The Lure Of The Modern
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Author | : Shumei Shi |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2001-04-20 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0520220641 |
"Quite apart from her contributions as a literary critic, Shu-mei Shih is able to historicize literary developments of the period most persuasively. Her analysis of Shanghai, the city, and the literary movement it spawned, is crafted with great sensitivity to both history and literature. In many ways, it is the most inclusive historical study of modern Chinese literature in its formative period."—Prasenjit Duara, author of Rescuing History from the Nation "Tracing the spectral production of 'Chinese' identity as it is disseminated globally, Shih boldly moves away from using place (ethnicity) and the body (race) to anchor Chinese identity, to argue that the visual (film) and the verbal (language and linguistics) are the most salient ones in the modern and contemporary historical formation. She succeeds brilliantly."—David Palumbo-Liu, author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier "This is the most thoroughly researched study of Chinese modernism published to date. The author's theoretical interventions greatly enrich our understanding of colonial modernity and the stakes of comparison in cross-cultural studies. The book is a major contribution to modern Chinese literary studies and comparative literature."—Lydia Liu, editor of Tokens of Exchange
Author | : Shu-mei Shih |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2001-04-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780520935280 |
Shu-mei Shih's study is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive account of Chinese literary modernism from Republican China. In The Lure of the Modern, Shih argues for the contextualization of Chinese modernism in the semicolonial cultural and political formation of the time. Engaging critically with theories of modernism, postcoloniality, and global and local cultural studies, Shih analyzes pivotal issues—such as psychoanalysis, decadence, Orientalism, Occidentalism, semicolonial subjectivity, cosmopolitanism, and urbanism—that were mediated by Japanese as well as Western modernisms.
Author | : Peter Gay |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780393052053 |
This is a brilliant, provocative long essay on the rise and fall and survival of modernism, by the English-languages' greatest living cultural historian.
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Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2001 |
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Author | : Colta Feller Ives |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1588390624 |
He believed firmly in his difference, often referring to himself as a "savage," and once he discovered his passion for art he had to create forms that were original and unique. "What does it matter that I set myself apart from other people? For most I shall be an enigina, but for a few I shall be a poet...," he wrote.".
Author | : Felice Picano |
Publisher | : Bold Strokes Books Inc |
Total Pages | : 471 |
Release | : 2009-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1602824177 |
Noel Cummings's life is about to change irrevocably. After witnessing a brutal murder, Noel is recruited to assist the police by acting as the lure for a killer who has been targeting gay men. Undercover, Noel moves deeper and deeper into the dark side of Manhattan's gay life that stirs his own secret desiresÑuntil he forgets he is only playing a role.
Author | : Alain Corbin |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520066380 |
Corbin argues that with few exceptions people living before the eighteenth century knew nothing of the attractions of the coast, the visual delight of the sea, the desire to brave the force of the waves or to feel the coolness of sand against the skin. The image of the ocean in the popular consciousness was coloured by Biblical and mythical recollections of sea monsters, voracious whales, and catastrophic floods. It was perceived as sinister and unchanging, a dark, unfathomable force inspiring horror rather than attraction. These associations of catastrophe and fear in the minds of Europeans intensified the repulsion they felt towards deserted and dismal shores.
Author | : Bruce J. West |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9789810221973 |
The authors describe mostly in non-technical language the development of a new scientific paradigm based on nonlinear deterministic dynamics and fractal geometry. The concepts from these two mathematical disciplines are interwoven with data from the physical, social and life sciences. In this way rather sophisticated mathematical concepts are made accessible through experimental data from various disciplines, and the formalism is relegated to appendices. It is shown that the complexity of natural and social phenomena invariably lead to inverse power law distributions, both in terms of probabilities and spectra. This book tries to show how to think differently about familiar phenomena, such as why the bell-shape curve ought not to be used in teaching or in the characterization of such complex phenomena as intelligence.
Author | : Milly Williamson |
Publisher | : Wallflower Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781904764403 |
This title explores the enduring myth of Dracula and vampires and just why it has remained so popular for so long.
Author | : Shumei Shi |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2007-06-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520249445 |
A vanguard excursion into sophisticated cultural criticism situated at the intersections of Chinese studies, Asian American studies, diaspora studies & transnational studies, this text argues that the visual has become the primary means of mediating identities under global capitalism.