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Author |
: Scott Fitzgerald Johnson |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190221232 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190221232 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Literary Territories by : Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Literary Territories argues that the literature of Late Antiquity shared a defining aesthetic sensibility which treated the classical "inhabited world," the oikoumene, as a literary metaphor for the collection and organization of knowledge.
Author |
: Stuart Elden |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 347 |
Release |
: 2018-12-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226559193 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022655919X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespearean Territories by : Stuart Elden
Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and technology did not elude his attention. In Shakespearean Territories, Stuart Elden reveals just how much Shakespeare’s unique historical position and political understanding can teach us about territory. Shakespeare dramatized a world of technological advances in measuring, navigation, cartography, and surveying, and his plays open up important ways of thinking about strategy, economy, the law, and colonialism, providing critical insight into a significant juncture in history. Shakespeare’s plays explore many territorial themes: from the division of the kingdom in King Lear, to the relations among Denmark, Norway, and Poland in Hamlet, to questions of disputed land and the politics of banishment in Richard II. Elden traces how Shakespeare developed a nuanced understanding of the complicated concept and practice of territory and, more broadly, the political-geographical relations between people, power, and place. A meticulously researched study of over a dozen classic plays, Shakespearean Territories will provide new insights for geographers, political theorists, and Shakespearean scholars alike.
Author |
: Sarah H. Beckjord |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 203 |
Release |
: 2016-11-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780271034997 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0271034998 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Territories of History by : Sarah H. Beckjord
Sarah H. Beckjord’s Territories of History explores the vigorous but largely unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In historical works by writers such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Bartolomé de Las Casas, and Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Beckjord argues, the authors were not only informed by the spirit of inquiry present in the humanist tradition but also drew heavily from their encounters with New World peoples. More specifically, their attempts to distinguish superstition and magic from science and religion in the New World significantly influenced the aforementioned chroniclers, who increasingly directed their insights away from the description of native peoples and toward a reflection on the nature of truth, rhetoric, and fiction in writing history. Due to a convergence of often contradictory information from a variety of sources—eyewitness accounts, historiography, imaginative literature, as well as broader philosophical and theological influences—categorizing historical texts from this period poses no easy task, but Beckjord sifts through the information in an effective, logical manner. At the heart of Beckjord’s study, though, is a fundamental philosophical problem: the slippery nature of truth—especially when dictated by stories. Territories of History engages both a body of emerging scholarship on early modern epistemology and empiricism and recent developments in narrative theory to illuminate the importance of these colonial authors’ critical insights. In highlighting the parallels between the sixteenth-century debates and poststructuralist approaches to the study of history, Beckjord uncovers an important legacy of the Hispanic intellectual tradition and updates the study of colonial historiography in view of recent discussions of narrative theory.
Author |
: David Bentley Hart |
Publisher |
: University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages |
: 535 |
Release |
: 2020-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780268107192 |
ISBN-13 |
: 026810719X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Theological Territories by : David Bentley Hart
Publishers Weekly Best Book in Religion 2020 Foreword Review's INDIES Book of the Year Award, Religion In Theological Territories, David Bentley Hart, one of America's most eminent contemporary writers on religion, reflects on the state of theology "at the borders" of other fields of discourse—metaphysics, philosophy of mind, science, the arts, ethics, and biblical hermeneutics in particular. The book advances many of Hart's larger theological projects, developing and deepening numerous dimensions of his previous work. Theological Territories constitutes something of a manifesto regarding the manner in which theology should engage other fields of concern and scholarship. The essays are divided into five sections on the nature of theology, the relations between theology and science, the connections between gospel and culture, literary representations of and engagements with transcendence, and the New Testament. Hart responds to influential books, theologians, philosophers, and poets, including Rowan Williams, Jean-Luc Marion, Tomáš Halík, Sergei Bulgakov, Jennifer Newsome Martin, and David Jones, among others. The twenty-six chapters are drawn from live addresses delivered in various settings. Most of the material has never been printed before, and those parts that have appear here in expanded form. Throughout, these essays show how Hart's mind works with the academic veneer of more formal pieces stripped away. The book will appeal to both academic and non-academic readers interested in the place of theology in the modern world.
Author |
: Robert T. Tally Jr. |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2016-04-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137542625 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137542624 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ecocriticism and Geocriticism by : Robert T. Tally Jr.
Although treated as two distinct schools of thought, ecocriticism and geocriticism have both placed emphasis on the lived environment, whether through social or natural spaces. For the first time, this interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses the complementary and contested aspects of these approaches to literature, culture, and society.
Author |
: Scott Spector |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 367 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520236929 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520236920 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Prague Territories by : Scott Spector
This cultural history maps the "territories" carved out by German-Jewish artists and intellectuals living in Prague at the dawn of the 20th century. It explores the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which Franz Kafka and his contemporaries flourished.
Author |
: Inge E. Boer |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 341 |
Release |
: 2006-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789401203715 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9401203717 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Uncertain Territories by : Inge E. Boer
Tracing and theorizing the concept of the boundaries through literary works, visual objects and cultural phenomena, this book argues against the reification of boundaries as fixed and empty non-spaces that simply divide the world. Expanding on her previous work on gender and Orientalism, Inge Boer takes us into uncertain territories of fashion and art, tourism and travel, skilfully engaging the ambivalence of boundaries, as both protecting and confining, as bringing distinction while existing by virtue of their ability to be transgressed. In her close readings of that boundaries as desert, as frame, as home (or lack of it), Boer shows that boundaries are spaces within, through, and in the name of which negotiations take place. They are not lines but spaces ; neither fixed nor empty but flexible and inhabited. With the publication of this book, Boer’s intellectual legacy stretches beyond her untimely passing. The writings that she left behind can be said to have inaugurated the future of her work, presented in the latter part by several of Boer’s intellectual companions. In their original essays, the contributors elaborate on Boer’s theme of boundaries as spaces where opposition yields to negotiation. Committed to the artefact as cultural stimulant, as the embodiment of thought, their analyses span a multitude of artefacts and media, ranging from literature to photography, to art installation and presentation, to film and song. Fanning out from Boer ‘s central focus – Orientalism – to other places of contestation, boundaries are shown to mediate the relationship between self and other ; they are, ultimately, spaces of encounter.
Author |
: Nicole Willock |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 2021-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231551960 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231551967 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lineages of the Literary by : Nicole Willock
Winner, 2024 E. Gene Smith Inner Asia Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies Honorable Mention, 2023 Joseph Levenson Prize Post-1900, Association for Asian Studies In the aftermath of the cataclysmic Maoist period, three Tibetan Buddhist scholars living and working in the People’s Republic of China became intellectual heroes. Renowned as the “Three Polymaths,” Tséten Zhabdrung (1910–1985), Mugé Samten (1914–1993), and Dungkar Lozang Trinlé (1927–1997) earned this symbolic title for their efforts to keep the lamp of the Dharma lit even in the darkest hour of Tibetan history. Lineages of the Literary reveals how the Three Polymaths negotiated the political tides of the twentieth century, shedding new light on Sino-Tibetan relations and Buddhism during this turbulent era. Nicole Willock explores their contributions to reviving Tibetan Buddhism, expanding Tibetan literary arts, and pioneering Tibetan studies as an academic discipline. Her sophisticated reading of Tibetan-language sources vivifies the capacious literary world of the Three Polymaths, including autobiography, Buddhist philosophy, poetic theory, and historiography. Whereas prevailing state-centric accounts place Tibetan religious figures in China in one of two roles, collaborator or resistance fighter, Willock shows how the Three Polymaths offer an alternative model of agency. She illuminates how they by turns safeguarded, taught, and celebrated Tibetan Buddhist knowledge, practices, and institutions after their near destruction during the Cultural Revolution. An interdisciplinary work spanning religious studies, history, literary studies, and social theory, Lineages of the Literary offers new insight into the categories of religion and the secular, the role of Tibetan Buddhist leaders in modern China, and the contested ground of Tibet.
Author |
: Janet Maybin |
Publisher |
: Red Globe Press |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 2009-08-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39076001964829 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Children's Literature: Approaches and Territories by : Janet Maybin
This lively and accessible collection of essays by leading scholars provides a social and literary overview of the field of children's literature.
Author |
: Andrea Fanta |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 318 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781580465809 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1580465803 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Territories of Conflict by : Andrea Fanta
This interdisciplinary volume investigates the cultural and political landscapes of Colombia through citizenship, displacement, local and global cultures, grass-root movements, political activism, human rights, environmentalism, and media productions.