Counterpractice

Counterpractice
Author: Rakhee Balaram
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2022-03-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1526125188

Counterpractice highlights a generation of women who used art to define a culture of experimental thought and practice during the period of the French women’s movement or Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (1970–81). It considers women’s art in relation to some of the most exciting thinkers to have emerged from the French literature and philosophy of the 1970s – Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva – forcing a timely reconsideration of the full spectrum of revolutionary practices by women in the years following the events of May ’68. Lavishly illustrated with over 200 images, the book also features an illuminating foreword by art historian Griselda Pollock.

The History of Science Fiction

The History of Science Fiction
Author: A. Roberts
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2005-11-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0230554652

The History of Science Fiction traces the origin and development of science fiction from Ancient Greece up to the present day. The author is both an academic literary critic and acclaimed creative writer of the genre. Written in lively, accessible prose it is specifically designed to bridge the worlds of academic criticism and SF fandom.

Burning Books

Burning Books
Author: M. Fishburn
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2008-05-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230583660

This provocative new work examines the years between the Nazi book fires and the publication of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (1953), a period when book burning captured the popular imagination. It explores how embedded the myths of book burning have become in our cultural history, and illustrates the enduring appeal of a great cleansing bonfire.

The Perverse Library

The Perverse Library
Author: Craig Douglas Dworkin
Publisher: Information as Material
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Art and literature
ISBN: 9781907468032

The Perverse Library includes Professor Craig Dworkin's bibliography (2,427 titles), a supplementary bibliography of absent and imagined books, and an accompanying essay arguing libraries are in fact defined not by what they contain, but by what books they exclude or fail to include. The essay also investigates the histories of libraries, makes a theoretical argument about the relation of canons to architectural space, and explores the psychology of collecting – including the pathology of bibliomania: 'He had but one idea, one love, one passion: books. And this love, this passion burned within him, consuming his days, devouring his existence.' Although they present themselves as figures of rational organization, library catalogues and classification systems can only hope to distract from the aberrant chaos they cannot exorcise. Published to accompany the exhibition The Perverse Library at Shandy Hall, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, 4 September – 31 October 2010, curated by Simon Morris.

Living Together

Living Together
Author: Knut Stene-Johansen
Publisher: Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2018-10
Genre: Communities
ISBN: 9783837644319

This volume contains new essays which investigate and actualize the concepts that Roland Barthes discussed in his 1977 lecture series, How to Live Together, at the Collège de France. The anthology presents original and thought-provoking approaches to questions of conviviality and idiorrhythmic life forms in literature, arts, and other media.

The Irish in Europe, 1580-1815

The Irish in Europe, 1580-1815
Author: Thomas O'Connor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Irish presence in England, France, and Spain is the subject of a dozen papers edited by O'Connor (history, National U. of Ireland, Maynooth). The contributors (lecturers and four graduate students in history and a librarian) examine Irish immigration to France based on archival sources there, th

How to Live Together

How to Live Together
Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-01-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0231136161

"Notes for a lecture course and seminar at Collaege de France (1976-1977)"-- T.p

Ecomuseums

Ecomuseums
Author: Peter Davis
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2011-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1441157441

This updated second edition reference work looks at recent developments in the field internationally and in terms of new theories and practices.

Author Catalog

Author Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1953
Genre: American literature
ISBN: