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Gestural Politics explores James Joyce's use of parody and humor in his representation of women, gays, and Irish nationalism. Author Christy L. Burns also discusses how Joyce's complex attitude toward parody and stereotyping is related to his aesthetic vision. She offers a comprehensive overview of all of Joyce's writings with a special emphasis on Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Christy L. Burns |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Release |
: 2000-06-22 |
File |
: 236 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780791492406 |
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Genre |
: Body language |
Author |
: Michael J. Braddick |
Publisher |
: Oxford Journals Oxford University Press |
Release |
: 2009-01-01 |
File |
: 313 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199583056 |
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Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy. Taking further Cornelius Castoriadis's concept of the social imaginary, it explores this imaginary's embodied forms. Close readings of dances, photographs, and literary texts are juxtaposed with discussions of gestural theory by thinkers including Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, and Aby Warburg. Choreographic gesture is defined as a force of intermittency that creates a new theoretical status of dance. Author Lucia Ruprecht shows how this also bears on contemporary theory. She shifts emphasis from Giorgio Agamben's preoccupation with gestural mediality to Jacques Ranci?re's multiplicity of proliferating, singular gestures, arguing for their ethical and political relevance. Mobilizing dance history and movement analysis, Ruprecht highlights the critical impact of works by choreographers such as Vaslav Nijinsky, Jo Mihaly, and Alexander and Clotilde Sakharoff. She also offers choreographic readings of Franz Kafka and Alfred D?blin. Gestural Imaginaries proposes that modernist dance conducts a gestural revolution which enacts but also exceeds the insights of past and present cultural theory. It makes a case for archive-based, cross-medial, and critically informed dance studies, transnational German studies, and the theoretical potential of performance itself.
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Genre |
: Music |
Author |
: Lucia Ruprecht |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Release |
: 2019-06-04 |
File |
: 353 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780190659400 |
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This study examines the representation of gesture in modernist writing, performance and cinema.
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Genre |
: Performing Arts |
Author |
: Anthony Paraskeva |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Release |
: 2013-09-30 |
File |
: 209 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780748684915 |
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Government communication is a curiously neglected area of discursive analysis. No considered examination of the subject exists which provides either an account of the contemporary governmental landscape or an explanation of the common and divergent themes on both a domestic and international basis. This volume aims to fill that gap, providing a concise and illuminating case-study based review of government communication. It will be divided into three sections to reflect differences in both geography and political allegiances, scrutinizing continental Europe, Anglo-American traditions and newly emerging democracies. Offering a global and thematic account, it is an indispensable resource for all students of political communication.
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Genre |
: Language Arts & Disciplines |
Author |
: Karen Sanders |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Release |
: 2013-06-20 |
File |
: 455 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781849665049 |
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The traditional assumption today about race is that it is not political; that it has no political content and is a matter of individual beliefs and attitudes. In Race and the Politics of the Exception, Utz McKnight argues that race is in fact political and defines how it functions as a politics in the United States. McKnight organizes his book into three sections, beginning with a theoretical section about racial politics in the United States. Using theorists such as Benjamin, Agamben, and Schmitt, McKnight discusses how the idea of racial communities went from being constituted through the idea of racial sovereignty and a politics of the exception that defined blacks as the internal enemy, to being constitutionally defined through the institutions of racial equal opportunity. In the second section, McKnight further develops his critical race theory by exploring in more detail the social use of race today. The election of President Obama has brought the politics of racial equality to a critical point. In spite of a very powerful set of political tools to define it as a thing of the past, race matters. In the final section, McKnight engages with important African American fiction from each of the three major periods of racial politics in the US. Earlier descriptions of political theory are used throughout these analyses to refine the argument for a new critical politics of race. Scholars of political theory, identity politics, African American studies, and American Studies will find this work ground-breaking and relevant.
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Genre |
: Political Science |
Author |
: Utz McKnight |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Release |
: 2013-07-04 |
File |
: 270 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781134069866 |
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A collection of essays by Nadine Gordimer, which illustrate the relationship between outer and inner change for the writer of conscience in South Africa. The essays range from the relative optimism of the 1950s, to the Sharpeville massacre, the banning in the 1960s of the ANC and the Pan-Africanist Congress, to the challenges of the Black Consciousness movement in the 1970s and the interregnum of the 1980s and also include pieces on travel.
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Genre |
: Biography & Autobiography |
Author |
: Nadine Gordimer |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Release |
: 1988 |
File |
: 378 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UCAL:B3739462 |
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Establishing the inseparability of grammar and gesture, this book explains what determines when, how, and why we gesture.
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Genre |
: Language Arts & Disciplines |
Author |
: Simon Harrison |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 2018-08-23 |
File |
: 253 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781108417204 |
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Nicholas Higgins offers a new way of understanding the Zapatista conflict as a counteraction to the forces of modernity and globalisation that have rendered indigenous peoples virtually invisible throughout the world.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Nicholas P. Higgins |
Publisher |
: University of Texas Press |
Release |
: 2004-12-01 |
File |
: 280 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0292705654 |
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In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee examine how the giving and receiving of blood has shaped social and political life. Hematologies traces how the substance congeals political ideologies, biomedical rationalities, and activist practices. Using examples from anti-colonial appeals to blood sacrifice as a political philosophy to contemporary portraits of political leaders drawn with blood, from the use of the substance by Bhopali children as a material of activism to biomedical anxieties and aporias about the excess and lack of donation, Hematologies broaches how political life in India has been shaped through the use of blood and through contestations about blood. As such, the authors offer new entryways into thinking about politics and economy through a "bloodscape of difference": different sovereignties; different proportionalities; and different temporalities. These entryways allow the authors to explore the relation between blood's utopic flows and political clottings as it moves through time and space, conjuring new kinds of social collectivities while reanimating older forms, and always in a reflexive relation to norms that guide its proper flow.
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Genre |
: Medical |
Author |
: Jacob Copeman |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Release |
: 2019-12-15 |
File |
: 288 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781501745102 |