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Author : Andrew Thacker
Release : 2003-05-02
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 092/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Moving Through Modernity by : Andrew Thacker
Download or read book Moving Through Modernity written by Andrew Thacker. This book was released on 2003-05-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length account of modernism from the perspective of literary geography.
Author : Robert Burden
Release : 2016-03-09
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 488/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Travel, Modernism and Modernity by : Robert Burden
Download or read book Travel, Modernism and Modernity written by Robert Burden. This book was released on 2016-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the significance of travel in Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, Robert Burden shows how travel enabled a new consciousness of mobility and borders during the modernist period. For these authors, Burden suggests, travel becomes a narrative paradigm and dominant trope by which they explore questions of identity and otherness related to deep-seated concerns with the crisis of national cultural identity. He pays particular attention to the important distinction between travel and tourism, at the same time that he attends to the slippage between seeing and sightseeing, between the local character and the stereotype, between art and kitsch, and between older and newer ways of storytelling in the representational crisis of modernism. Burden argues that the greater awareness of cultural difference that characterizes both the travel writing and fiction of these expatriate writers became a defining feature of literary modernism, resulting in a consciousness of cultural difference that challenged the ethnographic project of empire.
Author : Timothy Cresswell
Release : 2012-11-12
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 227/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis On the Move by : Timothy Cresswell
Download or read book On the Move written by Timothy Cresswell. This book was released on 2012-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Move presents a rich history of one of the key concepts of modern life: mobility. Increasing mobility has been a constant throughout the modern era, evident in mass car ownership, plane travel, and the rise of the Internet. Typically, people have equated increasing mobility with increasing freedom. However, as Cresswell shows, while mobility has certainly increased in modern times, attempts to control and restrict mobility are just as characteristic of modernity. Through a series of fascinating historical episodes Cresswell shows how mobility and its regulation have been central to the experience of modernity.
Author : Nico Carpentier
Release : 2013-07-31
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 543/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Audience Transformations by : Nico Carpentier
Download or read book Audience Transformations written by Nico Carpentier. This book was released on 2013-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of the audience is changing. In the twenty-first century there are novel configurations of user practices and technological capabilities that are altering the way we understand and trust media organizations and representations, how we participate in society, and how we construct our social relations. This book embeds these transformations in a societal, cultural, technological, ideological, economic and historical context, avoiding a naive privileging of technology as the main societal driving force, but also avoiding the media-centric reduction of society to the audiences that are situated within. Audience Transformations provides a platform for a nuanced and careful analysis of the main changes in European communicational practices, and their social, cultural and technological affordances.
Author : James Ferguson
Release : 1999-10-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 28X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Expectations of Modernity by : James Ferguson
Download or read book Expectations of Modernity written by James Ferguson. This book was released on 1999-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving workers scrambling to get by. Expectations of Modernity explores the social and cultural responses to this prolonged period of sharp economic decline. Focusing on the experiences of mineworkers in the Copperbelt region, James Ferguson traces the failure of standard narratives of urbanization and social change to make sense of the Copperbelt's recent history. He instead develops alternative analytic tools appropriate for an "ethnography of decline." Ferguson shows how the Zambian copper workers understand their own experience of social, cultural, and economic "advance" and "decline." Ferguson's ethnographic study transports us into their lives—the dynamics of their relations with family and friends, as well as copper companies and government agencies. Theoretically sophisticated and vividly written, Expectations of Modernity will appeal not only to those interested in Africa today, but to anyone contemplating the illusory successes of today's globalizing economy.
