The Exhilarating Cultural Metamorphosis

The Exhilarating Cultural Metamorphosis
Author: Rudrarup Gupta
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2016-05-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1482874695

The book has been committed to promulgate the destined culture of an organization, society, and education. As in my agreeable vision, the culture navigates the root to be determined. Therefore, any cultural radiance is one of the pivotal attributes to sketch the destiny, which is summarily connected with self-desire, self-esteem, and self-belief respectively. Most notably, this book has fundamentalized the needful organizational leaders, who are the indelible pathfinders to cooperate for the best organizational goal to achieve through words and wisdom. Moreover, they do have their spectacular charm for an everlasting organizational welfare, which is firmly propitious for an occupational discernment. This book has conceptualized the age of educational stratagem, which is going to be the most dynamic move to sustain in this real competitive field of vision because education is an encyclopedic stride to entrench the cultural metamorphosis in a befitting manner. In other words, this book has thrown a light on the natural nicety of ecosystem along with the destructive occurrence in deed.

Chrysalis Effect

Chrysalis Effect
Author: Philip Slater
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2008-10-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1782840885

Shows that the chaos and conflict experienced world-wide are the result of a global cultural metamorphosis, one which has accelerated so rapidly over the decades as to provoke fierce resistance. This book explains the metamorphosis of global culture whereby old cultural assumptions are challenged and innovations are seen as a social ill.

Creative Arts in Education and Culture

Creative Arts in Education and Culture
Author: Samuel Leong
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2013-12-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9400777299

This book offers insights into the exciting dynamics permeating creative arts education in the Greater China region, focusing on the challenges of forging a future that would not reject, but be enriched by its Confucian and colonial past. Today’s ‘Greater China’ – comprising China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan – has grown into a vibrant and rapidly transforming region characterized by rich historical legacies, enormous dynamism and exciting cultural metamorphosis. Concomitant with the economic rise of China and widespread calls for more ‘creative’ and ‘liberal’ education, the educational and cultural sectors in the region have witnessed significant reforms in recent years. Other factors that will influence the future of arts education are the emergence of a ‘new’ awareness of Chinese cultural values and the uniqueness of being Chinese.​

Gender, Genre, and Identity in Women's Travel Writing

Gender, Genre, and Identity in Women's Travel Writing
Author: Kristi Siegel
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2004
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780820449050

Women experience and portray travel differently: Gender matters - irreducibly and complexly. Building on recent scholarship in women's travel writing, these provocative essays not only affirm the impact of gender, but also cast women's journeys against coordinates such as race, class, culture, religion, economics, politics, and history. The book's scope is unique: Women travelers extend in time from Victorian memsahibs to contemporary «road girls», and topics range from Anna Leonowens's slanted portrayal of Siam - later popularized in the movie, The King and I, to current feminist «descripting» of the male-road-buddy genre. The extensive array of writers examined includes Nancy Prince, Frances Trollope, Cameron Tuttle, Lady Mary Montagu, Catherine Oddie, Kate Karko, Frances Calderón de la Barca, Rosamond Lawrence, Zilpha Elaw, Alexandra David-Néel, Amelia Edwards, Erica Lopez, Paule Marshall, Bharati Mukherjee, and Marilynne Robinson.

The Madonna of Excelsior

The Madonna of Excelsior
Author: Zakes Mda
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2007-05-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374708231

A new novel by a towering presence in contemporary South African literature In 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior in South Africa's white-ruled Free State were charged with breaking apartheid's Immorality Act, which forbade sex between blacks and whites. Taking this case as raw material for his alchemic imagination, Zakes Mda tells the story of a family at the heart of the scandal -and of a country in which apartheid concealed interracial liaisons of every kind. Niki, the fallen madonna, transgresses boundaries for the sake of love; her choices have repercussions in the lives of her black son and mixed-race daughter, who come of age in post-apartheid South Africa, where freedom prompts them to reexamine their country's troubled history at first hand. By turns earthy, witty, and tragic, The Madonna of Excelsior is a brilliant depiction of life in South Africa and of the dramatic changes between the 1970s and the present.

Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis
Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2013-06-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1402026439

How do we perdure when we and everything around us are caught up in incessant change? But the course of this change does not seem to be haphazard and we may seek the modalities of its Logos in the transformations in which it occurs. The classic term 'Metamorphosis' focuses upon the proportions between the transformed and the retained, the principles of sameness and otherness. Applied to life and its becoming, metamorphosis pinpoints the proportions between the vital and the aesthetic significance of life. Where could this metaphysical in-between territory come better to light than in the Fine Arts? In this collection are investigated the various proportions between the vital significance of the constructivism of life and a specifically human contribution made by the creative imagination to the transformatory search for beauty and aesthetic values. Papers by: Lawrence Kimmel, Mark L. Brack, Sheryl Tucker de Vazquez, William Roberts, Jadwiga Smith, Victor Gerald Rivas, Max Statkiewicz, Matti Itkonen, George R. Tibbetts, Linda Stratford, Jorella Andrews, Ingeborg M. Rocker, Stephen J. Goldberg, Leah Durner, Donnalee Dox, Catherine Schear, Samantha Henriette Krukowski, Gary Maciag, Kelly Dennis, Wanda Strukus, Magda Romanska, Patricia Trutty-Coohill, Ellen Burns, Tessa Morrison, Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, Gary Backhaus, Daniel M. Unger, Howard Pearce.

Radicals in America

Radicals in America
Author: Howard Brick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2015-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521515602

Radicals in America offers the first complete and continuous history of left-wing social movements in the United States from the Second World War to the present. The book traces the full panoply of radical activist causes, demonstrating how successive generations join currents of dissent, face setbacks and political repression, and generate new challenges to the status quo.

Women Writing Greece

Women Writing Greece
Author: Vassiliki Kolocotroni
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 904202481X

Women Writing Greece explores images of modern Greece by women who experienced the country as travellers, writers, and scholars, or who journeyed there through the imagination. The essays assembled here consider women's travel narratives, memoirs and novels, ranging from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century, focusing on the role of gender in travel and cross-cultural mediation and challenging stereotypical views of 'the Greek journey', traditionally seen as an antiquarian or Byronic pursuit. This collection aims to cast new light on women's participation in the discourses of Hellenism and Orientalism, examining their ideological rendering of Greece as at once a luminous land and a site crossed by contradictory cultural memories. Arranged chronologically, the essays discuss encounters with Greece by, among others, Lady Elizabeth Craven, Lady Hester Stanhope, Lady Montagu, Lady Morgan, Mary Shelley, Felicia Skene, Emily Pfeiffer, Eva Palmer, Jane Ellen Harrison, Virginia Woolf, Ethel Smyth, Christa Wolf, Penelope Storace and Gillian Bouras, and analyse them through a variety of critical, historical, contextual and theoretical frames.

Poetry, Politics, and Culture

Poetry, Politics, and Culture
Author: Harold Kaplan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351499394

A salient feature of modern poetics is its direct connection with cultural history and politics. Among the great American poets of the twentieth century, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams offer a significant contrast with T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Where the latter advocated a theocentric or reactionary response to the cultural crises of modernity, the former affirmed an essentially humanist and democratic social and aesthetic ethos. In Poetry, Politics, and Culture, Harold Kaplan offers a penetrating comparative study of these representative and distinctively influential poets.All four poets wrote in an atmosphere of cultural crisis following World War I, caught as they were between outmoded belief systems and various forms of artistic and political nihilism. While each believed in poetry as a source of cultural values and beliefs, they nevertheless experienced loss of confidence in their own vocation in a world characterized by scientific, rationalist thinking and the mundane struggle for survival. For each, therefore, the poetic imagination was a means of restoring order, or building a new civilization out of chaos. In trying to define a revitalized culture, the four exemplified the perennial quarrel between Europe and America.

Journeys to a Graveyard

Journeys to a Graveyard
Author: Derek Offord
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2006-07-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1402039093

Journeys to a Graveyard examines the descriptions provided by eight Russian writers of journeys made to western European countries between 1697 and 1880. The descriptions reveal the mentality and preoccupations of the Russian social and intellectual elites during this period. The travellers' perceptions of western European countries are treated here as an ambivalent response to a civilization with which Russia was belatedly coming into close contact as a result of the imperial ambition of the Russian state and the westernization of the Russian elites. The travellers perceived the most advanced European countries as superior to Russia in terms of material achievement and the maturity and refinement of their cultures, but they also promoted a view of Russia as in other respects superior to the western nations. Heavily influenced from the late eighteenth century by Romanticism and by the rise of nationalism in the west, they tended to depict European civilization as moribund. By this means they managed to define their own emergent nation in a contrastive way as having youth and promising futurity.