Unintended Affinities

Author : Adam Kozuchowski
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822987246

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Unintended Affinities examines the ways in which German and Polish historians of the nineteenth-century regarded the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The book parallels how historians approached the old Reich and the Commonwealth within the framework of their national history. Kożuchowski analyzes how German and Polish nationalistic historians, who played central roles in propagandizing a glorious past that justified a centralized modern state, struggled with how to portray the very decentralized and multi-ethnic empires that preceded their time.

Author : Lisa Goldfarb
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781782845973

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Unexpected Affinities by Lisa Goldfarb Pdf

The book studies the impact of Stevensian and Valeryan poetics, and symbolist poetics more broadly, on a range of Anglo-American poets in untypical fashion. Pairing poets who are not usually studied in their relation to one another reveals mutuality and dissimilitude. Chapter I looks at Stevens and Valery from the vantage point of the senses as opposed to the more usual lens of their similar cerebral or philosophical temperaments. Although critics have largely and justifiably seen Stevens and Eliot in oppositional terms (Stevens proclaims them dead opposites), Lisa Goldfarb asks what happens when we look at them from the vantage point of their mutual interest in creating a musical poetics. Auden is principally known for his distaste for the symbolists and their magical poetics, yet he reserves special praise for Valery and considers him as his poetic mentor; Chapter III studies their poetics side-by-side. With Stevens and Audens mutual appreciation of Valery as a starting point, Chapter IV turns to a closer comparative study of Auden and Stevens, two poets who have traditionally been seen as operating in distinct poetic spheres. While Elizabeth Bishop famously eludes categorization in terms of poetic school or affiliation, a fifth chapter addresses her poetic music in relation to French symbolist poetics, one of the many poetic schools she admired. A sixth and final chapter examines Stevens musical legacy, in large part derived from the symbolists, and addresses the work of a range of modern and contemporary poets, with a final section devoted to the work of contemporary poet, Susan Howe.

Author : Pablo Meninato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351104944

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While the concept of "type" has been present in architectural discourse since its formal introduction at the end of the eighteenth century, its role in the development of architectural projects has not been comprehensively analyzed. This book proposes a reassessment of architectural type throughout history and its impact on the development of architectural theory and practice. Beginning with Laugier's 1753 Essay on Architecture, Unexpected Affinities: The History of Type in the Architectural Project from Laugier to Duchamp traces type through nineteenth- and twentiethth-century architectural movements and thoeries, culminating in a discussion of the affinities between architectural type and Duchamp's concept of the readymade. Includes over sixty black and white images.

Author : Zhang Longxi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X030115104

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Unexpected Affinities by Zhang Longxi Pdf

East-West comparative literature is a field of study that has seen tremendous growth in recent years. In this pioneering study, renowned scholar Zhang Longxi offers a much-needed reappraisal of the thematic and conceptual similarities that unite literary and cultural traditions in the East and West. An expanded version of the lectures he gave as part of the Alexander Lectures Series at the University of Toronto in 2005, Unexpected Affinities emphasizes affinity over difference and explores the relationship between East and West in terms of cultural homogeneity (with shared literary qualities as its signposts), challenging the traditional boundaries of cross-cultural study and comparative literature as a discipline. Throughout Unexpected Affinities, Zhang emphasizes the validity of East-West studies through concrete examples and a wide range of references not only to literature, but to religious and philosophical texts as well. Zhang insists that certain critical insights come solely from the cross-cultural perspective of East-West studies, and that without going beyond the limited horizon of a single literary tradition, we will not attain the broad vision of human creativity in all its richness and diversity. Clear, concise, and engaging, Unexpected Affinities will appeal to students of comparative literature and Asian studies, as well as to readers interested in the global implications of art and culture.

Author : Hugh Ridley
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527588479

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Affinities and Parallel Texts across Two Hundred Years by Hugh Ridley Pdf

Affinities—that nagging sense of familiarity which we get at particular moments in works of art—offer a key to the ways in which poets and artists work. In nine chapters, this book approaches important aspects of the topic and shows how affinity, intentional or otherwise, can be a signpost to an influence the artist wishes to hide, a route into creativity, a shared feature of a genre at a particular stage of development, or a joyful sharing of a common heritage. It can also be the first step in a lawsuit, when it is confused with plagiarism. The chapters range in topic from Wagner and Meyerbeer, Tchaikovsky to the Hymnal, Thomas Mann and Colm Tóibín, and Agatha Christie and George Eliot to American Naïve Painting.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781464967344

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Issues in Social, Ethnic, and Cultural Research: 2011 Edition by Anonim Pdf

Issues in Social, Ethnic, and Cultural Research: 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Social, Ethnic, and Cultural Research. The editors have built Issues in Social, Ethnic, and Cultural Research: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Social, Ethnic, and Cultural Research in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Social, Ethnic, and Cultural Research: 2011 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Author : André van der Braak
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739165508

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Nietzsche and Zen by André van der Braak Pdf

In Nietzsche and Zen: Self-Overcoming Without a Self, André van der Braak engages Nietzsche in a dialogue with four representatives of the Buddhist Zen tradition: Nagarjuna (c. 150-250), Linji (d. 860), Dogen (1200-1253), and Nishitani (1900-1990).In doing so, he reveals Nietzsche's thought as a philosophy of continuous self-overcoming, in which even the notion of "self" has been overcome. Van der Braak begins by analyzing Nietzsche's relationship to Buddhism and status as a transcultural thinker,recalling research on Nietzsche and Zen to date and setting out the basic argument of the study. He continues by examining the practices of self-overcoming in Nietzsche and Zen, comparing Nietzsche's radical skepticism with that of Nagarjuna and comparingNietzsche's approach to truth to Linji's. Nietzsche's methods of self-overcoming are compared to Dogen's zazen, or sitting meditation practice, and Dogen's notion of forgetting the self. These comparisons and others build van der Braak's case for acriticism of Nietzsche informed by the ideas of Zen Buddhism and a criticism of Zen Buddhism seen through the Western lens of Nietzsche - coalescing into one world philosophy. This treatment, focusing on one of the most fruitful areas of research withincontemporary comparative and intercultural philosophy, will be useful to Nietzsche scholars, continental philosophers, and comparative philosophers.

Author : Susan Taber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Families
ISBN : OSU:32435053521050

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Author : Sigurd Bergmann,Kate Rigby,Peter Manley Scott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000879209

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Religion, Materialism and Ecology by Sigurd Bergmann,Kate Rigby,Peter Manley Scott Pdf

This timely collection of essays by leading international scholars across religious studies and the environmental humanities advances a lively discussion on materialism in its many forms. While there is little agreement on what ‘materialism’ means, it is evident that there is a resurgence in thinking about matter in more animated and active ways. The volume explores how debates concerning the new materialisms impinge on religious traditions and the extent to which religions, with their material culture and beliefs in the Divine within the material, can make a creative contribution to debates about ecological materialisms. Spanning a broad range of themes, including politics, architecture, hermeneutics, literature and religion, the book brings together a series of discussions on materialism in the context of diverse methodologies and approaches. The volume investigates a range of issues including space and place, hierarchy and relationality, the relationship between nature and society, human and other agencies, and worldviews and cultural values. Drawing on literary and critical theory, and queer, philosophical, theological and social theoretical approaches, this ground-breaking book will make an important contribution to the environmental humanities. It will be a key read for postgraduate students, researchers and scholars in religious studies, cultural anthropology, literary studies, philosophy and environmental studies.

Author : William Outhwaite
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470999011

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The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought by William Outhwaite Pdf

Modern social thought ranges widely from the social sciences to philosophy, political theories and doctrines, cultural ideas and movements, and the influence of the natural sciences. Provides an authoritative overview of the main themes of social thought. Long essays and entries give full coverage to each topic. Covers major currents of thought, philosophical and cultural trends, and the individual social sciences from anthropology to welfare economics. New edition updates about 200 entries and includes new entries, suggestions for further reading, and a bibliography of all sources cited within the text.

Author : Laurent de Sutter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317624783

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Zizek and Law by Laurent de Sutter Pdf

The very first book dedicated to Slavoj Zizek’s theoretical treatment of law, this book gathers widely recognized Zizek scholars as well as legal theorists to offer a sustained analysis of the place of law in Zizek’s work. Whether it is with reference to symbolic law, psychoanalytical law, religious law, positive law, human rights, to Lacan’s, Hegel’s, or Kant’s philosophies of law, or even to Jewish or Buddhist law, Zizek returns again and again to law. And what his work offers, this volume demonstrates, is a radically new approach to law, and a rethinking of its role within the framework of radical politics. With the help of Zizek himself – who here, and for the first time, directly engages with the topic of law – this collection provides an authoritative account of ‘Zizek and law’. It will be invaluable resource for researchers and students in the fields of law, legal theory, legal philosophy, political theory, psychoanalysis, theology, and cultural studies.

Author : Mark Royden Winchell
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826262318

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Where No Flag Flies by Mark Royden Winchell Pdf

Author : Stanley Aronowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136040702

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Dead Artists, Live Theories, and Other Cultural Problems by Stanley Aronowitz Pdf

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Joseph Bergin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137339065

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A History of France by Joseph Bergin Pdf

Few modern countries can boast of such a lengthy history as France, whose distinctive shape has been a key feature of the successive stages of European history during the past millennium. This engaging narrative seamlessly weaves together the complex tale of French history since the year 1000. Bringing together political, religious, social and cultural developments, A History of France provides an insightful and readable overview of the country's history as it moved from a dominant position within Europe – with an empire stretching across the continents – to one in which it was invaded and occupied by its largest neighbour. Through revolution, war and peace, Joseph Bergin explores how the Frankland of 1000 CE has mutated into the France we know today.

Author : Leo Kenis,Patrick Pasture
Publisher : Universitaire Pers Leuven
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9789058676658

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The Transformation of the Christian Churches in Western Europe by Leo Kenis,Patrick Pasture Pdf

KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society, Volume 6Research continues to show that the Christian religion is gradually disappearing from the public, cultural, and social spheres in Western Europe. Even on the individual level, institutionalized religion is becoming increasingly marginalized. New forms of religious life and community, however, may point toward a resurgence of Christian churches in postmodern Europe. This book focuses on the complex transformations Christian churches in Western Europe have undergone since World War II. In English and French.