Modernitys Metonyms

Author : Kate Marshall
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816684359
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corridor written by Kate Marshall and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corridor offers a series of conceptually provocative readings that illuminate a hidden and surprising relationship between architectural space and modern American fiction. By paying close attention to fictional descriptions of some of modernity’s least remarkable structures, such as plumbing, ductwork, and airshafts, Kate Marshall discovers a rich network of connections between corridors and novels, one that also sheds new light on the nature of modern media. The corridor is the dominant organizational structure in modern architecture, yet its various functions are taken for granted, and it tends to disappear from view. But, as Marshall shows, even the most banal structures become strangely visible in the noisy communication systems of American fiction. By examining the link between modernist novels and corridors, Marshall demonstrates the ways architectural elements act as media. In a fresh look at the late naturalist fiction of the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s, she leads the reader through the fetus-clogged sewers of Manhattan Transfer to the corpse-choked furnaces of Native Son and reveals how these invisible spaces have a fascinating history in organizing the structure of modern persons. Portraying media as not only objects but processes, Marshall develops a new idiom for Americanist literary criticism, one that explains how media studies can inform our understanding of modernist literature.

Author : Michael Phillipson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351995898
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Revivals: In Modernity's Wake (1989) written by Michael Phillipson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, this book attempts to tackle the problem of how to write about art, culture, and the issues of postmodernism in a style appropriate to what is being claimed. The letters are written on art’s behalf to a range of institutions and individuals, and have as their recurring concern the relation between art, culture and representation — both art as representation and how art is represented to, and for, the surrounding culture. They explore the context and viability of art through a range of themes, including writing, the aestheticisation of everyday life, style, design pleasure, fragmentation, hyphenation, technology, and the museum — drawing on materials from the visual arts, music, literature, post-structuralism, contemporary criticism, philosophy, and sociology.

Author : J R Smart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136788123
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Language And Literature written by J R Smart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers a range of literary and linguistic subjects from pre-Islamic times to the twentieth century.

Author : Karla Mallette
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081220526X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean written by Karla Mallette and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, scholars have vigorously reconsidered the history of Orientalism, and though Edward Said's hugely influential work remains a touchstone of the discussion, Karla Mallette notes, it can no longer be taken as the final word on Western perceptions of the Islamic East. The French and British Orientalisms that Said studied in particular were shaped by the French and British colonial projects in Muslim regions; nations that did not have such investments in the Middle East generated significantly different perceptions of Islamic and Arabic culture. European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean examines Orientalist philological scholarship of southern Europe produced between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth century. In Italy, Spain, and Malta, Mallette argues, a regional history of Arab occupation during the Middle Ages gave scholars a focus different from that of their northern European colleagues; in studying the Arab world, they were not so much looking on a distant and radically different history as seeking to reconstruct the past of their own nations. She demonstrates that in specific instances, Orientalists wrote their nations' Arab history as the origin of modern national identity, depicting Islamic thought not as exterior to European modernity but rather as formative of and central to it. Joining comparative insights to the analytic strategies and historical genius of philology, Mallette ranges from the complex manuscript history of the Thousand and One Nights to the invention of the Maltese language and Spanish scholarship on Dante and Islam. Throughout, she reveals the profound influences Arab and Islamic traditions have had on the development of modern European culture. European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean is an engaging study that sheds new light on the history of Orientalism, the future of philology, and the postcolonial Middle Ages.

Author : Jost Hermand
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 029921933X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sound Figures of Modernity written by Jost Hermand and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich conceptual and experiential relays between music and philosophy—echoes of what Theodor W. Adorno once called Klangfiguren, or "sound figures"—resonate with heightened intensity during the period of modernity that extends from early German Idealism to the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. This volume traces the political, historical, and philosophical trajectories of a specifically German tradition in which thinkers take recourse to music, both as an aesthetic practice and as the object of their speculative work. The contributors examine the texts of such highly influential writers and thinkers as Schelling, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bloch, Mann, Adorno, and Lukács in relation to individual composers including Beethoven, Wagner, Schönberg, and Eisler. Their explorations of the complexities that arise in conceptualizing music as a mode of representation and philosophy as a mode of aesthetic practice thematize the ways in which the fields of music and philosophy are altered when either attempts to express itself in terms defined by the other. Contributors: Albrecht Betz, Lydia Goehr, Beatrice Hanssen, Jost Hermand, David Farrell Krell, Ludger Lütkehaus, Margaret Moore, Rebekah Pryor Paré, Gerhard Richter, Hans Rudolf Vaget, Samuel Weber

Author : Julia A. Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108833063
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performance and Modernity written by Julia A. Walker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that ideas first take shape in the human body, appearing on stage in new styles of performance.

Author : Burton Visotzky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429968906
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Mesopotamia To Modernity written by Burton Visotzky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Mesopotamia to Modernity is a one volume introduction to both Jewish history and literature from its earliest times up to the present. Leading experts in each field of Jewish history and literature contribute original and comprehensive essays introducing their subjects. Beginning readers will learn the rudiments for further study, and scholars will be refreshed by the balanced, yet challenging treatments found here.These introductory essays cover most major aspects of Jewish studies from the Bible and its time up to modern Judaism. The work is designed to serve undergraduate and graduate courses in Judaism as well as Church and Synagogue adult study courses. Ideal for reading groups, this work will lead readers to further study of the varied subjects considered. Each essay covers the basic field, be it in a given era of Jewish history or in a defined area of Jewish literature. Suggestions for further reading will assist the reader in moving beyond this volume to explore a given area in further detail. The introductions range from encyclopedic detail through elegiac essay and enthusiastic appreciation of the field considered. The authors hold positions in major academic institutions throughout the United States and Israel.

Author : Alberto Gabriele
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137561483
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity written by Alberto Gabriele and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book maps out the temporal and geographic coordinates of the trope of sensationalism in the long nineteenth century through a comparative approach. Not only juxtaposing different geographical areas (Europe, Asia and Oceania), this volume also disperses its history over a longue durée, allowing readers to perceive the hidden and often unacknowledged continuities throughout a period that is often reduced to the confines of the national disciplines of literature, art, and cultural studies. Providing a wide range of methodological approaches from the fields of literary studies, art history, sociology of literature, and visual culture, this collection offers indispensable examples of the relation between literature and several other media. Topics include the rhetorical tropes of popular culture, the material culture of clothing, the lived experience of performance as a sub-text of literature and painting, and the redefinition of spatiality and temporality in theory, art, and literature.

Author : Waltraud Ernst
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134736010
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000 written by Waltraud Ernst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research into 'colonial' or 'imperial' medicine has made considerable progress in recent years, whilst the study of what is usually referred to as 'indigenous' or 'folk' medicine in colonized societies has received much less attention. This book redresses the balance by bringing together current critical research into medical pluralism during the last two centuries. It includes a rich selection of historical, anthropological and sociological case-studies that cover many different parts of the globe, ranging from New Zealand to Africa, China, South Asia, Europe and the USA.

Author : Lin Foxhall
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118234456
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and the City before Modernity written by Lin Foxhall and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and the City before Modernity presents a series of multi-disciplinary readings that explore issues relating to the role of gender in a variety of cities of the ancient, medieval, and early modern worlds. Presents an inter-disciplinary collection of readings that reveal new insights into the intersection of gender, temporality, and urban space Features a wide geographical and methodological range Includes numerous illustrations to enhance clarity