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Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 2953538771
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Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: Brian Neville
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791488780
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Ours is a wasteful society, consumed with care for its remains, according to the contributors of Waste-Site Stories. Here scholars from around the world probe current notions of waste and the ways in which remains of different kinds recover value in the act of recollection and recycling. In the wake of destructive experiences that continue to trouble memory, there is something compelling about today's theoretical and artistic interest in waste and recycling. The two terms provide a purchase on changing conditions of cultural memory, on technological development and its sometimes toxic ecological and social fallout, and on the legacy of personal and historical trauma. They suggest new resources for the stories of our engagement with the things of the past and the sites where traces of history survive.

Author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476689253
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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This book is a guide to identifying female creators and artistic movements from all parts of Asia, offering a broad spectrum of media and presentation representing a wide variety of milieus, regions, peoples and genres. Arranged chronologically by artist birth date, entries date as far back as Leizu's Chinese sericulture in 2700 BCE and continue all the way to the March 2021 mural exhibition by Malaysian painter Caryn Koh. Entries feature biographical information, cultural context and a survey of notable works. Covering creators known for prophecy, dance, epic and oratory, the compendium includes obscure artists and more familiar names, like biblical war poet Deborah, Judaean dancer Salome, Byzantine Empress Theodora and Myanmar freedom fighter Aung San Suu Kyi. In an effort to relieve unfamiliarity with parts of the world poorly represented in art history, this book focuses on Asian women often passed over in global art surveys.

Author: Joëlle Pétillot
Publisher: Bouquineo
ISBN: 2313001768
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Dans ce cabinet de psychologie atypique, une vieille dame vient se faire aider pour surmonter l'absence d'un chat fugueur, un jeune garçon trouve tout naturel de venir raconter les rêves de son père, une amazone amputée d'un sein déboule, guidée par un chauffeur de taxi tombé raide amoureux de son visage aperçu dans le rétroviseur... Les vies plus ou moins blessées s'entremêlent, et Louise, la belle et plantureuse secrétaire règne sur ce ballet de dits et de non-dits avec une arme redoutable contre l'angoisse des uns ou la supposée inaptitude au bonheur des autres : la gourmandise. Les odeurs de caramel et de vanille, d'orange et de chocolat interviennent de manière on ne peut plus terrienne pour l'apaisement. Et les deux psys, sensés prendre des notes d'un ton grave, en sont vite conscients. À travailler tels des sculpteurs cette pâte humaine de façon pour le moins inattendue, ils vont se trouver en situation d'exercer une discipline trop méconnue de leurs pairs : la psychologie épicurienne.

Author: George J. Marshall
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476609586
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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In the 1990s alone, more than 400 works on angels were published, adding to an already burgeoning genre. Throughout the centuries angels have been featured in, among others, theological works on scripture; studies in comparative religions; works on art, architecture and music; philological studies; philosophical, sociological, anthropological, archeological and psychological works; and even a psychoanalytical study of the implications that our understanding of angels has for our understanding of sexual differences. This bibliography lists 4,355 works alphabetically by author. Each entry contains a source for the reference, often a Library of Congress call number followed by the name of a university that holds the work. More than 750 of the entries are annotated. Extensive indexes to names, subjects and centuries provide further utility.

Author: Donald Holzman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429761503
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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First published in 1998, the papers in this second volume by Donald Holzman are concerned with the themes of religion and poetry and song in early medieval China. Religion is to the fore in the first two sections, dealing with Daoist immortals and their cult, as reflected in poetic works of the first three centuries ad, with songs used in religious ceremonies, and with the origins and history of the cold food festival. The last group of articles includes a major study of the poems of Ji Kang (223-262) as well as other poetry of the 4th-5th centuries, and an analysis of the changing image of the merchant from the 4th to the 9th centuries.

Author: Mireille Rosello
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804742677
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Hospitality has emerged as a category in recent French thinking for addressing a range of issues associated with immigration. Concentrating primarily on France and its former colonies in North and sub-Saharan Africa, this book considers how hospitality and its dissidence are defined, practiced, and represented in European and African fictions, theories, and myths at the end of the 20th century.

Author: Katherine Davies
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823262383
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Gathering in one place a cohesive selection of articles that deepen our sense of the vitality and controversy within the Catholic renewal of the mid-twentieth century, God’s Mirror offers historical analysis of French Catholic intellectuals. This volume highlights the work of writers, thinkers and creative artists who have not always drawn the attention given to such luminaries as Maritain, Mounier, and Marcel. Organized around the typologies of renewal and engagement, editors Katherine Davies and Toby Garfitt provide a revisionist and interdisciplinary reading of the narrative of twentieth-century French Catholicism. Renewal and engagement are both manifestations of how the Catholic intellectual reflects and takes position on the relationship between the Church, personal faith and the world, and on the increasingly problematic relationship between intellectuals and the Magisterium. A majority of the writings are based on extensive research into published texts, with some occasional archival references, and they give critical insights into the tensions that characterized the theological and political concerns of their subjects.

Author: Loïc Artiago
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443865443
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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“Plot”, writes Peter Brooks, “is so basic to our very experience of reading, and indeed to our articulation of experience in general, that criticism has often passed it over in silence…” (Reading for the Plot, xi). Finding the Plot both explores and helps to redress this critical neglect. The book brings together an international group of scholars to address the nature, effects and specific pleasures of consuming stories. If the central focus is on France and popular literary fiction, the book’s scope – like contemporary fiction itself – observes no national frontiers, and extends across a variety of media. The book addresses both the empirical question of which genres and types of text have been and are most “popular”, and the theoretical questions of how plots work, what pleasures they offer to readers, and why it matters that the plot should not be lost.

Author: Michael Kennedy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199578540
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 971

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Now available in paperback and with over 10,000 entries, the Oxford Dictionary of Music (previously the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music) offers broad coverage of a wide range of musical categories spanning many eras, including composers, librettists, singers, orchestras, important ballets and operas, and musical instruments and their history. The Oxford Dictionary of Music is the most up-to-date and accessible dictionaryof musical terms available and an essential point of reference for music students, teachers, lecturers, professional musicians, as well as music enthusiasts.