Agitations

Agitations
Author: Arthur Krystal
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0300145608

This book examines the role of temperament and taste in the forming of aesthetic and ideological opinions. In provocative chapters about reading and writing, about the relation between life and literature, about knowledge and certainty, about God and death, and about a gradual disaffection with the literary scene, the book demonstrates that opposing points of view are based more on innate predilections than on disinterested thought or analysis.

Federalism and Separatist Agitations in Nigeria

Federalism and Separatist Agitations in Nigeria
Author: Godwin Onu
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2024-09-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1036411915

This book offers a reflection on the tension between federalism and separatist agitations in Nigeria. The persistent clamour for restructuring as well as the widespread separatist agitations in the country depicts a moral expression. It does so against the backdrop of the prevailing waves of sub-nationalist tendencies in different parts of the country, including the threat of secession in the South East. Considered across the variegated themes that form the thrust of the books are select practical and theoretical insights that are relevant in repositioning the federalist praxis in Nigeria in the interest of national unity and stability. The book will come handy to the communities of scholars, policy makers and practitioners who are involved in the earnest search for an answer to the federalism dimension of Nigeria’s nagging National Question. Students and the general reading populace will find the contents of the book quite insightful.

Beautiful Agitation

Beautiful Agitation
Author: Anneka Lenssen
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520343247

In modern Syria, a contested territory at the intersection of differing regimes of political representation, artists ventured to develop strikingly new kinds of painting to link their images to life forces and agitated energies. Examining the works of artists Kahlil Gibran, Adham Ismail, and Fateh al-Moudarres, Beautiful Agitation explores how painters in Syria activated the mutability of form to rethink relationships of figure to ground, outward appearance to inner presence, and self to world. Drawing on archival materials in Syria and beyond, Anneka Lenssen reveals new trajectories of painterly practice in a twentieth century defined by shifting media technologies, moving populations, and the imposition of violently enforced nation-state borders. The result is a study of Arab modernism that foregrounds rather than occludes efforts to agitate against imposed identities and intersubjective relations.

Social Controversy and Public Address in the 1960s and Early 1970s

Social Controversy and Public Address in the 1960s and Early 1970s
Author: Richard J. Jensen
Publisher: MSU Press
Total Pages: 668
Release: 2017-10-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1628953004

The period between the 1960s and 1970s is easily one of the most controversial in American history. Examining the liberal movements of the era as well as those that opposed them, this volume offers analyses of the rhetoric of leaders, including those of the civil rights movement, the Chicano movement, the gay rights movement, second-wave feminism, and conservative resistance groups. It also features an introduction that summarizes much of the significant research done by communication scholars on dissent in the 1960s and 1970s. This time period is still a fertile area of study, and this book provides insights into the era that are both provocative and illuminating, making it an essential read for anyone looking to learn more about this time in America.