Modernity And Nostalgia
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The Geography Of Nostalgia
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Author : Alastair Bonnett
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-08-11
The Geography Of Nostalgia written by Alastair Bonnett and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-11 with Social Science categories.
We are familiar with the importance of 'progress' and 'change'. But what about loss? Across the world, from Beijing to Birmingham, people are talking about loss: about the loss that occurs when populations try to make new lives in new lands as well as the loss of traditions, languages and landscapes. The Geography of Nostalgia is the first study of loss as a global and local phenomenon, something that occurs on many different scales and which connects many different people. The Geography of Nostalgia explores nostalgia as a child of modernity but also as a force that exceeds and challenges modernity. The book begins at a global level, addressing the place of nostalgia within both global capitalism and anti-capitalism. In Chapter Two it turns to the contested role of nostalgia in debates about environmentalism and social constructionism. Chapter Three addresses ideas of Asia and India as nostalgic forms. The book then turns to more particular and local landscapes: the last three chapters explore the yearnings of migrants for distant homelands, and the old cities and ancient forests that are threatened by modernity but which modern people see as sites of authenticity and escape. The Geography of Nostalgia is a reader friendly text that will appeal to a variety of markets. In the university sector it is a student friendly, interdisciplinary text that will be welcomed across a broad range of courses, including cultural geography, post-colonial studies, landscape and planning, sociology and history.
Modernity And Nostalgia
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Author : Romy Golan
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1995-01-01
Modernity And Nostalgia written by Romy Golan and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-01 with Art categories.
Golan argues that reactionary issues such as anti-urbanism, the return to the soil, regionalism, corporatism, xenophobia, and doubts about the new technology became central to cultural and art-historical discourse. Focusing on the overlap of avant-garde and middle-of-the-road production, she investigates the import of these issues not only in, painting, sculpture, and architecture (concentrating on the work of Leger, Picasso, Le Corbusier, Ozenfant, Derain, the Surrealists, and the so-called naifs), but also in the decorative arts, in the spectacle of world and colonial fairs, and in literature. Throughout she finds evidence that artists turned from the aesthetics of the machine age toward a more organic, naturalistic art. This leads her to ask whether the famous and momentous shift of the avant-garde from Paris to New York in 1939 did not, in fact, begin two decades earlier, in 1918.
Time Passing
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Author : Sylviane Agacinski
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2003
Time Passing written by Sylviane Agacinski and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Philosophy categories.
In this wide-ranging meditation on the meaning of time, Agacinski weaves together discussions of Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Freud, Heidegger, Baudelaire, Barthes, and especially Walter Benjamin--her model for the modern "passer of time"--as she traces a time-line of the philosophy of time.
Modernism And Nostalgia
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Author : T. Clewell
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-07-29
Modernism And Nostalgia written by T. Clewell and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book addresses the multiple meanings of nostalgia in the literature of the period. Whether depicted as an emotion, remembrance, or fixation, these essays demonstrate that the nostalgic impulse reveals how deeply rooted in the damaged, the old, and the vanishing, were the variety of efforts to imagine and produce the new—the distinctly modern.
Beyond The Paradox Of The Nostalgic Modernist
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Author : Elisabeth M. Donato
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2004
Beyond The Paradox Of The Nostalgic Modernist written by Elisabeth M. Donato and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
This investigation of J.-K. Huysmans' representation of temporality sheds light on the complex and paradoxical nature of this late-nineteenth-century novelist and art critic, who was a modernist steeped in nostalgia as well as a nostalgic steeped in modernity. To unveil and understand the mechanisms and logic of this paradox, Elisabeth M. Donato examines Huysmans' characters' dealings with measured time and schedules, investigates the failure of des Esseintes' aesthetic experiment, and relates the novelist's construct of «spiritualist naturalism» to his increasingly frequent and intense longings for his own medieval utopia. Donato's new perspective onto the intricate relationship between modernity and nostalgia underscores Huysmans' firm and very modern stance à rebours of commonality in his never ending search for a solution to his dilemma.
Taish Chic
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Author : Kendall H. Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Taish Chic written by Kendall H. Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
Many of these works have never been published and several major paintings, exhibited in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s then lost after the war, are brought to light here for the first time in decades. This catalogue not only presents newly discovered works but also, in bringing together a broad range of objects representative of mainstream Taisho visual culture, reconstructs the styles popular from 1915 to 1935 in a celebration of Taisho Chic."--BOOK JACKET.
Afterwords
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Author : Louis A. Ruprecht
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1996-01-01
Afterwords written by Louis A. Ruprecht and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
Reading both philosophical and theological texts, this book presents an argument against nostalgia: against the myth of a Golden Age, against the posture that sees "modernity" as a problem to be solved.
Nepal
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Author : Deepak Shimkhada
language : en
Publisher: Marg Publications
Release Date : 2011
Nepal written by Deepak Shimkhada and has been published by Marg Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
Contributed articles on Nepali art, architecture, performances, and religious traditions.
Nostalgia In The Early Modern World
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Author : Harriet Lyon
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2023-05-23
Nostalgia In The Early Modern World written by Harriet Lyon and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-23 with categories.
How can the concept of nostalgia illuminate the culturally specific ways in which societies understand the contested relationship between the past, present, and future? The word nostalgia was invented in the late seventeenth century to describe the debilitating effects of homesickness. Now widely defined as a sense of longing for a lost past, initially it was more closely linked with dislocation in space. By exploring some of its many textual, visual and musical manifestations in the tumultuous period between c. 1350 and 1800, this volume resists the assumption that nostalgia is a distinctive by-product of modernity. It also forges a fruitful link between three lively areas of current scholarly enquiry: memory, temporality, and emotion. The contributors deploy nostalgia as a tool for investigating perceptions of the passage of time and historical change, unsettling experiences of migration and geographical displacement, and the connections between remembering and forgetting, affect and imagination. Ranging across Europe and the Atlantic world, they examine the moments, sites and communities in which it arose, alongside how it was used to express both criticism and regret about the religious, political, social and cultural upheavals that shaped the early modern world. They approach it as a complex mixed feeling that opens a new window into individual subjectivities and collective mentalities.
Nostalgia And Materialism
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Author : Heidi Marie Stoffer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Nostalgia And Materialism written by Heidi Marie Stoffer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with American literature categories.
Literary critics have identified nostalgia as a prominent theme in early twentieth-century American literature, yet these critics have been divided in their assessments of how nostalgia functions in these novels. Some have argued that nostalgia is a form of escapism and regression, a way of avoiding the increasing modernization of society occurring at the turn of the century. Others view nostalgia as a progressive way of critiquing the present, of rejecting modernity, and as a return to the past in order to apply traditional ideals in an attempt to revise or compensate for the present. Both of these explanations of nostalgia privilege the past over the present and imply that modernity is a condition to be overcome. This study suggests that nostalgia functions in a more complex way than previous theories have accounted for and allows for a negotiation of past and present that facilitates adaptation to, and ultimately acceptance of, modernity. Through examination of three early twentieth-century novels-The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and The Professor's House by Willa Cather-nostalgia is revealed as a means of transition to a new era by sustaining a connection to the familiarity of the past and acts as a continual process of determining what aspects of history are compatible with the modern world and what elements must be left in the past. Both psychoanalytic and cultural materialist approaches are used in this dissertation in order to reveal the complicated interplay between identity and material objects that occurs through nostalgia, particularly in the early twentieth century. More specifically, this study focuses on representations of houses and the objects within them to show how these objects evoke nostalgia and connections to tradition while they simultaneously allow for participation in a distinctly modern consumer society. This dual nature of nostalgia was, in fact, used as a marketing strategy at the turn of the century at a time when concerns over one's authenticity, in relation to anxieties regarding the perceived inauthenticity of modernity, were at an all-time high. Ultimately, this dissertation suggests that the early twentieth-century novel highlights the crucial role that nostalgia plays in enacting a negotiation between past and present that, rather than forcing modernity to conform to history, allows for the integration of elements of the past into modern life and the critical distance to more fully comprehend the gap between past and present.
