Imaginary Relations
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Imaginary Relations
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Author : Michael Sprinker
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 1987-08-17
Imaginary Relations written by Michael Sprinker and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-08-17 with Art categories.
This book sets out to clarify the nature of the aesthetic as a category within the theory of historical materialism. It opens with an analysis of Marx’s brief discussion of Greek art in the Grundrisse, moves through a series of readings of specifically bourgeois texts, including those of Ruskin, G.M. Hopkins, Nietzsche and Henry James, and then to the terrain of Marxism in the concepts of history underwriting the work of Fredric Jameson and Jean-Paul Sartre. Sprinkler detours through the recent works of Perry Anderson to set the stage for a systematic consideration of the theoretical itinerary and continuing relevance of the contributions of Louis Althusser. Imaginary Relations is a cogently argued attempt to shift the terrain of Marxist theorizing about art from the domain of ideology considered as simply false consciousness to a concept of art which makes aesthetic texts sources of empirical data about the real, historical world.
The Imaginary Puritan
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Author : Nancy Armstrong
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1994-01-01
The Imaginary Puritan written by Nancy Armstrong and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
"A tour de force that reconceptualizes literary history and repositions British literature to claim the imperial and trans-Atlantic origins of the British novel. "--Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, author of Disorderly Conduct "A very exciting piece of work, with important implications for how we conceive projects in literary, intellectual, and cultural history. . . . It is sure to be a controversial study, but it will get serious attention, not just as a study of 'novels' and texts but as a provocative account of English history and of models for studying history."--J. Paul Hunter, author of Before Novels
Imaginary Bodies
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Author : Moira Gatens
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11
Imaginary Bodies written by Moira Gatens and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-11 with Philosophy categories.
Moira Gatens investigates the ways in which differently sexed bodies can occupy the same social or political space. Representations of sexual difference have unacknowledged philosophical roots which cannot be dismissed as a superficial bias on the part of the philosopher, nor removed without destroying the coherence of the philosophical system concerned. The deep structural bias against women extends beyond metaphysics and its effects are felt in epistemology, moral, social and political theory. The idea of sexual difference is contextualised in Imaginary Bodies and traced through the history of philosophy. Using her work on Spinoza, Gatens develops alternative conceptions of power, new ways of conceiving women's embodiment and their legal, political and ethical status.
Imaginary Affairs
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Author : Robin Z. Arkus
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019-07-16
Imaginary Affairs written by Robin Z. Arkus and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-16 with Fiction categories.
Life has been a wild and wonderful ride for Mallory Hill. That is, up until her husband's sudden death, leaving her to carry on alone with the life they had created together. After months of running with the wrong crowd, dating inappropriate men, and listening to conflicting advice from her gang of girlfriends, Mallory is finally ready for a major lifestyle change. With a big birthday fast approaching, she jets off to Thailand for some much needed celibacy and sobriety. But as she is just on the verge of a breakthrough, she encounters the man of her dreams. Best intentions fly out the window and romance races in through the door. Mallory's story flits between the exotic Far East, lusty London, and the romantic south of France where she anguishes over her decisions. Is she ready to abandon her married lover, her Sugar Daddy and her Hollywood heartthrob? Impulsive passion, foolish decisions, broken promises. Will they ever end?
America And The British Imaginary In Turn Of The Twentieth Century Literature
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Author : B. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-11-22
America And The British Imaginary In Turn Of The Twentieth Century Literature written by B. Miller and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
In an innovative reading of fin-de-siecle cultural texts, Miller argues that British representations of America, Americans, and Anglo-American relations at the turn of the twentieth century provided an important forum for cultural distinction.
Imaginary States
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Author : Peter Hitchcock
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2003
Imaginary States written by Peter Hitchcock and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Can transnationalism be separated from capitalist globalization? Can an artist create cultural space and rethink the nation state simultaneously? In Imaginary States, Peter Hitchcock explores such questions to invigorate the analysis of cultural transnationalism. Juxtaposing the macroeconomic realities of commodities with the creation of cultural workers, Hitchcock offers case studies of Nike and the coffee industry alongside examinations of writings by the Algerian feminist Assia Djebar and the Caribbean writers Edward Glissant, Kamau Brathwaite, and Maryse Conde. The stark contrast of literary examples of cultural transnationalism with discussions of commodity circulation attempts to complicate the relationship between the aesthetic and the economic. Blocking our imagination, Hitchcock argues, is the desire to produce cultural diversity under the terms of a global economy. In believing that to have one we must pursue the other, we flatten difference, erase complexity, and fail to grasp the imaginaries at stake. Hitchcock's invocation of the imagination allows for a deeper understanding of transnational "states"--whether states of being, economic states, or nation states. Proffering that the crisis of globalization is a crisis of the imagination, he urges that cultural transnationalism not be feared or suppressed but approached as a way to imagine difference globally.
The Theory Of The Imaginary In Geometry
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Author : John Leigh Smeathman Hatton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-09-02
The Theory Of The Imaginary In Geometry written by John Leigh Smeathman Hatton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-02 with Mathematics categories.
This 1920 publication explores the relationship between real and imaginary non-Euclidean geometry through graphical representations of imaginary geometry.
Theorizing A Colonial Caribbean Atlantic Imaginary
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Author : Keith Sandiford
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-11-23
Theorizing A Colonial Caribbean Atlantic Imaginary written by Keith Sandiford and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book develops a theory of a Caribbean-Atlantic imaginary by exploring the ways two colonial texts represent the consciousnesses of Amerindians, Africans, and Europeans at two crucial points marking respectively the origins and demise of slavocratic systems in the West Indies. Focusing on Richard Ligon’s History of Barbados (1657) and Matthew ‘Monk’ Lewis’ Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834), the study identifies specific myths and belief systems surrounding sugar and obeah as each of these came to stand for concepts of order and counterorder, and to figure the material and symbolic power of masters and slaves respectively. Rooting the imaginary in indigenous Caribbean myths, the study adopts the pre-Columbian origins of the imaginary ascribed by Wilson Harris to a cross cultural bridge or arc, and derives the mythic origins for the centrality of sugar in the imaginary’s constitution from Kamau Brathwaite. The book’s central organizing principle is an oppositional one, grounded on the order/counterorder binary model of the imaginary formulated by the philosopher-social theorist Cornelius Castoriadis. The study breaks new ground by reading Ligon’s History and Lewis’ Journal through the lens of the slaves’ imaginaries of hidden knowledge. By redefining Lewis’ subjectivity through his poem’s most potent counterordering symbol, the demon-king, this book advances recent scholarly interest in Jamaica’s legendary Three Fingered Jack.
Imagination And The Imaginary
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Author : Kathleen Lennon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-02-20
Imagination And The Imaginary written by Kathleen Lennon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-20 with Philosophy categories.
The concept of the imaginary is pervasive within contemporary thought, yet can be a baffling and often controversial term. In Imagination and the Imaginary, Kathleen Lennon explores the links between imagination - regarded as the faculty of creating images or forms - and the imaginary, which links such imagery with affect or emotion and captures the significance which the world carries for us. Beginning with an examination of contrasting theories of imagination proposed by Hume and Kant, Lennon argues that the imaginary is not something in opposition to the real, but the very faculty through which the world is made real to us. She then turns to the vexed relationship between perception and imagination and, drawing on Kant, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre, explores some fundamental questions, such as whether there is a distinction between the perceived and the imagined; the relationship between imagination and creativity; and the role of the body in perception and imagination. Invoking also Spinoza and Coleridge, Lennon argues that, far from being a realm of illusion, the imaginary world is our most direct mode of perception. She then explores the role the imaginary plays in the formation of the self and the social world. A unique feature of the volume is that it compares and contrasts a philosophical tradition of thinking about the imagination - running from Kant and Hume to Strawson and John McDowell - with the work of phenomenological, psychoanalytic, poststructuralist and feminist thinkers such as Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Lacan, Castoriadis, Irigaray, Gatens and Lloyd. This makes Imagination and the Imaginary essential reading for students and scholars working in phenomenology, philosophy of perception, social theory, cultural studies and aesthetics. Cover Image: Bronze Bowl with Lace, Ursula Von Rydingsvard, 2014. Courtesy the artist, Galerie Lelong and Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Photo Jonty Wilde.
American Indians And The American Imaginary
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Author : Pauline Turner Strong
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-11-17
American Indians And The American Imaginary written by Pauline Turner Strong and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-17 with Social Science categories.
American Indians and the American Imaginary considers the power of representations of Native Americans in American public culture. The book's wide-ranging case studies move from colonial captivity narratives to modern film, from the camp fire to the sports arena, from legal and scholarly texts to tribally-controlled museums and cultural centres. The author's ethnographic approach to what she calls "representational practices" focus on the emergence, use, and transformation of representations in the course of social life. Central themes include identity and otherness, indigenous cultural politics, and cultural memory, property, performance, citizenship and transformation. American Indians and the American Imaginary will interest general readers as well as scholars and students in anthropology, history, literature, education, cultural studies, gender studies, American Studies, and Native American and Indigenous Studies. It is essential reading for those interested in the processes through which national, tribal, and indigenous identities have been imagined, contested, and refigured.