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Book El bazar del Renacimiento

Download or read book El bazar del Renacimiento written by Jerry Brotton and published by Grupo Planeta (GBS). This book was released on 2003 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Renacimiento fue uno de los momentos culminantes de la historia universal. En esa época Oriente y Occidente empezaron a darse cuenta de sus semejanzas, tanto en el ámbito político como en el cultural. En este amplio estudio, Jerry Brottons sostiene que entre 1400 y 1600 Europa se definió a sí misma gracias al comercio y a la competencia con sus vecinos islámicos, africanos y asiáticos. La obra nos cuenta la historia de este intenso intercambio de ideas, objetos y técnicas que configuraron el Renacimiento europeo. También nos muestra la estrecha vinculación existente entre los progresos tecnológicos y comerciales -como la imprenta, la banca o los avances cartográficos- y las grandes obras del arte, la literatura, la ciencia y los descubrimientos que caracterizaron este periodo. Este apasionante e innovador enfoque nos describe el Renacimiento como un fenómeno global cuyo influjo se hizo sentir en Oriente, África y las Américas, aunque a su vez nos dejó un triste legado de esclavitud, colonización e intolerancia religiosa cuya huella aún pervive en el mundo contemporáneo. Se trata, en suma, de un texto actual y polémico que desmitifica la idea según la cual el Renacimiento es la época en la que se fraguó la superioridad de la cultura occidental.

Book Elective Affinities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Agnieszka H. Hudzik, Joanna M. Moszczyńska, Jorge Estrada, Patricia A. Gwozdz
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2024-01-20
  • ISBN : 3111248755
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book Elective Affinities written by Agnieszka H. Hudzik, Joanna M. Moszczyńska, Jorge Estrada, Patricia A. Gwozdz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-01-20 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Elective Affinities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Agnieszka Helena Hudzik
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2024-09-02
  • ISBN : 3111247864
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Elective Affinities written by Agnieszka Helena Hudzik and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-09-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the nineteenth century to the present, literary entanglements between Latin America and East Central Europe have been socio-politically and culturally diverse, but never random. The Iron Curtain, in particular, forced both regions to negotiate transatlantic «elective affinities», to take a stance in relation to the West, and to position themselves within world literature. As a result, the intellectual fields and creative productions of these regions have critically engaged with notions such as «post-imperial», «marginal», or «peripheral». In this edited volume, scholars from Germany, Brazil, Czech Republic, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Slovenia, and Spain cross the globe from South to East and back to uncover transcultural and transareal convivialities. Their papers explore literary history, poetics, intellectual networks, and aesthetic theory, while discussing new key concepts in global literary history.

Book Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World  2 Vol  Set

Download or read book Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World 2 Vol Set written by Susan Sinclair and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012 with total page 1510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.

Book The Philosopher s Index

Download or read book The Philosopher s Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1969- include a section of abstracts.

Book Entwined Homelands  Empowered Diasporas

Download or read book Entwined Homelands Empowered Diasporas written by Aviad Moreno and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas explores how the 30,000 Jews in northern Morocco developed a sense of kinship with modern Spain, medieval Sepharad, and the broader Hispanophone world that was unlike anything experienced elsewhere. The Hispanic Moroccan Jewish diaspora, as this group is often called by its scholars and its community leaders, also became one of the most mobile and globally dispersed North African groups in the twentieth century, with major hubs in Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Spain, Israel, Canada, France, and the US, among others. Drawing on an array of communal sources from across this diaspora, Aviad Moreno explores how narratives of ancestry in Spain, Israel, Morocco, and several Latin American countries interconnected the diaspora, empowering its hubs across the globe throughout the twentieth century and beyond. By investigating these mechanisms of diaspora formation in a small community that once shared the same space in Morocco,Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas challenges national accounts of the broader Jewish diasporas and adds complexity to the annals of multilayered ethnic communities on the move.

Book The United States

Download or read book The United States written by Karl Baedeker (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Filipino People

Download or read book The Filipino People written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hubbard s Newspaper and Bank Directory of the World

Download or read book Hubbard s Newspaper and Bank Directory of the World written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 1378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Twilight of the Avant garde

Download or read book The Twilight of the Avant garde written by Jonathan Mayhew and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twilight of the Avant-Garde addresses the central problem of contemporary Spanish poetry: the attempt to preserve the scope and ambition of modernist poetry at the end of the twentieth century. Offering a critical analysis of Luis Garcìa Montero’s “poetry of experience,” and the work of José Angel Valente and Antonio Gamoneda, among others, Mayhew challenges received notions about the value of poetic language in relation to the society and culture at large. Ultimately championing the survival of more challenging and ambitious modes of poetic writing in the postmodern age, this volume argues that the cultural ambition of modernist poetics remains alive and well in our age of cynicism.

Book Mexican Americans

Download or read book Mexican Americans written by Frank Pino and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Other Cities  Other Worlds

Download or read book Other Cities Other Worlds written by Andreas Huyssen and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other Cities, Other Worlds brings together leading scholars of cultural theory, urban studies, art, anthropology, literature, film, architecture, and history to look at non-Western global cities. The contributors focus on urban imaginaries, the ways that city dwellers perceive or imagine their own cities. Paying particular attention to the historical and cultural dimensions of urban life, they bring to their essays deep knowledge of the cities they are bound to in their lives and their work. Taken together, these essays allow us to compare metropolises from the so-called periphery and gauge processes of cultural globalization, illuminating the complexities at stake as we try to imagine other cities and other worlds under the spell of globalization. The effects of global processes such as the growth of transnational corporations and investment, the weakening of state sovereignty, increasing poverty, and the privatization of previously public services are described and analyzed in essays by Teresa P. R. Caldeira (São Paulo), Beatriz Sarlo (Buenos Aires), Néstor García Canclini (Mexico City), Farha Ghannam (Cairo), Gyan Prakash (Mumbai), and Yingjin Zhang (Beijing). Considering Johannesburg, the architect Hilton Judin takes on themes addressed by other contributors as well: the relation between the country and the city, and between racial imaginaries and the fear of urban violence. Rahul Mehrotra writes of the transitory, improvisational nature of the Indian bazaar city, while AbdouMaliq Simone sees a new urbanism of fragmentation and risk emerging in Douala, Cameroon. In a broader comparative frame, Okwui Enwezor reflects on the proliferation of biennales of contemporary art in African, Asian, and Latin American cities, and Ackbar Abbas considers the rise of fake commodity production in China. The volume closes with the novelist Orhan Pamuk’s meditation on his native city of Istanbul. Contributors: Ackbar Abbas, Teresa P. R. Caldeira, Néstor García Canclini, Okwui Enwezor, Farha Ghannam, Andreas Huyssen, Hilton Judin, Rahul Mehrotra, Orhan Pamuk, Gyan Prakash, Beatriz Sarlo, AbdouMaliq Simone, Yingjin Zhang

Book The United States  with an Excursion Into Mexico

Download or read book The United States with an Excursion Into Mexico written by Karl Baedeker (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Artes de M  xico

Download or read book Artes de M xico written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: