Exotic Encounters
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Exotic Encounters
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Author : Brian Stableford
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2009-11-01
Exotic Encounters written by Brian Stableford and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Thirty-four review essays of science fiction, fantasy, and horror authors and musical groups, including works by the following: Poul Anderson, Kim Antieau, Jackie Askew, Ataraxia, Stephen Baxter, Gregory Benford, David Britton, Philip George Chadwick, Hal Clement, Kathryn Cramer, Avram Davidson, Grania Davis, Stephen Dedman, Marcus Donnelly, Greg Egan, Michael Flynn, Forkbeard Fantasy, Neil Gaiman, Glenn Grant, Charles L. Harness, David G. Hartwell, Alexander Jablokov, John Kessel, Sophia Kingshill, Nancy Kress, Manuela Dunn Mascetti, Paul McAuley, Tim Powers, Albert Robida, Mary Doria Russell, William Moy Russell, Sharon Shinn, Sopor Aeternus and the Ensemble of Shadows, Emile Souvestre, Michel de Spiegeleire, Allen Steele, Michael Swanwick, Judith Tarr, Thee Vampire Guild, Jeff VanderMeer, Freda Warrington, John D. Wilson, Terri Windling, and Ronald Wright.
Penguins Pineapples Pangolins
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Author : Claire Cock-Starkey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Penguins Pineapples Pangolins written by Claire Cock-Starkey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Exotic animals categories.
In these modern times knowledge is at our fingertips and it can sometimes feel as if there is nothing new to discover. The awe and excitement from that moment has been lost because these objects and experiences have become ordinary to us. But if we travel back in time just a few hundred years, adventurers were exploring the world during a period when most people rarely travelled further than their nearest market town. Penguins, Pineapples and Pangolins captures the wonderment these intrepid explorers felt as they struggled to record their new experiences. The eyewitness accounts in this collection reveal the reactions and thoughts of Europeans as they visited new places, tasted new foods and encountered strange animals, peoples and plants for the very first time.
Embodiments Of Cultural Encounters
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Author : Sebastian Jobs, Gesa Mackenthun
language : en
Publisher: Waxmann Verlag
Release Date : 2011
Embodiments Of Cultural Encounters written by Sebastian Jobs, Gesa Mackenthun and has been published by Waxmann Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Social sciences categories.
The meeting of members of different cultures, frequently conceptualized in abstract terms, always involves the meeting of human bodies. This volume brings together contributions by scholars of various disciplines that address physical aspects and effects of cultural encounters in historical and present-day settings. Bodies were and are not only markers of cultural identity and difference, endlessly inscribed and represented as the 'body politic' or 'the exotic other'; as battlegrounds of cross-cultural signification and identification bodies are also potential agents of change. While some essays address the elusiveness of the 'real' or material body, forever lost behind a veil of textual and visual representation, others analyze the performative effect of such representations - their function of disciplining colonized bodies and subjects by integrating them into Western systems of cultural signification and scientific classification. Yet, as the volume also shows, formerly colonized people, far from subjecting themselves completely to Western discourses of physical discipline, retain traditional body practices - whether in food culture, religious ritual, or musical performances. Such local reinscriptions escape the grip of Western culture and transform the global semantics of the body.
Encounters In The Arts Literature And Philosophy
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Author : Jérôme Brillaud
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-03-25
Encounters In The Arts Literature And Philosophy written by Jérôme Brillaud and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-25 with Philosophy categories.
Encounters in the Arts, Literature, and Philosophy focuses on chance and scripted encounters as sites of tensions and alliances where new forms, ideas, meanings, interpretations, and theories can emerge. By moving beyond the realm of traditional hermeneutics, Jérôme Brillaud and Virginie Greene have compiled a volume that vitally illustrates how reading encounters represented in artefacts, texts, and films is a vibrant and dynamic mode of encountering and interpreting. With contributions from esteemed academics such as Christie McDonald, Pierre Saint-Amand, Susan Suleiman, and Jean-Jacques Nattiez, this book is a multidisciplinary collaboration between scholars from a range of disciplines including philosophy, literature, musicology, and film studies. It uses examples chiefly from French culture and covers the Early Modern era to the twentieth century, while providing a thorough and representative array of theoretical and hermeneutical approaches.
Cultural Encounters And Homoeroticism In Sri Lanka
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Author : Robert Aldrich
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-10-17
Cultural Encounters And Homoeroticism In Sri Lanka written by Robert Aldrich and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-17 with History categories.
Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, was long known to travellers for its luxuriant landscapes, colourful temples and friendly inhabitants – the island once named Serendip. This book explores the sojourns of gay visitors from the late 1800s to the modern day, providing a history of homosexuality, travel and cultural encounter on the island. The book offers profiles of major figures in Sri Lankan culture and of homosexual visitors, both famous and infamous, to the island. It discusses the experiences of sojourners including the Victorian social reformer Edward Carpenter and the German naturalist Ernst Haeckel, such British and American writers as Paul Bowles and Arthur C. Clarke, and the Australian painter Donald Friend. It also pays particular attention to Lionel Wendt, one of the most important modernist photographers outside Europe. For these figures, an erotic appreciation of young men whom they encountered mixed with interest in Sinhalese art, Buddhist and Hindu spirituality, and the flora and fauna of the island. Their experiences influenced modern writing, art and dance. Cultural influences moved in both directions, however, and Sri Lankans also found inspiration from abroad. The book argues that homosexuals played a major role in the transmission of cultural influences from Sri Lanka to the rest of the world, and from the wider world to this Indian Ocean island. Providing an original analysis of gay cultures in Sri Lanka from Victorian encounters to the present day, this book is the first study of Sri Lanka as a site of gay travel. An excellent study of trans-national cultural exchange, sexuality and the relationships between them, it will be of interest to academics in the field of Asian Studies, Colonial History and Gay and Queer Studies.
Exotic Escape
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Author : Pat Booth-Lynch
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2014-06-26
Exotic Escape written by Pat Booth-Lynch and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-26 with Fiction categories.
With a heart chained to grief and betrayal, Kyle sets out to plan an exotic getaway to the farthest place she can think of in order to escape. This venture entails a safari to the wilds of South Africa. She talks her friend Gina Austin into accompanying her on a sojourn that will change their lives forever as they meet two fascinating men, one a suave Englishman and the other a rugged game ranger. Mutual attraction is inevitable. Unfortunately, their trip into the Dark Continent is not all joy, but is an eye-opener for both Kyle and Gina as they find themselves trapped in an untenable situation of deceit and treachery that involves murder, harrowing adventures in the bush and a tapestry of coercion. Since photographs are interwoven into the text, giving you privy to the majestic animals, the settings and the thrills that take place, you’ll feel as if you are, indeed, on safari with Kyle and Gina.
Wanderlust In Gay Asia
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Author : Hans Fritschi
language : en
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Release Date : 2010-10
Wanderlust In Gay Asia written by Hans Fritschi and has been published by Marshall Cavendish this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10 with categories.
Celebrated gay blogger Hans Fritschi has travelled extensively around Asia and his site is one of the leading online gay guides. In this ground-breaking book, he shares with readers his experiences of gay life in Asia. Through the eyes of his flamboyant heroine Suzy Size who is based in Thailand, Hans describes the exotic encounters and erotic escapades of a modern gay traveller in Asia. Suzy Size chases after money boys and is?herself? chased by sex hungry young men who go after older Western men. Or is it just their money? Suzy has many strange, absurd and hilarious encounters all over Asia. While not a gay guide, Wanderlust makes a good and entertaining read, covering everything from pubs and nightlife to getting?picked up?
Encountering The City
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Author : Jonathan Darling
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-15
Encountering The City written by Jonathan Darling and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-15 with Political Science categories.
Encountering the City provides a new and sustained engagement with the concept of encounter. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, classic writings on the city and rich empirical examples, this volume demonstrates why encounters are significant to urban studies, politically, philosophically and analytically. Bringing together a range of interests, from urban multiculture, systems of economic regulation, security and suspicion, to more-than-human geographies, soundscapes and spiritual experience, Encountering the City argues for a more nuanced understanding of how the concept of 'encounter' is used. This interdisciplinary collection thus provides an insight into how scholars' writing on and in the city mobilise, theorise and challenge the concept of encounter through empirical cases taken from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. These cases go beyond conventional accounts of urban conviviality, to demonstrate how encounters destabilise, rework and produce difference, fold together complex temporalities, materialise power and transform political relations. In doing so, the collection retains a critical eye on the forms of regulation, containment and inequality that shape the taking place of urban encounter. Encountering the City is a valuable resource for students and researchers alike.
Fin De Si Cle Splendor
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Author : Dewei Wang
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1997
Fin De Si Cle Splendor written by Dewei Wang and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Literary Collections categories.
The reigning view of literary historians has been that the May Fourth movement of 1919 marks the division between the traditional and the modern in Chinese literature. This book argues that signs of reform and innovation can be discerned long before May Fourth, and that as China entered the arena of modern, international history in the late Qing, it was already developing its own complex matrix of incipient modernities. It demonstrates that late Qing fiction nurtured a creative, innovative poetics, one that was spurned by the reformers of the May Fourth generation in favor of Western-style realism. The author recognizes that a full account of modern Chinese fiction needs to ask why so many genres, styles, themes, and figures found in late imperial fiction were repressed by "modern" Chinese literary discourse. He focuses on four genres of late Qing fiction that have been either rudely dismissed in pejorative terms or simply ignored: depravity romances, court-case and chivalric cycles, grotesque exposés, and scientific fantasies. The author shows that in spite of the realist orthodoxy that has dominated Chinese literature since the May Fourth movement, these unwelcome genres have continually found their way back into mainstream discourse, their influence being increasingly evident in recent decades. This first comprehensive study of late Qing fiction discusses more than sixty works, at least half of which have rarely or never been dealt with by Western or Chinese scholars. Richly informed by contemporary literary theory, this book constitutes a polemical rethinking of the nature of Chinese literary and cultural modernity.
Rogues Romance And Exoticism In French Cinema Of The 1930s
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Author : Colleen Kennedy-Karpat
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2013
Rogues Romance And Exoticism In French Cinema Of The 1930s written by Colleen Kennedy-Karpat and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
Many popular French films of the 1930s captured the world and brought it into neighborhood cinemas for filmgoers who craved adventure. These films often served as visual postcards from the French empire, which enjoyed an unprecedented visibility in domestic popular culture between the world wars. But the public appetite for the exotic also transcended imperial borders. Exoticist films displayed landscapes and different that lay beyond the metropole, many of which were not subject to European rule. This broad conception of the exotic meant that French narrative cinema represented both colonial and non-colonial settings and populations, developing a coherent set of tropes that were shaped, yet not entirely defined, by the politics of imperial rule. Empire alone cannot address the full range of the French exoticist imaginary that was projected onto movie screens in the 30s. Only by venturing beyond imperial boundaries can we fully understand how the French saw non-Westerners and, by extension, how they saw themselves during this tumultuous decade. Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s proposes a critical framework for exoticist cinema that includes and exceeds the limits of empire. From rogue colons to the m tisse in love, from the deserts of North Africa to the streets of Shanghai, this book identifies and analyzes recurring figures, common settings, major stars, plot devices, and narrative outcomes that dominated exoticist cinema at its popular peak.