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The Topography of Modernity
Author | : Elliott Schreiber |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2013-02-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780801465574 |
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Karl Philipp Moritz (d. 1793) was one of the most innovative writers of the late Enlightenment in Germany. A novelist, travel writer, editor, and teacher he is probably best known today for his autobiographical novel Anton Reiser (1785–90) and for his treatises on aesthetics, foremost among them Über die bildende Nachahmung des Schönen (On the Formative Imitation of the Beautiful) (1788). In this treatise, Moritz develops the concept of aesthetic autonomy, which became widely known after Goethe included a lengthy excerpt of it in his own Italian Journey (1816–17). It was one of the foundational texts of Weimar classicism, and it became pivotal for the development of early Romanticism. In The Topography of Modernity, Elliott Schreiber gives Moritz the credit he deserves as an important thinker beyond his contributions to aesthetic theory. Indeed, he sees Moritz as an incisive early observer and theorist of modernity. Considering a wide range of Moritz’s work including his novels, his writings on mythology, prosody, and pedagogy, and his political philosophy and psychology, Schreiber shows how Moritz’s thinking developed in response to the intellectual climate of the Enlightenment and paved the way for later social theorists to conceive of modern society as differentiated into multiple, competing value spheres.
Media Modernity and Technology
Author | : David Morley |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2006-09-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781134317134 |
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From best-selling author David Morley, this book presents a set of interlinked essays which discuss and examine some of the key debates in the fields of media and cultural studies. Spanning the last decade, this fascinating and readable book is based on interdisciplinary work on the interface of media and cultural studies, cultural geography and anthropology. Clearly structured in five thematic sections, the book surveys the potential contribution of art-based discourses to the field and offers critical perspectives on the emergence of the ‘new media’ of our age. Including discussion on the status and future of media and cultural studies as disciplines, the significance of technology and new media, and raising questions about the place of the magical in the newly emerging forms of techno-modernity in which we live today, this is a media student must-read.
How Modernity Forgets
Author | : Paul Connerton |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2009-07-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521762151 |
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This book provides an insight into how modern society and contemporary living affects our ability to remember things.
Moving Through Modernity
Author | : Andrew Thacker |
Publsiher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2003-05-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0719053099 |
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The first full-length account of modernism from the perspective of literary geography.
Race Modernity Postmodernity
Author | : W. Lawrence Hogue |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0791430952 |
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Reads and interprets eight works of literature by people of color, foregrounding the philosophical debate about modernity vs. postmodernity rather than solely issues of race.
The Topography of Medieval and Early Modern Bristol
Author | : Roger Leech |
Publsiher | : Bristol Record Society |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Bristol (England) |
ISBN | : UVA:X004539581 |
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Uneven Modernity
Author | : Haomin Gong |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2011-12-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780824860400 |
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Postsocialist China is marked by paradoxes: economic boom, political conservatism, cultural complexity. Haomin Gong’s dynamic study of these paradoxes, or “unevenness,” provides a unique and seminal approach to contemporary China. Reading unevenness as a problem and an opportunity simultaneously, Gong investigates how this dialectical social situation shapes cultural production. He begins his investigation of “uneven modernity” in China by constructing a critical framework of unevenness among different theoretical schools and expounding on how dialectical thinking points to a metaphysical paradox in capitalism and modernity: the inevitable tension between a constant pursuit of infinite fullness and a break of fullness (unevenness) as the means of this pursuit. In the Chinese context, this paradox is created in the “uneven developmentalism” that most manifestly characterizes the postsocialist period. Gong goes on to investigate manifestations of the dialectics of unevenness in specific cultural events. Four case studies address respectively but not exclusively literature (the prose of Yu Qiuyu), popular fiction (Chi Li’s neorealist fiction), commercial cinema (the movies of Feng Xiaogang), and art-house cinema (Wang Xiaoshuai’s filmmaking). Representing different aspects of cultural production in postsocialist China, these writers and directors deal with the same social condition of uneven development, and their works clearly exhibit the problematics of this age. Uneven Modernity makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of China studies as well as the study of uneven development in general. It addresses some of the most popular, yet understudied, cultural phenomena in contemporary China. Specialists and students will find its insights admirable and its style accessible.
The Geographic Imagination of Modernity
Author | : Chenxi Tang |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780804758390 |
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This book is a study of the emergence of the geographic paradigm in modern Western thought around 1800.