Staging Civilization
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Staging Civilization
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Author : Rahul Markovits
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2021-07-07
Staging Civilization written by Rahul Markovits and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-07 with History categories.
Eighteenth-century France is understood to have been the dominant cultural power on that era’s international scene. Considering the emblematic case of the theater, Rahul Markovits goes beyond the idea of "French Europe" to offer a serious consideration of the intentions and goals of those involved in making this so. Drawing on extensive archival research, Staging Civilization reveals that between 1670 and 1815 at least twenty-seven European cities hosted resident theater troupes composed of French actors and singers who performed French-language repertory. By examining the presence of French companies of actors in a wide set of courts and cities throughout Europe, Markovits uncovers the complex mechanisms underpinning the dissemination of French culture. The book ultimately offers a revisionist account of the traditional Europe française thesis, engaging topics such as transnational labor history, early-modern court culture and republicanism, soft power, and cultural imperialism.
Staging Ageing
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Author : Michael Mangan
language : en
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Release Date : 2013
Staging Ageing written by Michael Mangan and has been published by Intellect (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Age in the performing arts categories.
How can plays and performances, past and present, inform our understanding of ageing? Drawing primarily on the Western dramatic canon, on contemporary British theater, on popular culture, and on paratheatrical practices, Staging Ageing investigates theatrical engagement with ageing from the Greek chorus to Reminiscence Theater. It also explores the relationship of the plays, performances, and practices to the material, social, and ideological conditions that produced them. A seminal work on the cultural past and present of ageing, the book will find grateful audiences not only among scholars but also among theater and health care professionals.
Anne Brigman
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Author : Kathleen Pyne
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-23
Anne Brigman written by Kathleen Pyne 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 2020-06-23 with Photography categories.
The life and work of an essential photographer whose feminism and pictorialist images distanced her from the mainstream In the first book devoted to Anne Brigman (1869–1950), Kathleen Pyne traces the groundbreaking photographer’s life from Hawai‘i to the Sierra and elsewhere in California, revealing how her photographs emerged from her experience of local place and cultural politics. Brigman’s work caught the eye of the well-known photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who welcomed her as one of the original members of his Photo-Secession group. He promoted her work as exemplary of his modernism and praised her Sierra landscapes with female nudes—work that at the time separated Brigman from the spiritualized upper-class femininity of other women photographers. Stieglitz later drew on Brigman’s images of the expressive female body in shaping the public persona of Georgia O’Keeffe into his ideal woman artist. This nuanced account reasserts Brigman’s place among photography’s most important early advocates and provides new insight into the gender and racialist dynamics of the early twentieth-century art world, especially on the West Coast of the United States.
Against Better Judgment
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Author : Thomas Salem Manganaro
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2022-06-06
Against Better Judgment written by Thomas Salem Manganaro and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Robinson Crusoe recognizes it is foolish to leave for the open seas; nevertheless, he boards the ship. William Wordsworth of The Prelude sees the immense poetic task ahead of him, but instead of beginning work, he procrastinates by going for a walk. Centering on this sort of intentionally irrational action, originally defined as " akrasia" by the ancient Greeks and "weakness of will" in early Christian thought, Against Better Judgment argues that the phenomenon takes on renewed importance in the long eighteenth century. In treating human minds and bodies as systems and machines, Enlightenment philosophers did not account for actions that may be undermotivated, contradictory, or self-betraying. A number of authors, from Daniel Defoe and Samuel Johnson to Jane Austen and John Keats, however, took up the phenomenon in inventive ways. Thomas Manganaro traces how English novelists, essayists, and poets of the period sought to represent akrasia in ways philosophy cannot, leading them to develop techniques and ideas distinctive to literary writing, including new uses of irony, interpretation, and contradiction. In attempting to give shape to the ways people knowingly and freely fail themselves, these authors produced a new linguistic toolkit that distinguishes literature’s epistemological advantages when it comes to writing about people.
The Usufructuary Ethos
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Author : Erin Drew
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2021-05-21
The Usufructuary Ethos written by Erin Drew and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
Who has the right to decide how nature is used, and in what ways? Recovering an overlooked thread of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century environmental thought, Erin Drew shows that English writers of the period commonly believed that human beings had only the "usufruct" of the earth—the "right of temporary possession, use, or enjoyment of the advantages of property belonging to another, so far as may be had without causing damage or prejudice." The belief that human beings had only temporary and accountable possession of the world, which Drew labels the "usufructuary ethos," had profound ethical implications for the ways in which the English conceived of the ethics of power and use. Drew’s book traces the usufructuary ethos from the religious and legal writings of the seventeenth century through mid-eighteenth-century poems of colonial commerce, attending to the particular political, economic, and environmental pressures that shaped, transformed, and ultimately sidelined it. Although a study of past ideas, The Usufructuary Ethos resonates with contemporary debates about our human responsibilities to the natural world in the face of climate change and mass extinction.
World Heritage On The Ground
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Author : Christoph Brumann
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2016-04-01
World Heritage On The Ground written by Christoph Brumann and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with Social Science categories.
The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 set the contemporary standard for cultural and natural conservation. Today, a place on the World Heritage List is much sought after for tourism promotion, development funding, and national prestige. Presenting case studies from across the globe, particularly from Africa and Asia, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of the UNESCO heritage regime. This book shows how local and national circumstances interact with the global institutional framework in complex and unexpected ways. Often, the communities around World Heritage sites are constrained by these heritage regimes rather than empowered by them.
The Symbolic Politics Of European Integration
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Author : Jacob Krumrey
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-02-10
The Symbolic Politics Of European Integration written by Jacob Krumrey and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-10 with Political Science categories.
This book presents a cultural history of European integration. It revisits the European Community’s postwar origins through the lens of symbolic representation and so reveals a hitherto unknown side to Europe’s notorious technocrats. They were not simply administrators: they were skillful marketing experts, clever spin doctors, and talented stage directors. After all, what made the European Community stand out among the multitude of postwar European organizations? This book argues that it was not so much its vaunted supranationalism, nor its economic significance; it was its self-proclaimed role as torchbearer of European unity. Combining archival research with media analysis, The Symbolic Politics of European Integration reviews Europe’s early parliaments, its early diplomacy, and its long search for “capital cities,” from Strasbourg to Brussels. It tells the story of the political theater that staged an enterprise of technocrats as the embodiment of a Europe united in peace and prosperity. This book is an invaluable resource for historians of postwar Europe, as well as for analysts of today’s EU, who seek to understand how coal, steel, and tariffs became the stuff the European dream was made of.
The Creation Of The Cowboy Hero
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Author : Jeremy Agnew
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-12-02
The Creation Of The Cowboy Hero written by Jeremy Agnew and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created compelling imagery, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced perceptions of the cowboy as a hero. This book describes the evolution of the cowboy hero as a mythic persona created by dime novels, television and Hollywood. Much of our concept of the cowboy comes to us from movies and the book's main focus is his changing image in cinema. The development of the hero image and the fictional West is traced from early novels and films to the present, along with shifting audience expectations and economic pressures.
Hci International 2022 Late Breaking Papers Hci For Today S Community And Economy
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Author : Matthias Rauterberg
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-10-21
Hci International 2022 Late Breaking Papers Hci For Today S Community And Economy written by Matthias Rauterberg and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-21 with Computers categories.
This proceedings LNCS 13516 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2022, which was held virtually as part of the 24th International Conference, HCII 2022, during June 26 to July 1, 2022. HCII 2022 received a total of 5583 submissions from academia, research institutes, industry, and governmental agencies from 88 countries submitted contributions, and 1276 papers and 275 posters were included in the proceedings that were published just before the start of the conference. Additionally, 296 papers and 181 posters are included in the volumes of the proceedings published after the conference, as “Late Breaking Work” (papers and posters). The contributions thoroughly cover the entire field of human-computer interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas.
Unesco General History Of Africa Vol Iv Abridged Edition
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Author : Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1998-05-10
Unesco General History Of Africa Vol Iv Abridged Edition written by Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa 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 1998-05-10 with History categories.
At head of title: International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa (UNESCO).