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  1. Writing Death
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    Writing Death opens a meditation on the possibility of mourning; of whether there is a subject, or even object, that one mourns—of whether one is mourning, can only mourn, the very impossibility of mourning itself. The manuscript is framed by two... mehr

     

    Writing Death opens a meditation on the possibility of mourning; of whether there is a subject, or even object, that one mourns—of whether one is mourning, can only mourn, the very impossibility of mourning itself. The manuscript is framed by two attempts at mourning—Avital Ronell’s “The Tactlessness of an Unending Fadeout” and Jeremy Fernando’s “adieu.” In-between—for this is where both pieces posit the possibility of attending to the passing, the memory, the fading of the person—is an attempt to think this impossibility. The text is continually haunted by the question of whether one is mourning the person as such, or a particular version of the person, a reading of the person. And in reading another, in attempting to respond to the other, one can never have the metaphysical comfort that one is reading accurately, correctly; in fact, one may always already be re-writing the person. Thus, all one can do is attempt to mourn the name of that person, whilst never being certain of whether her name even refers to her any longer. All one can do is write death.

     

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    Beteiligt: Ronell, Avital (Hrsg.)
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    Schlagworte: Literary essays
    Weitere Schlagworte: literary theory
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (114 p.)
  2. World Heritage Angkor and Beyond - Circumstances and Implications of UNESCO Listings in Cambodia
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  Universitätsverlag Göttingen

    Angkor, the temple and palace complex of the ancient Khmer capital in Cambodia is one of the world’s most famous monuments. Hundreds of thousands of tourists from all over the globe visit Angkor Park, one of the finest UNESCO World Heritage Sites,... mehr

     

    Angkor, the temple and palace complex of the ancient Khmer capital in Cambodia is one of the world’s most famous monuments. Hundreds of thousands of tourists from all over the globe visit Angkor Park, one of the finest UNESCO World Heritage Sites, every year. Since its UNESCO listing in 1992, the Angkor region has experienced an overwhelming mushrooming of hotels and restaurants; the infrastructure has been hardly able to cope with the rapid growth of mass tourism and its needs. This applies to the access and use of monument sites as well. The authors of this book critically describe and analyse the heritage nomination processes in Cambodia, especially in the case of Angkor and the temple of Preah Vihear on the Cambodian/Thai border. They examine the implications the UNESCO listings have had with regard to the management of Angkor Park and its inhabitants on the one hand, and to the Cambodian/Thai relationships on the other. Furthermore, they address issues of development through tourism that UNESCO has recognised as a welcome side-effect of heritage listings. They raise the question whether development through tourism deepens already existing inequalities rather than contributing to the promotion of the poor.

     

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  3. Words as Events: Cretan Mandinádes in Performance and Composition
    Autor*in: Sykäri, Venla
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    "Words as Events introduces the tradition of short, communicative rhyming couplets, the mantinádes, as still sung and recited in a variety of performance situations on the island of Crete. Recently, these poems have also entered modern mass media and... mehr

     

    "Words as Events introduces the tradition of short, communicative rhyming couplets, the mantinádes, as still sung and recited in a variety of performance situations on the island of Crete. Recently, these poems have also entered modern mass media and they are widely being exchanged as text messages by Cretans. Focusing on the multi-functionality of the short form, Sykäri demonstrates how the traditional register gives voice to individual experiences in spontaneous utterances. The local focus on communicative economy and artistry is further examined in a close analysis of the processes and ideals of composition. By analyzing how the “restrictions” of form and performative conventions in fact generate impulses of creativity, the author creates a theoretical approach that is sensitive to the special characteristics of the short, rhymed poetic traditions. In this interdisciplinary study, the reader is invited to become familiar with the current folklore theory of oral poetry, which has a long tradition in Finland. The author combines the results of earlier folkloristic and anthropological insights, and extends the theoretical concerns further to address questions of spontaneity and individual agency. The research data has been produced in communicative interactions during long-term fieldwork. As a result, the short, rhymed poetry, often neglected by scholars in earlier research paradigms, can now be seen in new light – specifically as dialogic poetry – through its extended, multi-layered dialogic qualities."

     

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    Schlagworte: Historical & comparative linguistics; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Weitere Schlagworte: performances; rune singing; folk songs; interpretation; folk poetry; Crete; Dialogic; Finland; Folklore; Improvisation; Oral literature; Rhyme
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (224 p.)
  4. Words are Physicians for an Ailing mind : For Andrzej Boguslawski on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday
    Beteiligt: Grochowski, Maciej (Hrsg.); Weiss, Daniel (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 1991
    Verlag:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    <P>The contributions included in the present volume cover a large number of various linguistic disciplines: the topics range from philosophy of language, pragmatics, semantics and syntax to morphology and phonology, and even language history,... mehr

     

    The contributions included in the present volume cover a large number of various linguistic disciplines: the topics range from philosophy of language, pragmatics, semantics and syntax to morphology and phonology, and even language history, translation theory and quantitative linguistics figure among them. This astonishing abundance of different research objects and methods sheds some light on the universality of interests which characterize the scholar to whom this volume is dedicated.

     

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    Beteiligt: Grochowski, Maciej (Hrsg.); Weiss, Daniel (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Russisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
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    Schlagworte: Literature & literary studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: 60th; Ailing; Andrzej; Birthday; Boguslawski; Gegenwartssprache; Grochowski; mind; Morphologie; Occasion; Physicians; Sprache; Syntax; Typologie; Words
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (524 p.)
  5. Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte : Band LIX
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  Böhlau

    Characteristic for all contributions to the Wiener Jahrbuch in 2010 is the presentation of latest research findings with the help of methodological refinements. Thus Assaf Pinkus suggests a new interdisciplinary approach for trecento painting, which... mehr

     

    Characteristic for all contributions to the Wiener Jahrbuch in 2010 is the presentation of latest research findings with the help of methodological refinements. Thus Assaf Pinkus suggests a new interdisciplinary approach for trecento painting, which brings the viewer's perceptions into an analysis of image creation. Milena Bartlová, on the other hand, addresses the little considered subject of the iconoclasm of Bohemian Hussites. An important finding is that Hussitism was unable to give up the image in its medieval function, since the printed book - which could have taken over the communicative qualities of the image - had not yet been invented. Giovan Battista Fidanza also deals with a little considered subject - namely Michelangelo as wood carver. He is able to demonstrate convincingly that Michelangelo applied prefabricated blocks of limewood in the assemblage of his wooden crucifixes.

    The four subsequent articles are dedicated to Baroque art. Eckhart Leuschner defines the Baroque allegory as a constant and internationally standardised deployment of formal and semantic possibilities. At the centre of Kristoffer Neville's contribution is an early version of Fischer von Erlach's Entwurff einer historischen Architectur, with the help of which the creative process of Fischer's main architectural-theoretical work is reconstructed. In the complicated memoria programme of the state sarcophagus finished for Franz Stephan and Maria Theresia in 1754 in the crypt of the Vienna Capuchin Church, Werner Telesko identifies both Antique and Christian strands of tradition. Werner Hofmann, meanwhile, recognises the 1711 endowment decree for Lothar Franz von Schönborn as an inofficial foundation source for Schloss Pommersfelden and traces a 'hypertext' within the decree, which represents the key for the building's iconography.

    The amateur drawings of the Habsburgs from the 19th century are comprehended by Kerstin Merkel as autonomous non-verbal sources and integrated with historical information. Iris Wien, by contrast, sets two self-portraits of Andy Wahrhol within his known oeuvre and convincingly suggests an interpretation as Medusa.

    In the last four contributions to the volume, the Memorabilia, important contemporary historical documents for the history of the Vienna School are published and made accessible. Alexandra Caruso edits the memoirs of Erica Tietze Conrat. The letters of Wilde, presented by Károly Kókai, provide insights into events within the circles of Vienna art history at that time. Evonne Levy publishes for the first time a selection of letters written by Hans Sedlmayr to Meyer Schapiro in the period 1930-35. Charles Hope succeeds in portraying in convincing complexity the scholarly range of Sir Ernst Gombrich. Kennzeichnend für alle Beiträge des Wiener Jahrbuches 2010 ist die Präsentation neuester Forschungserkenntnisse mit Hilfe methodischer Raffinessen. So schlägt Assaf Pinkus einen interdisziplinären Zugang für die Trecento-Malerei vor, der Wahrnehmungen des Betrachters in die Analyse der Bilderfindung einbezieht. Milena Bartlová hingegen wendet sich der wenig beachteten Thematik des Bildersturms böhmischer Hussiten zu. Wichtig ist ihre Erkenntnis, dass der Hussitismus das Bild in seiner mittelalterlichen Funktion nicht aufgeben konnte, weil der Buchdruck noch nicht erfunden war, der die kommunikativen Eigenschaften des Bildes hätte übernehmen können. Auch Giovan Battista Fidanza beschäftigt sich mit einem wenig beachteten Thema - nämlich Michelangelo als Holzbildhauer. Er kann überzeugend nachweisen, dass Michelangelo für seine Holzkruzifixe in Assemblagetechnik vorgefertigte Blöcke aus Lindenholz verwendete.

    Die vier folgenden Themen sind der barocken Kunst gewidmet. Die barocke Allegorie definiert Eckhard Leuschner als konstantes und international vereinheitlichtes Dispositiv formaler und semantischer Möglichkeiten. In Kristoffer Nevilles Aufsatz steht eine frühe Version Fischer von Erlachs Entwurff einer historischen Architectur im Mittelpunkt, mit Hilfe derer der Entstehungsprozess von Fischers architekturtheoretischem Hauptwerk rekonstruiert wird. In dem komplizierten Memoria-Programm des 1754 gefertigten Prunksarkophags für Franz Stephan und Maria Theresia in der Wiener Kapuzinergruft kann Werner Telesko die beiden Traditionsstränge Antike und Christentum auffinden. Indes erkennt Werner Hofmann das Dotationsdekret von 1711 für Lothar Franz von Schönborn als inoffizielle Gründungsurkunde des Schlosses Pommersfelden und spürt in dem Dekret einen "Hypertext" auf, der der Schlüssel für die Ikonographie des Gebäudes ist.

    Die Laienzeichnungen der Habsburger aus dem 19. Jahrhundert begreift Kerstin Merkel als eigenständige, nonverbale Quellen und vernetzt diese mit historischen Informationen. Iris Wien dagegen verortet zwei Selbstbildnisse Andy Wahrhols in seinem bisherigen Oeuvre und schlägt eine stichhaltige Interpretation als Medusa vor.

    In den vier letzten Beiträgen dieses Bandes, den Memorabilia, werden wichtige zeitgeschichtliche Dokumente für die Geschichte der Wiener Schule publiziert und lesbar gemacht. Alexandra Caruso gibt Erinnerungen Erica Tietze Conrats heraus. Die von Károly Kókai bearbeiteten Briefe Wildes ermöglichen Einblicke in die Ereignisse innerhalb der Kreise der damaligen Wiener Kunstgeschichte. Evonne Levy publiziert zum ersten Mal eine Auswahl an Briefen, die Hans Sedlmayr an Meyer Schapiro in der Zeit von 1930-1935 sendet. Charles Hope gelingt es, die wissenschaftliche Vielfältigkeit Sir Ernst Gombrichs in einer bestechenden Komplexität darzustellen.

     

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    Schlagworte: The arts
    Weitere Schlagworte: research; baroque art; methodology; modern art; medieval art; historiography; Wien
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (271 Seiten p.)
  6. Why Do We Quote? : The Culture and History of Quotation
    Autor*in: Finnegan, Ruth
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  Open Book Publishers

    Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the... mehr

     

    Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical background that lies behind it and the characteristic way that quoting links past and present, the far and the near. Drawing from anthropology, cultural history, folklore, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, literary studies and the ethnography of speaking, Ruth Finnegan’s fascinating study sets our present conventions into cross-cultural and historical perspective. She traces the curious history of quotation marks, examines the long tradition of quotation collections with their remarkable recycling across the centuries, and explores the uses of quotation in literary, visual and oral traditions. The book tracks the changing definitions and control of quoting over the millennia and in doing so throws new light on ideas such as 'imitation', 'allusion', 'authorship', 'originality' and 'plagiarism'.

     

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    Schlagworte: Language: reference & general; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Weitere Schlagworte: cultural anthropology; imitation; oral traditions; quotation; cultural history; folklore; quotation marks; english; plagiarism; language; quoting; sociolinguistics; originality; oral literature; Erasmus; Latin
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (343 p.)
  7. Werbung und Identität im multikulturellen Raum : Der Werbediskurs in Luxemburg. Ein kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Beitrag
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Luxemburg ist ein multikultureller und mehrsprachiger Kleinstaat. Dort wirksame Werbung zu entwickeln, ist ein komplexer Vorgang. Zum ersten Mal werden in diesem Buch Rahmenbedingungen und Gestaltungselemente des Luxemburger Werbediskurses umfassend... mehr

     

    Luxemburg ist ein multikultureller und mehrsprachiger Kleinstaat. Dort wirksame Werbung zu entwickeln, ist ein komplexer Vorgang. Zum ersten Mal werden in diesem Buch Rahmenbedingungen und Gestaltungselemente des Luxemburger Werbediskurses umfassend diskutiert und analysiert. Ausgehend von Jürgen Links Interdiskurs- und Normalismustheorie gibt die Untersuchung wichtige Hinweise auf die grundsätzliche Beziehung zwischen Werbung, Multikulturalität und kollektiven Identitäten und bietet so eine innovative Form der Anwendung literaturwissenschaftlicher Theorien auf kommunikationswissenschaftliche Kontexte.

     

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  8. Visuelle Kompetenz : Beiträge des interfaktultären Forums Innsbruck Media Studies
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  innsbruck university press

    Connections between word and image have been addressed throughout history. As part of the ongoing medialization of life worlds issues of the production, distribution and perception of images have become especially virulent. This is true not only for... mehr

     

    Connections between word and image have been addressed throughout history. As part of the ongoing medialization of life worlds issues of the production, distribution and perception of images have become especially virulent. This is true not only for the century of mass media, but most notably for the age of digitization. The contributors of this volume ask how images can be produced, described and interpreted today, how we can orient ourselves in visual worlds, which skills are needed, and what it means to be able to understand visual worlds. Zwischen Wort und Bild bestehen Zusammenhänge, deren Thematisierung in der Geschichte weit zurückverfolgt werden kann. Im Zuge der fortschreitenden Medialisierung der Lebenswelten sind Fragen nach der Produktion, Verbreitung und Wahrnehmung von Bildern in besonderer Weise virulent geworden. Dies gilt nicht nur für das Jahrhundert der Massenmedien, sondern vor allem für das Zeitalter der Digitalisierung. Der Band fragt, wie sich heute Bilder herstellen, beschreiben und interpretieren lassen, wie wir uns in Bilderwelten orientieren können, welche Kompetenzen dazu erforderlich sind und was es bedeutet, Bilderwelten verstehen zu können.

     

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    Schlagworte: Media studies; Media, information & communication industries
    Weitere Schlagworte: medienkompetenz; aufsatzsammlung; media; visuelle wahrnehmung; medienpädagogik; bildwissenschaft; visual cognition
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (356 p.)
  9. Virtues for the People : Aspects of Plutarchan Ethics
    Beteiligt: Roskam, Geert (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 20110506
    Verlag:  Leuven University Press

    Plutarch of Chaeronea was by no means an armchair philosopher. He believed in the necessity for a philosopher to affect the lives of his fellow citizens. That urge inspired many of his writings to meet what he considered people's true needs. Although... mehr

     

    Plutarch of Chaeronea was by no means an armchair philosopher. He believed in the necessity for a philosopher to affect the lives of his fellow citizens. That urge inspired many of his writings to meet what he considered people's true needs. Although these writings on practical ethics illustrate in various ways Plutarch's authorial talents and raise many challenging questions (regarding their overall structure, content, purpose, and underlying philosophical and social presuppositions), they have attracted only limited scholarly attention.Virtues for the People’s collected essays deal with these questions from different perspectives and throw a new light upon this multifaceted domain of Plutarch's thinking and writing. Special points of interest are the concept of ‘popular philosophy' itself and its implications, its dependence on a more theoretical philosophical background, and the importance of moral progress, the therapy of wickedness, and the common experiences of everyday life.

     

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    Beteiligt: Roskam, Geert (Hrsg.)
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    Schlagworte: Literature: history & criticism
    Weitere Schlagworte: Classics; Classical Greek philosophy; intellectual history
  10. Violets between Cherry Blossoms. The diffusion of classical motifs to the East : traces in Japanese art : fictions, conjectures, facts
    Autor*in: Arts, P.L.W.
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  Leiden University Press

    This richly illustrated book is a comparative study, which shows how motifs and images travelled throughout Eurasia from Rome to Tokyo. It covers a period from around the early fifth century BC up until today. It is likely that already in the fifth... mehr

     

    This richly illustrated book is a comparative study, which shows how motifs and images travelled throughout Eurasia from Rome to Tokyo. It covers a period from around the early fifth century BC up until today. It is likely that already in the fifth century BC there was some indirect cultural exchange between the Black Sea region and China. From the second to the sixth century AD elements of Greco-Buddhist culture gradually found their way to China and subsequently, from the mid-sixth century AD on, reached Japan. This book is the first comprehensive work to provide a critical and compelling study of the cultural flow across this extensive area. It shows convincingly how Greek images and motifs travelled East, were adopted and preserved in Chinese art and how they spread to Japan.

     

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    Schlagworte: History of art / art & design styles
    Weitere Schlagworte: antiquity; art history; oriental art; japan; china; Anno Domini
  11. The Space of Culture – the Place of Nature in Estonia and Beyond
    Autor*in: Peil, Tiina
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  University of Tartu Press, Tartu

    This volume sets out to construct a tentative bridge between the physical and perceived (academic) worlds, between the understandings of culture and nature, their spatiality and temporality by tackling the spatiality of culture phenomena across... mehr

     

    This volume sets out to construct a tentative bridge between the physical and perceived (academic) worlds, between the understandings of culture and nature, their spatiality and temporality by tackling the spatiality of culture phenomena across disciplinary boundaries. The contributions are arranged around a general question of how humans organise the spaces in which they live. The book is divided according to three themes: the humanities and ecosemiotic approach to nature, constructing nature, and examining environmental and landscape change. The first provides an historical review of the humanities and expands on the more theoretical themes. The second section discusses some ways in constructing (wild) nature with specific examples. The final one illustrates the changes that various cultures have brought about in the environment examining landscapes and domestication. The space of culture and the place of nature in various cultures are discussed critically throughout the volume in a way that challenges their ontological separations and invites to discuss culture-nature relationships on a more balanced basis.

     

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    Schlagworte: Cultural studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: culture; temporality; spatiality; lived environment; landscape change; nature; Semiotics
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (191 p.)
  12. The Origins of Western Notation : Revised and Translated by Neil Moran
    Erschienen: 20110331
    Verlag:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

    Modern music notation developed out of the so-called square notation and this out of the Latin neumes. The question of where these neumes came from has long been the subject of scholarly debate. As the author demonstrated in his three-volume... mehr

     

    Modern music notation developed out of the so-called square notation and this out of the Latin neumes. The question of where these neumes came from has long been the subject of scholarly debate. As the author demonstrated in his three-volume Universale Neumenkunde published in German in 1970, there is a very close relationship between the Paleo-Byzantine notation and the Latin neumes. Although the study aroused a great deal of dispute, more recent studies have revealed that the relevance of the Neumenkunde remains essentially unchallenged after 40 years. Those path-breaking research results on the relationship of the Greek and Latin notational systems are now available for the first time in a completely revised and augmented English translation.

     

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    Schlagworte: Music: styles & genres
    Weitere Schlagworte: Music; Music; Apostropha; Byzantine Empire; Latin; Neume; Virga
  13. The Illiterate Listener: On Music Cognition, Musicality and Methodology
    Autor*in: Honing, Henkjan
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  Amsterdam University Press

    We have known for some time that babies possess a keen perceptual sensitivity for the melodic, rhythmic and dynamic aspects of speech and music: aspects that linguists are inclined to categorize under the term ‘prosody’, but which are in fact the... mehr

     

    We have known for some time that babies possess a keen perceptual sensitivity for the melodic, rhythmic and dynamic aspects of speech and music: aspects that linguists are inclined to categorize under the term ‘prosody’, but which are in fact the building blocks of music. Only much later in a child’s development does he make use of this ‘musical prosody’, for instance in delineating and subsequently recognizing word boundaries. In this essay Henkjan Honing makes a case for ‘illiterate listening’, the human ability to discern, interpret and appreciate musical nuances already from day one, long before a single word has been uttered, let alone conceived. It is the preverbal and preliterate stage that is dominated by musical listening.

     

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    Schlagworte: Theory of music & musicology
    Weitere Schlagworte: music; cognition
  14. The End of the World : Apocalypse and its Aftermath in Western Culture
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  Open Book Publishers

    Our fear of the world ending, like our fear of the dark, is ancient, deep-seated and perennial. It crosses boundaries of space and time, recurs in all human communities and finds expression in every aspect of cultural production – from pre-historic... mehr

     

    Our fear of the world ending, like our fear of the dark, is ancient, deep-seated and perennial. It crosses boundaries of space and time, recurs in all human communities and finds expression in every aspect of cultural production – from pre-historic cave paintings to high-tech computer games. This book examines historical and imaginary scenarios of Apocalypse, the depiction of its likely triggers, and imagined landscapesin the aftermath of global destruction. Its discussion moves effortlessly from classic novels including Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, to blockbuster films such as Blade Runner, Armageddon and The Terminator. The author also takes into account religious doctrine, scientific research and the visual arts to create a penetrating, multi-disciplinarystudy that provides profound insight into one of Western culture’s darkest and most enduring preoccupations.

     

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  15. 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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  16. The Cinema of Mika Kaurismäki : Transvergent Cinescapes, Emergent Identities
    Erschienen: 20110401
    Verlag:  Intellect, Bristol

    Mika Kaurismäki’s films challenge many boundaries – national societies, genre formations, art/popular culture, fiction/documentary, humanity/nature and problematic distinctions between different zones of development. Synthesizing concepts from a... mehr

     

    Mika Kaurismäki’s films challenge many boundaries – national societies, genre formations, art/popular culture, fiction/documentary, humanity/nature and problematic distinctions between different zones of development. Synthesizing concepts from a range of thematic frameworks – e.g. auteurism, eco-philosophy, genre, cartography, cineaste networks, global reception, distribution and exhibition practices, and the potential of postnationalism – this book provides an interdisciplinary reading of Kaurismäki’s cinema. The notion of ‘transvergence’ – of thinking in heterogeneous and polyphonal terms – emerges as an analytical method for exploring the power of these films. Through this, the volume encourages rethinking transnational cinema studies in relation to many oft-debated notions such as Finnish culture, European identity, cosmopolitanism and globalization.

     

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    Schlagworte: Films, cinema
    Weitere Schlagworte: Media & Communications; mika kaurismäki; film studies; auteurism; transnational; genre; cinema; Europe; Finland; Globalization
  17. Sung Tales from the Papua New Guinea Highlands : Studies in Form, Meaning, and Sociocultural Context
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  ANU Press, Canberra

    The genres of sung tales that are the subject of this volume are one of the most striking aspects of the cultural scene in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Composed and performed by specialist bards, they are a highly valued art form. From a... mehr

     

    The genres of sung tales that are the subject of this volume are one of the most striking aspects of the cultural scene in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Composed and performed by specialist bards, they are a highly valued art form. From a comparative viewpoint they are remarkable both for their scale and complexity, and for the range of variation that is found among regional genres and individual styles. Though their existence has previously been noted by researchers working in the Highlands, and some recordings made of them, most of these genres have not been studied in detail until quite recently, mainly because of the challenging range of disciplinary expertise that is required—in anthropology, linguistics, and ethnomusicology. This volume presents a set of interrelated studies by researchers in all of those fields, and by a Papua New Guinea Highlander who has assisted with the research based on his lifelong familiarity with one of the regional genres. The studies presented here (all of them previously unpublished and written especially for this volume) are of groundbreaking significance not only for specialists in Melanesia or the Pacific, but also for readers with a more general interest in comparative poetics, mythology, musicology, or verbal art.

     

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    Schlagworte: Music; Ethnic studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: papua new guinea; music; ethnology; songs; epic poetry; papua new guinea; music; ethnology; songs; epic poetry; Angal language; Ipili language; Karinj; Melody; Melpa language; Verb
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (330 p.)
  18. Subjectivity. Filmic Representation and the Spectator's Experience
    Beteiligt: Chateau, Dominique (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  Amsterdam University Press

    Subjectivity is a central concept in film theory, philosophy and cultural studies. It was also a key term in the reception of the Nouvelle Vague film movement in France and Italy from the start of 1945. This timely volume explores the ways in which... mehr

     

    Subjectivity is a central concept in film theory, philosophy and cultural studies. It was also a key term in the reception of the Nouvelle Vague film movement in France and Italy from the start of 1945. This timely volume explores the ways in which the concept of subjectivity has made its way into film theory, history, practice and criticism, as well as the confrontations of the subject with this rapidly changing medium.Contributors to this timely study include Francesco Casetti, Gregory Currie, Marina Grzinic, Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki, Jacinto Lageira, José Moure, Pere Salabert, Céline Scemama, Karl Sierek, Vivian Sobchack, and Pierre Taminiaux. Their illuminating essays are a testimony to their profound involvement in the subjectivity debate, enriching our perception of film history and our understanding of the medium.

     

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    Beteiligt: Chateau, Dominique (Hrsg.)
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    Schlagworte: Film theory & criticism
    Weitere Schlagworte: subjectivity; nouvelle vague; Consciousness; Duchy of Münsterberg; Point-of-view shot; Robert Bresson
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (276 p.)
  19. St Peter's, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire : Volume 1 : History, Archaeology and Architecture
    Erschienen: 2011

    St Peter's, Barton-upon-Humber, is a redundant medieval church in the care of English Heritage. As a result of a major program of research carried out between 1978 and 2007, it is now the most intensively studied parish church in the UK. Excavations... mehr

     

    St Peter's, Barton-upon-Humber, is a redundant medieval church in the care of English Heritage. As a result of a major program of research carried out between 1978 and 2007, it is now the most intensively studied parish church in the UK. Excavations between 1978 and 1984 investigated most of the interior of the building, as well as a swathe of churchyard around its exterior. At the same time, a stone-by-stone record and detailed archaeological study of the fabric and furnishings of the church was undertaken, continuing down to 2007. The twin aims of the project were to understand the architectural history and setting of this complex, multi-period building (Volume 1, Parts 1 and 2) and to recover a substantial sample of the population for palaeopathological study (Volume 2). An extensive program of historical and topographical research also took place in order to set the archaeological evidence firmly in context.

     

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    Schlagworte: History of architecture; European history; European history
    Weitere Schlagworte: Architecture; History; History; Europe; Medieval; History; Europe; Great Britain
  20. South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010
    Autor*in: Maxey, Ruth
    Erschienen: 20111130
    Verlag:  Edinburgh University Press

    The first major interpretation of recent South Asian diasporic writing in specifically transatlantic terms. The book is organised around four key themes: home and nation; travel and return; racial mixing; and food and eating. Ruth Maxey offers... mehr

     

    The first major interpretation of recent South Asian diasporic writing in specifically transatlantic terms.

     

    The book is organised around four key themes: home and nation; travel and return; racial mixing; and food and eating. Ruth Maxey offers readings of canonical and less well-known South Asian American and British Asian writers and texts and of key cinematic works. She explores the formal and thematic tendencies of the works, relating them to gender politics, the marketplace, and issues of literary value and historical change. The book engages with established debates, while intervening in new ways in transatlantic studies, postcolonial literary studies and Asian American cultural studies.

     

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    Schlagworte: Literary studies: from c 1900 -
    Weitere Schlagworte: Literature; Asian Americans; British Asian; India; Miscegenation; Multiracial; South Asia; White people
  21. Six Eclogues from William Barnes's Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (First Collection, 1844)
    Autor*in: L. Burton, T.
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  University of Adelaide Press

    When William Barnes began publishing poems in the Dorset County Chronicle in the 1830s in the dialect of his native Blackmore Vale, the first poems that appeared were in the form of eclogues — dialogues between country people on country matters.... mehr

     

    When William Barnes began publishing poems in the Dorset County Chronicle in the 1830s in the dialect of his native Blackmore Vale, the first poems that appeared were in the form of eclogues — dialogues between country people on country matters. Although an immediate success, the eclogues were in time overshadowed by the many lyric poems that Barnes published in the dialect. They are now perhaps the most undervalued works by this brilliant but neglected poet. Each eclogue is, effectively, a one-scene play, demanding performance for its potential to be realized. The phonemic transcripts in this book, based on the findings in T. L. Burton’s William Barnes’s Dialect Poems: A Pronunciation Guide (2010), show what the poems would have sounded like in Barnes’s own time; the accompanying audio recordings (made at the 2010 Adelaide Fringe) give living voice to the sounds noted in the transcripts.

     

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    Schlagworte: Poetry by individual poets
    Weitere Schlagworte: tom burton; dorset; english literature; poetry; william barnes; dorset dialect; t l burton; William Barnes
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  22. Sinisten maisemien mies : J. G. Granön tutkijantie 1882-1956
    Autor*in: Tiitta, Allan
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    The man of blue landscapes describes the life and work of the Finnish geographer Johannes Gabriel Granö (1882–1956), whose career also reflected Finland’s development as a modern state. Granö was a scientific explorer, writer, a pioneer of Finnish... mehr

     

    The man of blue landscapes describes the life and work of the Finnish geographer Johannes Gabriel Granö (1882–1956), whose career also reflected Finland’s development as a modern state. Granö was a scientific explorer, writer, a pioneer of Finnish photographic art and a professor of geography at the universities of Tartu (Estonia), Helsinki and Turku. In Estonia he applied scientific method to the study of local history and from Tartu brought the tradition of urban research. Granö spent much of his youth in Omsk in western Siberia, where his father worked as a priest among displaced and deported Finns and Estonians. From 1906 to 1916 Granö made an expedition to Mongolia and the Altai mountains, but his fieldwork remained unfinished when the 1917 revolution broke out, the area was then closed to Western scholars for 70 years. Among Granö’s most important works are the classic travel book Altai, vaellusvuosina nähtyä ja elettyä (‘The Altai, seen and experienced during my years of travel’, 1921) and his methodological masterpiece Puhdas maantiede (‘Pure geography’, 1930). In it Granö outlined a theory of landscapes, and the book was a pioneering work ahead of its time: landscape was examined in terms of the relation between human beings and their environment, as the sum of all the senses.

     

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    ISBN: 9789522229847; 9789522222923
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    Schlagworte: Individual photographers; Biography: general; Geography
    Weitere Schlagworte: photography; geographers; explorers; scientists
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (541 p.)
  23. Sich windende Wege : Ethnografie der Melo-Schnecke in Papua, Indonesien
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  Universitätsverlag Göttingen

  24. Sich windende Wege - Ethnografie der Melo-Schnecke in Papua, Indonesien
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  Universitätsverlag Göttingen

    Das Buch schildert die verschlungenen Wege der Meeresschnecke Melo im Westteil der Insel Neuguinea, in der indonesischen Provinz Papua. Zahlreiche Etappen dieser Wege durch die zerklüfteten und schwer zugänglichen Bergtäler und an der Südküste der... mehr

     

    Das Buch schildert die verschlungenen Wege der Meeresschnecke Melo im Westteil der Insel Neuguinea, in der indonesischen Provinz Papua. Zahlreiche Etappen dieser Wege durch die zerklüfteten und schwer zugänglichen Bergtäler und an der Südküste der Insel, aber auch in Museumssammlungen in Europa hat die Autorin selbst verfolgt und erforscht. Die Meeresschnecke Melo ist in den Küstengewässern Neuguineas beheimatet. Die kulturellen Erscheinungsformen ihrer Schale wurden aber, wie Museumsobjekte in europäischen Sammlungen belegen, auch in weit abgelegenen Tälern des Hochlandes im Innern der Insel gefunden. Auf den Spuren der Melo-Schnecke hat die Autorin Verbindungen hergestellt zwischen „immobilen“ Museumsobjekten im „Hier“ und dynamischen kulturellen Aneignungs- und Umdeutungsprozessen im „Dort“. So war es ihr möglich, frühkoloniale Verhältnisse, Handelswege, Tauschaktionen, Verwendungs- und Bearbeitungsformen in Neuguinea nachzuzeichnen und mit aktuellen Erscheinungsformen der Schale, etwa im katholischen oder touristischen Kontext, zu kontrastieren. In einer Reihe von Essays beschreibt sie Etappen von Wegen der Melo- Schnecke, die räumlich und zeitlich an unterschiedlichen Punkten einsetzen und enden. Literarisch gefärbte Passagen wechseln sich dabei mit unterschiedlichen theoretischen Ansätzen ab. So ist es gerade das Fragmentarische dieser Ethnografie, welches das Thema immer wieder neu und auf spannende Art zu beleuchten vermag.

     

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    Schlagworte: Society & social sciences; Cultural studies; Indigenous peoples; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Weitere Schlagworte: research; Cultural studies; Asmat; Ethnie; Ethnographie; Papua (Völkergruppe); Schmuck; Schnecken
  25. Serbische Prosa nach 1945 : Entwicklungstendenzen und Romanstrukturen
    Autor*in: Richter, Angela
    Erschienen: 1991
    Verlag:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    In der Reihe Slavistische Beiträge werden vor allem slavistische Dissertationen des deutschsprachigen Raums sowie vereinzelt auch amerikanische, englische und russische publiziert. Darüber hinaus stellt die Reihe ein Forum für Sammelbände und... mehr

     

    In der Reihe Slavistische Beiträge werden vor allem slavistische Dissertationen des deutschsprachigen Raums sowie vereinzelt auch amerikanische, englische und russische publiziert. Darüber hinaus stellt die Reihe ein Forum für Sammelbände und Monographien etablierter Wissenschafter/innen dar.

     

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    Schlagworte: Literature & literary studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: 1945; Entwicklungstendenzen; Kulturpolitik; Monologe; nach; Polyphones Monologisieren; Prosa; Realisierung des Ich-Erzählers; Richter; Romanstrukturen; Serbische; serbische Literatur
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (252 p.)