Laughing At Leviathan
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Laughing At Leviathan
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Author : Danilyn Rutherford
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2012-04
Laughing At Leviathan written by Danilyn Rutherford and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04 with History categories.
For West Papua and its people, the promise of sovereignty has never been realized, despite a long and fraught struggle for independence from Indonesia. In Laughing at Leviathan, Danilyn Rutherford examines this struggle through a series of interlocking essays that drive at the core meaning of sovereignty itself—how it is fueled, formed, and even thwarted by pivotal but often overlooked players: those that make up an audience. Whether these players are citizens, missionaries, competing governmental powers, nongovernmental organizations, or the international community at large, Rutherford shows how a complex interplay of various observers is key to the establishment and understanding of the sovereign nation-state. Drawing on a wide array of sources, from YouTube videos to Dutch propaganda to her own fieldwork observations, Rutherford draws the history of Indonesia, empire, and postcolonial nation-building into a powerful examination of performance and power. Ultimately she revises Thomas Hobbes, painting a picture of the Leviathan not as a coherent body but a fragmented one distributed across a wide range of both real and imagined spectators. In doing so, she offers an important new approach to the understanding of political struggle.
Southeast Asia Over Three Generations
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Author : James T. Siegel
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-31
Southeast Asia Over Three Generations written by James T. Siegel and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-31 with History categories.
In honor of Benedict Anderson's many years as a teacher and his profound contributions to the field of Southeast Asian studies, the editors have collected essays from a number of the many scholars who studied with him. These articles deal with the literature, politics, history, and culture of Southeast Asia, addressing Benedict Anderson's broad concerns.
Between Laughter And Satire
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Author : Conal Condren
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-03-17
Between Laughter And Satire written by Conal Condren and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-17 with Performing Arts categories.
This book explores closely related aspects of the historical study of humour. It challenges much that has been taken for granted in a field of study for which history has been marginal. It disputes the conventional genealogical view that humour theory dates from antiquity and outlines an alternative conceptual history. It critically examines the nostrum that humour is universal. It then explores the methodological difficulties in treating both verbal and non-verbal humour historically, dealing with contextualisation, intentionality, translation and reception. It explores the variable relationships between satire and definition and concludes with a detailed case study from recent history: the iconic Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister television comedies. These are commonly seen as realistic, but better understood as presenting popularised theories for satiric and propagandistic effect. Only in their treatment of language can we assess a putative political realism. The satires are often highly perceptive but largely dependent on misleading and inadequate theories of political discourse. Conal Condren is an Emeritus Scientia Professor at UNSW, a member of two Cambridge Colleges and a fellow both of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and The Social Sciences in Australia. He has published widely and principally in early modern intellectual history. Among his books are The Status and Appraisal of Classic Texts; Argument and Authority in Early Modern England; Political Vocabularies: Word Change and the Nature of Politics.
Clio Anthropos
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Author : Eric Tagliacozzo
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2009-08-07
Clio Anthropos written by Eric Tagliacozzo 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 2009-08-07 with Social Science categories.
The intersection between history and anthropology is more varied now than it has ever been—a look at the shelves of bookstores and libraries proves this. Historians have increasingly looked to the methodologies of anthropologists to explain inequalities of power, problems of voicelessness, and conceptions of social change from an inside perspective. And ethnologists have increasingly relied on longitudinal visions of their subjects, inquiries framed by the lens of history rather than purely structuralist, culturalist, or functionalist visions of behavior. The contributors have dealt with the problems and possibilities of the blurring of these boundaries in different and exciting ways. They provide further fodder for a cross-disciplinary experiment that is already well under way, describing peoples and their cultures in a world where boundaries are evermore fluid but where we all are alarmingly attached to the cataloguing and marking of national, ethnic, racial, and religious differences.
Divine Laughter
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Author : Karl N. Jacobson
language : en
Publisher: Fortress Press
Release Date : 2022-07-12
Divine Laughter written by Karl N. Jacobson and has been published by Fortress Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-12 with Religion categories.
Comedians tend to view the world somewhat askew or askance, and that view--a kind of hermeneutical lens for discerning the comedic in daily life--serves to frame, reframe, and even de-frame reality. Preachers do the same, viewing the world askance through a theological lens of discerning God in daily life. That theological view allows one to preach hope in the face of despair, seeing the world in terms of God's justice and declaring the promise of life out of death. Divine Laughter: Preaching and the Serious Business of Humor looks closely at both the cultural phenomenon of stand-up comedy and theories of humor, asking what preachers can learn from both. Karl N. Jacobson and Rolf A. Jacobson offer preachers a means of growth in their art and an approach to reading Scripture both for its humor and through the lens of humor. The book models approaches to the biblical text that allow the Bible to be funny and that bring humor to the text. Divine Laughter brings the task of preaching into conversation with both the comedic parts of the Bible and the theological parts of the comedic, in order to bring a new kind of life to preaching. As a serious look at humor and laughter in the Bible, the book explores the theological implications of what it means if we think of God, Jesus, and even the Holy Spirit as filled with laughter. Preachers are invited to wonder at and chuckle their way through examples of God's laughter in the Bible, thinking about what that means for God's people, for the life of faith, and for preaching to God's people.
Romantic Poets And The Laughter Of Feeling
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Author : Matthew Ward
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024
Romantic Poets And The Laughter Of Feeling written by Matthew Ward and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with History categories.
Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling embraces the sublime and the ridiculous to offer a compelling new reading of British Romanticism. Matthew Ward reveals the decisive role laughter and the laughable play in Romantic aesthetics, emotions, and ethics.
Stallia Dragonsoul
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Author : Mark Salmans
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2016-12-12
Stallia Dragonsoul written by Mark Salmans and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-12 with Fiction categories.
The first book of a tragic trilogy set in the fantastical world of DragonSoul, Stallia focuses primarily on the life of one man. Zihark Slade is a young man with a singular purpose: to protect those he loves while living up to his father's legacy. When his dream is denied, Zihark struggles to find meaning and blindly travels around the kingdom as an elite professional DragonSlayer. Meanwhile, his home village is plunged into terror and despair by the immortal Stallia, a fabled unicorn said to be a harbinger of chaos. When Zihark learns of his home's tragic fate, he rediscovers his purpose. Now he must hurry back and attempt once more to rescue the family he left behind.
Time And Difference In Rabbinic Judaism
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Author : Sarit Kattan Gribetz
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-11-17
Time And Difference In Rabbinic Judaism written by Sarit Kattan Gribetz and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-17 with Religion categories.
How the rabbis of late antiquity used time to define the boundaries of Jewish identity The rabbinic corpus begins with a question–“when?”—and is brimming with discussions about time and the relationship between people, God, and the hour. Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism explores the rhythms of time that animated the rabbinic world of late antiquity, revealing how rabbis conceptualized time as a way of constructing difference between themselves and imperial Rome, Jews and Christians, men and women, and human and divine. In each chapter, Sarit Kattan Gribetz explores a unique aspect of rabbinic discourse on time. She shows how the ancient rabbinic texts artfully subvert Roman imperialism by offering "rabbinic time" as an alternative to "Roman time." She examines rabbinic discourse about the Sabbath, demonstrating how the weekly day of rest marked "Jewish time" from "Christian time." Gribetz looks at gendered daily rituals, showing how rabbis created "men's time" and "women's time" by mandating certain rituals for men and others for women. She delves into rabbinic writings that reflect on how God spends time and how God's use of time relates to human beings, merging "divine time" with "human time." Finally, she traces the legacies of rabbinic constructions of time in the medieval and modern periods. Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism sheds new light on the central role that time played in the construction of Jewish identity, subjectivity, and theology during this transformative period in the history of Judaism.
Female Playwrights And Eighteenth Century Comedy
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Author : M. Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2002-02-22
Female Playwrights And Eighteenth Century Comedy written by M. Anderson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-02-22 with Performing Arts categories.
Aphra Behn, Susannah Centlivre, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald were the only four female playwrights in England with multiple comic successes from 1670-1800. Behn's interest in the body, Centlivre's fascination with written contracts, Cowley's nationalism, and Inchbald's discussion of divorce emerge in the comic events that are animated by the psychological mechanisms of humor. Attending to the dialogue between these comic events and the plays' more predictable comic endings illuminates the philosophical, political, and legal arguments about women and marriage that fascinated both female playwrights and the theatergoing public.
The Bible And The Comic Vision
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Author : J. William Whedbee
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-05-28
The Bible And The Comic Vision written by J. William Whedbee 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 1998-05-28 with Religion categories.
Apart from the occasional recognition of comic forms or motifs in biblical dress, the vast majority of interpreters have usually discounted or even disdained the possibility of the Bible having any significant place for the comic vision. This book attempts to make amends for this short-sighted, prejudicial perspective.