Catastrophe And Catharsis

Author : Katharina Gerstenberger,Tanja Nusser
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571139016

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Catastrophe and Catharsis by Katharina Gerstenberger,Tanja Nusser Pdf

Destroying human habitat and taking human lives, disasters, be they natural, man-made, or a combination, threaten large populations, even entire nations and societies. They also disrupt the existing order and cause discontinuity in our sense of self and our perceptions of the world. To restore order, not only must human beings be rescued and affected areas rebuilt, but the reality of the catastrophe must also be transformed into narrative. The essays in this collection examine representations of disaster in literature, film, and mass media in German and international contexts, exploring the nexus between disruption and recovery through narrative from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics include the Lisbon earthquake, the Paris Commune, the Hamburg and Dresden fire-bombings in the Second World War, nuclear disasters in Alexander Kluge's films, the filmic aesthetics of catastrophe, Yoko Tawada's lectures on the Fukushima disaster and Christa Wolf's novel Störfall in light of that same disaster, Joseph Haslinger and the tsunami of 2004, traditions regarding avalanche disaster in the Tyrol, and the problems and implications of defining disaster. Contributors: Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Yasemin Dayioglu-Yücel, Janine Hartman, Jan Hinrichsen, Claudia Jerzak, Lars Koch, Franz Mauelshagen, Tanja Nusser, Torsten Pflugmacher, Christoph Weber. Katharina Gerstenberger is Professor and Chair of the Department of Languages and Literature at the University of Utah. Tanja Nusser is DAAD Visiting Associate Professor of German at the University of Cincinnati.

Author : Stanislav Mikhaĭlovich Menʹshikov,Boris Menshikov
Publisher : Verso
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992-09-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 5852170135

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Catastrophe Or Cartharsis by Stanislav Mikhaĭlovich Menʹshikov,Boris Menshikov Pdf

Catastrophe or Catharsis? Lays bare the reasons why the Soviet economic reform has plunged into crisis. In precise, vivid prose, Menshikov describes the exhaustion of the ‘command system’ in the pre-perestroika era. His book exposes the bureaucratic irresponsibility which, for example, allowed industrial ministries to strip enterprises of their re-investment funds, ensuring that the simple maintenance of production would in time become impossible. Analysing Soviet economic policy during the perestroika years, Menshikov again paints a picture of adventurism and incompetence. We learn of ‘black holes’ in the state budget, and of how finance ministry officials concealed huge deficits by annexing the savings bank deposits of the population. Menshikov’s analysis of the perestroika period is built around a powerfully argued thesis: the Soviet state bureaucracy, he sets out to show, has increasingly fused with the ‘shadow economy’ to form a new mechanism of fraud, theft and economic disruption. Can total catastrophe be avoided, and can a process of purgation and recovery—that is catharsis—now ensue? Menshikov advances a detailed program for getting economic reform back on track while avoiding a further collapse of living standards. Here are specific proposals for curbing inflation, reducing budget deficits and ending the sway of the ‘shadow economy’. These tasks can still be accomplished, the author argues, without sacrificing the interests of the mass of the Soviet population.

Author : Stanislav Mikhaĭlovich Menʹshikov
Publisher : Verso
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Perestroĭka
ISBN : 0860915719

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Catastrophe Or Catharsis? by Stanislav Mikhaĭlovich Menʹshikov Pdf

Author : Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art, American
ISBN : 0916537331

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Katrina by Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Pdf

Author : Donald McManus
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Clowns in literature
ISBN : 0874138086

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No Kidding! by Donald McManus Pdf

This work examines the way the clown has been used as a serious character by important playwrights and directors in twentieth-century theater. Experiments with Clown by Jean Cocteau, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Giorgio Strehler, Dario Fo, and Roberto Begnini are examined.

Author : Dominique Gendrin,Catherine Dessinges,Shearon Roberts
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498545617

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HBO's Treme and Post-Katrina Catharsis by Dominique Gendrin,Catherine Dessinges,Shearon Roberts Pdf

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, outsiders will have two versions of the Katrina experience. One version will be the images they recall from news coverage of the aftermath. The other will be the intimate portrayal of the determination of New Orleans residents to rebuild and recover their lives. HBO’s Treme offers outsiders an inside look into why New Orleanians refused to abandon a place that many questioned should not be rebuilt after the levees failed. This critically acclaimed series expanded the boundaries of television making in its format, plot, casting, use of music, and realism-in-fictionalized-TV. However, Treme is not just a story for the outside gaze on New Orleans. It was a very local, collaborative experience where the show’s creators sought to enlist the city in a commemorative project. Treme allowed many in the city who worked as principals, extras, and who tuned in as avid viewers to heal from the devastation of the disaster as they experimented with art, imitating life, imitating art. This book examines the impact of HBOs Treme not just as television making, but in the sense in which television provides a window to our worlds. The book pulls together scholarship in media, communications, gender, area studies, political economy, critical studies, African American studies and music to explain why Treme was not just about television.

Author : Aronsson-Storrier, Marie,Dahlberg, Rasmus
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781839100307

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Defining Disaster by Aronsson-Storrier, Marie,Dahlberg, Rasmus Pdf

This timely book unpacks the idea of ‘disaster’ from a variety of approaches, broadening understanding and improving the usability of this complex and often contested concept. Including multidisciplinary perspectives from leading and emerging scholars, it offers reflections on how the concept of disaster has been shaped by and within various fields of research, providing complementary and thought-provoking comparisons across many domains.

Author : Saptarishi Bandopadhyay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197579190

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All Is Well by Saptarishi Bandopadhyay Pdf

In the shadow of leviathans seen and unseen -- Corner pieces -- Marseille 1720 : administrative catharsis as disaster management -- Portugal 1755 : empire of accident -- Bengal 1770 : famine, corruption, and the climate of legal despotism -- Risk thinking and the enduring structure of vicissitudes -- The past-imperfect future.

Author : Kuei-Tien Chou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351659680

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Energy Transition in East Asia by Kuei-Tien Chou Pdf

The Fukushima disaster of 2011 shook the globe, arousing warm debate and new research within the academic fields of countries in both the West and the East on issues related to nuclear security, public trust, government governance, risk governance and risk perception along with technological and social aspects. The Fukushima incident not only revealed the importance of risk governance in the East Asian region, but also became an important turning point in the restructuring of energy in several East Asian nations. However, the regulatory culture in East Asian countries is by nature different to that of their western counterparts; the history and culture of East Asia has formed East Asian countries’ unique regulatory characteristics. This book aims to establish a risk governance structure for the East Asian region, providing a completely new perspective for both practical implementation and the academic field. It focusses on the problems of risk governance in East Asia. Through a discussion of the risk related issues raised by contemporary globalization, this book outlines the unique form of East Asia’s risk governance architecture. It brings together the work of top academics from Japan, South Korea and Taiwan to provide a common picture of how these three countries’ governments are dealing with the energy transition brought on by the climate change crisis. The various aspects of East Asia’s unique regulatory culture and governance models are placed into context, while East Asia’s risk governance theoretical framework is outlined.

Author : Ronald L. Dotterer
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0941664929

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Shakespeare by Ronald L. Dotterer Pdf

Seventeen critics are represented in this collection of essays designed to illustrate the vitality and range of traditional and new approaches to Shakespeare studies.

Author : Augusto Boal
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0745316573

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Theater of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal Pdf

a So remarkable and so ground-breaking ... [it is] the most important [book] on the theatre in modern times.a George Wellwarth"

Author : Stevan Weine
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810123014

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Testimony After Catastrophe by Stevan Weine Pdf

Survivors of political violence give testimonies in families and communities, trials and truth commissions, religious institutions, psychotherapies, newspapers, documentaries, artworks, and even in solitude. Through spoken, written, and visual images, survivors' testimonies tell stories that may change history, politics, and life itself. In this book Stevan Weine, a psychiatrist and scholar in the field of mental health and human rights, focuses on the testimony of survivors for the hope it might hold-hope expressed by survivors again and again that, no matter what horrors or humiliations they have endured, some good might come of their stories. It is through the thinking of Mikhail Bakhtin, and his approach to narrative, that Weine seeks to read the testimony of survivors of political violence from four different twentieth-century historical nightmares--and to read them as the stories they are meant to be, fully conveying their legitimacy, resourcefulness, power--and, finally, hope. A deeply involving, compassionate, occasionally confrontational blend of practical hands-on experience and dialogic theory, emerging from the author's decade-long work in Europe and Chicago with survivors of the Balkan wars, this book is committed to the proposition that efforts to use testimony to address the consequences of political violence can be strengthened--though by no means guaranteed--if they are based on a fuller acknowledgment of the personal and ethical elements embodied in the narrative essence of testimony. These elements are what Testimony after Catastrophe seeks to reveal.

Author : Elizabeth Jewell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0195307151

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The Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus by Elizabeth Jewell Pdf

A unique reference that combines the best features of both dictionary and thesaurus, this revolutionary volume is available in a convenient paperback format perfect for anyone who finds themselves frequently in need of an amplified vocabulary.

Author : Erika Gottlieb
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773569188

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Dystopian Fiction East and West by Erika Gottlieb Pdf

Gottlieb juxtaposes the Western dystopian genre with Eastern and Central European versions, introducing a selection of works from Russia, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. She demonstrates that authors who write about and under totalitarian dictatorship find the worst of all possible worlds not in a hypothetical future but in the historical reality of the writer's present or recent past. Against such a background the writer assumes the role of witness, protesting against a nightmare world that is but should not be. She introduces the works of Victor Serge, Vassily Grossmam, Alexander Zinoviev, Tibor Dery, Arthur Koestler, Vaclav Havel, and Istvan Klima, as well as a host of others, all well-known in their own countries, presenting them within a framework established through an original and comprehensive exploration of the patterns underlying the more familiar Western works of dystopian fiction.

Author : Dick Mccaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317486596

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Bakhtin and Theatre by Dick Mccaw Pdf

What did Bakhtin think about the theatre? That it was outdated? That is ‘stopped being a serious genre’ after Shakespeare? Could a thinker to whose work ideas of theatricality, visuality, and embodied activity were so central really have nothing to say about theatrical practice? Bakhtin and Theatre is the first book to explore the relation between Bakhtin’s ideas and the theatre practice of his time. In that time, Stanislavsky co-founded the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898 and continued to develop his ideas about theatre until his death in 1938. Stanislavsky’s pupil Meyerhold embraced the Russian Revolution and created some stunningly revolutionary productions in the 1920s, breaking with the realism of his former teacher. Less than twenty years after Stanislavsky’s death and Meyerhold’s assassination, a young student called Grotowski was studying in Moscow, soon to break the mould with his Poor Theatre. All three directors challenged the prevailing notion of theatre, drawing on, disagreeing with and challenging each other’s ideas. Bakhtin’s early writings about action, character and authorship provide a revealing framework for understanding this dialogue between these three masters of Twentieth Century theatre.