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Author : Matthew Boyd Goldie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135272180
A study that uses critical theory to investigate the history of how people have thought about the antipodes - the places and people on the other side of the world - from ancient Greece to present-day literature and digital media.
Author : Matthew Boyd Goldie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135272173
This book will be the first study to focus exclusively on presentations of the antipodes. Taking into account maps, letters, book illustrations, travel writing, poetry, and drama, Goldie reveals that the history of the idea of the antipodes might be seen as different modes or discourses: mathematical and geographical in the earliest era, cartographical and kinetic in the medieval period, social and sexual in the Early Modern, sartorial and littoral in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and bodily and humorous in the latest era.
Author : Carly Allen-Fletcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781939547491
"If you dug a hole all the way to the other side of the earth, where would you be? What animals would you see?"--
Author : Peter Beilharz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521524342
Bernard Smith is widely recognised as one of Australia's leading intellectuals. Yet the recognition of his work has been partial, focused on art history and anthropology. Peter Beilharz argues that Smith's work also contains a social theory, or a way of thinking about Australian culture and identity in the world system. Smith enables us to think matters of place and cultural imperialism through the image of being not Australian so much as antipodean. Australian identities are constructed by the relationship between core and periphery, making them both European and Other at the same time. This 1997 work is a book-length analysis of Bernard Smith's work and is the result of careful and systematic research into Smith's published works and his private papers. It is both an introduction to Smith's thinking and an important interpretive argument about imperialism and the antipodes.
Author : Annie Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848428790
A group of people sit around a table theorising, categorising and telling stories. Their real purpose is never quite clear, but they continue on, searching for the monstrous. Part satire, part sacred rite, Annie Baker's play The Antipodes asks what value stories have for a world in crisis. First seen at Signature Theatre, New York, in 2017, the play had its UK premiere at the National Theatre, London, in 2019. 'The most original and significant American dramatist since August Wilson' Mark Lawson, The Guardian
Author : David Fausett
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004484719
How did Europeans view the unknown region at their antipodes in early times, before the explorations of Captain Cook and others made it well known? Throughout the ages it has evoked fantastic images which affected the arts and sciences, and the evolution of the novel in the century prior to the major discoveries was influenced in the same way. The eighteenth century was also a critical phase in European social history, a time when many modern patterns of economic life and international relations were formed. Distant explorations and discoveries bore implications for that process, which tended to be worked out in fictional voyages mingling fact with fiction. Images of the Antipodes asks what these can tell us about Europe's expansion to the limits of the New World - about the first contacts between cultures with very different worldviews, about the colonial relations that followed, and about the geopolitics of the region since then. They offer a perspective on cross- cultural relationships generally - nowhere more apparent than in their use of ancient images of the antipodes. This is the third part of a study on the intellectual history of travel fiction, and deals with the period from the 1720s to the 1790s, focusing on an issue that is as vital now as it was then: cultural or racial stereotyping, and the link between this and the differing politico-economic aspirations of peoples. It is a dual problem of exploitation, which has been associated with the antipodes since the beginnings of Western literature. The book discusses teratological fantasies, the literary background in utopias and Robinsonades, Gulliver's Travels and other travel fiction from mid-century onwards, the parallels between real and imaginary voyages, and the way the latter often prefigured the rise of modern anthropology and of colonial relationships in the austral regions. Particularly relevant was the odd blend of arcadianism and horror inspired by, or projected onto, these places in the later eighteenth century - as it had long been in the past. The works discussed are chiefly English and French, but include other European examples of the type.
Author : Peter Beilharz
Publisher : Philosophy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1922235555
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author : Antony Moulis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317107163
This book considers the architect Le Corbusier’s encounters with Australia and New Zealand as a two-way exchange, showing the impact of his ideas and projects on architects of the region whilst also revealing counterinfluences on Le Corbusier in his post-war career that were activated by his contacts. Compiled from detailed archival research undertaken at the Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris, and nationally based archives, Le Corbusier in the Antipodes brings together a set of episodes placing them in context with the history of modern art, architecture and urbanism in 20th century Australia and New Zealand. Key exchanges between Le Corbusier and others never before described are presented and analyzed, including Le Corbusier’s contact with Australian architect Harry Seidler at Chandigarh, Le Corbusier’s drawing of the plan of Adelaide in 1950 and his creative collaboration with Jorn Utzon on art for the Sydney Opera House. This book also includes analysis of previously unseen Le Corbusier artworks, which formed part of the Utzon family collection. In reading these personal and contingent moments of encounter, the book puts forward new ways of understanding the dissemination and mediation of Le Corbusier’s ideas and their effects in post-war Australia and New Zealand. These antipodean contacts are set against the broader story of Le Corbusier’s career, questioning received interpretations of his design methods and current assumptions about the influence of his work in national contexts beyond Europe.
Author : Avan Judd Stallard
Publisher : Australian History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1925377326
This book is a new history of an ancient geography. It reassesses the evidence for why Europeans believed a massive southern continent existed, and why they advocated for its discovery. When ships were equal to ambitions, explorers set out to find and claim Terra Australis. Antipodes charts these voyages?voyages both through the imagination and across the High Seas?in pursuit of the mythical Terra Australis. In doing so, the question is asked: how could so many fail to see the realities they encountered? And how is it a mythical land held the gaze of an era famed for breaking free the shackles of superstition? That Terra Australis did not exist didn?t stop explorers pursuing the continent, unwilling to abandon the promise of such a rich and magnificent land till it was stripped of every ounce of value it had ever promised. In the process, the southern continent?an imaginary land?became one of the shaping forces of early modern history. Includes 48 pages of b & w and colour images.
Author : Benny Shanon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199252939
This is a study of the phenomenology of the special state of mind induced by Ayahuasca, a plant-based Amazonian psychotropic brew. The author's research is based both on extensive firsthand experiences with Ayahuasca, and on interviews conducted with a large number of informants.
Author : Alfred Hiatt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cosmography
ISBN : UCBK:C099550891
This study examines how unknown lands were represented from late Antiquity to 1600 - on maps, and in a variety of written texts, including poetry, treatises, political tracts and travel narratives.
Author : Maja Kominko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781107020887
New study of the Christian Topography, a sixth-century illustrated treatise, and its intellectual milieu.
Author : James Roxburgh McClymont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Cosmography
ISBN : UOM:39015008604467
Author : Kate Fullagar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443838061
This collection of essays stems from a John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures. Held over two years, the seminar investigated the effects and transformations of ideas, peoples, and institutions from the Atlantic World when carried into the Antipodes. The papers presented in this volume distil some of the key themes to emerge from discussion, each demonstrating the complexity with which discourses and practices operated in the Indo-Pacific oceanic region. Some had unexpected effects, others underwent profound transformation. Always they were changed by the ideas, peoples, and institutions of the Antipodes. Combined, the chapters underscore the ways in which both oceanic worlds were co-produced through a variety of intellectual and practical interactions over the modern period. Essays by leading Pacific scholars such as Margaret Jolly, Anita Herle, and Katerina Teaiwa are joined by essays from key scholars of various regions in the Atlantic World such as Simon Schaffer, Iain McCalman, Sheila Fitzpatrick, and Michael McDonnell, as well as interventions by the new transnationalist breed of Australian historians, led by Alison Bashford and Ann Curthoys.
Author : Rudolf Simek
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0851156088
In this fascinating book Dr Simek shows that though nature was thought to be permeated by the will of God, there were numerous explanations for unknown phenomena, from the simple theories of the early middle ages to the more sophisticated ideas of the centres of learned scholasticism in Paris and Oxford. He presents a cross-section of the medieval knowledge of the physical world as deliberated and discussed by authors from the 9th to the 15th centuries.