Revolution in History

Revolution in History
Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1986-10-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521277846

Fifteen contributors examine the interpretative value of ideas of revolution for explaining historical development within their own speciality. They assess the existing historiography and offer their personal views.

Writing Across Cultures

Writing Across Cultures
Author: Angel Rama
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2012-05-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822352931

Ángel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. Writing across Cultures is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of Latin American literature. Originally published in 1982, the book links Rama's work on Spanish American modernism with his arguments about the innovative nature of regionalist literature, and it foregrounds his thinking about the close relationship between literary movements, such as modernism or regionalism, and global trends in social and economic development. In Writing across Cultures, Rama extends the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz's theory of transculturation far beyond Cuba, bringing it to bear on regional cultures across Latin America, where new cultural arrangements have been forming among indigenous, African, and European societies for the better part of five centuries. Rama applies this concept to the work of the Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist José María Arguedas, whose writing drew on both Spanish and Quechua, Peru's two major languages and, by extension, cultures. Rama considered Arguedas's novel Los ríos profundos (Deep Rivers) to be the most accomplished example of narrative transculturation in Latin America. Writing across Cultures is the second of Rama's books to be translated into English.

Bilingual

Bilingual
Author: François Grosjean
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2010-08-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0674056450

Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. In a lively and entertaining book, an international authority on bilingualism explores the many facets of life with two or more languages.

The Cactaceae

The Cactaceae
Author: Nathaniel Lord Britton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1919
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century

Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Dr Colette Colligan
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2013-05-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1409478467

Operating at the intersection where new technology meets literature, this collection discovers the relationship among image, sound, and touch in the long nineteenth century. The chapters speak to the special mixed-media properties of literature, while exploring the important interconnections of science, technology, and art at the historical moment when media was being theorized, debated, and scrutinized. Each chapter focuses on a specific visual, acoustic, or haptic dimension of media, while also calling attention to the relationships among the three. Famous works such as Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" and Shelley's Frankenstein are discussed alongside a range of lesser-known literary, scientific, and pornographic writings. Topics include the development of a print culture for the visually impaired; the relationship between photography and narrative; the kaleidoscope and modern urban experience; Christmas gift books; poetry, painting and music as remediated forms; the interface among the piano, telegraph, and typewriter; Ernst Heinrich Weber's model of rationalized tactility; and how the shift from visual to auditory telegraphic instruments amplified anxieties about the place of women in nineteenth-century information networks. Full of surprising insights and connections, the collection offers new impetus for stimulating historical conversations and debates about nineteenth-century media, while also contributing fresh perspectives on new media and (re)mediation today.

Postanarchism

Postanarchism
Author: Saul Newman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-12-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780745688732

What shape can radical politics take today in a time abandoned by the great revolutionary projects of the past? In light of recent uprisings around the world against the neoliberal capitalist order, Saul Newman argues that anarchism - or as he calls it postanarchism - forms our contemporary political horizon. In this book, Newman develops an original political theory of postanarchism; a form of anti-authoritarian politics which starts, rather than finishes, with anarchy. He does this by asking four central questions: who are we as subjects; how do we resist; what is our relationship to violence; and, why do we obey? By drawing on a range of heterodox thinkers including La Boétie, Sorel, Benjamin, Stirner and Foucault, the author not only investigates the current conditions for radical political thought and action, but proposes a new form of politics based on what he calls ontological anarchy and the desire for autonomous life. Rather than seeking revolutionary emancipation or political hegemony, we should affirm instead the non-existence of power and the ever-present possibilities of freedom. As the tectonic plates of our time are shifting, revealing the nihilism and emptiness of our political and economic order, postanarchisms disdain for power in all its forms offers us genuine emancipatory potential.

Modern Brazil

Modern Brazil
Author: Herbert S. Klein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2020-03-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108489028

The first social history examining all aspects of Brazil's radical transition from a predominantly rural society to an urban one.

Joan Miró, 1893-1993

Joan Miró, 1893-1993
Author: Joan Miró
Publisher:
Total Pages: 544
Release: 1993
Genre: Artists' writings
ISBN:

The most comprehensive look at Miro's art available in book form. In honor of Miro's 100th birthday, 1993 has been designated Miro Year, which is being celebrated with great ...