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Author : Mark Anthony McCallister
Release : 1982
Genre : Revue des deux mondes
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Book Synopsis The Idea of Culture in the Revue Des Deux Mondes by : Mark Anthony McCallister
Download or read book The Idea of Culture in the Revue Des Deux Mondes written by Mark Anthony McCallister. This book was released on 1982. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Márcia Abreu
Release : 2015-10-23
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 950/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cultural Revolution of the Nineteenth Century by : Márcia Abreu
Download or read book The Cultural Revolution of the Nineteenth Century written by Márcia Abreu. This book was released on 2015-10-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beginnings of what we now call 'globalization' dates from the early sixteenth century, when Europeans, in particular the Iberian monarchies, began to connect 'the four parts of the world'. From the end of the eighteenth and throughout the nineteenth centuries, technical advancements, such as the growth of the European rail network and the increasing ease of international shipping, narrowed the physical and imagined distances between different parts of the globe. Books, printed matter and theatrical performances were a crucial part of this process and the so-called 'long nineteenth century' saw a remarkable increase in readership and technological improvements that significantly changed the production of printed matter and its relationship with culture. This book analyzes this sea-change in knowledge and sharing of ideas through the prism of the transatlantic diffusion of French, Brazilian, Portuguese and English print-cultures. In particular, it charts the circulation of printed matter, publishers, booksellers and actors between Europe and South America. Featuring a new original essay from Roger Chartier, The Cultural Revolution of the 19th Century is an essential new benchmark in global and transnational history.
Author : Phillip Barrish
Release : 2001-02-19
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 951/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1995 by : Phillip Barrish
Download or read book American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1995 written by Phillip Barrish. This book was released on 2001-02-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on key works of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literary realism, Phillip Barrish traces the emergence of new ways of gaining intellectual prestige - that is, new ways of gaining cultural recognition as unusually intelligent, sensitive or even wise. Through extended readings of works by Henry James, William Dean Howells, Abraham Cahan and Edith Wharton, Barrish emphasises the differences between literary realist modes of intellectual and cultural authority and those associated with the rise of the social sciences. In doing so, he greatly refines our understanding of the complex relationship between realist writing and masculinity. Barrish further argues that understanding the dynamics of intellectual status in realist literature provides new analytic purchase on intellectual prestige in recent critical theory. Here he focuses on such figures as Lionel Trilling, Paul de Man, John Guillory and Judith Butler.
Author : Jeffrey M. Leichman
Release : 2015-12-03
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 250/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Acting Up by : Jeffrey M. Leichman
Download or read book Acting Up written by Jeffrey M. Leichman. This book was released on 2015-12-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acting concentrated both the aspirations and anxieties of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, where theater was a defining element of urban sociability. In Acting Up: Staging the Subject in Enlightenment France, Jeffrey M. Leichman argues for a new understanding of the relationship between performance and self. Innovative interpretations of La Chaussée, Rousseau, Diderot, Rétif, Beaumarchais, and others demonstrate how the figure of the actor threatened ancien régime moral hierarchies by decoupling affect from emotion. As acting came to be understood as an embodied practice of individual freedom, attempts to alternately perfect and repress it proliferated. Across religious diatribes and sentimental comedies, technical manuals and epistolary novels, Leichman traces the development of early modern acting theories that define the aesthetics, philosophy, and politics of the performed subject. Acting Up weaves together cultural studies, literary analysis, theater history, and performance studies to establish acting as a key conceptual model for the subject, for the Enlightenment, and for our own time.
Author : Patrick J. Gallacher
Release : 1989-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 433/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hermeneutics and Medieval Culture by : Patrick J. Gallacher
Download or read book Hermeneutics and Medieval Culture written by Patrick J. Gallacher. This book was released on 1989-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the art of interpretation in works of history, art, music, and literature from the medieval period. The authors demonstrate that the search for meaning was a primary concern of medieval authors and that the history of medieval thought from Augustine to Aquinas and Ockham illustrates the dialectic of question and answer that is the foundation of hermeneutics. This study is the first to offer a diversity of hermeneutic approaches and themes in the context of medieval works. The study's interdisciplinary approach to the medieval works considered invites analysis from scholars and critics in all areas of medieval studies. The breadth of scope in addressing the art of interpretation in the various disciplines also provides a valuable general introduction to medieval culture.
