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  1. Pynchon and Philosophy : Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno
    Autor*in: Eve, Martin Paul
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  Springer Nature, Bern

    Pynchon and Philosophy radically reworks our readings of Thomas Pynchon alongside the theoretical perspectives of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno. Rigorous yet readable, Pynchon and Philosophy seeks to recover philosophical readings of Pynchon that... mehr

     

    Pynchon and Philosophy radically reworks our readings of Thomas Pynchon alongside the theoretical perspectives of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno. Rigorous yet readable, Pynchon and Philosophy seeks to recover philosophical readings of Pynchon that work harmoniously, rather than antagonistically, resulting in a wholly fresh approach. Dr. Martin Paul Eve is a lecturer in literature at the University of Lincoln, UK. In addition to editing the open access journal of Pynchon Studies, Orbit, he has work published or forthcoming in Textual Practise, Neo-Victorian Studies, C21, Pynchon Notes and several edited collections. This book was originally published with exclusive rights reserved by the Publisher in (2014) and was licensed as an open access publication in [SEPTEMBER 2021] under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license if changes were made. This is an open access book.

     
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    ISBN: 9781137405500
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    Schlagworte: Literary theory; Cultural studies; Philosophy; Philosophy of language; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Fiction & related items
    Weitere Schlagworte: Pynchon; Contemporary Fiction; Literature and Philosophy; Ludwig Wittgenstein; philosophy; society; Theodor W. Adorno; Open Access
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (229 p.)
  2. Bilder schreiben : Virtuose Ekphrasis in Philostrats Eikones
    Autor*in: Baumann, Mario
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    The work Eikones (Imagines/Images) by Philostratus consists of 64 fictitious descriptions of images. Mario Baumann analyzes the aesthetic virtuosity which characterizes this text. The speaker who formulates the descriptions proves himself a master in... mehr

     

    The work Eikones (Imagines/Images) by Philostratus consists of 64 fictitious descriptions of images. Mario Baumann analyzes the aesthetic virtuosity which characterizes this text. The speaker who formulates the descriptions proves himself a master in interpreting the images. He creates a unique textual composition of images which continually surprises and challenges the reader due to its diversity. The text of Eikones takes up the tradition of literature and at the same time changes it through the creation of new combinations, always revealing the virtuosity of the author.

     
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    Sprache: Deutsch
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    ISBN: 9783110254068; 9783110254051
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    Schlagworte: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
    Weitere Schlagworte: Philostratus; Eikones; Paideia
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (218 p.)
  3. Techné/Technology: Researching Cinema and Media Technologies - their Development, Use, and Impact
    Autor*in: van den Oever, Annie
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  Amsterdam University Press

    This fourth title in the series The Key Debates sets out where the term techne comes from, how it unleashed a revolution in thought and how the concept in the midst of the current digital revolution, once again, is influencing the study of film. In... mehr

     

    This fourth title in the series The Key Debates sets out where the term techne comes from, how it unleashed a revolution in thought and how the concept in the midst of the current digital revolution, once again, is influencing the study of film. In addition, the authors - among them André Gaudreault, Geoffrey Wintrop-Young, Martin Lefevbre, Dominique Chateau, Nanna Verhoeff, Andreas Fickers and Ian Christie - investigate how technologies have affected the major debates about film, how they affected film theory and some of its key concepts. This is one of the rare books to assess the comprehensive history of the philosophies of technology and their impact on film and media theory in greater detail.

     
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    Schlagworte: Film theory & criticism
    Weitere Schlagworte: techne; media technologies; technology; film theory; digital revolution; film; cinema technologies; media theory; Martin Heidegger; Metz
  4. Landeskunde Nord : Beitraege zur 1. Konferenz in Goeteborg am 12. Mai 2012
    Beteiligt: Grub, Frank Thomas (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    Landeskunde beinhaltet immer auch eine regionale Perspektive, nicht zuletzt hinsichtlich des Ortes, an dem Forschung und Lehre bzw. Unterricht stattfinden. 2012 wurde deshalb das Netzwerk-Projekt Landeskunde Nord ins Leben gerufen, dessen Ziel es... mehr

     

    Landeskunde beinhaltet immer auch eine regionale Perspektive, nicht zuletzt hinsichtlich des Ortes, an dem Forschung und Lehre bzw. Unterricht stattfinden. 2012 wurde deshalb das Netzwerk-Projekt Landeskunde Nord ins Leben gerufen, dessen Ziel es ist, Forschung und Lehre zur germanistischen Landeskunde, insbesondere in den nordischen Ländern, voranzutreiben. Pädagogische Konzepte, die über die fragwürdige Vermittlung von Daten und angeblich typischen Eigenschaften und Verhaltensweisen der Deutschen, Österreicher und Schweizer hinausgehen, sind rar. Diesem Defizit will der Band in seiner Verbindung von wissenschaftstheoretischer Fundierung und praktischen Beispielen abhelfen. Bei aller Vielfalt der Ansätze zeigen sich auch zahlreiche Gemeinsamkeiten, beispielsweise im Hinblick auf die Ablehnung eines homogenen Kulturbegriffs. Die Beiträge gehen nicht von schematischen Darstellungen mit universalem Anspruch aus, sondern von Phänomenen und Diskursen, wobei die Autorinnen und Autoren auf autonomes und lebenslanges Lernen setzen.

     
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  5. The conservation of panel paintings and related objects : Research agenda 2014 -2020
    Autor*in: van Grevenstein, Anne; New, Britta; Young, Christina; Seymour, Kate; Groves, Roger; Horie, Velson
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  NWO, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, The Hague

    Until the early 17th century almost all portable paintings were created on wood supports, including masterpieces by famous painters, ranging from Giotto to Dürer to Rembrandt. The structural conservation of these paintings requires specific knowledge... mehr

     

    Until the early 17th century almost all portable paintings were created on wood

    supports, including masterpieces by famous painters, ranging from Giotto to Dürer

    to Rembrandt. The structural conservation of these paintings requires specific

    knowledge and skills as the supports are susceptible to damage caused by unstable

    environmental conditions.

    Unfortunately, past structural interventions often caused significant damage due

    to insufficient knowledge of the behaviour of the wood panels, glue and paint

    layers. Over the last fifty years, the field has developed treatment strategies based

    on interdisciplinary collaboration and on the knowledge of specialist conservators.

    Most current conservation protocols rely on empirical knowledge of conservators

    and are not necessarily based on a scientific understanding of the nature and

    behaviour of wood and paint layers.

    In order to move the field forward, it is imperative to strengthen scientific research

    into the production methods, ageing and future behaviour of panel paintings,

    being an intricate interplay between different materials. A deeper understanding of

    the processes that adversely affect panel paintings over time will contribute to the

    improved care and conservation of these artworks.

    The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Rijksmuseum

    Amsterdam brought together a group of experts from different disciplines to

    recommend specific areas in the field that would benefit from systematic research.

    The experts concluded that targeted interdisciplinary research projects are key to

    understanding the behaviour of panel paintings and help conservators make better

    informed decisions. Research into chemical and physical properties of wood, glue

    and paint layers should be combined with an evaluation of past and current

    conservation treatments. Research should also consider the history of the object,

    studio practice, conservation history and thoughts on long-term impact of

    treatments.

     
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    Beteiligt: Kos, Nico (Hrsg.); van Duin, Paul (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Schlagworte: A; The arts
    Weitere Schlagworte: paintings; panel paintings; conservation; wood
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (226 p.)
  6. Real Folks : Race and Genre in the Great Depression
    Autor*in: Retman, Sonnet
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  Duke University Press

    During the Great Depression, people from across the political spectrum sought to ground American identity in the rural know-how of “the folk.” At the same time, certain writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals combined documentary and satire into a... mehr

     

    During the Great Depression, people from across the political spectrum sought to ground American identity in the rural know-how of “the folk.” At the same time, certain writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals combined documentary and satire into a hybrid genre that revealed the folk as an anxious product of corporate capitalism, rather than an antidote to commercial culture. In Real Folks, Sonnet Retman analyzes the invention of the folk as figures of authenticity in the political culture of the 1930s, as well as the critiques that emerged in response. Diverse artists and intellectuals—including the novelists George Schuyler and Nathanael West, the filmmaker Preston Sturges, and the anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston—illuminated the fabrication and exploitation of folk authenticity in New Deal and commercial narratives. They skewered the racist populisms that prevented interracial working-class solidarity, prophesized the patriotic function of the folk for the nation-state in crisis, and made their readers and viewers feel self-conscious about the desire for authenticity. By illuminating the subversive satirical energy of the 1930s, Retman identifies a rich cultural tradition overshadowed until now by the scholarly focus on Depression-era social realism.

     
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  7. Vom Publicum : Das Öffentliche in der Kunst
    Autor*in: Kammerer, Dietmar
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    In the audience, art and society overlap. It is the place where aesthetic practice becomes public in a society and where political issues in artistic staging become visible and negotiable. This volume poses the question of the aesthetics of the... mehr

     

    In the audience, art and society overlap. It is the place where aesthetic practice becomes public in a society and where political issues in artistic staging become visible and negotiable. This volume poses the question of the aesthetics of the public and the public of the arts. He collects contributions from art history, political philosophy as well as film, theater and media studies and seeks formations of the common in historical and contemporary artistic productions, processes and modes of reception. Im Publikum überlagern sich Kunst und Gesellschaft. Es ist der Ort, an dem ästhetische Praxis in einer Gesellschaft öffentlich wird und an dem politische Fragen in künstlerischer Inszenierung sichtbar und verhandelbar werden. Dieser Band stellt die Frage nach einer Ästhetik des Öffentlichen und den Öffentlichkeiten der Künste. Er versammelt Beiträge aus der Kunstgeschichte, der politischen Philosophie sowie der Film-, Theater- und Medienwissenschaft und sucht Formationen des Gemeinsamen in historischen und gegenwärtigen künstlerischen Produktionen, Prozessen sowie Rezeptionsweisen.

     
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    ISBN: 9783839416730; 9783837616736
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    Schlagworte: The arts: general issues
    Weitere Schlagworte: kunstgeschichte; ästhetik; media; medien; politik; culture; politics; fine arts; politische kunst; kunst; öffentlichkeit; rezeption; political art; ästhetische praxis; kultur; art history; arts; aesthetics; kunstwissenschaft; Ästhetik
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (246 p.)
  8. Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe : Band 8: November 1741 – Oktober 1742
    Autor*in: Gottsched, Johann Christoph
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    Gottsched spent several months in Dresden while representing Leipzig University at Saxony’s parliament. His correspondence lends insight to the events unfolding there and documents his interactions with his circle of acquaintances in Leipzig, whom he... mehr

     

    Gottsched spent several months in Dresden while representing Leipzig University at Saxony’s parliament. His correspondence lends insight to the events unfolding there and documents his interactions with his circle of acquaintances in Leipzig, whom he normally saw in person. Major topics in the correspondence include the theater, the War of Austrian Succession, and disagreements with Gottsched’s critics Bodmer and Breitinger in Zurich.

     
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  9. Involuntary Associations : Postcolonial Studies and World Englishes
    Autor*in: Huddart, David
    Erschienen: 20140528
    Verlag:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    The consequences of Englishes spread have become increasingly clear to its diverse speakers. Sometimes associated with a standardization leading to homogenization, often also with imperialism, English is increasingly understood to have no necessary... mehr

     

    The consequences of Englishes spread have become increasingly clear to its diverse speakers. Sometimes associated with a standardization leading to homogenization, often also with imperialism, English is increasingly understood to have no necessary connection with any country or group of countries. The willingness to accept that English has become Englishes might be less evident among so-called native speakers, but their authority is weaker than it seemed. This book puts examples from World Englishes into dialogue with postcolonial studies. The dialogue will correct misconceptions and misapprehensions in postcolonial studies, with World Englishes offering renewal for postcolonial studies. At the same time, the dialogue will also apply postcolonial studies' political and philosophical ideas to World Englishes, resulting in a postcolonial perspective on English today.

     
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    ISBN: 9781781385982
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    Schlagworte: Literary studies: post-colonial literature
    Weitere Schlagworte: Literature; Postcolonial; Cultural translation; Global citizenship; Globalization; International English; World Englishes
  10. The Light of Knowledge : Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India
    Autor*in: Cody, Francis
    Erschienen: 20130913
    Verlag:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Cowinner of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology’s Edward Sapir Book Prize Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons and other events designed to transform them into... mehr

     

    Cowinner of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology’s Edward Sapir Book Prize

     

    Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), one of the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. This rich ethnographic account of highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy.

     

    “A work of linguistic anthropology that makes crucial contributions to the study of literacy and language ideologies. It is also a broadly ranging work of social theory that will be of interest to students and scholars of the postcolonial state and neoliberal governmentality in South Asia and beyond, and of activism and social movements more generally.”—Anthropological Quarterly

     
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  11. The Digital Condition : Class and Culture in the Information Network
    Autor*in: Wilkie, Rob
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  Fordham University Press

    The acceleration in science, technology, communication, and production that began in the second half of the twentieth century— developments which make up the concept of the “digital”—has brought us to what might be the most contradictory moment in... mehr

     

    The acceleration in science, technology, communication, and production that began in the second half of the twentieth century— developments which make up the concept of the “digital”—has brought us to what might be the most contradictory moment in human history. The digital revolution has made it possible not only to imagine but to actually realize a world in which social inequality and poverty are vanquished. But instead these developments have led to an unprecedented level of accumulation of private profits. Rather than the end of social inequality we are witness to its global expansion. In The Digital Condition, Rob Wilkie advances a groundbreaking analysis of digital culture which argues that the digital geist—which has its genealogy in such concepts as the “body without organs,” “spectrality,” and “différance”—has obscured the implications of class difference with the phantom of a digital divide.

     
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  12. Feeding the City: Work and Food Culture of the Mumbai Dabbawalas
    Autor*in: Roncaglia, Sara
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Open Book Publishers

    Every day in Mumbai 5,000 dabbawalas (literally translated as "those who carry boxes") distribute a staggering 200,000 home-cooked lunchboxes to the city’s workers and students. Giving employment and status to thousands of largely illiterate... mehr

     

    Every day in Mumbai 5,000 dabbawalas (literally translated as "those who carry boxes") distribute a staggering 200,000 home-cooked lunchboxes to the city’s workers and students. Giving employment and status to thousands of largely illiterate villagers from Mumbai's hinterland, this co-operative has been in operation since the late nineteenth century. It provides one of the most efficient delivery networks in the world: only one lunch in six million goes astray. Feeding the City is an ethnographic study of the fascinating inner workings of Mumbai's dabbawalas. Cultural anthropologist Sara Roncaglia explains how they cater to the various dietary requirements of a diverse and increasingly global city, where the preparation and consumption of food is pervaded with religious and cultural significance. Developing the idea of "gastrosemantics" – a language with which to discuss the broader implications of cooking and eating – Roncaglia's study helps us to rethink our relationship to food at a local and global level. The publication of this book is financed by the generous support of interested readers and organisations, who made donations using the crowd-funding website unglue.it

     
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    Schlagworte: Food & society
    Weitere Schlagworte: india; food culture; dabbawalas; food industry; food distribution; mumbai; co-operative; gastrosemantics; Dabbawala; India; Mumbai
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (232 p.)
  13. Resemblance and Representation: An Essay in the Philosophy of Pictures
    Autor*in: Blumson, Ben
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  Open Book Publishers

    It’s a platitude – which only a philosopher would dream of denying – that whereas words are connected to what they represent merely by arbitrary conventions, pictures are connected to what they represent by resemblance. The most important difference... mehr

     

    It’s a platitude – which only a philosopher would dream of denying – that whereas words are connected to what they represent merely by arbitrary conventions, pictures are connected to what they represent by resemblance. The most important difference between my portrait and my name, for example, is that whereas my portrait and I are connected by my portrait’s resemblance to me, my name and I are connected merely by an arbitrary convention. The first aim of this book is to defend this platitude from the apparently compelling objections raised against it, by analysing depiction in a way which reveals how it is mediated by resemblance. It’s natural to contrast the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance, which emphasises the differences between depictive and descriptive representation, with an extremely close analogy between depiction and description, which emphasises the similarities between depictive and descriptive representation. Whereas the platitude emphasises that the connection between my portrait and me is natural in a way the connection between my name and me is not, the analogy emphasises the contingency of the connection between my portrait and me. Nevertheless, the second aim of this book is to defend an extremely close analogy between depiction and description. The strategy of the book is to argue that the apparently compelling objections raised against the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance are manifestations of more general problems, which are familiar from the philosophy of language. These problems, it argues, can be resolved by answers analogous to their counterparts in the philosophy of language, without rejecting the platitude. So the combination of the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance with a close analogy between depiction and description turns out to be a compelling theory of depiction, which combines the virtues of common sense with the insights of its detractors.

     
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    Schlagworte: Philosophy: aesthetics
    Weitere Schlagworte: pictorial representation; intentionality; depiction; representation; resemblance; language; pictures; Axiom; Chess; Formal language; Left- and right-hand traffic; Mona Lisa; Nominalism; Predicate (grammar); Red Square; Tacit knowledge
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (222 p.)
  14. Spatial Practices : Medieval/Modern (Volume 6)
    Beteiligt: Stock, Markus (Hrsg.); Vöhringer, Nicola (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  V&R unipress

    This collection of essays approaches the study of space and place from a historically inclusive perspective; it gives new insights into historical shifts and changes in the construction and perception of space as well as historical developments and... mehr

     

    This collection of essays approaches the study of space and place from a historically inclusive perspective; it gives new insights into historical shifts and changes in the construction and perception of space as well as historical developments and diachonicity of literary, social, and architectural sites and places. It aims to gather a number of case studies in order to collect historically concrete evidence of such spatial practices as reflected in literature and art as well as in sources pertaining to the social and political life of premodern, early modern, and modern era.

     
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    Beteiligt: Stock, Markus (Hrsg.); Vöhringer, Nicola (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
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    Schlagworte: Anthologies (non-poetry)
    Weitere Schlagworte: Literary Collections
  15. Evoking Polish Memory : State, Self and the Communist Past in Transition
    Autor*in: Witeska-Mlynarczyk, Anna
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    The book offers an interdisciplinary but very grounded look at the question of memory politics in contemporary Poland. It describes the conflicting ways in which two groups of people – the former anti-communist activists and the former officers of... mehr

     

    The book offers an interdisciplinary but very grounded look at the question of memory politics in contemporary Poland. It describes the conflicting ways in which two groups of people – the former anti-communist activists and the former officers of the repressive regime – have actively engaged in representations and claims about the communist past in the contemporary reality of one Polish town. The material is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted during the years 2006-2008. The author focuses on the processes of reconstruction of memories and subjectivities taking place at the intersection of individuals, civic society, state bureaucracy and politics. The book focuses on the beliefs, hopes and fears of people who became the subjects of historical policy during their lifetimes.

     
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  16. The Nation Should Come First : Marxism and Historiography in East Central Europe
    Autor*in: Górny, Maciej
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    By the second half of the 1940s, newly conquered nations of Central and Eastern Europe were expected to adjust multiple professions, including those related to the historical sciences, to the Soviet model. However, Marxism, soon to become the only... mehr

     

    By the second half of the 1940s, newly conquered nations of Central and Eastern Europe were expected to adjust multiple professions, including those related to the historical sciences, to the Soviet model. However, Marxism, soon to become the only acceptable methodology, was no longer understood in the same way as in Bolshevik Russia. Its Soviet variation borrowed heavily from the tradition of Russian historiography and the Russian national tradition. The variations formulated in the satellite countries were also less likely to break away from existing traditions than to revise and re-evaluate them, along with the perspectives on Russia’s role in the history of Central and Eastern Europe.

     
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  17. Passionate Amateurs : Theatre, Communism and Love
    Autor*in: Ridout, Nicholas
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  University of Michigan Press

    Beginning with Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater's potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Ridout argues that theater in modern... mehr

     

    Beginning with Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater's potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Ridout argues that theater in modern capitalism can help us think afresh about notions of work, time, and freedom.Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater's potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. It begins with one of the first great plays of modern European theater— Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in Moscow— and then crosses the 20th and 21st centuries to look at how its story plays out in Weimar Republic Berlin, in the Paris of the 1960s, and in a spectrum of contemporary performance in Europe and the United States. This is a work of historical materialist theater scholarship, which combines a materialism grounded in a socialist tradition of cultural studies with some of the insights developed in recent years by theorists of affect, and addresses some fundamental questions about the social function and political potential of theater within modern capitalism. Passionate Amateurs argues that theater in modern capitalism can help us think afresh about notions of work, time, and freedom. Its title concept is a theoretical and historical figure, someone whose work in theater is undertaken within capitalism, but motivated by a love that desires something different. In addition to its theoretical originality, it offers a significant new reading of a major Chekhov play, the most sustained scholarly engagement to date with Benjamin's Program for a Proletarian Children's Theatre, the first major consideration of Godard's La chinoise as a "theatrical" work, and the first chapter-length discussion of the work of The Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, an American company rapidly gaining a profile in the European theater scene. Passionate Amateurs contributes to the development of theater and performance studies in a way that moves beyond debates over the differences between theater and performance in order to tell a powerful, historically grounded story about what theater and performance are for in the modern world.“Reading a suggestively diverse set of modern performances, and setting those performances within a clear and well-defined theoretical/critical project, Ridout attempts to use the "passionate amateur" at once the spectator, the scholar, and to some extent the characters in the plays, as a critical category disrupting the otherwise fully commodified communication of leisure products... Passionate Amateurs is wholly original, intellectually and critically stimulating, and certain to develop not only discussion but also to lead to a series of important questions in contemporary theatre and performance studies scholarship.

     
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    Schlagworte: Theatre studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: Performing Arts
  18. Imitate Anacreon! : Mimesis, Poiesis and the Poetic Inspiration in the Carmina Anacreontea
    Beteiligt: Dümmler, Nicola (Hrsg.); Baumbach, Manuel (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    Despite their rich tradition, the Carmina Anacreontea transmitted in the Palatine Anthology have received little scholarly attention. This neglect is linked to questions concerning their authenticity. Long read as poems by the ancient lyricist... mehr

     

    Despite their rich tradition, the Carmina Anacreontea transmitted in the Palatine Anthology have received little scholarly attention. This neglect is linked to questions concerning their authenticity. Long read as poems by the ancient lyricist Anacreon, they are now regarded instead as imitations of Anacreontic lyricism. This volume presents the latest findings on the language, poetology, tradition, and reception of this lyrical collection.

     
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    Beteiligt: Dümmler, Nicola (Hrsg.); Baumbach, Manuel (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9783110334142; 9783110334029; 9783110370768
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    Schlagworte: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
    Weitere Schlagworte: Carmina Anacreontea; Anacreon; Greek poetry; lyric; reception
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (310 p.)
  19. Bildung und Briefe im 6. Jahrhundert : Studien zum Mailänder Diakon Magnus Felix Ennodius
    Autor*in: Schröder, Bianca-Jeanette
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    Ennodius lived during the reign of the Ostrogothic King Theoderic. When he wrote his various works he was deacon in Milan, later becoming Bishop of Pavia. This study is an introduction to his life and works, and reveals how the deacon promoted the... mehr

     

    Ennodius lived during the reign of the Ostrogothic King Theoderic. When he wrote his various works he was deacon in Milan, later becoming Bishop of Pavia. This study is an introduction to his life and works, and reveals how the deacon promoted the ´worldly` culture of languages and rhetoric. Particular attention is paid to the letters which he sent to secular and ecclesiastic officials (including the Pope), as well as relatives. Among other things, he demanded that the Roman ruling classes crown their privileged position by dedicating themselves to cultural matters.

     
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    ISBN: 9783110921724; 9783110199550
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    Schlagworte: Literary theory; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Social & cultural history; The Early Church
    Weitere Schlagworte: Magnus F. Ennodius; epistology; Late Antiquity
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (399 p.)
  20. Gallien in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter : Kulturgeschichte einer Region
    Beteiligt: Diefenbach, Steffen (Hrsg.); Müller, Gernot Michael (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    The period from the 5th to the 7th century AD was characterised by far-reaching structural changes that affected the entire west of the Roman Empire. This process used to be regarded by scholars aspart of the dissolution of Roman order, but in... mehr

     

    The period from the 5th to the 7th century AD was characterised by far-reaching structural changes that affected the entire west of the Roman Empire. This process used to be regarded by scholars aspart of the dissolution of Roman order, but in current discussions it is nowexamined more critically. The contributions to this volume of conference papers combine approaches from history and literature studies in order to review the changing forms and fields of the establishment of collective identities, and to analyse them in their mutual relationships.

     
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    Beteiligt: Diefenbach, Steffen (Hrsg.); Müller, Gernot Michael (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Deutsch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110260779; 9783110260052
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    Schlagworte: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Medieval history
    Weitere Schlagworte: Gaul; Late Antiquity
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (492 p.)
  21. Plato in the Third Sophistic
    Beteiligt: Fowler, Ryan C. (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    Plato in the Third Sophistic examines the influence and impact of Plato and Platonism in the era of Byzantine and Christian rhetoric. The volume brings together articles from leading scholars of late antique philosophy and literature. Their... mehr

     

    Plato in the Third Sophistic examines the influence and impact of Plato and Platonism in the era of Byzantine and Christian rhetoric. The volume brings together articles from leading scholars of late antique philosophy and literature. Their examinations show that Plato is the single most important and influential literary figure used to frame the literature of this time.

     
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    Beteiligt: Fowler, Ryan C. (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781614510390; 9781614510321; 9781614519836
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    Schlagworte: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500
    Weitere Schlagworte: Plato; philosophy
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (310 p.)
  22. Der Fall Roms und seine Wiederauferstehungen in Antike und Mittelalter
    Beteiligt: Pollmann, Karla (Hrsg.); Harich-Schwarzbauer, Henriette (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    This collection of essays analyzes the construction of the "fall" of Rome from a range of perspectives native to different disciplines. Subjects addressed include comparable discourses dating from the earlier history of Rome, the perception of this... mehr

     

    This collection of essays analyzes the construction of the "fall" of Rome from a range of perspectives native to different disciplines. Subjects addressed include comparable discourses dating from the earlier history of Rome, the perception of this historical moment by writers living at the time it occurred, and its reception in Byzantium and Western Europe during the Middle Ages.

     
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    Beteiligt: Pollmann, Karla (Hrsg.); Harich-Schwarzbauer, Henriette (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Deutsch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110287158; 9783110286984
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    Schlagworte: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Medieval history; The Early Church
    Weitere Schlagworte: Rome/ Ancient; Rome/ Image; Alaric; Rome/ Fall in 410 AD
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (324 p.)
  23. Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe : Band 7: August 1740 – Oktober 1741
    Autor*in: Gottsched, Johann Christoph
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    The focus of this volume is on the world of theater. The reign of Frederick II is a subject of considerable attention in the correspondence: from Königsberg come reports about the politics of religion, and from Berlin reports about the politics of... mehr

     

    The focus of this volume is on the world of theater. The reign of Frederick II is a subject of considerable attention in the correspondence: from Königsberg come reports about the politics of religion, and from Berlin reports about the politics of science. The Weißenfelser Society of Alethophiles was becoming successful.

     
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    Beteiligt: Döring, Detlef (Hrsg.); Menzel, Franziska (Hrsg.); Otto, Rüdiger (Hrsg.); Schlott, Michael (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Deutsch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110297188; 9783110297003
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    Schlagworte: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600
    Weitere Schlagworte: Enlightenment; Johann Christoph Gottsched
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (692 p.)
  24. Chapter 8 The BRCA patent controversies : An international review of patent disputes
    Autor*in: van Zimmeren, Esther; Nicol, Dianne; Gold, Richard; Carbone, Julia; Chandrasekharan, Subhashini; Lane Baldwin, A.; Cook-Deegan, Robert
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  Taylor & Francis

    The discovery of the two inherited susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 in the mid-1990s created the possibility of predictive genetic testing and led to the establishment of specific medical programmes for those at high risk of developing breast... mehr

     

    The discovery of the two inherited susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 in the mid-1990s created the possibility of predictive genetic testing and led to the establishment of specific medical programmes for those at high risk of developing breast cancer in the UK, US and Europe. The book provides a coherent structure for examining the diversity of practices and discourses that surround developments linked to BRCA genetics, and to the evolving field of genetics more broadly. It will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, history of science, STS, public health and bioethics. Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780415824064_oachapter8.pdf

     
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    Übergeordneter Titel: Breast Cancer Gene Research and Medical Practices
    Schlagworte: Society & culture: general; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Sociology
    Weitere Schlagworte: Society and culture: general; Social and cultural anthropology; Sociology
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (57 p.)
  25. Breast Cancer Gene Research and Medical Practices : Transnational Perspectives in the Time of BRCA
    Beteiligt: Gibbon, Sahra (Hrsg.); Joseph, Galen (Hrsg.); Mozersky, Jessica (Hrsg.); zur Nieden, Andrea (Hrsg.); Palfner, Sonja (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  Taylor & Francis

    The discovery of the two inherited susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 in the mid-1990s created the possibility of predictive genetic testing and led to the establishment of specific medical programmes for those at high risk of developing breast... mehr

     

    The discovery of the two inherited susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 in the mid-1990s created the possibility of predictive genetic testing and led to the establishment of specific medical programmes for those at high risk of developing breast cancer in the UK, US and Europe. The book provides a coherent structure for examining the diversity of practices and discourses that surround developments linked to BRCA genetics, and to the evolving field of genetics more broadly. It will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, history of science, STS, public health and bioethics. Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780415824064_oachapter8.pdf

     
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    Beteiligt: Gibbon, Sahra (Hrsg.); Joseph, Galen (Hrsg.); Mozersky, Jessica (Hrsg.); zur Nieden, Andrea (Hrsg.); Palfner, Sonja (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780203385517
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    Schlagworte: Society & culture: general; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Sociology
    Weitere Schlagworte: Society and culture: general; Social and cultural anthropology; Sociology
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (248 p.)