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Category : Bibliography
Languages : nl
Pages : 938
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With 1855-1927 are issued and bound: Handelingen van de algemeene vergadering.
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Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : nl
Pages : 938
Book Description
With 1855-1927 are issued and bound: Handelingen van de algemeene vergadering.
Unromantic Spain
Author: Mario PrazPsychology of Sports
Author: Seppo E. Iso-AholaPublisher: WCB/McGraw-Hill
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Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Gatherings from Spain
Author: Richard FordEssay on Exoticism
Author: Victor SegalenPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822383721
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
The “Other”—source of fear and fascination; emblem of difference demonized and romanticized. Theories of alterity and cultural diversity abound in the contemporary academic landscape. Victor Segalen’s early attempt to theorize the exotic is a crucial reference point for all discussions of alterity, diversity, and ethnicity. Written over the course of fourteen years between 1904 and 1918, at the height of the age of imperialism, Essay on Exoticism encompasses Segalen’s attempts to define “true Exoticism.” This concept, he hoped, would not only replace nineteenth-century notions of exoticism that he considered tawdry and romantic, but also redirect his contemporaries’ propensity to reduce the exotic to the “colonial.” His critique envisions a mechanism that appreciates cultural difference—which it posits as an aesthetic and ontological value—rather than assimilating it: “Exoticism’s power is nothing other than the ability to conceive otherwise,” he writes. Segalen’s pioneering work on otherness anticipates and informs much of the current postcolonial critique of colonial discourse. As such Essay on Exoticism is essential reading for both cultural theorists or those with an interest in the politics of difference and diversity.
International Catalogue of Scientific Literature
Author: Een Liefde
Author: The Ten Thousand Things
Author: Maria DermoutPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590178823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Set between Holland and a remote Indonesian island, this intimate magical realism novel offers “an offbeat narrative that has the timeless tone of a legend” (Time). “Dermoût’s sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the places I used to love.” —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild The Ten Thousand Things is at once novel of shimmering strangeness—and familiarity. It is the story of Felicia, who returns with her baby son from Holland to the Spice Islands of Indonesia, to the house and garden that were her birthplace, over which her powerful grandmother still presides. There Felicia finds herself wedded to an uncanny and dangerous world, full of mystery and violence, where objects tell tales, the dead come and go, and the past is as potent as the present. First published in Holland in 1955, Maria Dermoût's novel was immediately recognized as a magical work, like nothing else Dutch—or European—literature had seen before. The Ten Thousand Things is an entranced vision of a far-off place that is as convincingly real and intimate as it is exotic, a book that is at once a lament and an ecstatic ode to nature and life.
Art et architecture aux Pays-Bas
Author: Anna WagnerThe Law Inevitable
Author: Louis CouperusPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"The Law Inevitable" by Louis Couperus chronicles the story of a 23-year-old Dutch divorcee, Cornélie de Retz van Loo, from an upper-class The Hague background who seeks to start a new emancipated and culturally fulfilling life in Italy. Romance, and a newfound freedom cause van Loo to get a taste of the excitement life has to offer that she almost lost out on has she stayed in her dull and dead-end marriage.