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Author : Sally Bushell
Release : 2020-12-10
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 389/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Romantic Cartographies by : Sally Bushell
Download or read book Romantic Cartographies written by Sally Bushell. This book was released on 2020-12-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative, interdisciplinary study of cartography as a significant multifaceted cultural practice in Romantic period culture.
Author : Melody Yunzi Li
Release : 2023-12-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 353/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Transpacific Cartographies by : Melody Yunzi Li
Download or read book Transpacific Cartographies written by Melody Yunzi Li. This book was released on 2023-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transpacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions. Focusing on cultural productions of the Chinese diaspora from the 1990s to the present -- including novels by the Sinophone writers Yan Geling (The Criminal Lu Yanshi), Shi Yu (New York Lover), Chen Qian (Listen to the Caged Bird Sing), and Rong Rong (Notes of a Couple), as well as by the Anglophone writer Ha Jin (A Free Life; A Map of Betrayal), selected TV shows (Beijinger in New York; The Way We Were), and online literature -- Melody Yunzi Li argues that the characters in these stories create multilayered maps that transcend the territorial boundaries that make finding a home in a foreign land a seemingly impossible task. In doing so, these “maps” outline a transpacific landscape that reflects the psycho-geography of homemaking for diasporic communities. Intersecting with and bridging Sinophone studies, Chinese American studies, and diaspora studies and drawing on theories of literary cartography, Transpacific Cartographies demonstrates how these “maps” offer their readers different paths for finding a sense of home no matter where they are.
Author : Damian Walford Davies
Release : 2012-06-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 770/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cartographies of Culture by : Damian Walford Davies
Download or read book Cartographies of Culture written by Damian Walford Davies. This book was released on 2012-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering study offers dynamic new answers to Christian Jacob's question: 'What are the links that bind the map to writing?'
Author : Mary-Ann Constantine
Release : 2024-07-02
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 048/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Curious Travellers by : Mary-Ann Constantine
Download or read book Curious Travellers written by Mary-Ann Constantine. This book was released on 2024-07-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820 provides the first extensive literary study of British tours of Wales in the Romantic period (c.1760-1820). It examines writers' responses to Welsh landscapes and communities at a time of drastic economic, environmental, and political change. Opening with an overview of Welsh tours up to the early 1700s, Mary-Ann Constantine shows how the intensely intertextual nature of the genre imbued particular sites and locations with meaning. She next draws upon a range of manuscript and published sources to trace a circular tour of the country, unpicking moments of cultural entanglement and revealing how travel-writing shaped understanding of Wales and Welshness within the wider British polity. Wales became a popular destination for visitors following the publication of Thomas Pennant's Tours in Wales in the late 1770s. Hundreds of travel-accounts from the period are extant, yet few (particularly those by women) have been studied in depth. Wales proves, in these narratives, as much a place of disturbance as a picturesque haven--a potent mixture of medieval past and industrial present, exposed down its west coast to the threat of invasion during the Napoleonic Wars. From castles to copper-mines, Constantine explores the full potential of tour writing as an idiosyncratic genre at the interface of literature and history, arguing for its vital importance to broader cultural and environmental studies.
Author : Robert E. Mottram
Release : 2022-10-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 076/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Assembly and its Other in German Romantic Literature and Thought by : Robert E. Mottram
Download or read book Assembly and its Other in German Romantic Literature and Thought written by Robert E. Mottram. This book was released on 2022-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays turns on a shift in Romantic studies from viewing wholeness as an absolute value to critiquing it as a limiting construction. Wholeness and its concomitant sense of harmony, rather than a natural given, is a construct that was assembled and disassembled, theorized and criticized, by diverse authors and artists in a wide variety of disciplines and socio-historical contexts, and instrumentalized for diverse purposes. The plurality of these constructions – that Goethe’s Urpflanze, for example, is not synonymous with Friedrich Schlegel’s universal progressive poetry – is but one manifestation of how “assembly” strives but fails to be absolute. The “other” of assembly referenced in the title suggests two divergent but inseparable tendencies: firstly, how a construction can take on the appearance of a natural given; and secondly, how assemblages of wholeness harbor within themselves their own principle of disarticulation. These two tendencies underlie the “inexhaustible” character of Romantic “gatherings”. As a construction passes itself off as nature, the natural fails to account for itself as a whole. The scope of this volume encompasses the establishment, mapping, and interrogation of assembly and its other in German Romanticism through interdisciplinary studies on literature, aesthetics, philosophy, drama, music, synaesthesia, mathematics, science, and exploration. List of contributors: Beate Allert, Frederick Burwick, Alexis B. Smith, Margaret Strair, Christina Weiler, Joshua Wilner.
