Affective Landscapes In Literature Art And Everyday Life

Author : Christine Berberich,Neil Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317184720

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Affective Landscapes in Literature, Art and Everyday Life by Christine Berberich,Neil Campbell Pdf

Bringing together a diverse group of scholars representing the fields of cultural and literary studies, cultural politics and history, creative writing and photography, this collection examines the different ways in which human beings respond to, debate and interact with landscape. How do we feel, sense, know, cherish, memorise, imagine, dream, desire or even fear landscape? What are the specific qualities of experience that we can locate in the spaces in and through which we live? While the essays most often begin with the broadly literary - the memoir, the travelogue, the novel, poetry - the contributors approach the topic in diverse and innovative ways. The collection is divided into five sections: ’Peripheral Cultures’, dealing with dislocation and imagined landscapes'; ’Memory and Mobility’, concerning the road as the scene of trauma and movement; ’Suburbs and Estates’, contrasting American and English spaces; ’Literature and Place’, foregrounding the fluidity of the fictional and the real and the human and nonhuman; and finally, ’Sensescapes’, tracing the sensory response to landscape. Taken together, the essays interrogate important issues about how we live now and might live in the future.

Author : Christine Berberich,Neil Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367880164

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Affective Landscapes in Literature, Art and Everyday Life by Christine Berberich,Neil Campbell Pdf

Bringing together a diverse group of scholars representing the fields of cultural and literary studies, cultural politics and history, creative writing and photography, this collection examines the different ways in which human beings respond to, debate and interact with landscape. How do we feel, sense, know, cherish, memorise, imagine, dream, desire or even fear landscape? What are the specific qualities of experience that we can locate in the spaces in and through which we live? While the essays most often begin with the broadly literary - the memoir, the travelogue, the novel, poetry - the contributors approach the topic in diverse and innovative ways. The collection is divided into five sections: 'Peripheral Cultures', dealing with dislocation and imagined landscapes'; 'Memory and Mobility', concerning the road as the scene of trauma and movement; 'Suburbs and Estates', contrasting American and English spaces; 'Literature and Place', foregrounding the fluidity of the fictional and the real and the human and nonhuman; and finally, 'Sensescapes', tracing the sensory response to landscape. Taken together, the essays interrogate important issues about how we live now and might live in the future.

Author : Ann Schilo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783487387

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Visual Arts Practice and Affect by Ann Schilo Pdf

Visual Arts Practice and Affect brings together a group of artist scholars to explore how visual arts can offer unique insights into the understanding of place, memory and affect.

Author : Ruth Heholt,Niamh Downing
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783488834

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Haunted Landscapes by Ruth Heholt,Niamh Downing Pdf

Examines the concept of landscape as a multitude of places and spaces haunted by spectres, memory, trauma and nostalgia in literature, art and film from Victorian times to the present.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literature, Modern
ISBN : UCSD:31822040931180

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The Western Humanities Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rosemary Shirley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317060789

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Rural Modernity, Everyday Life and Visual Culture by Rosemary Shirley Pdf

Through the lens of the everyday, this book explores ’the countryside’ as an inhabited and practised realm with lived rhythms and routines. It relocates the topography of everyday life from its habitually urban focus, out into the English countryside. The rural is often portrayed as existing outside of modernity, or as its passive victim. Here, the rural is recast as an active and complex site of modernity, a shift which contributes alternative ways of thinking the rural and a new perspective on the everyday. In each chapter, pieces of visual culture - including scrapbooks, art works, adverts, photographs and films - are presented as tools of analysis which articulate how aspects of the everyday might operate differently in non-metropolitan places. The book features new readings of the work of significant artists and photographers, such as Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane, Stephen Willats, Anna Fox, Andrew Cross, Tony Ray Jones and Homer Sykes, seen through this rural lens, together with analysis of visually fascinating archival materials including early Shell Guides and rarely seen scrapbooks made by the Women’s Institute. Combining everyday life, rural modernity and visual cultures, this book is able to uncover new and different stories about the English countryside and contribute significantly to current thinking on everyday life, rural geographies and visual cultures.

Author : Professor David Crouch
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1409488802

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Flirting with Space by Professor David Crouch Pdf

The idea of 'flirting' with space is central to this book. Space is conceptualised as being in constant flux as we make our way through various contexts in our daily lives, and is considered in relation to encounters with complexities and flows of material culture. This book focuses on journeys, which are perceived as dynamic processes of contemporary life and its spaces, and how creativity happens in the inter-relations of space and journeys encourage creativity. Unravelled through a range of empirical case studies of journeys through and encountered with space, this book builds new critical syntheses of the intertwining of space and life. Based on investigations undertaken by the author over the past 20 years, it explores the mundane and the exotic, the 'lay' and the 'artistic', combining and inter-relating them in a diversity of time and expression, fleeting and surviving. Such investigations, using both visual and non-visual material, include examinations of allotment holding, the work of artists, caravanning and tourism, photography and parish maps. The analyses of such seemingly disparate subjects are linked together and build on each other to create a fascinating and original view of humanity's interaction with space. Included are fresh discussions of belonging, disorientation and the working of identity and play. The notion of 'gentle politics' is introduced.

Author : Tim Edensor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000189353

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National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life by Tim Edensor Pdf

The Millennium Dome, Braveheart and Rolls Royce cars. How do cultural icons reproduce and transform a sense of national identity? How does national identity vary across time and space, how is it contested, and what has been the impact of globalization upon national identity and culture?This book examines how national identity is represented, performed, spatialized and materialized through popular culture and in everyday life. National identity is revealed to be inherent in the things we often take for granted - from landscapes and eating habits, to tourism, cinema and music. Our specific experience of car ownership and motoring can enhance a sense of belonging, whilst Hollywood blockbusters and national exhibitions provide contexts for the ongoing, and often contested, process of national identity formation. These and a wealth of other cultural forms and practices are explored, with examples drawn from Scotland, the UK as a whole, India and Mauritius. This book addresses the considerable neglect of popular cultures in recent studies of nationalism and contributes to debates on the relationship between ‘high' and ‘low' culture.

Author : Iain Moireach,John Murray
Publisher : Whittles
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Authors, Scottish
ISBN : 1849953635

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Literature of the Gaelic Landscape by Iain Moireach,John Murray Pdf

Discover where songs, poems and stories were set in the landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Includes detailed analysis of work by Duncan Bàn Macintyre, Sorley Maclean and Neil M. Gunn and the place-names used in selected songs, poetry and novels are identified by location. There are also background vignettes on aspects of Gaelic culture.

Author : Jon Mcgregor
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936787715

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Reservoir 13 by Jon Mcgregor Pdf

Evoking the spirit of Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides, Zadie Smith's NW, and Hisham Matar's Anatomy of a Disappearance, this novel sweeps the reader up quickly into its understated and emotionally moving story of a whole English village haunted by one family’s loss. Midwinter in an English village. A teenage girl has gone missing. Everyone is called upon to join the search. The villagers fan out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on what is usually a place of peace. Meanwhile, there is work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. As the seasons unfold and the search for the missing girl goes on, there are those who leave the village and those who are pulled back; those who come together and those who break apart. There are births and deaths; secrets kept and exposed; livelihoods made and lost; small kindnesses and unanticipated betrayals. An extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, Reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a tragedy refuse to subside. Winner of the Costa Novel Award, Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Author : Aidan Tynan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474443371

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Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy by Aidan Tynan Pdf

Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo; from imperial travel writing to postmodernism; and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk.

Author : Christine Berberich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000368628

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Trauma & Memory by Christine Berberich Pdf

Over the past decades, the memory of the Holocaust has not only become a common cultural consciousness but also a cultural property shared by people all over the world. This collection brings together academics, critics and creative practitioners from the fields of Holocaust Studies, Literature, History, Media Studies, Creative Writing and German Studies to discuss contemporary trends in Holocaust commemoration and representation in literature, film, TV, the entertainment industry and social media. The essays in this trans-disciplinary collection debate how contemporary culture engages with the legacy of the Holocaust now that, 75 years on from the end of the Second World War, the number of actual survivors is dwindling. It engages with ongoing cultural debates in Holocaust Studies that have seen a development from, largely, testimonial presentations of the Holocaust to more fictional narratives both in literature and film. In addition to a number of chapters focusing in particular on literary trends in Holocaust representation, the collection also assesses other forms of cultural production surrounding the Holocaust, ranging from recent official memorialisation in Germany to Holocaust presentation in film, computer games and social media. The collection also highlights the contributions by creative practitioners such as writers and performers who use drama and the traditional art of storytelling in order to keep memories alive and pass them on to new generations. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History.

Author : Neil Campbell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783480845

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Affective Critical Regionality by Neil Campbell Pdf

Investigates the concept of affective critical regionality to demonstrate how it deepens our sense of and relations to place.

Author : William E. Tydeman
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780806150482

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Conversations with Barry Lopez by William E. Tydeman Pdf

Known as an advocate for the endangered earth, Barry Lopez is one of America’s preeminent writers on nature. This invigorating book invites readers to sit down with Lopez and his friend William E. Tydeman to engage with their conversations about activism, the life of the mind, and all things literary. Even readers who think they know everything there is to know about Lopez will learn much from this richly informative book, both from Tydeman’s concise biography of Lopez and from the dialogue about Lopez’s ideas and experiences. The three interviews and Tydeman’s reflections on other discussions with Lopez gathered here address nature, human beings’ relationship to the land, the tension between political activism and the life of the intellectual, memory and reconciliation, the artist’s social responsibility, and the business of authorship. "What is the nature of the relationship between the writer and the reader?" Lopez asks. It's "reciprocal, contractual, and moral." Lopez’s thoughts on the importance of authenticity will resonate with every reader or writer, as will his deep commitment to story in all his work. He and Tydeman engage in illuminating exchanges on style and genre, the publication process, and relationships among authors, editors, and publishers. Both men are interested in photography and its relationship to writing, a subject on which they offer thought-provoking comments. A comprehensive annotated bibliography of Lopez’s writings by archivist Diane Warner rounds out the volume.

Author : Oliver Alan Weltzien,Susan Naramore Maher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015056651709

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Coming Into McPhee Country by Oliver Alan Weltzien,Susan Naramore Maher Pdf

John McPhee, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for Annals of the Former World, is considered one of the most distinguished writers of literary nonfiction. Coming into McPhee Country is the first comprehensive anthology to address his significant body of work. The first section, 'The Evolving Writer,' examines his work from a biographical point of view, explaining background and influences that affected his development as a writer. The second section, 'McPhee and the Natural World,' focuses on his representations of the natural world and explores his work from the framework of both wilderness and urban environmentalism. The final section, 'The Writerly Challenges of McPhee,' discusses his rhetorical choices in structure and style and demonstrates how his seemingly artless presentation is literary in every sense of the word. Overall, this volume salutes McPhee’s enormous and enormously varying oeuvre and confirms his stature as a major American writer.