The Mediterranean As A Source Of Cultural Criticism

Author : Andrea Benedetti,Ulrich van Loyen
Publisher : Mimesis
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788869772894

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The Mediterranean as a Source of Cultural Criticism by Andrea Benedetti,Ulrich van Loyen Pdf

The essays contained in this volume explore the historical trajectories along which the Mediterranean has been conceptualized as a cultural, religious and economical resource and how these various aspects are intertwined. While staying clear of a merely “imagological” or “representational” point of view, the authors consider the interplay between culturally shaped attributions (for example the longstanding desire for a Mediterranean “Otherness” as expressed in German literature), their testing in empirical encounters, and the effect these encounters produce on both sides. Although focused particularly on 19th and 20th century culture, this volume offers a timely contribution to conceptualising the challenges of the 21st century. The conjunction of both provinciality and universality, the connectivity and fragmentation of the Mediterranean continues to be at the basis of the European matrix of all possible (hi)stories.

Author : Angela Fabris, Albert Göschl, Steffen Schneider
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783110775211

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Sea of Literatures by Angela Fabris, Albert Göschl, Steffen Schneider Pdf

Author : Francisco Lozada,Greg Carey
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451426311

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Soundings in Cultural Criticism by Francisco Lozada,Greg Carey Pdf

A number of disciplines aligned under "cultural criticism" have changed the shape of contemporary biblical studies not only by offering new methods but by questioning old goals and proposing new ones. Soundings in Cultural Criticism offers a collection of succinct essays in these fields by some of the foremost scholars in New Testament studies. Questions of historical reconstruction, textual interpretation, and present cultural deployment are addressed in an ideal second textbook for New Testament courses.

Author : Pascal Richet
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1568 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118799390

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Encyclopedia of Glass Science, Technology, History, and Culture Two Volume Set by Pascal Richet Pdf

This Encyclopedia begins with an introduction summarizing itsscope and content. Glassmaking; Structure of Glass, GlassPhysics,Transport Properties, Chemistry of Glass, Glass and Light,Inorganic Glass Families, Organic Glasses, Glass and theEnvironment, Historical and Economical Aspect of Glassmaking,History of Glass, Glass and Art, and outlinepossible newdevelopments and uses as presented by the best known people in thefield (C.A. Angell, for example). Sections and chapters arearranged in a logical order to ensure overall consistency and avoiduseless repetitions. All sections are introduced by a briefintroduction and attractive illustration. Newly investigatedtopics will be addresses, with the goal of ensuring that thisEncyclopedia remains a reference work for years to come.

Author : Heinz-Dietrich Fischer,Erika J. Fischer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110972283

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Cultural Criticism 1969-1990 by Heinz-Dietrich Fischer,Erika J. Fischer Pdf

The School of Journalism at Columbia University has awarded the Pulitzer Prize since 1917. Nowadays there are prizes in 21 categories from the fields of journalism, literature and music. The Pulitzer Prize Archive presentsthe history of this award from its beginnings to the present: In parts A toE the awarding oftheprize in each category is documented, commented and arranged chronologically. Part F covers the history of the prize biographically and bibliographically. Part G provides the background to thedecisions.

Author : Richard M. Juang,Noelle Morrissette
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1306 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781851094462

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Africa and the Americas [3 volumes] by Richard M. Juang,Noelle Morrissette Pdf

This encyclopedia explores the many long-standing influences of Africa and people of African descent on the culture of the Americas, while tracing the many ways in which the Americas remain closely interconnected with Africa. Ranging from the 15th century to the present, Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History explores the many ways Africa and African peoples have shaped the cultural life of the Americas—and how, in turn, life in the Americas reverberates in Africa. This groundbreaking three-volume encyclopedia offers hundreds of alphabetically organized entries on African history, nations, and peoples plus African-influenced aspects of life in the Americas. It also features authoritative introductory essays on history, culture and religion, demography, international relations, economics and trade, and arts and literature. In doing so, it traces the complex and continuous movement of peoples of African descent to the West, the mechanics and lingering effects of colonialism and the slave trade, and the crucial issues of cultural retention and adaptation that are essential to our understanding of the effects of globalization.

Author : Brian A. Catlos,Sharon Kinoshita
Publisher : Springer
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319557267

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Can We Talk Mediterranean? by Brian A. Catlos,Sharon Kinoshita Pdf

This book provides a systematic framework for the emerging field of Mediterranean studies, collecting essays from scholars of history, literature, religion, and art history that seek a more fluid understanding of “Mediterranean.” It emphasizes the interdependence of Mediterranean regions and the rich interaction (both peaceful and bellicose, at sea and on land) between them. It avoids applying the national, cultural and ethnic categories that developed with the post-Enlightenment domination of northwestern Europe over the academy, working instead towards a dynamic and thoroughly interdisciplinary picture of the Mediterranean. Including an extensive bibliography and a conversation between leading scholars in the field, Can We Talk Mediterranean? lays the groundwork for a new critical and conceptual approach to the region.

Author : Evy Johanne Håland
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443896177

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Greek Festivals, Modern and Ancient by Evy Johanne Håland Pdf

This volume represents a multi-faceted, cross-period product of fieldwork conducted in contemporary Greece in combination with ancient sources. Based on a comparative analysis of important religious festivals and life-cycle rituals, the book investigates the importance of cults connected with the Greek female sphere and its relation to the official male-dominated ideology. Within these festivals are encountered supplementary, complementary or competing ideologies connected with men and women, and it is shown that there is not a one-way power structure or male dominance within Greek culture, but rather competing powers linked to the two sexes and their respective spheres. In addition to gender, the book also explores the relationship between the “great” and “little” societies, in the form of official and popular religion. As such, it will serve to broaden the reader’s knowledge of ancient, but also modern, society, because it concerns the relationship between various spheres of life which each possess their own competing and overlapping, but also co-existing, value-systems.

Author : Stanley E. Porter,Dennis Stamps
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781841270937

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Rhetorical Criticism and the Bible by Stanley E. Porter,Dennis Stamps Pdf

This volume is the fifth in a series that explores the use of rhetoric in the study of biblical literature. Contributions from scholars in North America, Britain, Continental Europe and South Africa focus here on four major categories: The Theory of Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation, Rhetorical Interpretation of Luke's Gospel and Acts, The Rhetorical Interpretation of Paul's Writings, and Rhetorical Interpretation of Hebrews and Ignatius. Author include Tom Olbricht, Douglas Campbell, Arthur Gibson, Craig Evans, Vernon Robbins, Greg Bloomquist, Pieter Botha, Paul Danove, Gerrie Snyman, Anders Eriksson, K. K. Yeo, Lauri Thuren, G. A. van den Heever, Marc Debanne, J. N Vorster, and the editors.

Author : Arturo Echavarren,Sergio Carro Martin,Esther Fernández Medina
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443866422

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Mediterráneos by Arturo Echavarren,Sergio Carro Martin,Esther Fernández Medina Pdf

Throughout history, different cultural traditions, all of them with considerable linguistic diversity, have flourished and converged in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern regions. The International Conference of Junior Researchers in Mediterranean and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures provided a transverse and interdisciplinary framework of discussion and reflection on the intellectual and cultural production of the Mediterranean and the Near East, from its earliest stages to the present. This book is the result of the analysis of the different political, religious and social trends of thought, material culture, and artistic, literary and linguistic expressions brought together in this geographical area, highlighting the scope of this blend of traditions within different space-time surroundings.

Author : Keith Hopwood
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Civilization, Classical
ISBN : 0719024013

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Ancient Greece and Rome by Keith Hopwood Pdf

Sir Thomas Fairfax, not Oliver Cromwell, was creator and commander of Parliament's New Model Army from 1645 to1650. Although Fairfax emerged as England's most successful commander of the 1640s, this book challenges the orthodoxy that he was purely a military figure, showing how he was not apolitical or disinterested in politics. The book combines narrative and thematic approaches to explore the wider issues of popular allegiance, puritan religion, concepts of honour, image, reputation, memory, gender, literature, and Fairfax's relationship with Cromwell. 'Black Tom' delivers a groundbreaking examination of the transformative experience of the English revolution from the viewpoint of one of its leading, yet most neglected, participants. It is the first modern academic study of Fairfax, making it essential reading for university students as well as historians of the seventeenth century. Its accessible style will appeal to a wider audience of those interested in the civil wars and interregnum more generally.

Author : Chris Wickham
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1019 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191622632

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Framing the Early Middle Ages by Chris Wickham Pdf

The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more fragmented, and there have been few convincing syntheses of socio-economic change in the post-Roman world since the 1930s. In recent decades, the rise of early medieval archaeology has also transformed our source-base, but this has not been adequately integrated into analyses of documentary history in almost any country. In Framing the Early Middle Ages Chris Wickham combines documentary and archaeological evidence to create a comparative history of the period 400-800. His analysis embraces each of the regions of the late Roman and immediately post-Roman world, from Denmark to Egypt. The book concentrates on classic socio-economic themes, state finance, the wealth and identity of the aristocracy, estate management, peasant society, rural settlement, cities, and exchange. These give only a partial picture of the period, but they frame and explain other developments. Earlier syntheses have taken the development of a single region as 'typical', with divergent developments presented as exceptions. This book takes all different developments as typical, and aims to construct a synthesis based on a better understanding of difference and the reasons for it.

Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541601383

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Conquests and Cultures by Thomas Sowell Pdf

This book is the culmination of 15 years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice, as well as on other travels in the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and around the Pacific rim. Its purpose has been to try to understand the role of cultural differences within nations and between nations, today and over centuries of history, in shaping the economic and social fates of peoples and of whole civilizations. Focusing on four major cultural areas(that of the British, the Africans (including the African diaspora), the Slavs of Eastern Europe, and the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere -- Conquests and Cultures reveals patterns that encompass not only these peoples but others and help explain the role of cultural evolution in economic, social, and political development.

Author : Steven Rosen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315399935

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Revolutions in the Desert by Steven Rosen Pdf

Multi-Resource Nomadism, Core and Periphery, and the Rise of Economic Asymmetry

Author : Randall C. Bailey,Tat-siong Benny Liew,Fernando F. Segovia
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781589832459

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They Were All Together in One Place? Toward Minority Biblical Criticism by Randall C. Bailey,Tat-siong Benny Liew,Fernando F. Segovia Pdf

Critics from three major racial/ethnic minority communities in the United States—African American, Asian American, and Latino/a American—focus on the problematic of race and ethnicity in the Bible and in contemporary biblical interpretation. With keen eyes on both ancient text and contemporary context, contributors pay close attention to how racial/ethnic dynamics intersect with other differential relations of power such as gender, class, sexuality, and colonialism. In groundbreaking interaction, they also consider their readings alongside those of other racial/ethnic minority communities. The volume includes an introduction pointing out the crucial role of this work within minority criticism by looking at its historical trajectory, critical findings, and future directions. The contributors are Cheryl B. Anderson, Francisco O. García-Treto, Jean-Pierre Ruiz, Frank M. Yamada, Gale A. Yee, Jae-Won Lee, Gay L. Byron, Fernando F. Segovia, Randall C. Bailey, Tat-siong Benny Liew, Demetrius K. Williams, Mayra Rivera Rivera, Evelyn L. Parker, and James Kyung-Jin Lee.