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Author : Nanny M. W. de Vries, Jan Best
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 13811312:1994::1:1:
Author : Nanny M. W. de Vries, Jan Best
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 13811312:1994::1:2:
Author : Jan Hein Hoogstad,Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9789401208871
Off Beat: Pluralizing Rhythm draws attention to rhythm as a tool for analyzing various cultural objects. In fields as diverse as music, culture, nature, and economy, rhythm can be seen as a phenomenon that both connects and divides. It suggests a certain measure with which people, practices, and cultures may comply. Yet, for this very reason rhythm can also function as a field of exclusion, contestation, and debate. In that respect, rhythm possesses an underestimated meaning-creating potential. Whereas its connecting force is often accentuated in the aesthetic, political, and commercial usage of the term, the divisive aspect of rhythm is at least as important. This volume wants to rid rhythm of its harmless, nearly esoteric, reputation as a cosmic unifier by understanding it in the light of the contemporary medial turn. In the present collection of essays, we have encouraged approaches that combine political, aesthetic, musical, and theoretical dimensions of rhythm. Jan Hein Hoogstad is Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen is Associate Professor in the Section for Aesthetics and Culture, Department of Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 13811312
Author : Lynne Hume
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351909976
In our contemporary post-modern world, popular forms of spirituality are increasingly engaging with notions of re-enchantment - of self and community. Not only are narratives of re-enchantment appearing in popular culture at the personal and spiritual level, but also they are often accompanied by a pragmatic approach that calls for political activism and the desire to change the world to incorporate these new ideas. Drawing on case studies of particular groups, including pagans, witches, radical faeries, post-modern tourists, and queer and goddess groups, contributors from Australia, the UK and North America discuss various forms of spirituality and how they contribute to self-knowledge, identity, and community life. The book documents an emerging engagement between new quasi-religious groups and political action, eco-paganism, post-colonial youth culture and alternative health movements to explore how social change emerges.
Author : Mohit Chandna
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789462702738
Colonialism advanced its project of territorial expansion by changing the very meaning of borders and space. The colonial project scripted a unipolar spatial discourse that saw the colonies as an extension of European borders. In his monograph, Mohit Chandna engages with narrations of spatial conflicts in French and Francophone literature and film from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. In literary works by Jules Verne, Ananda Devi, and Patrick Chamoiseau, and film by Michael Haneke, Chandna analyzes the depiction of ever-changing borders and spatial grammar within the colonial project. In so doing, he also examines the ongoing resistance to the spatial legacies of colonial practices that act as omnipresent enforcers of colonial borders. Literature and film become sites that register colonial spatial paradigms and advance competing narratives that fracture the dominance of these borders. Through its analyses Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces shows that colonialism is not a finished project relegated to our past. Colonialism is present in the here and now, and exercises its power through the borders that define us.
Author : Arthur Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1786
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435024366023
Author : Nanny M. W. de Vries, Jan Best
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 13811312:1998::5:1:
Author : Nanny M. W. de Vries, Jan Best
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 13811312:1999::6:1:
Author : Nanny M. W. de Vries, Jan Best
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 13811312:1996::3:1:
Author : Lalitha Gopalan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838715052
A framework for understanding the distinctiveness of Indian cinema as a national cinema within a global context dominated by Hollywood is proposed by this book. With its sudden explosions into song-and-dance sequences, half-time intermissions and heavy traces of censorship, Indian cinema can be identified as a 'Cinema of Interruptions'. To the uninitiated viewer, brought up on the seamless linear plotting of Hollywood narrative, this unfamiliar tendency towards digression may appear random and superfluous, yet this book argues that such devices assist in the construction of a distinct visual and narrative time-space. In the hands of imaginative directors, the conventions of Indian cinema become opportunities for narrative play and personal expression in such films as 'Sholay' (1975), 'Nayakan' (1987), 'Parinda' (1989), 'Hathyar' (1981) and 'Hey Ram!' (1999). 'Cinema of Interruptions' places commercial Indian film within a global system of popular cinemas, but also points out its engagement with the dominant genre principles implemented by Western film. By focusing on the action-genre work of leading contemporary directors J.P. Dutta, Mani Ratnam, and Vidhu Vinod Chopra, brazen national style is shown to interact with international genre films to produce a hybrid form that reworks the gangster film, the western and the avenging woman genre. Central to this study is the relationship Indian cinema shares with its audience, and an understanding of the pleasures it offers the cinephile. In articulating this bond the book presents not only a fresh framework for understanding popular Indian cinema but also a contribution to film genre studies.
Author : Lokangaka Losambe,Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040013984
The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational, multivocal writings of immigrant African authors. Covering works produced in Europe, North America, and elsewhere in the world, this book investigates three major aesthetic paradigms in African diasporic literature: the Sankofan wave (late 1960s–early 1990s); the Janusian wave (1990s–2020s); and the Offshoots of the New Arrivants (those born and growing up outside Africa). Written by well-established and emerging scholars of African and diasporic literatures from across the world, the chapters in the book cover the works of well-known and not-so-well-known Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone writers from different theoretical positionalities and critical approaches, pointing out the unique innovative artistic qualities of this major subgenre of African literature. The focus on the “diasporic consciousness” of the writers and their works sets this handbook apart from others that solely emphasize migration, which is more of a process than the community of settled African people involved in the dynamic acts of living reflected in diasporic writings. This book will appeal to researchers and students from across the fields of Literature, Diaspora Studies, African Studies, Migration Studies, and Postcolonial Studies.
Author : W. E. Gladstone
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1031 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : EAN:8596547721802
Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age are a comprehensive 3-volume work that features the history of the ancient Greek literature, focusing on the Homeric Question – concerning by whom, when, where and under what circumstances the Iliad and Odyssey, its foundational works, were composed. Contents: Prolegomena: On the State of the Homeric Question The Place of Homer in Classical Education On the Historic Aims of Homer On the Probable Date of Homer The Probable Trustworthiness of the Text of Homer Place and Authority of Homer in Historical Inquiry Achæis - Ethnology of the Greek Races: Scope of the Inquiry On the Pelasgians, and Cognate Races The Pelasgians: and Certain States Naturalized or Akin to Greece On the Phœnicians and the Outer Geography of the Odyssey On the Catalogue On the Hellenes of Homer On the Respective Contributions of the Pelasgian and Hellenic Factors to the Compound of the Greek Nation On the Three Greater Homeric Appellatives On the Homeric Title of Ἄναξ Ἀνδρῶν On the Connection of the Hellenes and Achæans With the East Olympus or the Religion of the Homeric Age: On the Mixed Character of the Supernatural System, or Theo-mythology of Homer The Traditive Element of the Homeric Theo-mythology The Inventive Element of the Homeric Theo-mythology The Composition of the Olympian Court; and the Classification of the Whole Supernatural Order in Homer The Olympian Community and Its Members Considered in Themselves The Olympian Community and Its Members Considered in Their Influence on Human Society and Conduct On the Traces of an Origin Abroad for the Olympian Religion The Morals of the Homeric Age Woman in the Heroic Age The Office of the Homeric Poems in Relation to That of the Early Books of Holy Scripture Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared Thalassa: The Outer Geography Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer
Author : Haideh Moghissi
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 1856495906
A highly controversial intervention into the debate on postmodernism and feminism, this book looks at what happens when these modes of analysis are jointly employed to illuminate the sexual politics of Islam. As a religion, Islam has been demonized for its gender practices like no other. This book analyzes that Orientalism, with particular reference to representations of Muslim women and describes the real sexual politics of Islam. The author goes on to describe the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and the West's response to it. She argues that regardless of the sophisticated argument of postmodernists and their suspicion of power, as an intellectual and political movement postmodernism has put itself in the service of power and the status quo. Moghissi brilliantly demonstrates how this trend has given rise to a neo-conservative feminism. A major feminist critique of Islamic fundamentalism, this book asks some hard questions of those who, in denouncing the racism of Western feminism, have taken up an uncritical embrace of the Islamic identity of Muslim women. It is urgent reading for all those concerned about human rights, as well as for students and academics of women's studies, political science, social theory and religious studies.
Author : Sanjay Srivastava
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0761997776
Discussions on sexuality in the South Asian context have tended to focus largely on men`s preoccupations through notions such as `semen-anxiety`. Another restrictive framework is the excessive importance ascribed to religion in everyday life. The result has been a rather narrow debate on sexuality. By providing accounts of a myriad sites and meanings of sexuality, this remarkable volume broadens the debate on sexuality in South Asia. It combines perspectives from history, anthropology, and cultural and literary studies to provide an interdisciplinary exploration of the cultures of, and the multiple meanings and contestations that gather around, masculinities and sexualities. The collection is unique in the breadth of its theoretical concerns; its focus on hitherto marginalized sexual identities; and its novel juxtapositions of analyses of colonial discourses with those of postcolonised modernity.