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The Goddess and the Nation
Mapping Mother India
- Duke University Press, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 27,29 €
ISBN 978-0-8223-4610-4
EAN 9780822346104
Making the case for a new kind of visual history, The Goddess and the Nation charts the pictorial life and career of Bharat Mata, Mother India, the Indian nation imagined as mother/goddess, embodiment of national territory, and unifying symbol for the country's diverse communities. Soon after Mother India's emergence in the late nineteenth century, artists, ...
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Investigates friendships between anti-colonial Indians and anti-imperial 'westerners' in late-19th and early 20th centuries, claiming that such inter-cultural collaborations need to be added to annals of non-violent historiography.
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The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages
On the Unwritten History of Theory
- Duke University Press, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 22,09 €
ISBN 978-0-8223-4644-9
EAN 9780822346449
This collection of essays argues that any valid theory of the modern should indeed must reckon with the medieval. Offering a much-needed correction to theorists such as Hans Blumenberg, who in his Legitimacy of the Modern Age describes the modern age as a complete departure from the Middle Ages, these essays forcefully show that thinkers ...
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Sarat, Austin; Simon, Jonathan
Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law
Moving Beyond Legal Realism
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If you want to find out what a rock critic, a syndicated columnist, and scholars of American literature have to say about one of America's most important contemporary novelists, turn to "Introducing Don DeLillo. "Placing the author's work in a cultural context, this is the first book-length collection on DeLillo, adding considerably to the emerging ...
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Hauerwas, Stanley (EDT); Lentricchia, Frank (EDT
Dissent from the Homeland
Essays After September 11
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- Duke University Press, 2010
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PVP: 22,91 €
ISBN 978-0-8223-3039-4
EAN 9780822330394
An anthology of exemplary readings by some of the twentieth century's foremost literary critics, "Close Reading" presents a wide range of responses to the question at the heart of literary criticism: how best to read a text to understand its meaning. The lively introduction and the selected essays provide an overview of close reading from ...
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Blutopia
Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of S
In Blutopia Graham Lock studies the music and thought of three pioneering twentieth-century musicians: Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton. Providing an alternative to previous analyses of their work, Lock shows how these distinctive artists were each influenced by a common musical and spiritual heritage and participated in self-conscious efforts to create a utopian ...
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What place do ethical concerns have in intellectual life today? Why do ethical issues so often intrude in discussions of literature, criticism, and culture? And why are ethical issues so often unresolved? In short, why does ethics seem to be both urgent and problematic? In this book, the noted critic Geoffrey Galt Harpham seeks to ...
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Contributor(s): Hauerwas, Stanley M (Editor), Lentricchia, Frank (Editor), Rowan Williams, Archbishop (Contribution by), Anne R Slifkin (Contribution by), Robert N Bellah (Contribution by), Fredric Jameson (Contribution by), Steve Cohn (Contribution by), Michael J Baxter (Contribution by), Slavoj Zizek (Contribution by), John Milbank (Contribution by), Daniel Berrigan (Contribution by), Wendell Berry (Contribution by), Susan Willis (Contribution ...
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This collection of essays by renowned literary scholars offers a sustained and comprehensive account of the relation of British and Irish literary modernism to colonialism. Bringing postcolonial studies into dialogue with modernist studies, the contributors move beyond depoliticized appreciations of modernist aesthetics as well as the dismissal of literary modernism as irredeemably complicit in the ...
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- Duke University Press, 2007
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PVP: 20,79 €
ISBN 978-0-8223-4032-4
EAN 9780822340324
This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary 'postfeminist' mass media culture, analysing phenomena ranging from female action films to the 'girling' of ageing women in productions such as the movie "Something's Gotta Give" and the British television series "10 Years Younger". Broadly defined, 'postfeminism' encompasses a set of assumptions that feminism accomplished ...
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