Situating Strangeness

Author : Vanessa Longden
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848884176
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Situating Strangeness: Exploring the Intersections between Bodies and Borders written by Vanessa Longden and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Callan Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100017431X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strangeness in Jacobean Drama written by Callan Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Callan Davies presents “strangeness” as a fresh critical paradigm for understanding the construction and performance of Jacobean drama—one that would have been deeply familiar to its playwrights and early audiences. This study brings together cultural analysis, philosophical enquiry, and the history of staged special effects to examine how preoccupation with the strange unites the verbal, visual, and philosophical elements of performance in works by Marston, Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker, Heywood, and Beaumont and Fletcher. Strangeness in Jacobean Drama therefore offers an alternative model for understanding this important period of English dramatic history that moves beyond categories such as “Shakespeare’s late plays,” “tragicomedy,” or the home of cynical and bloodthirsty tragedies. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of early modern drama and philosophy, rhetorical studies, and the history of science and technology.

Author : Maria C. Scott
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474463053
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empathy and the Strangeness of Fiction written by Maria C. Scott and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how and why narrative fiction engages empathy, including Theory of MindOffers a broad overview of current scientific work on the effects of fiction-reading on empathy, including Theory of MindProvides an original intervention in the field of literary theory, centring on the reflexive properties of the fictional strangerIncludes stand-alone close readings of three novels by important French authorsThis book studies recent psychological findings which suggest that reading fiction cultivates empathy, encouraging us to be critically reflective, suspicious readers as well as participatory, 'nave' readers. Scott draws on literary theory and close readings to argue that engagement with fictional stories also teaches us to resist uncritical forms of empathy and reminds us of the limitations of our ability to understand other people. The book treats figures of the stranger in Balzac's La Fille aux yeux d'or, Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir and Sand's Indiana as emblematic of the strangeness of narrative fiction, both drawing us in and keeping us at a distance.

Author : A. L. Kennedy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544307046
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the Rage written by A. L. Kennedy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dozen sharp new stories by one of contemporary fiction's acknowledged masters

Author : Jeremy McClancy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134777957
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popularizing Anthropology written by Jeremy McClancy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popularizing Anthropology unearths a submerged tradition within anthropology and reveals that anthropologists have always looked beyond academic recognition.

Author : Chad Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429582803
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Situate, Manipulate, Fabricate written by Chad Schwartz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of selected works outlines three critical instigators of architecture, all tied directly to the tectonic makeup of our built environment – place, material, and assembly. These catalysts provide the organizational framework for a collection of essays discussing their significant influence on the processes of architectural design and construction. With content from a diverse collection of notable architects, historians, and scholars, this book serves as a theoretical structure for understanding the tectonic potential of architecture. Each chapter is thematically driven, consisting of a pair of essays preceded by an introduction highlighting the fundamental issues at hand and comparing and contrasting the points of view presented. Situate, Manipulate, Fabricate offers an opportunity to explore the essential topics that affect the design and construction, as well as the experiential qualities, of our built environment.

Author : Barry Freeman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773549544
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging Strangers written by Barry Freeman and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-first-century media and political discourse sometimes makes "strangers" - refugees, immigrants, minorities - the scapegoats for social and economic disorder. In this heated climate, theatre has the potential to promote greater compassion and empathy for outsiders. A study of cultural difference in contemporary Canadian theatre, Staging Strangers considers how theatre facilitates an understanding of distant places and issues. Theatre in Canada, and especially in Toronto, has long been a place for communities to celebrate their traditions, but it is now emerging as a forum for staging stories that stretch beyond the local and the national. Combining archival research and performance analysis, Barry Freeman analyzes the possibilities and hazards of representing strangers, and the many ways the stranger on stage may be fetishized or domesticated, marked for assimilation, or turned into an object of fear. A fresh look at ways to cultivate ethical responsibility for global issues, Staging Strangers imagines a role for theatre in creating a more tolerant, caring, and cooperative world.

Author : Seeta Chaganti
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022654818X
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Footing written by Seeta Chaganti and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the complex relationship between medieval dance and medieval poetry, Strange Footing argues that the intersection of texts and dance produced an experience of poetic form based in disorientation, asymmetry, and even misstep. Medieval dance guided audiences to approach poetry not in terms of the body’s regular marking of time and space, but rather in the irregular and surprising forces of virtual motion around, ahead of, and behind the dancing body. Reading medieval poems through artworks, paintings, and sculptures depicting dance, Seeta Chaganti illuminates texts that have long eluded our full understanding, inviting us to inhabit their strange footings askew of conventional space and time. Strange Footing deploys the motion of dance to change how we read medieval poetry, generating a new theory of poetic form for medieval studies and beyond.

Author : Heather Williams
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039101627
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mallarmé's Ideas in Language written by Heather Williams and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author discusses the sheer improbability of Mallarmé's joint concern with concepts, or ideas, on the one hand, and with language as it behaves within the constraints of poetic convention on the other.

Author : André Jansson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754674610
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Spaces written by André Jansson and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain bizarre spaces, where disruption or disarray rule, leave us estranged and 'out of place'. This book examines such spaces, highlighting the emotional and mediated geographies of uncertainty and the state of being 'in-between'; of cognitive displacement, loss, fear, or exhilaration. It expands on why space is sometimes estranging and for whom it is strange.