Essayism

Author : E. Berry
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0312299710
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transcultural Experiments written by E. Berry and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-10-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary processes of globalization have had a profound impact on cultural production and dissemination both intra- and cross-culturally. The dissemination of cultures on a global scale has led to multiple and complex effects, among them the formation of radical new modes of cultural interaction, transcultural flows, and hybridized knowledges, forms not easily understandable in terms of traditional models of discrete national or ethnic cultures/subcultures. Transcultural Experiments develops new scholarly and creative strategies out of this intersection of cultural traditions, specifically in Russia and the United States. Ellen E. Berry and Mikhail N. Epstein define and enact a transcultural method as an alternative to the legacies of cultural divisions and hegemony that have dominated both Western and Second Worlds. The book introduces a system of original concepts and genres of writing that will help in mapping twenty-first century global culture: 'transculture' (vs. multiculturalism), 'interference' (vs. difference), 'potentiation' (vs. deconstruction), ethics of imagination, and collective improvisation. The authors make a revolutionary argument in cultural studies that will be of profound interest to anyone concerned with finding new modes of intercultural communication between the former First and Second Worlds.

Author : Mikhail N. Epstein
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782388648
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Postmodernism written by Mikhail N. Epstein and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent decades have been decisive for Russia not only politically but culturally as well. The end of the Cold War has enabled Russia to take part in the global rise and crystallization of postmodernism. This volume investigates the manifestations of this crucial trend in Russian fiction, poetry, art, and spirituality, demonstrating how Russian postmodernism is its own unique entity. It offers a point of departure and valuable guide to an area of contemporary literary-cultural studies insufficiently represented in English-language scholarship. This second edition includes additional essays on the topic and a new introduction examining the most recent developments.

Author : Elizabeth Papazian
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231851030
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essay Film written by Elizabeth Papazian and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its increasing presence in a continuously evolving media environment, the essay film as a visual form raises new questions about the construction of the subject, its relationship to the world, and the aesthetic possibilities of cinema. In this volume, authors specializing in various national cinemas (Cuban, French, German, Israeli, Italian, Lebanese, Polish, Russian, American) and critical approaches (historical, aesthetic, postcolonial, feminist, philosophical) explore the essay film and its consequences for the theory of cinema while building on and challenging existing theories. Taking as a guiding principle the essay form's dialogic, fluid nature, the volume examines the potential of the essayistic to question, investigate, and reflect on all forms of cinema—fiction film, popular cinema, and documentary, video installation, and digital essay. A wide range of filmmakers are covered, from Dziga Vertov (Man with a Movie Camera, 1928), Chris Marker (Description of a Struggle, 1960), Nicolás Guillén Landrián (Coffea Arábiga, 1968), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Notes for an African Oresteia, 1969), Chantal Akerman (News from Home, 1976) and Jean-Luc Godard (Notre musique, 2004) to Nanni Moretti (Palombella Rossa, 1989), Mohammed Soueid (Civil War, 2002), Claire Denis (L'Intrus, 2004) and Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life, 2011), among others. The volume argues that the essayistic in film—as process, as experience, as experiment—opens the road to key issues faced by the individual in relation to the collective, but can also lead to its own subversion, as a form of dialectical thought that gravitates towards crisis.

Author : Mikhail·鏓pshte鎖n
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571810281
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Postmodernism written by Mikhail·鏓pshte鎖n and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last ten years were decisive for Russia, not only in the political sphere, but also culturally as this period saw the rise and crystallization of Russian postmodernism. The essays, manifestos, and articles gathered here investigate various manifestations of this crucial cultural trend. Exploring Russian fiction, poetry, art, and spirituality, they provide a point of departure and a valuable guide to an area of contemporary literary-cultural studies which is currently insufficiently represented in English-language scholarship. A brief but useful "Who's Who in Russian Postmodernism" as an appendix introduces many authors who have never before appeared in a reference work of this kind and renders this book essential reading for those interested in the latest trends in Russian intellectual life.

Author : Michael André Bernstein
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810117747
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Portraits written by Michael André Bernstein and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Five Portraits, one of the most acute critical thinkers of our time presents essays on five of the most important writers of the past hundred years. The result is a remarkable examination of a moment of cultural crisis - a time when these writers, caught between the dream of creating an abiding masterpiece and the reality of a brutal culture fascinated by apocalyptic catastrophe, deliberately put themselves and their work at the center of the storm." --Book Jacket.

Author : Thomas Karshan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191017531
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Essays written by Thomas Karshan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montaigne called it a ramble; Chesterton the joke of literature; and Hume an ambassador between the worlds of learning and of conversation. But what is an essay, and how did it emerge as a literary form? What are the continuities and contradictions across its history, from Montaigne's 1580 Essais through the familiar intimacies of the Romantic essay, and up to more recent essayists such as Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, and Claudia Rankine? Sometimes called the fourth genre, the essay has been over-shadowed in literary history by fiction, poetry, and drama, and has proved notoriously resistant to definition. On Essays reveals in the essay a pattern of paradox: at once a pedagogical tool and a refusal of the methodical languages of universities and professions; politically engaged but retired and independent; erudite and anti-pedantic; occasional and enduring; intimate and oratorical; allusive and idiosyncratic. Perhaps because it is a form of writing against which literary scholarship has defined itself, there has been surprisingly little work on the tradition of the essay. Neither a comprehensive history nor a student companion, On Essays is a series of seventeen elegantly written essays on authors and aspects in the history of the genre — essays which, taken together, form the most substantial book yet published on the essay in Britain and America.

Author : Cor Hermans
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004341803
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interbellum Literature written by Cor Hermans and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Interbellum Literature Cor Hermans offers an overview of modernist writing in the interwar years. The ideas embodied in the personalities and works of Proust, Woolf, Joyce, Kafka, Musil, Beckett, Céline and others are captured in a new synthesis.

Author : Mark M. Freed
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441122516
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Musil and the NonModern written by Mark M. Freed and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positions Robert Musil's theory and writings within recent critical accounts of modernism and brings him into dialogue with continental philosophy.

Author : Christian Emden
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039101702
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science, Technology and the German Cultural Imagination written by Christian Emden and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of conference papers highlights the connections between developments in technology and scientific thought since the 16th century on the one hand, and the ways in which the creative imagination of literary writers has responded to those developments on the other.

Author : Patrizia McBride
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810121093
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Void of Ethics written by Patrizia McBride and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description