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Author: Emmanouil Aretoulakis
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498513131
Size: 43.56 MB
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Release Date: 2016-05-19
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Forbidden Aesthetics Ethical Justice And Terror In Modern Western Culture eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Most would find it improper, even immoral, to admit to an aesthetic experience of the beautiful in the midst of terror and disaster. In this book, Emmanouil Aretoulakis explores the fascination with terror and human tragedy, which he terms forbiddenaesthetics, through various lenses including Kant’s idea of disinterested judgement of the beautiful and Burke’s concept of delight before real catastrophe.

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Author: Efterpi Mitsi
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030269051
Size: 67.16 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2019-11-28
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF Ruins In The Literary And Cultural Imagination eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book focuses on literal and metaphorical ruins, as they are appropriated and imagined in different forms of writing. Examining British and American literature and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book begins in the era of industrial modernity with studies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Henry James and Daphne Du Maurier. It then moves on to the significance of ruins in the twentieth century, against the backdrop of conflict, waste and destruction, analyzing authors such as Beckett and Pinter, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton and Leonard Cohen. The collection concludes with current debates on ruins, through discussions of Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht, as well as reflections on the refugee crisis that take the ruin beyond the text, offering new perspectives on its diverse legacies and conceptual resources.

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Author: Simone Broders
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110722046
Size: 65.91 MB
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Release Date: 2021-05-10
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF The Age Of Curiosity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Challenging the ‘success story’ of curiosity from original sin to intellectual virtue, this study uses an innovative methodological approach to the history of ideas as a non-teleological neural network based on current research in information technology and neurophysiology. The network offers a dynamic alternative to the ‘development’ of curiosity within the progress-oriented mythology of the Enlightenment, emphasizing the oscillation and interaction of ideas within the processes of their construction, as well as exposing the power relations behind them. The text corpus focuses on enactments of curiosity in English literature of the 'Long' Eighteenth Century (c. 1680-1818), such as transgression of boundaries, breach of taboo, gendered curiosity, sensationalism, or academic endeavour, bringing together a variety of examples from all major genres. The Age of Curiosity contributes to current debates on a post-Foucauldian renewal of Lovejoy’s history of ideas in Enlightenment studies, exploring both curiosity as an indispensable trait for the search of answers to the fundamental yet unresolved questions of ‘identity’ or ‘truth’, and its potential as cura, the care for others and the world.

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Author: Anna Kilderry
Publisher: ACER Press
ISBN: 1742865569
Size: 50.32 MB
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Release Date: 2020-11-01
Category: Education
Language: en
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Download PDF Strong Foundations eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Strong Foundations: Evidence informing practice in early childhood education and care celebrates the progress made by the Australian early childhood education and care profession since the implementation of the Early Years Learning Framework. Recognising this progress, Associate Professor Anna Kilderry and Honorary Professor Bridie Raban lead a team of 34 notable contributors from 13 universities and institutions throughout Australia, who focus on the challenges of access, equity and quality that remain across the sector. With a Foreword by Professor Alison Elliott, Strong Foundations brings together knowledge and insights from research in education, health, social care, child safety, science, mathematics and the arts. The critical importance of health, wellbeing and safety in the first five years of children's lives is reflected in a particular focus on supporting positive lifestyle choices, on social and emotional development and on the role that adults play in keeping children safe. The book addresses policy requirements from the Early Years Learning Framework, the National Quality Standard and Quality Improvement Plans, highlighting links between research and practice, and making connections to the five EYLF Learning Outcomes. With an emphasis on professional practice expectations, Strong Foundations showcases evidence from Australian and international research and provides case studies of early childhood educators applying evidence-informed actions in a wide variety of education and care settings. Strong Foundations translates high-quality, peer-reviewed research into everyday practice and supports early childhood educators in improving long-term outcomes for children, families and communities.

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Book Detail:
Author: Dr Debra D Andrist
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 178284645X
Size: 57.69 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2019-11-14
Category: Family & Relationships
Language: en
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Download PDF Crossroads eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Crossroads! Intersections physical and/or metaphorical demand processes of consideration, determination, decision and commitment. Stasis is no longer an option where convergence is poised before the unknown. Where categories such as gender, culture, ethnicity, socio-economic status, philosophy and religion clash, the multivariate process can reach such complexity that literary, sociological and psychological tools can have differing interpretations. Real-life intersections range from the mundane (choosing among food items on a menu according to taste preferences) to survival-determinants (evaluating the efficacy of various medical procedures). But such intersections are at the two ends of a very long continuum that takes in issues of form/function, and traditional vs.modern. For example, Home may be defined both as a physical place and/or a mental construct. In more esoteric contexts, artists chiefly known for visual production, representing their ideas with color and form, not infrequently cross media to paint with words. Philosophy, religion, art and literature cross paths via symbols and other visual and linguistic constructs. Writers deal with how and where their own or their characters multiple identities intersect. The Hispanic world is an extraordinarily vivid place to explore these crossroads. This collection of essays addresses a multitude of crossroads in numerous Hispanic contexts across the intersections of time & space/tradition & modernity. The contexts are wide-ranging; e.g., the visual, architectural: how Spains age-old oenological tradition meets modern technology, how the vestiges of long-term dictatorship lurk in the spaces of Spains democracy; and how space/architecture, and art/poetry cross in Latin America. Painters Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlos productions cross the visual to the written; and magical realism products of the twentieth century Latin American artistic movement defy nature, science, time and space.

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Book Detail:
Author: Turgay Yerlikaya
Publisher: SET Vakfı İktisadi İşletmesi
ISBN: 6257040450
Size: 71.96 MB
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Release Date: 2020-06-10
Category: Political Science
Language: tr
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Download PDF Ter R N Medyatikle Tirilmesi eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Terör örgütleri yaptıkları saldırıların öncesi ve sonrasında medya aracılığıyla örgütün ismini duyurma, propaganda yapma ve saldırının medya aracılığıyla geniş kitlelere yayılmasını istemektedir. 1970’lerden bu yana Türkiye’nin mücadele ettiği etnik-ayrılıkçı bir terör örgütü olan PKK’nın medyatikleştirilmesi ve medyayı kullanma biçimleri üzerine çok fazla araştırma yoktur. Elinizdeki kitabın çıkış hikayesi medya ve terör ilişkisinin farklı boyutlarını ortaya koymak ve bu alana bir katkı sunmaktır. PKK üzerine var olan sınırlı literatürün özellikle güvenlik çalışmalarına yoğunlaşması medyatikleştirme olgusunun gözden kaçırılmasına neden olmuştur. Bu doğrultuda bir boşluğu doldurmayı amaçlayan elinizdeki kitap farklı tema ve tematikler üzerinden medya ve terör ilişkisine dair bir çerçeve sunmaktadır. Kitap, PKK’nın hem kendi medya mecralarını nasıl kullandığını ve buralarda ürettiği propaganda faaliyetlerini hem de diğer kitle iletişim araçları ile kurduğu sofistike iletişim biçimlerini açığa çıkarmaktadır. Bu anlamda sadece PKK’nın doğrudan kullandığı iletişim kaynaklarıyla sınırlı kalınmamış aynı zamanda terör örgütünün uluslararası basındaki temsillerini medyatikleştirme olgusu da irdelenmiştir.

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Book Detail:
Author: Mark S. Hamm
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437929591
Size: 24.17 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2011-01
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Download PDF Crimes Committed By Terrorist Groups eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Examines terrorists¿ involvement in a variety of crimes ranging from motor vehicle violations, immigration fraud, and mfg. illegal firearms to counterfeiting, armed bank robbery, and smuggling weapons of mass destruction. There are 3 parts: (1) Compares the criminality of internat. jihad groups with domestic right-wing groups. (2) Six case studies of crimes includes trial transcripts, official reports, previous scholarship, and interviews with law enforce. officials and former terrorists are used to explore skills that made crimes possible; or events and lack of skill that the prevented crimes. Includes brief bio. of the terrorists along with descriptions of their org., strategies, and plots. (3) Analysis of the themes in closing arguments of the transcripts in Part 2. Illus.

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Book Detail:
Author: Philipp Schweighauser
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441139931
Size: 61.60 MB
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Release Date: 2010-08-19
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF Terrorism Media And The Ethics Of Fiction eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. >

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Book Detail:
Author: Stacey Olster
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441182470
Size: 53.30 MB
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Release Date: 2011-02-17
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF Don Delillo eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A collection of original, stimulating interpretations of key texts by Don DeLillo, designed for students and edited and written by leading scholars in the field. The book offers new perspectives on two of the most important pre-millennial novels by any American writer Mao II and Underworld and the first extended discussions of Falling Man, DeLillo's exploration of 9/11 and its aftermath. An American Studies approach to the texts brings together both established DeLillo scholars and other academics whose interdisciplinary methodologies drawn from history, ethnic studies, new economic criticism, women's studies, art history, and urban studies shed new light on DeLillo's work and demonstrate its wide-ranging significance in contemporary American culture.

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Book Detail:
Author: Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317260341
Size: 47.31 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2015-11-17
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Epistemologies Of The South eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. She contends that today it is imperative to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world. Epistemologies of the South outlines a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.

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Book Detail:
Author: Professor Liliane Louvel
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409478890
Size: 78.31 MB
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Release Date: 2013-05-28
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF Poetics Of The Iconotext eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Poetics of the Iconotext makes available for the first time in English the theories of the respected French text/image specialist, Professor Liliane Louvel. A consolidation of the most significant theoretical materials of Louvel's two acclaimed books, L'Oeil du Texte: Texte et image dans la littérature anglophone and Texte/Image: Images à lire, textes à voir, this newly conceived work introduces English readers to the most current thinking in French text/image theory and visual studies. Focusing on the full spectrum of text/image relations, from medieval illuminated manuscripts to digital books, Louvel begins by introducing key terms and situating her work in the context of significant debates in text/image studies. Part II introduces Louvel's s typology of pictorial saturation through which she establishes a continuum along which to measure the effect of the most figurative to the most literal images upon writerly and readerly textual 'spaces.' Part III adopts a phenomenological approach towards the reading-viewing experience as expressed in conceptual categories that include the trace, focal range, synesthesia, and rhythm and speed. The result is a provocative interplay of the categorical and the subjective that invites readers to think at once more precisely and more inventively about texts, images, and the intersections between the two.

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Book Detail:
Author: John T. Jost
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199717606
Size: 44.70 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2009-03-11
Category: Psychology
Language: en
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Download PDF Social And Psychological Bases Of Ideology And System Justification eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This new volume on Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification brings together several of the most prominent social and political psychologists who are responsible for the resurgence of interest in the study of ideology, broadly defined. Leading scientists and scholars from several related disciplines, including psychology, sociology, political science, law, and organizational behavior present their cutting-edge theorizing and research. Topics include the social, personality, cognitive and motivational antecedents and consequences of adopting liberal versus conservative ideologies, the social and psychological functions served by political and religious ideologies, and the myriad ways in which people defend, bolster, and justify the social systems they inhabit. This book is the first of its kind, bringing together formerly independent lines of research on ideology and system justification.

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Book Detail:
Author: Mehraneh Ebrahimi
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815654820
Size: 36.73 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2019-05-09
Category: Art
Language: en
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Download PDF Women Art And Literature In The Iranian Diaspora eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Does the study of aesthetics have tangible effects in the real world? Does examining the work of diaspora writers and artists change our view of "the Other"? In this thoughtful book, Ebrahimi argues that an education in the humanities is as essential as one in politics and ethics, critically training the imagination toward greater empathy. Despite the surge in Iranian memoirs, their contributions to debunking an abstract idea of terror and their role in encouraging democratic thinking remain understudied. In examining creative work by women of Iranian descent, Ebrahimi argues that Shirin Neshat, Marjane Satrapi, and Parsua Bashi make the Other familiar and break a cycle of reactionary xenophobia. These authors, instead of relying on indignation, build imaginative bridges in their work that make it impossible to blame one evil, external enemy. Ebrahimi explores both classic and hybrid art forms, including graphic novels and photo-poetry, to advocate for the importance of aesthetics to inform and influence a global community. Drawing on the theories of Rancière, Butler, Arendt, and Levinas, Ebrahimi identifies the ways in which these works give a human face to the Other, creating the space and language to imagine a new political and ethical landscape.

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Book Detail:
Author: Richard Gray
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781444395853
Size: 68.47 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2011-05-03
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF After The Fall eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on American culture and literature. Presents the first detailed interrogation of U.S. writing in a time of crisis Develops a timely and provocative arguement about literature and trauma Relates U.S. writing since 9/11 to crucial social and historical changes in the U.S. and elsewhere Places U.S. writing in the context of the transformed position of the U.S. in a world characterized by political, economic, and military crisis; transnational drift; the resurgence of religious fundamentalism; and the apparent triumph of global capitalism

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Book Detail:
Author: Paulus Kaufmann
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048196612
Size: 44.11 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2010-10-07
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Humiliation Degradation Dehumanization eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Degradation, dehumanization, instrumentalization, humiliation, and nonrecognition – these concepts point to ways in which we understand human beings to be violated in their dignity. Violations of human dignity are brought about by concrete practices and conditions; some commonly acknowledged, such as torture and rape, and others more contested, such as poverty and exclusion. This volume collates reflections on such concepts and a range of practices, deepening our understanding of human dignity and its violation, bringing to the surface interrelationships and commonalities, and pointing to the values that are thereby shown to be in danger. In presenting a streamlined discussion from a negative perspective, complemented by conclusions for a positive account of human dignity, the book is at once a contribution to the body of literature on what dignity is and how it should be protected as well as constituting an alternative, fresh and focused perspective relevant to this significant recurring debate. As the concept of human dignity itself crosses disciplinary boundaries, this is mirrored in the unique range of perspectives brought by the book’s European and American contributors – in philosophy and ethics, law, human rights, literature, cultural studies and interdisciplinary research. This volume will be of interest to social and moral philosophers, legal and human rights theorists, practitioners and students.

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Book Detail:
Author: Darren Byler
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478022264
Size: 39.51 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2021-12-10
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Terror Capitalism eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang. He shows that the mass detention of over one million Uyghurs in “reeducation camps” is part of processes of resource extraction in Uyghur lands that have led to what he calls terror capitalism—a configuration of ethnoracialization, surveillance, and mass detention that in this case promotes settler colonialism. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the regional capital Ürümchi, Byler shows how media infrastructures, the state’s enforcement of “Chinese” cultural values, and the influx of Han Chinese settlers contribute to Uyghur dispossession and their expulsion from the city. He particularly attends to the experiences of young Uyghur men—who are the primary target of state violence—and how they develop masculinities and homosocial friendships to protect themselves against gendered, ethnoracial, and economic violence. By tracing the political and economic stakes of Uyghur colonization, Byler demonstrates that state-directed capitalist dispossession is coconstructed with a colonial relation of domination.

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Book Detail:
Author: Gert Buelens
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135053103
Size: 16.97 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2013-10-30
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF The Future Of Trauma Theory eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This collection analyses the future of ‘trauma theory’, a major theoretical discourse in contemporary criticism and theory. The chapters advance the current state of the field by exploring new areas, asking new questions and making new connections. Part one, History and Culture, begins by developing trauma theory in its more familiar post-deconstructive mode and explores how these insights might still be productive. It goes on, via a critique of existing positions, to relocate trauma theory in a postcolonial and globalized world, theoretically, aesthetically and materially, and focuses on non-Western accounts and understandings of trauma, memory and suffering. Part two, Politics and Subjectivity, turns explicitly to politics and subjectivity, focussing on the state and the various forms of subjection to which it gives rise, and on human rights, biopolitics and community. Each chapter, in different ways, advocates a movement beyond the sort of texts and concepts that are the usual focus for trauma criticism and moves this dynamic network of ideas forward. With contributions from an international selection of leading critics and thinkers from the US and Europe, this volume will be a key critical intervention in one of the most important areas in contemporary literary criticism and theory.

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Book Detail:
Author: Cynthia Freeland
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191504254
Size: 27.27 MB
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Release Date: 2002-02-07
Category: Art
Language: en
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Download PDF But Is It Art eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and interpretation of the arts. Freeland also propels us into the future by surveying cutting-edge web sites, along with the latest research on the brain's role in perceiving art. This clear, provocative book engages with the big debates surrounding our responses to art and is an invaluable introduction to anyone interested in thinking about art.

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Book Detail:
Author: Clifford Geertz
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465093566
Size: 46.35 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2017-08-15
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Interpretation Of Cultures eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association, helped define for an entire generation of anthropologists what their field is ultimately about.

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Author: Erik Erlanson
Publisher: Nordic Academic Press
ISBN: 9188909085
Size: 24.31 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2020-03-08
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF Forbidden Literature eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Freedom of the printed word is a defining feature of the modern world. Yet censorship and the suppression of literature never cease, and remain topical issues even in the most liberal of democracies. Today, just as in the past, advances in media technology are followed by new regulatory mechanisms. Similarly, any attempt to control cultural expression inevitably spurs fresh discussions about freedom of speech. In Forbidden Literature scholars from a variety of disciplines address censorship's past and present, whether in liberal democracies or totalitarian regimes. Through in-depth case studies they trace a historical continuum in which literature reveals its two-sided nature: it demands both regulation and protection. The contributors investigate the logic of literary repression, particularly in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and analyze why it is thought essential to control literature. Moreover, the authors determine how literary practices are shaped and transformed by regulation and censorship.

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