The Centre as Margin: Eccentric Perspectives on Art

The Centre as Margin: Eccentric Perspectives on Art
Author: Maria de Lurdes Craveiro
Publisher: Vernon Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1622735919

'The Centre as Margin. Eccentric Perspectives on Art' is a multi-authored volume of collected essays that answer the challenge of thinking Art History, and the Arts in a broader sense, from a liminal point of view. Its main goal is thus to discuss the margin from the centre - drawing on its concomitance within study themes and subjects, ontological and epistemological positions, or research methodologies themselves. Marginality, eccentricity, liminality, and superfluity are all part of a dynamic relationship between centre and margin(s) that will be approached and discussed, from the point of view of disciplines as different and as close as art history, philosophy, literature and design, from medieval to contemporary art. Resulting from recent research developed from the privileged viewpoint offered by the margin, this volume brings together the contributions of young researchers along with the work of career scholars. Likewise, it does not obey a traditional or a rigid diachronic structure, being rather organized in three major parts that organically articulate the different essays. Within each of these parts in which the book is divided, papers are sometimes organized according to their timeframes, providing the reader with an encompassing (though not encyclopedic) overview of the common ground over which the various artistic disciplines build their methodological, theoretical, and thematic centers and margins. The intended eccentricity of this volume – and the original essays herein presented – should provide researchers, scholars, students, artists, curators, and the general reader interested in art with a refreshing approach to its various scientific strands.

From the Margins to the Centre

From the Margins to the Centre
Author: Justin O'Connor
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 135193533X

Each of the chapters in this volume derives from recently conducted research grounded in an attempt to examine some of the issues posed in what can be described as postmodernist theorising on the nature of the contemporary city. Implicit in the very conception of the book, and running through each of the contributions, is the view that contemporary popular culture is crucial to the understanding of the transformations to which we refer, and that the investigation of this popular culture needs to move beyond the parameters of cultural studies to include sociological, political and economic analyses. In addition to students of popular cultural studies, the book will be of interest to all those studying sociology, urban studies and cultural studies, as well as those with a desire to have contemporary social theorising more firmly located in empirical investigation.

The Margin Without Centre

The Margin Without Centre
Author: Chu-chueh Cheng
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2010
Genre:
ISBN: 9783039119974

Approaching Ishiguro's writings as a corpus, this volume highlights the significance of margins and the instability of demarcation, seeking to expose what is deliberately obscured or revealled within the narrative.

Shakespeare's Workplace

Shakespeare's Workplace
Author: Andrew Gurr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2017-10-19
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1107167841

Andrew Gurr's work offers the best access to the original Shakespearean theatre. This is a selection of his key essays.

Feminist Theory

Feminist Theory
Author: bell hooks
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2014-10-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317588347

When Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984, it was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision. Even so, individual readers frequently found the theory "unsettling" or "provocative." Today, the blueprint for feminist movement presented in the book remains as provocative and relevant as ever. Written in hooks's characteristic direct style, Feminist Theory embodies the hope that feminists can find a common language to spread the word and create a mass, global feminist movement.

Places on the Margin

Places on the Margin
Author: Rob Shields
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136134441

The debate on modernity and postmodernity has awakened interest in the importance of the spatial for cultural formations. But what of those spaces that exist as much in the imagination as in physical reality? This book attempts to develop an alternative geography and sociology of space by examining `places on the margin'.

Central at the Margin

Central at the Margin
Author: Renata Ruth Mautner Wasserman
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838756744

Discusses Julia Lopes de Almeida, Rachel de Queiroz, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Clarice Lispector and Carolina Maria de Jesus.

Handbook of Social Problems

Handbook of Social Problems
Author: George Ritzer
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 706
Release: 2004
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780761926108

Provides a comparative perspective on the state of social problems and deviance in a variety of societies around the world. This book explores the theory of the weakness of the strong, in other words, strong or wealthy nations may have greater vulnerability to some social problems than less developed or affluent societies.