Touching Beauty

Author : Miléna Santoro,Jack A. Yeager
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228018254

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Touching Beauty by Miléna Santoro,Jack A. Yeager Pdf

Kim Thúy is a literary phenomenon, rising in her first decade of writing to a level of international recognition that few Québécois writers ever attain. The Vietnamese-born author’s novels have garnered literary prize recognition and have been translated from French into twenty-nine languages in nearly forty countries. Touching Beauty is the first collection to focus solely on Thúy and her economical yet poetic storytelling style that expresses both the traumatic and the beautiful. Her writings, which manage to be culturally specific all while speaking to the fundamentals of the human condition, are examined within the context of what is known as migrant literature in Canada and are situated within the history of Vietnamese literature in French that grew out of the colonial period. Chapters explore food, identity, gender, and the role of writing in Thúy’s life and work. Thúy herself contributes an unpublished poem and an extended interview that focus on her ongoing struggle to find, and write, beauty amidst war, migration, poverty, and loss. Touching Beauty maps the themes that have, to date, animated a literary career of global relevance and enduring value and encourages a deeper appreciation of Thúy’s writing.

Author : Mark Paterson,Martin Dodge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317009702

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Touching Space, Placing Touch by Mark Paterson,Martin Dodge Pdf

Given that touch and touching is so central to everyday embodied existence, why has it been largely ignored by social scientists for so long? What is the place of touch in our mixed spaces of sociality, work, domesticity, recreation, creativity or care? What conceptual resources and academic languages can we reach towards when approaching tactile activities and somatic experiences through the body? How is this tactile landscape gendered? How is touch becoming revisited and revalidated in late capitalism through animal encounters, tourism, massage, beauty treatments, professional medicine, everyday spiritualities or the aseptic touch-free spaces of automated toilets? How is touch placed and valued within scholarly fieldwork and research itself, integral as it is to the production of embodied epistemologies? How is touch involved in such aesthetic experiences as shaping objects in sand, or encountering fleshly bodies within a painting? The goal of this edited collection, Touching Space, Placing Touch is twofold: 1. To further advance theoretical and empirical understanding of touch in social science scholarship by focussing on the differential social and cultural meanings of touching and the places of touch. 2. To develop a multi-faceted and interdisciplinary explanations of touch in terms of individual and social life, personal experiences and tasks, and their related cultural contexts. The twelve essays in this volume provide a rich combination of theoretical resources, methodological approaches and empirical investigation. Each chapter takes a distinct aspect of touch within a particular spatial context, exploring this through a mixture of sustained empirical work, critical theories of embodiment, philosophical and psychoanalytic approaches to gendered touch and touching, or the relationship between visual and non-visual culture, to articulate something of the variety and variability of touching experiences. The contributors are a mixture of established and emerging researchers within a growing interdisciplinary field of scholarship, yet the volume has a strong thematic identity and therefore represents the formative collection concerning the multiple senses of touch within social science scholarship at this time.

Author : Miléna Santoro,Jack A. Yeager
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228018261

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Touching Beauty by Miléna Santoro,Jack A. Yeager Pdf

Kim Thúy is a literary phenomenon, rising in her first decade of writing to a level of international recognition that few Québécois writers ever attain. The Vietnamese-born author’s novels have garnered literary prize recognition and have been translated from French into twenty-nine languages in nearly forty countries. Touching Beauty is the first collection to focus solely on Thúy and her economical yet poetic storytelling style that expresses both the traumatic and the beautiful. Her writings, which manage to be culturally specific all while speaking to the fundamentals of the human condition, are examined within the context of what is known as migrant literature in Canada and are situated within the history of Vietnamese literature in French that grew out of the colonial period. Chapters explore food, identity, gender, and the role of writing in Thúy’s life and work. Thúy herself contributes an unpublished poem and an extended interview that focus on her ongoing struggle to find, and write, beauty amidst war, migration, poverty, and loss. Touching Beauty maps the themes that have, to date, animated a literary career of global relevance and enduring value and encourages a deeper appreciation of Thúy’s writing.

Author : Juhani Pallasmaa,Matteo Zambelli
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781119622239

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Inseminations by Juhani Pallasmaa,Matteo Zambelli Pdf

A collection of the writing of the highly influential architect, Juhani Pallasmaa, presented in short, easily accessible, and condensed ideas ideal for students Juhani Pallasmaa is one of Finland’s most distinguished architects and architectural thinkers, publishing around 60 books and several hundred essays and shorter pieces over his career. His influential works have inspired undergraduate and postgraduate students of architecture and related disciplines for decades. In this compilation of excerpts of his writing, readers can discover his key concepts and thoughts in one easily accessible, comprehensive volume. Inseminations: Seeds for Architectural Thought is a delightful collection of thoughtful ideas and compositions that float between academic essay and philosophical reflection. Wide in scope, it offers entries covering: atmospheres; biophilic beauty; embodied understanding; imperfection; light and shadow; newness and nowness; nostalgia; phenomenology of architecture; sensory thought; silence; time and eternity; uncertainty, and much more. Makes the wider work of Pallasmaa accessible to students across the globe, introducing them to his key concepts and thoughts Exposes students to a broad range of issues on which Pallasmaa has a view Features an alphabetized structure that makes serendipitous discovery or linking of concepts more likely Presents material in short, condensed manner that can be easily digested by students Inseminations: Seeds for Architectural Thought will appeal to undergraduate students in architecture, design, urban studies, and related disciplines worldwide.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN433X

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The Hampshire Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : American essays
ISBN : UGA:32108053406362

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The Atlantic Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : W. Proudfoot Begg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : UOM:39015031496634

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The Development of Taste, and Other Studies in Aesthetics by W. Proudfoot Begg Pdf

Author : William Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : UCAL:$B93060

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Normal Training by William Russell Pdf

Author : Tom Barone
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807774441

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Touching Eternity by Tom Barone Pdf

touching eternity explores how teachers can make a long-term impact on the lives of their students. Written in an accessible narrative style, this case study of one high school art teacher and his former students invites readers to engage in fundamental and essential issues in teaching as well as in educational research. Rather than drawing conclusions, this book is uniquely designed to raise questions about the consequences of teaching and learning. “An extraordinary accomplishment. I know of no other book like it in the field of education. Its pages reflect Dewey’s observation that one of the greatest of educational fallacies is that the student learns only what he or she is being taught at the time.... This book breaks new ground.” —Elliot W. Eisner, Lee Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of Art, Stanford University “The strength of this masterfully written book lies in its determinate inconclusiveness. It leaves many questions hauntingly unanswered so that they continue to gnaw at the reader long after the book has been put down...Barone skillfully encourages teachers to debate these questions and interrogate these themes. touching eternity is a book that demands our attention.” —Peter McLaren, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA, and author of Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution “Now more than ever, we need a book that shows us the subtle but long-term effects of a teacher who tells students, ‘Follow your heart.’” —Susan Ohanian, author of Caught in the Middle: Nonstandard Kids and a Killing Curriculum

Author : Fusako Innami
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472054985

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Touching the Unreachable by Fusako Innami Pdf

How can one construct relationality with the other through the skin, when touch is inevitably mediated by memories of previous contact, accumulated sensations, and interstitial space?

Author : Frederick Saunders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : American poetry
ISBN : MINN:319510016371858

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Festival of Song ... by Frederick Saunders Pdf

Author : Thomas Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Passaic River
ISBN : BL:A0018640278

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Passaic, a Group of Poems Touching that River by Thomas Ward Pdf

Author : Steven L. Davis,Maglina Lubovich
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443824538

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Hunks, Hotties, and Pretty Boys by Steven L. Davis,Maglina Lubovich Pdf

White, heterosexual, middle-class men have long served as the standard for masculine “beauty,” even if such men have refused to embrace this term. This study seeks to denaturalize this standard by exploring the connections between beauty and the broad spectrum of masculinities. The chapters included in Hunks, Hotties, and Pretty Boys contribute primarily to the field of gender studies, specifically masculinity studies. They consider twentieth-century representations of male beauty through a variety of mediums: performance, literature, art, photography, film and television. Although the contributors hail from both the humanities and the social sciences, all share a concern for how beauty informs, shapes, defines, and re-defines our understanding of masculinity itself. These scholars investigate a range of historical periods and draw from a broad scope of critical approaches. Some interrogate male beauty through the female gaze and look to the influence of female performance on notions of masculine beauty. Others examine how queer and racial constructions of male beauty refuse and offer alternatives to hegemonic models of identity. Another revisits previous philosophical and theoretical conceptions of beauty, only to deconstruct gendered conceptions of the beautiful and the sublime. In all, these essays complicate masculine beauty by examining Chicano, Asian, working class, and female constructions of male beauty in Western culture.

Author : Emma Raymond Pitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600073812

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Profit and loss by Emma Raymond Pitman Pdf

Author : Emma Raymond Pitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : OXFORD:600090532

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Memorials of the Congregational Church, Or, "Old Independent Meeting House", Milborne Port by Emma Raymond Pitman Pdf