Enacting Past and Present
Title | Enacting Past and Present PDF eBook |
Author | Michaela M. Grobbel |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2009-01-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780739134887 |
Through a discussion of Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Mieke Bal and others, author Michaela Grobbel focuses on the work three women authors as types of performance which lead to re-presentations of memory. These women writers foreground the present but also critically demonstrate the complex relationship of the present to the past. Grobbel's work is a critical addition to any discussion of feminism, memory and literary modernism.
Enacting History
Title | Enacting History PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Magelssen |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2011-03-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0817356541 |
Enacting History is a collection of new essays exploring the world of historical performances. The volume focuses on performances outside the traditional sphere of theatre, among them living history museums, battle reenactments, pageants, renaissance festivals, and adventure-tourism destinations. This volume argues that the recent surge in such performances have raised significant questions about the need for, interest in, and value of such nontraditional theater. Many of these performances claim a greater or lesser degree of historical "accuracy" or "authenticity," and the authors tease out the representational and historiographic issues related to these arguments. How, for instance, are issues of race, ethnicity, and gender dealt with at museums that purport to be accurate windows into the past? How are politics and labor issues handled in local- or state-funded institutions that rely on volunteer performers? How do tourists' expectations shape the choices made by would-be purveyors of the past? Where do matters of taste or censorship enter in when reconciling the archival evidence with a family-friendly mission? Essays in the collection address, among other subjects, reenactments of period cookery and cuisine at a Maryland renaissance festival; the roles of women as represented at Minnesota's premiere living history museum, Historic Fort Snelling; and the Lewis and Clark bicentennial play as cultural commemoration. The editors argue that historical performances like these-regardless of their truth-telling claims-are an important means to communicate, document, and even shape history, and allow for a level of participation and accessibility that is unique to performance. Enacting History is an entertaining and informative account of the public's fascination with acting out and watching history and of the diverse methods of fulfilling this need.
Re-Enacting the Past
Title | Re-Enacting the Past PDF eBook |
Author | Mads Daugbjerg |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2017-10-02 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1317376145 |
What is re-enactment and how does it relate to heritage? Re-enactments are a ubiquitous part of popular and memory culture and are of growing importance to heritage studies. As concept and practice, re-enactments encompass a wide range of forms: from the annual ‘Viking Moot’ festival in Denmark drawing thousands of participants and spectators, to the (re)staged war photography of An-My Lê, to the Titanic Memorial Cruise commemorating the centennial of the ill-fated voyage, to the symbolic retracing of the Berlin Wall across the city on 9 November 2014 to mark the 25th anniversary of its toppling. Re-enactments involve the sensuousness of bodily experience and engagement, the exhilarating yet precarious combination of imagination with ‘historical fact’, in-the-moment negotiations between and within temporalities, and the compelling drive to re-make, or re-presence, the past. As such, re-enactments present a number of challenges to traditional understandings of heritage, including taken-for-granted assumptions regarding fixity, conservation, originality, ownership and authenticity. Using a variety of international, cross-disciplinary case studies, this volume explores re-enactment as practice, problem, and/or potential, in order to widen the scope of heritage thinking and analysis toward impermanence, performance, flux, innovation and creativity. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Heritage Studies.
History as Re-enactment
Title | History as Re-enactment PDF eBook |
Author | William H. Dray |
Publisher | Clarendon Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198238819 |
A central motif of R.G. Collingwood's philosophy of history is the idea that historical understanding requires a re-enactment of past experience. However, there have been sharp disagreements about the acceptability of this idea, and even its meaning.
Time, Temporality, and History in Process Organization Studies
Title | Time, Temporality, and History in Process Organization Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Juliane Reinecke |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2021-01-12 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 019887071X |
Time, temporality, and history are inherently important constructs in process organization studies, yet have struggled to move beyond limited conceptualizations in management theory. This volume draws together emerging strands of interest to adopt a more nuanced approach in understanding the temporal aspects of organizational processes.
Enacting Musical Time
Title | Enacting Musical Time PDF eBook |
Author | Mariusz Kozak |
Publisher | |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0190080205 |
A compelling approach among works on temporality, phenomenology, and the ecologies of the new sound worlds, Enacting Musical Time argues that musical time is itself the site of the interaction between musical sounds and a situated, embodied listener, created by the moving bodies of participants engaged in musical activities.
A Research Agenda for Organisational Continuity and Change
Title | A Research Agenda for Organisational Continuity and Change PDF eBook |
Author | Tor Hernes |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2023-10-06 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1802200169 |
Research has overlooked the need for modern organisations to enact continuity during periods of change. This Research Agenda addresses this by considering continuity and change as engaging in various forms of mutual interplay. The underlying theme of this book is that change needs continuity just as continuity needs change.