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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781135936303
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (243 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
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    Keywords: Englisch ; Postkoloniale Literatur ; Erzähltechnik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres. While the prominence of questions of cultural identity in postcolonial studies has prevented due attention to concerns of literary form and aesthetics, this book gives premium to the literary, aiming to delineate the evolution of specific narrative techniques as part of an emerging postcolonial aesthetics. Essays delineate elements of an emergent postcolonial narratology across a variety of seminal generic forms, such as the epic, the novel, the short story, the autobiography, and the folk tale, focusing on genre as a powerful tool for the historicizing of literature and orature within cultural discourses. Investigating the heuristic value of concepts such as mimicry, writing back, translation, negotiation, or subversion, the book considers the value of explanatory paradigms for postcolonial generic models. It also explores the status of postcolonial comparative aesthetics versus globalization studies and liberal concepts of the transnational, taking issue with the prominence of Western concepts of identity in discussions of postcolonial literature and the favoring of mimetic forms. This volume offers a unique contribution to the study of narrative genre in postcolonial literatures and provides valuable insight into the field of postcolonial studies on the whole.
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    ISBN: 9781136785207
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (767 pages)
    DDC: 305.4209
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    Keywords: Postkolonialismus ; Feminismus
    Abstract: Feminism and postcolonialism are allies, and the impressive selection of writings brought together in this volume demonstrate how fruitful that alliance can be. Reina Lewis and Sara Mills have assembled a brilliant selection of thinkers, organizing them into six categories: "Gendering Colonialism and Postcolonialism/Radicalizing Feminism," "Rethinking Whiteness," "Redefining the 'Third World' Subject," "Sexuality and Sexual Rights," "Harem and the Veil," and "Gender and Post/colonial Relations." A bibliography complements the wide-ranging essays. This is the ideal volume for any reader interested in the development of postcoloniality and feminist thought.
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    ISBN: 9781135090678
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (242 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
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    Abstract: This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this doing of memory new questions about the cultural dimensions of memory arise: How do art objects and artistic practices perform the past in the present? What is their relationship to the archive? Does the past speak in the performed past (or do we speak to it)? To what purpose do objects "recall"? And for whom do they recollect? Here authors combine a methodological focus on memory as performance with a theoretical focus on art and popular culture as practices of remembrance. The essays in the book thus analyze what is at stake in the complex processes of remembering and forgetting, of recollecting and disremembering, of amnesia and anamnesis, that make up cultural memory.
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    ISBN: 9781135082550
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 pages)
    DDC: 299
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Heidentum ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Götter ; Mythos ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Imagining the Pagan Past explores stories of Britain's pagan history. These tales have been characterised by gods and fairies, folklore and magic. They have had an uncomfortable relationship with the scholarly world; often being seen as historically dubious, self-indulgent romance and, worse, encouraging tribal and nationalistic feelings or challenging church and state. This book shows how important these stories are to the history of British culture, taking the reader on a lively tour from prehistory to the present. From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, Marion Gibson explores the ways in which British pagan gods and goddesses have been represented in poetry, novels, plays, chronicles, scientific and scholarly writing. From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney and H.G. Wells to Naomi Mitchison it explores Romano-British, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon deities and fictions. The result is a comprehensive picture of the ways in which writers have peopled the British pagan pantheons throughout history. Imagining the Pagan Past will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of paganism.
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    ISBN: 9781135135768
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (220 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    DDC: 302.231
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    Abstract: William Blake's work demonstrates two tendencies that are central to social media: collaboration and participation. Not only does Blake cite and adapt the work of earlier authors and visual artists, but contemporary authors, musicians, and filmmakers feel compelled to use Blake in their own creative acts. This book identifies and examines Blake's work as a social and participatory network, a phenomenon described as zoamorphosis, which encourages - even demands - that others take up Blake's creative mission. The authors rexamine the history of the digital humanities in relation to the study and dissemination of Blake's work: from alternatives to traditional forms of archiving embodied by Blake's citation on Twitter and Blakean remixes on YouTube, smartmobs using Blake's name as an inspiration to protest the 2004 Republican National Convention, and students crowdsourcing reading and instruction in digital classrooms to better understand and participate in Blake's world. The book also includes a consideration of Blakean motifs that have created artistic networks in music, literature, and film in the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries, showing how Blake is an ideal exemplar for understanding creativity in the digital age.
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    ISBN: 9781134015160
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (455 pages)
    Series Statement: CRESC
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    Keywords: Bergstraesser, Arnold ; Guardini, Romano ; Geschichte ; Macht ; Kolonialismus ; Sachkultur ; Materialismus ; Infrastruktur ; Großbritannien ; Frankreich ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a 'material turn' in the social sciences and humanities.  It does so by exploring new understandings of how power is made up and exercised by examining the role of material infrastructures in the organization of state power and the role of material cultural practices in the organization of colonial forms of governance.  A diverse range of historical examples is drawn on in illustrating these concerns - from the role of territorial engineering projects in seventeenth-century France through the development of the postal system in nineteenth-century Britain to the relations between the state and road-building in contemporary Peru, for example.  The colonial contexts examined are similarly varied, ranging from the role of photographic practices in the constitution of colonial power in India and the measurement of the bodies of the colonized in French colonial practices to the part played by the relations between museums and expeditions in the organization of Australian forms of colonial rule.  These specific concerns are connected to major critical re-examination of the limits of the earlier formulations of cultural materialism and the logic of the 'cultural turn'.The collection brings together a group of key international scholars whose work has played a leading role in debates in and across the fields of history, visual culture studies, anthropology, geography, cultural studies, museum studies, and literary studies.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781136290794
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (289 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    DDC: 305.983
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Englisch ; Soziale Situation ; Schriftstellerin ; Romanschriftstellerin ; Prestige ; Roman ; Soziologie ; Buchmarkt ; Verleger ; Romancier ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women. By the turn of the twentieth century, "men of letters" acclaimed novels as a form of great literature, and most critically successful novelists were men. In the book, sociologist Gaye Tuchman examines how men succeeded in redefining a form of culture and in invading a white-collar occupation previously practiced mostly by women. Tuchman documents how men gradually supplanted women as novelists once novel-writing was perceived as potentially profitable, in part because of changes in the system of publishing and rewarding authors. Drawing on unusual data ranging from the archives of Macmillan and company (London) to an analysis of the lives and accomplishments of authors listed in the Dictionary of National Biography, she shows that rising literacy and the centralization of the publishing industry in London after 1840 increased literary opportunities and fostered men's success as novelists. Men redefined the nature of a good novel and applied a double standard in critically evaluating literary works by men and by women. They also received better contracts than women for novels of equivalent quality and sales. They were able to accomplish this, says Tuchman, because they were to a large extent the culture brokers - the publishers, publishers' readers, and reviewers of an elite art form. Both a sociological study of occupational gender transformation and a historical study of writing and publishing, this book will be a rich resource for students of the sociology of culture, literary criticism, and women's studies.
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    ISBN: 9780203863190
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (233 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Gewaltdarstellung ; Psychisches Trauma ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Fotografie
    Abstract: This book provides the first comprehensive account of trauma as a critical concept in the study of modern visual media, from Freud to the present day, explaining how contemporary trauma studies emerged from research on Holocaust representation in which the audiovisual testimony of survivors was posed as an authentic alternative to popular television and film dramatizations. It argues that the media coverage of 9/11 and the subsequent 'war on terror,' however, has revealed how the formation of communities of witness and commemoration around 'traumatic events' can perpetuate violence and inequality. The book explains how Benjamin, Adorno and Barthes, drawing from psychoanalysis, analyzed the roles of fantasy, ideology and collective identification in mass media, and began to understand trauma as an authentic experience of modernity. It proposes that the insights of these earlier theorists, along with more recent arguments by Derrida, Agamben and Zizek, continue to provide important perspectives on today's politics of mediated shock and terror.
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    ISBN: 9780203837252
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (246 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    DDC: 306
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    Keywords: Volkskultur ; Gesellschaft ; Alltagskultur ; Kapitalismus ; Massenkonsum ; Ästhetik ; Massenkultur ; Massenmedien
    Abstract: This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining 'Why Fiske Still Matters' for today's students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Kevin Glynn, Jonathan Gray, and Pamela Wilson on the theme of 'Reading Fiske and Understanding the Popular'. Both underline the continuing relevance of this foundational text in the study of popular culture.Beneath the surface of the cultural artifacts that surround us - shopping malls, popular music, the various forms of television - lies a multitude of meanings and ways of using them, not all of them those intended by their designers. In Reading the Popular, John Fiske analyzes these popular "texts" to reveal both their explicit and implicit (and often opposite) meanings and uses, and the social and political dynamics they reflect.Fiske's "readings" of these cultural phenomena highlight the conflicting responses they evoke: Madonna may be promoted as a "boy toy", but young girls feel empowered by her ability to toy with boys; Chicago's Sears Tower may be a massive expression of capitalist domination, but it can also allow one to tower over the city. In each case it is the latter option that interests him, for this is where Fiske locates popular culture: it is the point at which people take the goods offered them by industrial capitalism (however oppressive they may seem) and turn them to their own creative, and even subversive, uses.Designed as a companion to Understanding Popular Culture, Reading the Popular gives the lie to theories that portray a mass audience that mindlessly consumes every product it is offered. Fiske's acute perception and lively wit combine to provide a truly democratic vision of popular culture, one that respects the awareness and the agency of the people who make it.
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    ISBN: 9780203894613
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Cultural Spaces
    DDC: 304.8/7295073
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    Keywords: Rückwanderung ; Puerto Rico
    Abstract: In The Diaspora Strikes Back the eminent ethnic and cultural studies scholar Juan Flores flips the process on its head: what happens to the home country when it is being constantly fed by emigrants returning from abroad? He looks at how 'Nuyoricans' (Puerto Rican New Yorkers) have transformed the home country, introducing hip hop and modern New York culture to the Caribbean island. While he focuses on New York and Mayaguez (in Puerto Rico), the model is broadly applicable. Indians introducing contemporary British culture to India; New York Dominicans bringing slices of New York culture back to the Dominican Republic; Mexicans bringing LA culture (from fast food to heavy metal) back to Guadalajara and Monterrey. This ongoing process is both massive and global, and Flores' novel account will command a significant audience across disciplines.
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    ISBN: 9780203844984
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (258 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    DDC: 305.8
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    Abstract: In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The 'races' familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the decline of faith in Biblical monogenesis in the early nineteenth century, and before the maturity of modern genetics in the middle of the twentieth. Not until the early nineteenth century would polygenetic and racialist theories win many adherents. But by the middle of the nineteenth century in England, racial categories were imposed upon humanity. How the idea of 'race' gained popularity in England at that time is the central focus of The Victorian Reinvention of Race: New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences. Scholars have linked this new racism to some very dodgy thinkers. The Victorian Reinvention of Race examines a more influential set of the era's writers and colonial officials, some French but most of them British. Attempting to do serious social analysis, these men oversimplified humanity into biologically-heritable, mentally and morally unequal, colour-based 'races'. Thinkers giving in to this racist temptation included Alexis de Tocqueville when he was writing on Algeria; Arthur de Gobineau (who influenced the Nazis); Walter Bagehot of The Economist; and Charles Darwin (whose Descent of Man was influenced by Bagehot). Victorians on Race also examines officials and thinkers (such as Tocqueville in Democracy in America, the Duke of Argyll, and Governor Gordon of Fiji) who exercised methodological care, doing the hard work of testing their categories against the evidence. They analyzed human groups without slipping into racial categorization. Author Edward Beasley examines the extent to which the Gobineau-Bagehot-Darwin way of thinking about race penetrated the minds of certain key colonial governors. He further explores the hardening of the rhetoric...
    Abstract: of race-prejudice in some quarters in England in the nineteenth century - the processes by which racism was first formed.
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    ISBN: 9780203837177
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (231 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    DDC: 306.4
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    Abstract: This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining 'Why Fiske Still Matters' for today's students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Kevin Glynn, Jonathan Gray, and Pamela Wilson on the theme of 'Reading Fiske and Understanding the Popular'. Both underline the continuing relevance of this foundational text in the study of popular culture.What is popular culture? How does it differ from mass culture? And what do popular "texts" reveal about class, race, and gender dynamics in a society? John Fiske answers these and a host of other questions in Understanding Popular Culture.When it was first written, Understanding Popular Culture took a groundbreaking approach to studying such cultural artifacts as jeans, shopping malls, tabloid newspapers, and TV game shows, which remains relevant today. Fiske differentiates between mass culture - the cultural "products" put out by an industrialized, capitalist society - and popular culture - the ways in which people use, abuse, and subvert these products to create their own meanings and messages. Rather than focusing on mass culture's attempts to dominate and homogenize, he prefers to look at (and revel in) popular culture's evasions and manipulations of these attempts.Designed as a companion to Reading the Popular, Understanding Popular Culture presents a radically different theory of what it means for culture to be popular: that it is, literally, of the people. It is not imposed on them, it is created by them, and its pleasures and meanings reflect popular tastes and concerns - and a rejection of those fostered by mass culture. With wit, clarity, and insight, Professor Fiske debunks the myth of the mindless mass audience, and demonstrates that, in myriad ways, popular culture thrives because that audience is more aware than anyone guesses.
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    ISBN: 9781351873475
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (294 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in European Cultural Transition v.25
    Series Statement: Studies in European Cultural Transition Ser. v.25
    Parallel Title: Print version Kushner, Tony We Europeans? Mass-Observation, Race and British Identity in the Twentieth Century : Mass-Observation, Race and British Identity in the Twentieth Century
    DDC: 305.8009410904
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    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- General Editors' Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part One: Contexts -- 1 Introduction: Mass-Observation, Difference and the Anthropology of 'Ourselves' -- 2 Mass-Observation, 'Race' and Nation -- Part Two: Praxis - From Fieldwork to Directive -- 3 Exploring Otherness: Mass-Observation in 'Darkest' Britain -- 4 Beyond the Opinion Poll? The Mass-Observation Directive -- Part Three: Of Ourselves, By Ourselves: The Mass-Observation Diaries -- 5 Mass-Observation and the Genre of Diary Writing -- 6 Racism With the Boots Off? From Individual Prejudice to Collective Violence in the Mass-Observation Diaries -- 7 'I am All Women who are Tortured': Persecuted Jews at Home and Abroad and the Mass-Observation Diaries -- 8 The Intimacy of Difference: Confronting Minorities in Everyday Life through the Mass-Observation Diaries -- Conclusion and Afterword: Reclaiming the Volvox -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781351950930
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (307 pages)
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Sherrill, Tawny [Rezension von: Richardson, Catherine, Clothing Culture, 1350-1650] 2006
    Series Statement: The History of Retailing and Consumption
    Series Statement: The History of Retailing and Consumption Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version Richardson, Catherine Clothing Culture, 1350-1650
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    Keywords: Costume - History - Medieval, 500-1500 ; Costume - History - Medieval, 500-1500 ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Section One: Fabrics of Nation -- 2 The Cultural Significance of Costume Books in Sixteenth-Century Europe -- 3 A Question of Nation: Foreign Clothes on the English Subject -- 4 Tomb Effigies and Archaic Dress in Sixteenth-Century Ireland -- 5 The Formation of Russian Women's Costume at the Time before the Reforms of Peter the Great -- Section Two: Marking Distinctions -- 6 Clothing Courtesans: Fabrics, Signals, and Experiences -- 7 Clothing the Naked in Late Medieval East Kent -- 8 Dress, Nudity and Calvinist Culture in Sixteenth-Century France -- 9 Social Fabric in Thynne's Debate Between Pride and Lowliness -- Section Three: Material Movements -- 10 Clothing Distributions and Social Relations c.1350-1500 -- 11 Fashion, Finance, Foreign Politics and the Wardrobe of Henry VIII -- 12 Reworked Material: Discourses of Clothing Culture in Early Sixteenth-Century Greenwich -- Section Four: Discourse, Body, Gender -- 13 This one poore blacke gowne lined with white': The Clothing of the Sixteenth-Century English Book -- 14 'Havying nothing upon hym saving onely his sherte': Event, Narrative and Material Culture in Early Modern England -- 15 Rips and Slits: The Torn Garment and the Medieval Self -- 16 Speaking to Reveal: The Body and Acts of 'Exposure' in Early Modern Popular Discourse -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9780203622827
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (137 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Intertext
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Englisch ; Kommunikation ; Arbeitswelt ; Konversationsanalyse ; Textanalyse ; Lehrbuch
    Abstract: The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second edition 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite' titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics, and can be used individually or in conjunction with Working with Texts. The Language of Work: examines how language is used in business and the workplace, looking at a range of situations and data: from meetings to informal negotiations, promotional letters to emails explores representations of work in advertising, career magazines and workplace talk looks at the way people in business interact through small talk, politeness, customer care and management-employee relationships is illustrated with lively examples taken from the real world and includes a full index of terms features a useful section on entering the world of work, exploring job adverts and texts that give advice on CV writing and developing 'transferable skills'.
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    ISBN: 9780203017586
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (253 pages)
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    DDC: 306.071
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    Keywords: Kulturwissenschaften ; Kultursoziologie ; Einführung
    Abstract: Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and theory of Cultural Studies from Leavisism, through the era of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, to the global nature of contemporary Cultural Studies. Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction begins with an introduction to the field and its theoretical history and then presents a series of short essays on key areas of Cultural Studies, designed to provoke discussion and raise questions. Each thematic section examines and explains a key topic within Cultural Studies. Sections include: * the discipline * time * space * media and the public sphere * identity * sexuality and gender * value.
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    ISBN: 9780203645918
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (270 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.42/0941
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-1980 ; Frauenbewegung ; Internationalismus ; Rassenfrage ; Soziale Frage ; USA ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: This readable and informative survey, including both new research and synthesis, provides the first close comparison of race, class and internationalism in the British and American women's movements during this period. Sisterhood Questioned assesses the nature and impact of divisions in the twentieth century American and British women's movements. In this lucidly written study, Christine Bolt sheds new light on these differences, which flourished in an era of political reaction, economic insecurity, polarizing nationalism and resurgent anti-feminism. The author reveals how the conflicts were seized upon and publicised by contemporaries, and how the activists themselves were forced to confront the increasingly complex tensions. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the author demonstrates that women in the twentieth century continued to co-operate despite these divisions, and that feminist movements remained active right up to and beyond the reformist 1960s. It is invaluable reading for all those with an interest in American history, British history or women's studies.
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    ISBN: 9780203696989
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (251 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.4494
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    Keywords: Europäische Union ; Englisch ; Sprachpolitik ; Verkehrssprache ; Europa
    Abstract: English-Only Europe? explores the role of languages in the process of European integration. Languages are central to the development of an integrated Europe. The way in which the European Union deals with multilingualism has serious implications for both individual member countries and international relations. In this book, Robert Phillipson considers whether the contemporary expansion of English represents a serious threat to other European languages. After exploring the implications of current policies, Phillipson argues the case for more active language policies to safeguard a multilingual Europe. Drawing on examples of countries with explicit language policies such as Canada and South Africa, the book sets out Phillipson's vision of an inclusive language policy for Europe, and describes how it can be attained.
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    ISBN: 9780203646045
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (339 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Worlds of Performance
    DDC: 394.26972983
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    Keywords: Karneval ; Trinidad
    Abstract: This beautifully illustrated volume features work by leading writers and experts on carnival from around the world, and includes two stunning photo essays by acclaimed photographers Pablo Delano and Jeffrey Chock. Editor Milla Cozart Riggio presents a body of work that takes the reader on a fascinating journey exploring the various aspects of carnival - its traditions, its history, its music, its politics - and prefaces each section with an illuminating essay. Traditional carnival theory, based mainly on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Victor Turner, has long defined carnival as inversive or subversive. The essays in this groundbreaking anthology collectively reverse that trend, offering a re-definition of 'carnival' that focuses not on the hierarchy it temporarily displaces or negates, but a one that is rooted in the actual festival event. Carnival details its new theory in terms of a carnival that is at once representative and distinctive: The Carnival of Trinidad - the most copied yet least studied major carnival in the world.
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    ISBN: 9780203446317
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (247 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    Series Statement: Key Ideas
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    Keywords: Sozialstruktur ; Kultursoziologie ; Kultur
    Abstract: Culture is a concept that has remained on the top of the agenda within the social sciences for two decades. It incites controversy and debate and always appears fresh. This book, updated throughout and with new sections on visual culture, urban culture and subcultures, argues that to understand the concept we need to locate it within traditions of thought and appreciate its political and ideological bases. The book looks at the concept of culture in the context of idealism and materialism, examining its relation to the notion of social structure and assessing its once assumed monopoly within literary study. Culture remains stimulating throughout. A standard reference text for students on sociology and cultural studies courses, this second concise and student-friendly edition offers an overview over the sociology of culture in an accessible format.
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    ISBN: 9780203001448
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (189 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: New Accents
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    Keywords: Kultur ; Wirklichkeit ; Philosophie
    Abstract: What makes us the people we are? Culture evidently plays a part, but how large a part? Is culture alone the source of our identities? Some have argued that human nature is the foundation of culture, others that culture is the foundation of human identity. Catherine Belsey calls for a more nuanced, relational account of what it is to be human, and in doing so puts forward a significant new theory of culture. Culture and the Real explains with Professor Belsey's characteristic lucidity the views of recent theorists, including Jean-François Lyotard, Judith Butler and Slavoj Zizek, as well as their debt to the earlier work of Kant and Hegel, in order to take issue with their accounts of what it is to be human. To explore the human, she demonstrates, is to acknowledge the relationship between culture and what we don't know: not the familiar world picture presented to us by culture as 'reality', but the unsayable, or the strange region that lies beyond culture, which Lacan has called 'the real'. Culture, she argues, registers a sense of its own limits in ways more subtle than the theorists allow. This volume builds on the insights of Belsey's influential Critical Practice to provide not only an accessible introduction to contemporary theories of what it is to be human, but a major new contribution to current debates about culture. Taking examples from film and art, fiction and poetry, Culture and the Real is essential reading for those studying or working in cultural criticism, within the fields of English, Cultural Studies, Film Studies and Art History.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781351872324
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (285 Seiten)
    DDC: 320.08209420903
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1450-1700 ; Frau ; Politik ; Neuzeit ; Women - History - Renaissance, 1450-1600 ; England ; Konferenzschrift 2001
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    ISBN: 9781351934398
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (279 pages)
    Series Statement: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Series Statement: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World Ser
    Parallel Title: Print version Berry, Helen Gender, Society and Print Culture in Late-Stuart England : The Cultural World of the Athenian Mercury
    DDC: 306.094209033
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    Keywords: Popular literature ; Popular literature ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Pressing Anxieties -- 2 Coffee Houses, Print Culture and the Public Sphere -- 3 Authenticity and Women Readers -- 4 The Community of Readers -- 5 Casuistry and the Ambiguity of Advice -- 6 Interpreting the Body -- 7 Courtship Dilemmas -- 8 Problems with Sex -- 9 Questioning Friendship -- 10 Conclusion -- Tables -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203006672
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (377 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.420941
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1640-1990 ; Geschlecht ; Macht ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Gender and Power in Britain is an original and exciting history of Britain from the early modern period to the present focusing on the interaction of gender and power in political, social, cultural and economic life. Using a chronological framework, the book examines: * the roles, responsibilities and identities of men and women * how power relationships were established within various gender systems * how women and men reacted to the institutions, laws, customs, beliefs and practices that constituted their various worlds * class, racial and ethnic considerations * the role of empire in the development of British institutions and identities * the civil war * twentieth century suffrage * the world wars * industrialisation * Victorian morality.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203131985
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (213 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Comedia
    DDC: 306.40904
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    Keywords: Globalisierung ; Kultur ; Weltgesellschaft ; Kulturkontakt ; Internationalisierung
    Abstract: This work provides an account of culture in an age of globalization. Ulf Hannerz argues that, in an ever-more interconnected world, national understandings of culture have become insufficient. He explores the implications of boundary-crossings and long-distance cultural flows for established notions of "the local", "community", "nation" and "modernity" Hannerz not only engages with theoretical debates about culture and globalization but raises issues of how we think and live today. His account of the experience of global culture encompasses a shouting match in a New York street about Salman Rushdie, a papal visit to the Maya Indians; kung-fu dancers in Nigeria and Rastafarians in Amsterdam; the nostalgia of foreign correspondents; and the surprising experiences of tourists in a world city or on a Borneo photo safari.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203463307
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 303.4833
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1450-1600 ; Buchdruck ; Wissensorganisation ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In the fifteenth century the printing press was the 'new technology'. The first ever information revolution began with the advent of the printed book, enabling Renaissance scholars to formulate new ways of organising and disseminating knowledge. As early as 1500 there were already 20 million books in circulation in Europe. How did this rapid explosion of ideas impact upon the evolution of new disciplines? The Renaissance Computer looks at the fascinating development of new methods of information storage and retrieval which took place at the very beginning of print culture. And it asks some crucial questions about the intellectual conditions of our own digital age. A dazzling array of leading experts in Renaissance culture explore topics of urgent significance today, including: * the contribution of knowledge technologies to state formulation and national identity *the effect of multimedia, orality and memory on education *the importance of the visual display of information and how search engines reflect and direct ways of thinking.
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    ISBN: 9780203005927
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (253 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: The Politics of Language
    DDC: 306.44941709
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1366-1922 ; Sprachpolitik ; Irland
    Abstract: For almost a thousand years language has been an important and contentious issue in Ireland but above all it reflects the great themes of Irish history: colonial, invasion, native resistance, religious and cultural difference. Collected here for the first time are texts on language from the date of the first legislation against the Irish: the Statute of Kilkenny, 1366, to the constitution of the Free State in 1922. Crowley's introduction connects these texts to current debates, giving The Belfast Agreement as a textual example and illustrating that the language debates continue today. Divided into six historical sections with detailed editor's introductions, this unique sourcebook includes familiar cultural texts such as essays and letters by Yeats along side less familiar writings including the Preface to the New Testament in Irish. (1602) Providing direct access to original texts, this is an historical resource book which can be used as a case study in the relations between language and cultural identity.
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    ISBN: 9781317875574
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (246 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Women And Men In History
    DDC: 303.60941
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1850-1950 ; Gewalt ; Geschlechtergeschichte ; Klassenkampf ; 20th century ; England ; Konferenzschrift 1999
    Abstract: The diverse violence of modern Britain is hardly new. The Britain of 1850 to 1950 was similarly afflicted. The book is divided into four parts.   'Getting Hurt' which looks at everyday violence in the home (including a chapter on infanticide).   'Uses and Rejections' two chapters on the use of violence within groups of men and women outside the home (for example, violence within youth gangs, and male violence centred around pubs).   'Going Public' three chapters on how violence was regulated by law and the professional agencies which were set up to deal with it.   'Perceptions and Representations' this final section looks at how violence was written about, using both fiction and non-fiction sources.   Throughout the book the recurring themes of gender, class, continuity and change, public/private, and experience, discourses and representations are highlighted.
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