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| 1. |  € 142,00 | EAN-13: 9789004549364 Shining Phil
Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-pandemic World Beyond the Biopolitics of the New Normal
| Edizione: | Brill, 2023 | | Collana: | Critical Studies |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 142,00 | | Descrizione | Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-pandemic World explores the new cultural conditions of sex, relationships, gender awareness, and subjectivity after the COVID-19 pandemic through twelve interdisciplinary essays questioning the biopolitics of the new normal: the self-control regime of post-hedonistic societies. |  Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 2. | € 169,00 | EAN-13: 9789004440845 Hildebrand-Schat Viola
Refresh the Book On the Hybrid Nature of the Book in the Age of Electronic Publishing
| Edizione: | Brill, 2021 | | Collana: | Critical Studies |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 169,00 | | Descrizione | Refresh the Book discusses the changing perceptions, functions, forms, as well as literary and artistic potential of the book in the digital age. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 3. | € 120,64 | EAN-13: 9789004427495
The Culture of Boredom
| Edizione: | Brill, 2020 | | Collana: | Critical Studies |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 120,64 | | Descrizione |
The Culture of Boredom is a collection of essays by well-known specialists reflecting from philosophical, literary, and artistic perspectives, in which the reader will learn how different disciplines can throw light on such an appealing, challenging, yet still not fully understood phenomenon. The goal is to clarify the background of boredom, and to explore its representation through forgotten cross-cutting narratives beyond the typical approaches, i.e. those of psychology or psychiatry. For the first time this experienced group of scholars gathers to promote a cross-border dialogue from a multidisciplinary perspective.
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| 4. | € 139,00 | EAN-13: 9789004427228 Velasco Josefa
The Culture of Boredom
| Edizione: | Brill, 2020 | | Collana: | Critical Studies |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 139,00 | | Descrizione | Culture of Boredom is a collection of essays by well-known specialists reflecting from philosophical, literary, and artistic perspectives. The goal is to clarify the background of boredom, and to explore its representation through forgotten cross-cutting narratives. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 5. | € 106,00 | EAN-13: 9789004402270 Kuortti Joel
Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary'
| Edizione: | Brill, 2019 | | Collana: | Critical Studies |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 106,00 | | Descrizione | What grows out of the ordinary? This volume focuses on that which has been regarded as ordinary and formulaic in literary and cultural phenomena and contests the hegemonic logic of revealing oppression and rebuilding liberation in contemporary critical theory. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 6. | € 119,00 | EAN-13: 9789004391154 Vanderbeke Dirk
Evolution and Popular Narrative
| Edizione: | Brill, 2019 | | Collana: | Critical Studies |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 119,00 | | Descrizione | Evolution and Popular Narrative argues that an evolutionary approach to popular narrative provides an incisive index into human nature. The contributors explore various media and genres to gauge the interdependency of human nature and culture in our aesthetic appreciation. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 7. | € 72,00 | EAN-13: 9789042038356 Sabadell-Nieto Joana
Differences in Common Gender, vulnerability and community
| Edizione: | Brill, 2014 | | Collana: | Critical Studies |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 72,00 | | Descrizione | Differences in Common engages in the ongoing debate on âcommunity' focusing on its philosophical and political aspects through a gendered perspective. It explores the subversive and enriching potential of the concept of community, as seen from the perspective of heterogeneity and distance, and not from homogeneity and fused adhesions. This theoretical reflection is, in most of the essays included here, based on the analysis of literary and filmic texts, which, due to their irreducible singularity, teach us to think without being tied, or needing to resort, to commonplaces.Philosophers such as Arendt, Blanchot, Foucault, Agamben or Derrida have made seminal reflections on community, often inspired by contemporary historical events and sometimes questioning the term itself. More recently, thinkers like Judith Butler, Gayatri Spivak or Rada IvekoviÄâincluded in this volume are essays by all threeâhave emphasized the gender bias in the debate, also problematizing the notion of community. Most of the essays gathered in Differences in Common conceive community not as the affirmation of several properties which would unite us to other similar individuals, but as the âexpropriationâ of ourselves (Esposito), in an intimate diaspora. Community does not fill the gap between subjects but places itself in this gap or void. This conception stresses the subject's vulnerability, a topic which is also central to this volume. The body of community is thus opened by a âwoundâ (Cixous) which exposes us to the contagion of otherness. The essays collected here reflect on different topics related to these issues, such as: gender and nation; nationalism, internationalism, transnationalism; nationalism's naturalization of citizenship and the exclusion of women from citizenship; the violent consequences of a gendered nation on women's bodies; gendering community; preservation of difference(s) within the community; bodily vulnerability and new politics; community and mourning; community and the politics of memory; fiction, historical truth and (fake) documentary; love, relationality and community; interpretive communities and virtual communities on the Web, among others. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 8. | € 69,00 | EAN-13: 9789042034570 Lagaay Alice
Destruction in the Performative
| Edizione: | Brill, 2012 | | Collana: | Critical Studies |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 69,00 | | Descrizione | Cultural transformation tends to be described in one of two ways: either with reference to what comes about, is created or emerges in the process of change or with reference to what is destroyed or obscured in that process. Within a performative paradigm, that is, from a perspective which focuses on the manner in which social and cultural reality is constituted or brought about by human activity, theorists have, in recent years, tended to underline the productive aspects of transformation by emphasising the creative thrust of performative processes and events. In so doing, this perspective has tended to overlook the extent to which a certain destructive element may in fact be inherent to such performative processes. Drawing upon a range of historical and contemporary constellations of socio-cultural change and a variety of different types of events and activities, the articles in this volume describe different forms of destruction and their respective role in processes of transformation.Their shared aim is to explore the manner in which destructivity, such as the destabilisation and destruction of orders, subjects and bodies, can be grasped by concepts of performativity. In other words, to what extent may a certain destructive dynamic be inscribed within this very notion? | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 9. | € 88,00 | EAN-13: 9789042033504 Berger Anne Emmanuelle
Demenageries Thinking (of) Animals after Derrida
| Edizione: | Brill, 2011 | | Collana: | Critical Studies |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 88,00 | | Descrizione | Demenageries, Thinking (of) Animals after Derrida is a collection of essays on animality following Jacques Derrida's work. The Western philosophical tradition separated animals from men by excluding the former from everything that was considered âproper to manâ: laughing, suffering, mourning, and above all, thinking. The âanimalâ has traditionally been considered the absolute Other of humans. This radical otherness has served as the rationale for the domination, exploitation and slaughter of animals. What Derrida called âla pensée de l'animalâ (which means both thinking concerning the animal and âanimal thinkingâ) may help us understand differently such apparently human features as language, thought and writing. It may also help us think anew about such highly philosophical concerns as differences, otherness, the end(s) of history and the world at large. Thanks to the ethical and epistemological crisis of Western humanism, âanimalityâ has become an almost fashionable topic. However, Demenageries is the first collection to take Derrida's thinking on animal thinking as a starting point, a way of reflecting not only on animals but starting from them, in order to address a variety of issues from a vast range of theoretical perspectives: philosophy, literature, cultural theory, anthropology, ethics, politics, religion, feminism, postcolonialism and, of course, posthumanism. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 10. | € 81,00 | EAN-13: 9789042032415 Ruberg Willemijn
Sexed Sentiments Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender and Emotion
| Edizione: | Brill, 2011 | | Collana: | Critical Studies |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 81,00 | | Descrizione | Sexed Sentiments provides a gender perspective on the recent turn to affect in criticism. It presents new work by scholars from different disciplines working on gender and emotion, a field par excellence where an interdisciplinary focus is fruitful. This collection presents essays from disciplines like history, literary studies, psychology, sociology and queer studies, focusing on subjects varying from masculinity in the cult of sensibility to the role of empathy in forging feminist solidarities. The volume illuminates how new theoretical approaches to both gender and emotion may be productively applied to a variety of fields. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 11. | € 81,00 | EAN-13: 9789042031937 Hallensleben Markus
Performative Body Spaces Corporeal Topographies in Literature, Theatre, Dance, and the Visual Arts
| Edizione: | Brill, 2010 | | Collana: | Critical Studies |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 81,00 | | Descrizione | The human body as cultural object always has and is a performing subject, which binds the political with the theatrical, shows the construction of ethnicity and technology, unveils private and public spaces, transgresses race and gender, and finally becomes a medium that overcomes the borders of art and life. Since there cannot be a universal definition of the human body due to its culturally performative role as a producer of interactive social spaces, this volume discusses body images from diverse cultural, historical, and disciplinary perspectives, such as art history, human kinetics and performance studies. The fourteen case studies reach from Asian to European studies, from 19th century French culture to 20th century German literature, from Polish Holocaust memoirs to contemporary dance performances, from Japanese avant-garde theatre to Makeover Reality TV shows. This volume is of interest for performance studies artists as well. By focusing on the intersection of body and space, all contributions aim to bridge the gap between art practices and theories of performativity. The innovative impulse of this approach lies in the belief that there is no distinction between performing, discussing, and theorizing the human body, and thus fosters a unique transdisciplinary and international collaboration around the theme performative body spaces. (I. Biopolitical Choreographies, II. Transcultural Topographies, III. Corporal Mediations, IV. Controlled Interfaces.) | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 12. | € 77,00 | EAN-13: 9789042031418 Kavanaugh Leslie
Chrono-topologies Hybrid Spatialities and Multiple Temporalities
| Edizione: | Brill, 2010 | | Collana: | Critical Studies |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 77,00 | | Descrizione | The twentieth century saw many revolutions. Various transformations in the political, economic, social, technological and artistic domains not only inaugurated new eras, or at least discourses about new eras; they also often entailed a radical reorientation in the very conceptions by which any revolution could be thought. This beautifully edited collection of essays addresses itself to the particular revolution by which we came to understand the unity of space and time as ontological categories.The twelve papers collected in this volume explore the consequences of conceptions of time and its relationship to space. Although originating from the revolution in mathematics and theoretical physics, these essays extend the thinking of space-time in a multi-disciplinary approach through the philosophy of space and time, social geography, post-Marxian social theory, new network theory, the philosophy of art and culture, musicology, evolutionary biology, historiography, psychoanalytic theory, and comparative literature. The result is a fascinating snapshot of a nearly universal transformation, but one that was only slowly realized, as the debates in one field reverberated across a vast terrain of discourse and discipline. In tracing the varied responses to the developments emanating from theoretical physics, the essays in this volume reveal how discontinuous but profound shifts in knowledge and aesthetics ultimately converge on a radically transformed horizon.Contributors are: Peter Galison, Richard T. W. Arthur, Nader El-Bizri, Chunglin Kwa, Leslie Kavanaugh, Mary Lynne Ellis, Patricia Locke, Sander van Maas, Raviv Ganchrow, Josef Frà¼chtl, M. Christine Boyer, and Antoine Picon. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 13. | € 75,00 | EAN-13: 9789042025660 Pezze Barbara
Essays on Boredom and Modernity
| Edizione: | Brill, 2009 | | Collana: | Critical Studies |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 75,00 | | Descrizione | The past thirty years saw a growing academic interest in the phenomenon of boredom. If initially the analyses were mostly a-historical, now the historicity of boredom is widely recognised, though often it is taken as evidence of its permanence as a constant âqualityâ of the human condition, expression of a metaphysical malady inherent to the fact of being human. New trends in the literature focus on the peculiar relationship between boredom and modernity and attempt to embrace the new social, cultural and political factors which provoked the epochal change of modernity and relate them to a change in the parameters of human experience and the crisis of subjectivity. The very changes that characterise modernity are the same that led to the âdemocratisationâ of boredom: modernity and boredom are shown to be inextricably connected and inseparable. This volume aims at contributing to the growing body of literature on boredom with a number of essays which reflect on the connection of boredom and modernity and focus on particular texts, authors, or aspects of the phenomenon. The approach is multidisciplinary, in keeping with the pervasiveness of the phenomenon in our culture and societies, with essays reflecting on philosophy, literature, film, media and psychology. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 14. | € 105,00 | EAN-13: 9789042024069 Allatson Paul
Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities
| Edizione: | Brill, 2008 | | Collana: | Critical Studies |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 105,00 | | Descrizione | Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities takes a transnational and transcultural approach to exile and its capacities to alter the ways we think about place and identity in the contemporary world. The edited collection brings together researchers on exile in international perspective from three continents who explore questions of exilic identity along multiple geopolitical and cultural axesâCuba, the USA and Australia; Colombia and the USA; Algeria and France; Italy, France and Mexico; non-Han minorities and Han majorities in China; China, Tibet and India; Japan and China; New Caledonia, Vietnam and France; Hungary, the USSR, and Australia; and Germany, before and after unification. The international and crosscultural span of this collection represents an important addition to the fields of exile criticism and cultural identity studies. Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities will be of interest to readers, scholars and students of exile, diasporic and transmigration studies, international studies, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, language studies, and comparative literary studies. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 15. | € 125,00 | EAN-13: 9789042018983 Herbrechter Stefan
Returning (to) Communities Theory, Culture and Political Practice of the Communal
| Edizione: | Brill, 2006 | | Collana: | Critical Studies |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 125,00 | | Descrizione | Returning (to) Communities offers an innovative collection of examples and case studies into what has become a hotly disputed topic. The chapters present a wide-ranging series of interventions into the new debates over the concepts and practices of âcommunityâ and the communal. For this book, scholars have been gathered from across Europe and Australia as well as from the United States, and several contributors are involved in community practice. Returning (to) Communities is essential reading to researchers and students in social policy, sociology, ethnic studies, cultural analysis, media studies, and across all of the social sciences and humanities concerned with the communal and the collective. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 16. | € 100,00 | EAN-13: 9789042016392 DÃaz Diocaretz Myriam
The Matrix in Theory
| Edizione: | Brill, 2006 | | Collana: | Critical Studies |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 100,00 | | Descrizione | The Matrix trilogy continues to split opinions widely, polarising the downright dismissive and the wildly enthusiastic. Nevertheless, it has been fully embraced as a rich source of theoretical and cultural references. The contributions in this volume probe the effects the Matrix trilogy continues to provoke and evaluate how or to what extent they coincide with certain developments within critical and cultural theory. Is the enthusiastic philosophising and theorising spurred by the Matrix a sign of the desperate state theory is in, in the sense of âsee how low theory (or âpost-theory') has sunkâ? Or could the Matrix be one of the âmaster textsâ for something like a renewal for theory as now being mainly concerned with new and changing relations between science, technology, posthumanist culture, art, politics, ethics and the media? The present volume is unashamedly but not dogmatically theoretical even though there is not much agreement about what kind of theory is best suited to confront âpost-theoreticalâ times. But it is probably fair to say that there is agreement about one thing, namely that if theory appears to be âlikeâ the Matrix today it does so because the culture around it and which âmadeâ it itself seems to be captured in some kind of Matrix. The only way out of this is through more and renewed, refreshed theorising, not less. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 17. | € 84,00 | EAN-13: 9789042019645 Perriam Chris
Carmen From Silent Film to MTV
| Edizione: | Brill, 2005 | | Collana: | Critical Studies |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 84,00 | | Descrizione | Since Prosper Mérimée and Georges Bizet (with his librettists Meilhac and Halévy) brought the figure of the Spanish Carmen to prominence in the nineteenth century an astonishing eighty or so film versions of the story have been made. This collection of essays gathers together a unique body of scholarly critique focused on that Carmen narrative in film. It covers the phenomenon from a number of aspects: cultural studies, gender studies, studies in race and representation, musicology, film history, and the history of performance. The essays take us from the days of silent film to twenty-first century hip-hop style, showing, through a variety of theoretical and historical perspectives that, despite social and cultural transformationsâparticularly in terms of gender, sexuality and raceâremarkably little has changed in terms of basic human desires and anxieties, at least as they are represented in this body of films. The conception of Carmen's independent sexuality as a source of danger both to men (and occasionally women) and to respectable society has been a constant. Nor has sexual and ethnic otherness lost its appeal. On the other hand, the corpus of Carmen films is more than a simple recycling of stereotypes and each engages newly with the social and cultural issues of their time. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 18. | € 118,00 | EAN-13: 9789042017979 Fahraeus Anna
Textual Ethos Studies, or: Locating Ethics
| Edizione: | Brill, 2005 | | Collana: | Critical Studies |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 118,00 | | Descrizione | What is the relationship between texts and ethics? Who decides the ethics of a text, the writer or the reader? What happens to ethics in texts that portray dreams or psychoses? Is violence always inherently unethical? In dealing with others is violence to both them and oneself ever completely avoidable?Textual Ethos Studies does not attempt to provide definitive answers to these questions so much as to be a springboard to the further discussion of ethics in relation to specific texts. The essays illustrate varying perspectives â ranging from the philosophical to the psychoanalytical to the linguistic â that can be used to localize how texts engage or invite an engagement with ethics. Twenty scholars representing Asia, Europe, Israel, North America, and South Africa highlight the complex relationship between cultural context and ethics, and between the ethical and the unethical. Several essays deal with the study of atypical texts that represent different attitudes toward the violent, the disordered, the traumatized, the psychotic, and the sentimental in order to encourage â or provoke â further discussion of the relevance of these types of texts to ethics. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 19. | € 54,00 | EAN-13: 9789042015685 Bracker Nicole
Metaphors of Economy
| Edizione: | Brill, 2005 | | Collana: | Critical Studies |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 54,00 | | Descrizione | In recent years the metaphor of economy has proved to have an immense explanatory power in literary and cultural criticism. Everything can be expressed and analysed in terms borrowed from political economy. Language, texts, social structures, and cultural relationships can be construed in the dynamic terms made available by the metaphor of economy, and, more specifically, the economy of the metaphor. The metaphor of economy allows to show the dynamic processes of exchange, circulation and interested negotiation. The essays in this volume display approaches to cultural and discursive practices derived from the methods and texts of economics. They provide a body of literary and cultural criticism founded upon economic paradigms, which makes apparent the genealogy of our economic thought and the suggestion that looking at human exchange can enrich our understanding of culture. The interest of this volume is manifold: it gives a historical account of the development of economics, elucidates the emergence of theories governed by economic metaphors and clarifies the impact of the metaphor on theories of textuality. It also provides an exchange between economists and literary and cultural critics by combining literary and cultural criticism with economics and covers a wide range of topics which are of interest to scholars from various disciplines. This volume provides a critical exchange which hopes to enrich both economics and literature. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 20. | € 87,00 | EAN-13: 9789042016286 Hernández Felipe
Transculturation Cities, Spaces and Architectures in Latin America
| Edizione: | Brill, 2005 | | Collana: | Critical Studies |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 87,00 | | Descrizione | Transculturation: Cities, Spaces and Architectures in Latin America explores the critical potential inherent in the notion of âtransculturationâ in order to understand contemporary architectural practices and their cultural realities in Latin America.Despite its enormous theoretical potential and its importance within Latin American cultural theory, the term transculturation had never permeated into architectural debates. In fact, none of the main architectural theories produced in and about Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century engaged seriously with this notion as a way to analyze the complex social, cultural and political circumstances that affect the development of the continent's cities, its urban spaces and its architectures. Therefore, this book demonstrates, for the first time, that the term transculturation is an invaluable tool in dismantling the essentialist, genealogical and hierarchical perspectives from which Latin American architectural practices have been viewed.Transculturation: Cities, Spaces and Architectures in Latin America introduces new readings and interpretations of the work of well-known architects, new analyses regarding the use of architectural materials and languages, new questions to do with minority architectures, gender and travel, and, from beginning to end, it engages with important political and theoretical debates that have rarely been broached within Latin American architectural circles. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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