Download or read book The Architecture of Modern Culture written by Wolfgang Müller-Funk and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These collected essays contain fundamental contributions to contemporary cultural analysis and theory as well as exemplary interpretations of film, literature and other media. Central issues of current cultural studies are addressed: cultural narratives, cultural identity, collective memory and post-colonial thinking. The oeuvre of cultural and literary critic Wolfgang Müller-Funk encompasses historic analyses such as readings of Broch, Canetti and Musil, and the heritage they passed on. Other essays move from the beginning of the 20th to the 21st century and address questions of space, time and globalization discussing, for example, Walter Benjamin and 9/11.

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Download or read book Quoting Caravaggio written by Mieke Bal and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's primary object of investigation in this text is not the Caravaggio, but rather the issue of temporality in art. She analyzes the productives relationship between Caravaggio and a number of late-20th century artists who "quote" the baroque master in their own works.

Download or read book From common market to European Union building written by Michael Gehler and published by Böhlau Verlag Wien. This book was released on 2009 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Wild Man Within written by Edward Dudley and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays trace the myth of the wild man from the Middle Ages to its disintegration into symbol in the periods following the discovery of America and encounter with real “wild men.” This is the first book to discuss the concept of wildness in the writings of the Enlightenment period in Western Europe and the first to attempt a broad, interdisciplinary approach to the subject of primitivism, not only from a strict “history of ideas” approach, but through discussions of individual works, both literary and political, and encompassing various subject matter from racism to the origins of language.Contributors: Richard Ashcraft; Ehrhard Bahr; John G. Burke; Earl Miner; Gary B. Nash; Stanley Robe; Geoffrey Symcox; Peter Thoralev; Hayden V. White, and the editors.

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Download or read book A User s Guide to German Cultural Studies written by Scott D. Denham and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capitalizes on the ripeness of the German case for interdisciplinary investigation

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