object in a European setting.
Diccionario universal de fisica
Author: Mathurin-Jacques BrissonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Research Handbook on Transparency
Author: Padideh Ala’iPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1781007942
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
The expert contributors identify the goals, purposes and ramifications of transparency while presenting both its advantages and shortcomings. Through this framework, they explore transparency from a number of international and comparative perspectives.
The Universal Vampire
Author: Barbara BrodmanPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611475805
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Since the publication of John Polidori's The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even before its entrance into the realm of arts and letters in the early nineteenth century, the vampire was a feared creature of Eastern European folklore and legend, rising from the grave at night to consume its living loved ones and neighbors, often converting them at the same time into fellow vampires. A major question exists within vampire scholarship: to what extent is this creature a product of European cultural forms, or is the vampire indeed a universal, perhaps even archetypal figure? In this collection of sixteen original essays, the contributors shed light on this question. One essay traces the origins of the legend to the early medieval Norse draugr, an "undead" creature who reflects the underpinnings of Dracula, the latter first appearing as a vampire in Anglo-Irish Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula. In addition to these investigations of the Western mythic, literary and historic traditions, other essays in this volume move outside Europe to explore vampire figures in Native American and Mesoamerican myth and ritual, as well as the existence of similar vampiric traditions in Japanese, Russian and Latin American art, theatre, literature, film, and other cultural productions. The female vampire looms large, beginning with the Sumerian goddess Lilith, including the nineteenth-century Carmilla, and moving to vampiresses in twentieth-century film, literature, and television series. Scientific explanations for vampires and werewolves constitute another section of the book, including eighteenth-century accounts of unearthing, decapitation and cremation of suspected vampires in Eastern Europe. The vampire's beauty, attainment of immortality and eternal youth are all suggested as reasons for its continued success in contemporary popular culture.
