Perpetual Carnival
Title | Perpetual Carnival PDF eBook |
Author | Colin MacCabe |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0190239131 |
Upholding literature and film together as academically interwoven, Perpetual Carnival underscores the everlasting coexistence of realism and modernism, eschewing the popularly accepted view that the latter is itself a rejection of the former. Mining examples from both film and literature, Colin MacCabe asserts that the relationship between film and literature springs to life a wealth of beloved modernist art, from Jean-Luc Godard's Pierre le Fou to James Joyce's Ulysses, enriched by realism's enduring legacy. The intertextuality inherent in adaptation furthers this assertion in MacCabe's inclusion of Roman Polanski's Tess, a 1979 adaptation of Thomas Hardy's nineteenth-century realist novel, Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Showcasing essays enlivened by cosmopolitan interests, theoretical insight, and strong social purpose, Perpetual Carnival supports a humanities which repudiates narrow specialization and which seeks to place the discussion of film and literature firmly in the reality of current political and ideological discussion. It argues for the writers and directors, the thinkers and critics, who have most fired the contemporary imagination.
Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, Volume II
Title | Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, Volume II PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer C. Post |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 474 |
Release | 2017-09-20 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 131543914X |
Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, Volume II provides an overview of developments in the study of ethnomusicology in the twenty-first century, offering an introduction to contemporary issues relevant to the field. Nineteen essays, written by an international array of scholars, highlight the relationship between current issues in the discipline and ethnomusicologists’ engagement with issues such as advocacy, poverty and social participation, maintaining intangible cultural heritages, and ecological concerns. It provides a forum for rethinking the discipline’s identity in terms of major themes and issues to which ethnomusicologists have turned their attention since Volume I published in 2005. The collection of essays is organized into six sections: Property and Rights Applied Practice Knowledge and Agency Community and Social Space Embodiment and Cognition Curating Sound Volume II serves as a basic introduction to the best writing in the field for students, professors, and music professionals, perfect for both introductory and upper level courses in world music. Together with the first volume, Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader, Volume II provides a comprehensive survey of current research directions.
Venice
Title | Venice PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Plant |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 576 |
Release | 2002-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300083866 |
Margaret Plant presents a wide-ranging cultural history of the city from the fall of the Republic in 1797, until 1997, showing how it has changed and adapted and how perceptions of it have shaped its reality.
Interfaces
Title | Interfaces PDF eBook |
Author | Sidonie Smith |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780472068142 |
Charts the ways that woman artists have represented themselves and their life stories
Letters from Rome on the Occasion of the Œcumenical Council, 1869-1870
Title | Letters from Rome on the Occasion of the Œcumenical Council, 1869-1870 PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Mozley |
Publisher | London, Longmans |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
Prophet for a Dark Age
Title | Prophet for a Dark Age PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Rooth |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2008-03-14 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1782847367 |
Rene Guenon is a major figure for anyone who recognises a need to rediscover the spiritual roots from which Western society has become so comprehensively alienated. Immersing himself in the search for spiritual truth, he chose Islam as the vehicle for his spiritual life.
Emancipation Still Comin'
Title | Emancipation Still Comin' PDF eBook |
Author | Kortright Davis |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2008-04-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 159244749X |
The Caribbean, awash with sun and water, is a meeting place of many races, religions, and cultures. There North and South, Latin and Anglo, native Carib, African black, French and English white races and cultures meet. In a religious melting pot, Protestant and Catholic Christian, Afro-Caribbean, Hindu, and secularist faiths, intertwine, cross-pollinate, and go their ways, separate yet together, in the divine milieu. Such a place has a rich and revealing story to tell: of history, nature, and humanity; of the understanding of freedom; of the meaning and scope of theology itself. The key in Caribbean society, with its experiences of slavery, colonialism, neocolonialism, and structural dependence, is emancipation: the pursuit, proclamation, and practice of human freedom. Emancipation is the key to Caribbean theology as well. This is the focal point of Kortright Davis's work. He introduces the complex tapestry of this unique society: its social and cultural pluralism, its particular strengths and weaknesses: poverty, dependence, alienation, and divisiveness. Davis explores many aspects of Caribbean religion and spirituality, especially the complexities of carnival and its uniquely African soul. He notes too a theological dependency, and posits again a unique, Caribbean emancipatory theology to establish a theological self-reliance. In emancipatory theology, as in Latin American liberation theology, the source for praxis and reflection is faith linked to historical experience. And the Caribbean experience, of continual struggle for identity, distinguishes and yet unites Caribbean Christians with Christians everywhere.