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Book Margins to Centre Stage

Download or read book Margins to Centre Stage written by Archana Kaushik and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Centre as Margin  Eccentric Perspectives on Art

Download or read book The Centre as Margin Eccentric Perspectives on Art written by Maria de Lurdes Craveiro and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Centre as Margin. Eccentric Perspectives on Art' is a multi-authored volume of collected essays that answer the challenge of thinking Art History, and the Arts in a broader sense, from a liminal point of view. Its main goal is thus to discuss the margin from the centre - drawing on its concomitance within study themes and subjects, ontological and epistemological positions, or research methodologies themselves. Marginality, eccentricity, liminality, and superfluity are all part of a dynamic relationship between centre and margin(s) that will be approached and discussed, from the point of view of disciplines as different and as close as art history, philosophy, literature and design, from medieval to contemporary art. Resulting from recent research developed from the privileged viewpoint offered by the margin, this volume brings together the contributions of young researchers along with the work of career scholars. Likewise, it does not obey a traditional or a rigid diachronic structure, being rather organized in three major parts that organically articulate the different essays. Within each of these parts in which the book is divided, papers are sometimes organized according to their timeframes, providing the reader with an encompassing (though not encyclopedic) overview of the common ground over which the various artistic disciplines build their methodological, theoretical, and thematic centers and margins. The intended eccentricity of this volume – and the original essays herein presented – should provide researchers, scholars, students, artists, curators, and the general reader interested in art with a refreshing approach to its various scientific strands.

Book The Margin Without Centre

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  • Author : Chu-chueh Cheng
  • Publisher : Peter Lang
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9783039119974
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book The Margin Without Centre written by Chu-chueh Cheng and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching Ishiguro's writings as a corpus, this volume highlights the significance of margins and the instability of demarcation, seeking to expose what is deliberately obscured or revealled within the narrative.

Book Central at the Margin

Download or read book Central at the Margin written by Renata Ruth Mautner Wasserman and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses Julia Lopes de Almeida, Rachel de Queiroz, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Clarice Lispector and Carolina Maria de Jesus.

Book From the Margins to the Centre

Download or read book From the Margins to the Centre written by Justin O'Connor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of the chapters in this volume derives from recently conducted research grounded in an attempt to examine some of the issues posed in what can be described as postmodernist theorising on the nature of the contemporary city. Implicit in the very conception of the book, and running through each of the contributions, is the view that contemporary popular culture is crucial to the understanding of the transformations to which we refer, and that the investigation of this popular culture needs to move beyond the parameters of cultural studies to include sociological, political and economic analyses. In addition to students of popular cultural studies, the book will be of interest to all those studying sociology, urban studies and cultural studies, as well as those with a desire to have contemporary social theorising more firmly located in empirical investigation.

Book Shakespeare s Workplace

Download or read book Shakespeare s Workplace written by Andrew Gurr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Gurr's work offers the best access to the original Shakespearean theatre. This is a selection of his key essays.

Book Places on the Margin

Download or read book Places on the Margin written by Rob Shields and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate on modernity and postmodernity has awakened interest in the importance of the spatial for cultural formations. But what of those spaces that exist as much in the imagination as in physical reality? This book attempts to develop an alternative geography and sociology of space by examining `places on the margin'.

Book Center Or Margin

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  • Author : John Leeds Barroll
  • Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781575910987
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Center Or Margin written by John Leeds Barroll and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Center or Margin: Revisions of the English Renaissance in Honor of Leeds Barroll includes essays by Catherine Belsey, Harry Berger, Jr., Philippa Berry, Raphael Falco, Jean E. Howard, Lena Cowen Orlin, Patricia Parker, Phyllis Rackin, Bruce R. Smith, Barbara Maria Stafford, Peter Stallybrass, and Susanne Woods. With sections on England at the Margins, Researching the Renaissance, The Human Figure on the Stage, and Artificial Persons, the collection makes interventions in historiography as well as history, literary interpretation, and also literary criticism. Some of the issues are England's marginal status in the sixteenth- and seventeenth- century world; the re-centering strategies of the Renaissance public theater in both time and space; mutually reinforcing fallacies engendered by common practices of canon formation and historical narrative; the central meanings of marginal characters in Shakespeare and Milton;

Book Margins

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  • Author : University of Sydney students
  • Publisher : Sydney University Press
  • Release : 2009-10-01
  • ISBN : 1920899480
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Margins written by University of Sydney students and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The University of Sydney Master of Publishing Program, the University of Sydney, in association with the School of Letters, Arts and Media and Sydney University Press"--T.p. verso.

Book Identity and Cultural Translation

Download or read book Identity and Cultural Translation written by Ana Gabriela Macedo and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Exile and Otherness' investigates the exile experience in a theoretical and comparative way by exploring the possibilities and limitations of concepts like diaspora, de-localization, and transit-culture for understanding the lives and works of German and Austrian refugees fron Nazi persecution.

Book The Poetics of the Margins

Download or read book The Poetics of the Margins written by Rossella Riccobono and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2011 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a selection of the proceedings of a conference on European problems of identity titled Europe and its Others, which was held in St Andrews in July 2007. It looks at some of the histories and stories that connect the European margins to an imagined or imaginary centre of this complex continent as seen mostly from within, and with self-reflective insights from literary, socio-historical and cinematic perspectives. By following the marginal route created by the essays, the volume juxtaposes, as in a mosaic, a range of artistic discourses produced in many European languages. Each of these discourses highlights a different perception of belonging or not belonging to Europe; and each of these discourses brings to the fore in its respective society a fresh perspective on new European territories seen not as 'the other' but rather as contiguous tiles in a mosaic of idiosyncrasies. Lying one next to the other, these territories engage in dialogue poetically - harmoniously or dissonantly - in an attempt to create through their juxtaposition an enigmatic poetic discourse of the margins.

Book Civilising Subjects

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  • Author : Catherine Hall
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2002-05
  • ISBN : 9780226313344
  • Pages : 586 pages

Download or read book Civilising Subjects written by Catherine Hall and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume argues that the empire was at the heart of 19th century Englishness. It tells stories of a group of English men and women who constructed themselves as colonizers. It then uses these studies as a means of exploring wider colonial issues.

Book Postcolonising the Medieval Image

Download or read book Postcolonising the Medieval Image written by Eva Frojmovic and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of this book involves the application of postcolonial theories and/or concepts used in postcolonial and cognate studies to the field of medieval European art, including Byzantine art, and Byzantine art in Asia Minor.

Book The Erotic Margin

Download or read book The Erotic Margin written by Irvin C. Schick and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and sexuality have long held an important place in western attitudes towards the people and regions of the world-from the titillating accounts of harem life in the Middle East to terrifying captivity narratives of North America. The Erotic Margin is a first attempt to pull together the large, disparate, and often contradictory literature, and view it as a corpus. Schick argues that such images served to construct spatial difference, and thereby helped Europe represent its own place in the world during an age of rapid geographical expansion. Informed by the recent literature on human geography as well as feminist and postcolonial theory, The Erotic Margin focuses on erotica and sexual anthropology as well as travel literature in which, from the eighteenth century on, both traveler and destination were portrayed in unmistakably gendered and sexualized terms. Reviewing examples ranging from the New World to India, the Near East to black Africa, and the South sea islands to the Barbary Coast, the book reflects on why foreign women were variously portrayed as alluring or threatening, foreign men as effeminate weaklings or dangerous rapists, and foreign lands as sexual idylls or hearts of darkness.

Book J  r  me Bel

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  • Author : Gerald Siegmund
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2017-10-06
  • ISBN : 1137552727
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book J r me Bel written by Gerald Siegmund and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is the first monograph on the work of French choreographer Jérôme Bel, following his artistic trajectory from the beginning of his career as a choreographer in 1994 to his most recent piece in 2016. It contains an overview and in-depth analysis of all of his choreographies, from Nom donné par l’auteur to Disabled Theatre, and provides a theoretical reflection on their theatrical nature. Bel has developed a singular discourse on dance that has often been labelled 'conceptual'. By reducing the stage elements in his performances to a minimum, his work explores the implications of dance as an art form that has, since the heyday of modernism, based its guiding principles on the laws of nature. Bel addresses the question of power relations in dance by working through the questions of authorship and various forms of subjectivity dance produces. Offering a unique opportunity to ground seemingly abstract academic theories in a specific embodied artistic practice, this study explores the intersection between artistic practice and theory.

Book Schaltstelle

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  • Author : Karen J. Leeder
  • Publisher : Rodopi
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9042022825
  • Pages : 347 pages

Download or read book Schaltstelle written by Karen J. Leeder and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erstmals liegt mit Schaltstelle eine umfassende Studie zur zeitgenössischen deutschsprachigen Lyrik auf der Schwelle zum 21. Jahrhundert vor. In einem breiten Spektrum an Beiträgen international renommierter Experten aus Deutschland, Großbritannien, den USA, Kanada, Italien und den Niederlanden präsentiert diese Untersuchung ausführliche Analysen zu bekannten Größen (wie Volker Braun, Ulrike Draesner, Durs Grünbein, Ernst Jandl, Barbara Köhler, Friederike Mayröcker, Brigitte Oleschinski und Raoul Schrott), eingehende Betrachtungen zur Lyrik des Körpers, zur Verwendung von Klischee-Bildern, zum Topos der Kindheit oder zur 'neuen Schlichtheit', sowie Beiträge zur jüngsten Generation von Dichterinnen und Dichtern, die im neuen Jahrhundert ihren Einstand gegeben haben. Untersuchungen zu individuellen Gedichtsammlungen ergänzen sich mit Abhandlungen, die Dialoge über die Jahrhundertgrenzen hinweg aufzeigen oder den Einfluß von Schlüsselfiguren wie Paul Celan und Gottfried Benn nachweisen. Zudem enthält der Band ein Interview mit Heinz Czechowski und neue Gedichte von acht führenden deutschsprachigen Lyrikerinnen und Lyrikern. Zu oft wird in Diskussionen zur Literatur in der Berliner Republik die Lyrik marginalisiert: dieser Band zeigt, daß sie im Gegenteil eine unerläßliche Rolle zu spielen hat. Für Wissenschaftler und Studierende der Germanistik, wie überhaupt für alle, die an den Entwicklungen auf dem Gebiet der modernen Lyrik interessiert sind, sollte diese Veröffentlichung zur Pflichtlektüre erhoben werden. Schaltstelle presents a pioneering examination of contemporary German poetry at the turn of the twenty-first century. Internationally recognised experts from Germany, UK, USA, Canada, Italy and the Netherlands offer a first assessment of the paths that German poetry has taken into the new millennium. Alongside in-depth analyses of established names are broader surveys of poetry of the body, the use of cliché, theories of metaphor, the topos of childhood, the 'new simplicity', and contributions dedicated to the youngest generation of poets making their debut in the new century. The volume also contains an interview with Heinz Czechowski, a substantial Bibliography and new poems by eight leading poets. Poetry is too often marginalised in discussions about literature in the Berlin Republic: this volume demonstrates that it has a vital role to play at their heart.

Book Kafka and Photography

Download or read book Kafka and Photography written by Carolin Duttlinger and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his life, Franz Kafka was fascinated by photography, a medium which for him came to encapsulate both the attractions and the pitfalls of modern life. Kafka's personal engagement with the medium - as a keen viewer and collector of photographs as well as an amateur photographer - is reflected in his writings, which explore photography from a variety of different perspectives. By far the most frequently and extensively discussed visual medium in Kafka's texts, photography is paradigmatic of his relationship to visuality more generally. This study not only explores photography's recurrence as a theme within his texts but it is also the first to take systematic account of Kafka's use of photographs as literary source material. Kafka and Photography presents one of the most important modern writers from an entirely new perspective; it sheds new light on familiar works and uncovers unexplored aspects of Kafka's engagement with his time and context. Providing a chronological account of key prose works, as well as the personal writings, this study is accessible to students and lay readers. It will be of interest not only to literary scholars but also to those working in photography, media, and cultural studies. Its detailed textual analyses are set against a richly documented historical context which illustrates Kafka's interest in contemporary culture through a range of visual material taken from public as well as private sources - some of which has only recently become available. As this book demonstrates, photography had a profound impact on Kafka's literary imagination and as such helps to explain the mesmerizing intensity of enigmatic visual detail which is a hallmark of his narratives.