Peter Brooks
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691151588
- eISBN:
- 9781400839698
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691151588.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter suggests that the self facing its extinction may make particularly concerted, wild, mad reactions to the impending nothingness of its identity, in late work of a new, unbound creativity. ...
More
This chapter suggests that the self facing its extinction may make particularly concerted, wild, mad reactions to the impending nothingness of its identity, in late work of a new, unbound creativity. There have, over the ages, been artists in all sorts of media who have had the capacity for self-reinvention late in their careers—often involving a whole new manner, a “late style” that is often their principal claim to greatness in the eyes of posterity. The chapter then assesses the relation of self-reinvention to self-dissolution. In the limiting circumstances of self-dissolution come such phenomena as Beethoven's late quartets—which, in his by then total deafness, he could not hear—or Matisse's late cutouts—these being a return to the art and techne of childhood at a point where he could no longer wield the paintbrush, in which one can find the brilliant invention of a new “period” in his work in response to necessity.Less
This chapter suggests that the self facing its extinction may make particularly concerted, wild, mad reactions to the impending nothingness of its identity, in late work of a new, unbound creativity. There have, over the ages, been artists in all sorts of media who have had the capacity for self-reinvention late in their careers—often involving a whole new manner, a “late style” that is often their principal claim to greatness in the eyes of posterity. The chapter then assesses the relation of self-reinvention to self-dissolution. In the limiting circumstances of self-dissolution come such phenomena as Beethoven's late quartets—which, in his by then total deafness, he could not hear—or Matisse's late cutouts—these being a return to the art and techne of childhood at a point where he could no longer wield the paintbrush, in which one can find the brilliant invention of a new “period” in his work in response to necessity.
Harold James
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691153407
- eISBN:
- 9781400841868
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691153407.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter studies Krupp in the postwar world, particularly in the company's attempts at reinventing itself in the modern age. It first discusses the extent of the postwar German industrial ...
More
This chapter studies Krupp in the postwar world, particularly in the company's attempts at reinventing itself in the modern age. It first discusses the extent of the postwar German industrial recovery, as German business began the new era with very limited financial resources, and considers the new management approaches undertaken by the company following the war. The chapter also examines the company's weathering through yet another financial crisis as the German steel industry fell in decline. Yet throughout all this the chapter shows how the company has attempted to recover and reinvent itself, becoming more globalized in the process and yet somehow returning to the roots of German industrial culture.Less
This chapter studies Krupp in the postwar world, particularly in the company's attempts at reinventing itself in the modern age. It first discusses the extent of the postwar German industrial recovery, as German business began the new era with very limited financial resources, and considers the new management approaches undertaken by the company following the war. The chapter also examines the company's weathering through yet another financial crisis as the German steel industry fell in decline. Yet throughout all this the chapter shows how the company has attempted to recover and reinvent itself, becoming more globalized in the process and yet somehow returning to the roots of German industrial culture.
Nirad C. Chaudhuri and M. J. Tambimuttu
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199207770
- eISBN:
- 9780191695681
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199207770.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Early ‘Asiatic’ writers, seen as exotic and oriental outsiders, were also often expected to embody ‘foreignness’, and provide ‘alien’ perspectives on Britain, usually in prescribed terms. This ...
More
Early ‘Asiatic’ writers, seen as exotic and oriental outsiders, were also often expected to embody ‘foreignness’, and provide ‘alien’ perspectives on Britain, usually in prescribed terms. This chapter explores the contrasting modes of ‘domesticating’ and ‘foreignising’ self-translation reproduced respectively in the writings of the self-Westernised Nirad Chaudhuri and M. J. Tambimuttu. After coming to Britain in 1938, the equally anglicised Tambimuttu adopted a self-consciously ‘Asian’ cultural identity that embodied ideas about the East produced in the West. Such assertions of cultural difference, pre-shaped in orientalist terms for Western consumption, do not transform the centre, and offer a marked contrast to Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao's politicised efforts to nativise Standard English and to ‘Indianise’ the European novel. Unlike Anand who moved in radical political circles, on arrival in Britain Tambimuttu gravitated towards counter-cultural aesthetic movements. Tracing Chaudhuri's and Tambimuttu's varied development from the 1940s and 1950s onwards, this chapter shows that ironically Tambimuttu's self-reinvention as an ‘Asian’ allowed him to engage and be absorbed into his new environments to a far greater extent than the self-colonised Chaudhuri.Less
Early ‘Asiatic’ writers, seen as exotic and oriental outsiders, were also often expected to embody ‘foreignness’, and provide ‘alien’ perspectives on Britain, usually in prescribed terms. This chapter explores the contrasting modes of ‘domesticating’ and ‘foreignising’ self-translation reproduced respectively in the writings of the self-Westernised Nirad Chaudhuri and M. J. Tambimuttu. After coming to Britain in 1938, the equally anglicised Tambimuttu adopted a self-consciously ‘Asian’ cultural identity that embodied ideas about the East produced in the West. Such assertions of cultural difference, pre-shaped in orientalist terms for Western consumption, do not transform the centre, and offer a marked contrast to Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao's politicised efforts to nativise Standard English and to ‘Indianise’ the European novel. Unlike Anand who moved in radical political circles, on arrival in Britain Tambimuttu gravitated towards counter-cultural aesthetic movements. Tracing Chaudhuri's and Tambimuttu's varied development from the 1940s and 1950s onwards, this chapter shows that ironically Tambimuttu's self-reinvention as an ‘Asian’ allowed him to engage and be absorbed into his new environments to a far greater extent than the self-colonised Chaudhuri.
Phoebe Wolfskill
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780252041143
- eISBN:
- 9780252099700
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041143.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
An essential African American artist of his era, Archibald Motley Jr. created paintings of black Chicago that aligned him with the revisionist aims of the New Negro Renaissance. Yet Motley’s approach ...
More
An essential African American artist of his era, Archibald Motley Jr. created paintings of black Chicago that aligned him with the revisionist aims of the New Negro Renaissance. Yet Motley’s approach to constructing a New Negro—a dignified figure both accomplished and worthy of respect—reflected the challenges faced by African American artists working on the project of racial reinvention and uplift. Phoebe Wolfskill demonstrates how Motley’s art embodied the tenuous nature of the Black Renaissance and the wide range of ideas that structured it. Focusing on key works in Motley’s oeuvre, Wolfskill reveals the artist’s complexity and the variety of influences that informed his work. Motley’s paintings suggest that the racist, problematic image of the Old Negro was not a relic of the past but an influence that pervaded the Black Renaissance. Exploring Motley in relation to works by notable black and non-black contemporaries, Wolfskill reinterprets Motley’s oeuvre as part of a broad effort to define American cultural identity through race, class, gender, religion, and regional affiliation. The book concludes by considering how racist images of the past continue to fuel conflicts over black representation.
Less
An essential African American artist of his era, Archibald Motley Jr. created paintings of black Chicago that aligned him with the revisionist aims of the New Negro Renaissance. Yet Motley’s approach to constructing a New Negro—a dignified figure both accomplished and worthy of respect—reflected the challenges faced by African American artists working on the project of racial reinvention and uplift. Phoebe Wolfskill demonstrates how Motley’s art embodied the tenuous nature of the Black Renaissance and the wide range of ideas that structured it. Focusing on key works in Motley’s oeuvre, Wolfskill reveals the artist’s complexity and the variety of influences that informed his work. Motley’s paintings suggest that the racist, problematic image of the Old Negro was not a relic of the past but an influence that pervaded the Black Renaissance. Exploring Motley in relation to works by notable black and non-black contemporaries, Wolfskill reinterprets Motley’s oeuvre as part of a broad effort to define American cultural identity through race, class, gender, religion, and regional affiliation. The book concludes by considering how racist images of the past continue to fuel conflicts over black representation.
Katherine Sender
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814740699
- eISBN:
- 9780814738979
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814740699.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Watch this show, buy this product, you can be a whole new you! Makeover television shows repeatedly promise self-renewal and the opportunity for reinvention, but what do we know about the people who ...
More
Watch this show, buy this product, you can be a whole new you! Makeover television shows repeatedly promise self-renewal and the opportunity for reinvention, but what do we know about the people who watch them? As it turns out, surprisingly little. This is the first book to consider the rapid rise of makeover shows from the perspectives of their viewers. It argues that this genre of reality television continues a long history of self-improvement, shaped through contemporary media, technological, and economic contexts. Most people think that reality television viewers are ideological dupes and obliging consumers. This book, however, finds that they have a much more nuanced and reflexive approach to the shows they watch. They are critical of the instruction, the consumer plugs, and the manipulative editing in the shows. At the same time, they buy into the shows' imperative to construct a reflexive self: an inner self that can be seen as if from the outside, and must be explored and expressed to others. The book intervenes in debates about both reality television and audience research, offering the concept of the reflexive self to move these debates forward.Less
Watch this show, buy this product, you can be a whole new you! Makeover television shows repeatedly promise self-renewal and the opportunity for reinvention, but what do we know about the people who watch them? As it turns out, surprisingly little. This is the first book to consider the rapid rise of makeover shows from the perspectives of their viewers. It argues that this genre of reality television continues a long history of self-improvement, shaped through contemporary media, technological, and economic contexts. Most people think that reality television viewers are ideological dupes and obliging consumers. This book, however, finds that they have a much more nuanced and reflexive approach to the shows they watch. They are critical of the instruction, the consumer plugs, and the manipulative editing in the shows. At the same time, they buy into the shows' imperative to construct a reflexive self: an inner self that can be seen as if from the outside, and must be explored and expressed to others. The book intervenes in debates about both reality television and audience research, offering the concept of the reflexive self to move these debates forward.
Doreen D. Wu
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099128
- eISBN:
- 9789882206847
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099128.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter presents the approach of discourse analysis and outlines a glocalization perspective in researching contemporary Cultural China as discourses. Two notions “discursive appropriation” and ...
More
This chapter presents the approach of discourse analysis and outlines a glocalization perspective in researching contemporary Cultural China as discourses. Two notions “discursive appropriation” and “discursive reinvention” particularly, are presented and postulated as important notions and directions for future research and further attention in the attempt to understand and explain the discursive hybridizations, i.e., the dialectical process as well as the diverse outcomes of glocalization in the discourses of contemporary Cultural China.Less
This chapter presents the approach of discourse analysis and outlines a glocalization perspective in researching contemporary Cultural China as discourses. Two notions “discursive appropriation” and “discursive reinvention” particularly, are presented and postulated as important notions and directions for future research and further attention in the attempt to understand and explain the discursive hybridizations, i.e., the dialectical process as well as the diverse outcomes of glocalization in the discourses of contemporary Cultural China.
Mark Franko
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199794010
- eISBN:
- 9780190241186
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794010.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Dance, History, Western
This book presents a historical and theoretical examination of French baroque court ballet from approximately 1573 until 1670. Spanning the late Renaissance and the Baroque, this book brings ...
More
This book presents a historical and theoretical examination of French baroque court ballet from approximately 1573 until 1670. Spanning the late Renaissance and the Baroque, this book brings aesthetic and ideological criteria to bear on court ballet libretti, period accounts, contemporaneous performance theory, and related commentary on dance and movement in literature. It studies the formal choreographic apparatus that characterizes late Valois and early Bourbon ballet spectacle and how its changing aesthetic ultimately reflected the political situation of the nobles who devised and performed court ballets. Court ballet included but was not solely limited to dancing: speaking and singing were also integral components of early ballets. The book gives particular attention to the technologies of theatrical choreography designed to accentuate, subsume, or countervene an omnipresent text. Thus, the relationship of dance to text, in both its historical and theoretical dimension, forms the main axis of the book’s inquiry.Less
This book presents a historical and theoretical examination of French baroque court ballet from approximately 1573 until 1670. Spanning the late Renaissance and the Baroque, this book brings aesthetic and ideological criteria to bear on court ballet libretti, period accounts, contemporaneous performance theory, and related commentary on dance and movement in literature. It studies the formal choreographic apparatus that characterizes late Valois and early Bourbon ballet spectacle and how its changing aesthetic ultimately reflected the political situation of the nobles who devised and performed court ballets. Court ballet included but was not solely limited to dancing: speaking and singing were also integral components of early ballets. The book gives particular attention to the technologies of theatrical choreography designed to accentuate, subsume, or countervene an omnipresent text. Thus, the relationship of dance to text, in both its historical and theoretical dimension, forms the main axis of the book’s inquiry.
Alison Lumsden
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748641536
- eISBN:
- 9780748651610
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748641536.003.0012
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
This chapter studies the different ways Scott simultaneously looks back to his eighteenth-century predecessors in his early fiction. It shows how he reinvents the novel form during his search for a ...
More
This chapter studies the different ways Scott simultaneously looks back to his eighteenth-century predecessors in his early fiction. It shows how he reinvents the novel form during his search for a way to locate his stories of Scotland's past and personal identity in language. The discussion reveals that Scott's early fiction suggests that he was simultaneously creating the template for the historical novel and problematising a straightforward version of it. Scott suggests that any similar acts of ‘simultaneous translation’ are compromised, thus leaving much unsaid.Less
This chapter studies the different ways Scott simultaneously looks back to his eighteenth-century predecessors in his early fiction. It shows how he reinvents the novel form during his search for a way to locate his stories of Scotland's past and personal identity in language. The discussion reveals that Scott's early fiction suggests that he was simultaneously creating the template for the historical novel and problematising a straightforward version of it. Scott suggests that any similar acts of ‘simultaneous translation’ are compromised, thus leaving much unsaid.
Gloria González-López
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520225619
- eISBN:
- 9780520929869
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520225619.003.0011
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter proposes a bridging of the immigration and gender and sexuality fields in order to carefully study the fluid sexual reinventions that are created by mexicanas in the United States. It ...
More
This chapter proposes a bridging of the immigration and gender and sexuality fields in order to carefully study the fluid sexual reinventions that are created by mexicanas in the United States. It proposes an idea that is based on recent scholarship on the interrelated dynamics of migration, gender, and sexuality. The discussion studies the things Mexican immigrant women teach their daughters about sexuality, most especially about premarital virginity. It uses data from in-depth interviews with Mexican immigrant women located in Los Angeles, and tries to determine how Mexican women give sex education for their daughters. The chapter also suggests that the moral standards of Catholicism are only part influencing the ideas of the mexicanas on virginity.Less
This chapter proposes a bridging of the immigration and gender and sexuality fields in order to carefully study the fluid sexual reinventions that are created by mexicanas in the United States. It proposes an idea that is based on recent scholarship on the interrelated dynamics of migration, gender, and sexuality. The discussion studies the things Mexican immigrant women teach their daughters about sexuality, most especially about premarital virginity. It uses data from in-depth interviews with Mexican immigrant women located in Los Angeles, and tries to determine how Mexican women give sex education for their daughters. The chapter also suggests that the moral standards of Catholicism are only part influencing the ideas of the mexicanas on virginity.
Paul Bowman
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- November 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780197540336
- eISBN:
- 9780197540374
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197540336.003.0012
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
This conclusion reflects on the previous chapters and on the status of martial arts as both an organizing term and a discursive entity. Martial arts is a considerably less stable entity than many ...
More
This conclusion reflects on the previous chapters and on the status of martial arts as both an organizing term and a discursive entity. Martial arts is a considerably less stable entity than many practitioners are either led or want to believe. The conclusion discusses what dynamics, forces, agents, and agencies work for and against change; what factors work to produce stabilities, and what generate change. If martial arts was invented in modern media culture, and if change is inevitable, what does this suggest about the longevity of the term, concept, set of associations, connotations, and indeed lived, embodied, and institutionalized practices? The conclusion speculates on the possible future modifications and transformations of the field, away from its current forms, contents, and orientations.Less
This conclusion reflects on the previous chapters and on the status of martial arts as both an organizing term and a discursive entity. Martial arts is a considerably less stable entity than many practitioners are either led or want to believe. The conclusion discusses what dynamics, forces, agents, and agencies work for and against change; what factors work to produce stabilities, and what generate change. If martial arts was invented in modern media culture, and if change is inevitable, what does this suggest about the longevity of the term, concept, set of associations, connotations, and indeed lived, embodied, and institutionalized practices? The conclusion speculates on the possible future modifications and transformations of the field, away from its current forms, contents, and orientations.
Bruce Woodcock
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719043604
- eISBN:
- 9781781700532
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719043604.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter takes a look at the novel that gave Carey his second Booker Prize, the True History of the Kelly Gang. It observes that this novel and Jack Maggs—both historical novels—explore what ...
More
This chapter takes a look at the novel that gave Carey his second Booker Prize, the True History of the Kelly Gang. It observes that this novel and Jack Maggs—both historical novels—explore what Carey has called the ‘patterns of abandonment, orphans’ in his work. This novel narrates the stories of marginalised characters, outlaws and outsiders, and presents several elements of the Jerilderie Letter. This chapter also seeks to explain the purpose of Carey's reinvention of Ned Kelly.Less
This chapter takes a look at the novel that gave Carey his second Booker Prize, the True History of the Kelly Gang. It observes that this novel and Jack Maggs—both historical novels—explore what Carey has called the ‘patterns of abandonment, orphans’ in his work. This novel narrates the stories of marginalised characters, outlaws and outsiders, and presents several elements of the Jerilderie Letter. This chapter also seeks to explain the purpose of Carey's reinvention of Ned Kelly.
Anchrit Wille
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199665693
- eISBN:
- 9780191755989
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199665693.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
This chapter describes how political and administrative reforms have changed the basic accountability system of the European Commission over the last decade. It is shown how the vision and values, ...
More
This chapter describes how political and administrative reforms have changed the basic accountability system of the European Commission over the last decade. It is shown how the vision and values, the organizational DNA, on which the EU Commission was built became incongruent with internal and external challenges. There was a strategic reorientation, after the Commission’s crisis in 1999. Ex ante constraints and ex post incentives combined to provide a system for more control in and accountability over the Commission. There was a strengthening of accountability mechanisms and a shift in the salience of different types of accountability. In addition to legal and professional accountability systems, an elaborate structure was created that stressed political and bureaucratic mechanisms and has created new expectations of accountability from commissioners and their senior officials.Less
This chapter describes how political and administrative reforms have changed the basic accountability system of the European Commission over the last decade. It is shown how the vision and values, the organizational DNA, on which the EU Commission was built became incongruent with internal and external challenges. There was a strategic reorientation, after the Commission’s crisis in 1999. Ex ante constraints and ex post incentives combined to provide a system for more control in and accountability over the Commission. There was a strengthening of accountability mechanisms and a shift in the salience of different types of accountability. In addition to legal and professional accountability systems, an elaborate structure was created that stressed political and bureaucratic mechanisms and has created new expectations of accountability from commissioners and their senior officials.
Eleanor Johnson
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226015842
- eISBN:
- 9780226015989
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226015989.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
Thomas Hoccleve emerged in the 1380s and early 1390s as a public bureaucrat exposed to the literary oeuvres of both Chaucer and Gower as they composed their reengagements with and reinventions of ...
More
Thomas Hoccleve emerged in the 1380s and early 1390s as a public bureaucrat exposed to the literary oeuvres of both Chaucer and Gower as they composed their reengagements with and reinventions of prosimetrum. This spirit of revision of prosimetrum and protrepsis reaches its apogee in the late works of Hoccleve. His two poems, “The Complaint” and “The Dialogue”, are often read “straight” by critics, as a means through which Hoccleve desired to justify and vindicate his mental health before his peers and imagined detractors. This chapter suggests that together the two poems enact a literary meditation whose formal execution is anything but “straight.” Both these poems constitute a practice of mixed-form protreptic writing, and also engage literary theory in a supple and comical manner. The chapter then goes through the process of finding and expounding on the protreptic form that each poem seemingly possesses.Less
Thomas Hoccleve emerged in the 1380s and early 1390s as a public bureaucrat exposed to the literary oeuvres of both Chaucer and Gower as they composed their reengagements with and reinventions of prosimetrum. This spirit of revision of prosimetrum and protrepsis reaches its apogee in the late works of Hoccleve. His two poems, “The Complaint” and “The Dialogue”, are often read “straight” by critics, as a means through which Hoccleve desired to justify and vindicate his mental health before his peers and imagined detractors. This chapter suggests that together the two poems enact a literary meditation whose formal execution is anything but “straight.” Both these poems constitute a practice of mixed-form protreptic writing, and also engage literary theory in a supple and comical manner. The chapter then goes through the process of finding and expounding on the protreptic form that each poem seemingly possesses.
Tobias Gregory
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226307558
- eISBN:
- 9780226307565
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226307565.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This book focuses on the Renaissance reinvention of epic divine action. This reinvention involved the adapting of an originally polytheistic literary genre to a European culture that was officially ...
More
This book focuses on the Renaissance reinvention of epic divine action. This reinvention involved the adapting of an originally polytheistic literary genre to a European culture that was officially monotheistic. This book also argues that the Mosaic distinction constitutes the single most important difference between classical and Renaissance epic. In the epic poetry of the Renaissance, the Mosaic distinction operates in conjunction with a range of political differences that combine in as many ways as there are poems. The syncretism of classical artistic models and Christian religious norms is addressed. The chapters in this book evaluate the classical polytheistic model and then five Renaissance epics, each of which illustrates a different approach to the problem of monotheistic divine action: Francesco Petrarch's Africa, Marco Girolamo Vida's Christiad, Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso, Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata, and John Milton's Paradise Lost. Finally, an overview of each chapter is provided.Less
This book focuses on the Renaissance reinvention of epic divine action. This reinvention involved the adapting of an originally polytheistic literary genre to a European culture that was officially monotheistic. This book also argues that the Mosaic distinction constitutes the single most important difference between classical and Renaissance epic. In the epic poetry of the Renaissance, the Mosaic distinction operates in conjunction with a range of political differences that combine in as many ways as there are poems. The syncretism of classical artistic models and Christian religious norms is addressed. The chapters in this book evaluate the classical polytheistic model and then five Renaissance epics, each of which illustrates a different approach to the problem of monotheistic divine action: Francesco Petrarch's Africa, Marco Girolamo Vida's Christiad, Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso, Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata, and John Milton's Paradise Lost. Finally, an overview of each chapter is provided.
Andrea Whitacre
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781789621761
- eISBN:
- 9781800341326
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789621761.003.0003
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Television
This chapter examines the Mirror Universe as a figure for Star Trek’s negotiation of its own franchise identity. It argues that the Mirror is a tool with which Trek examines its own legacy, tropes, ...
More
This chapter examines the Mirror Universe as a figure for Star Trek’s negotiation of its own franchise identity. It argues that the Mirror is a tool with which Trek examines its own legacy, tropes, and purpose. It is no coincidence that this dark, funhouse vision is used most extensively in Discovery and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, two shows whose premises are built on re-examination and reinvention of the franchise, and whose themes draw morally murky connections between the Trek future and our real present. These shows repurpose the dystopian Mirror as a necessary means of reflection on what it means to be Star Trek, and how the franchise negotiates its complicated past. This chapter focuses in particular on how Discovery revisits and revises the systems of power inherent to the franchise’s operation, both onscreen and in audience distribution, especially as they pertain to women, power, and normative subjectivity.Less
This chapter examines the Mirror Universe as a figure for Star Trek’s negotiation of its own franchise identity. It argues that the Mirror is a tool with which Trek examines its own legacy, tropes, and purpose. It is no coincidence that this dark, funhouse vision is used most extensively in Discovery and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, two shows whose premises are built on re-examination and reinvention of the franchise, and whose themes draw morally murky connections between the Trek future and our real present. These shows repurpose the dystopian Mirror as a necessary means of reflection on what it means to be Star Trek, and how the franchise negotiates its complicated past. This chapter focuses in particular on how Discovery revisits and revises the systems of power inherent to the franchise’s operation, both onscreen and in audience distribution, especially as they pertain to women, power, and normative subjectivity.
Nuno Simões Rodrigues (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781474407847
- eISBN:
- 9781474430982
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474407847.003.0003
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, World History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter starts from the iconic 1960 Stanley Kubrick film version of Spartacus and it compares it with the other version to demonstrate how in the Kubrick version the political and ideological ...
More
This chapter starts from the iconic 1960 Stanley Kubrick film version of Spartacus and it compares it with the other version to demonstrate how in the Kubrick version the political and ideological nature of the Spartacus figure re-emerges in the twenty-first century, reinvented and far more sexualized than its predecessor. STARZ Spartacus, the chapter argues, has an altogether different set of objectives, placing special emphasis on the glorified and eroticized image of mostly male—but also female—bodies. This chapter concludes that Kubrick's Spartacus is transformed from a political icon, representing freedom, equality, and independence, into a new Spartacus who also becomes the image of a hypersexualized masculinity.Less
This chapter starts from the iconic 1960 Stanley Kubrick film version of Spartacus and it compares it with the other version to demonstrate how in the Kubrick version the political and ideological nature of the Spartacus figure re-emerges in the twenty-first century, reinvented and far more sexualized than its predecessor. STARZ Spartacus, the chapter argues, has an altogether different set of objectives, placing special emphasis on the glorified and eroticized image of mostly male—but also female—bodies. This chapter concludes that Kubrick's Spartacus is transformed from a political icon, representing freedom, equality, and independence, into a new Spartacus who also becomes the image of a hypersexualized masculinity.
Jane Hiddleston
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781781380321
- eISBN:
- 9781781381533
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781380321.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Francophone intellectuals writing at the time of decolonisation testify to the anxieties, for the colonised, of the moment of political transition, as well as to the demands that the epoch makes of ...
More
Francophone intellectuals writing at the time of decolonisation testify to the anxieties, for the colonised, of the moment of political transition, as well as to the demands that the epoch makes of them as potential spokesmen, mediators, mobilisers, and critics. In response to these anxieties, Senghor, Césaire, Fanon, Amrouche, Feraoun, and Kateb all denounce the atrocious dehumanising practices of colonialism before setting about the more intellectually complex project of reimagining a shared humanity, and proposing alternative forms of human relationality, in tune with the process of political liberation. It is perhaps significant, moreover, that this fascination with our shared humanity and its association with freedom has continued long after the period of decolonisation, and despite repeated denunications of humanism, still preoccupies some of the major theoretical writers and critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The conclusion reviews some more recent redeployments of humanism, and shows how these were anticipated in the thinkers discussed in the main body of the book.Less
Francophone intellectuals writing at the time of decolonisation testify to the anxieties, for the colonised, of the moment of political transition, as well as to the demands that the epoch makes of them as potential spokesmen, mediators, mobilisers, and critics. In response to these anxieties, Senghor, Césaire, Fanon, Amrouche, Feraoun, and Kateb all denounce the atrocious dehumanising practices of colonialism before setting about the more intellectually complex project of reimagining a shared humanity, and proposing alternative forms of human relationality, in tune with the process of political liberation. It is perhaps significant, moreover, that this fascination with our shared humanity and its association with freedom has continued long after the period of decolonisation, and despite repeated denunications of humanism, still preoccupies some of the major theoretical writers and critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The conclusion reviews some more recent redeployments of humanism, and shows how these were anticipated in the thinkers discussed in the main body of the book.
Rachael A. Woldoff and Robert C. Litchfield
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780190931780
- eISBN:
- 9780190931810
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190931780.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Occupations, Professions, and Work, Urban and Rural Studies
Chapter 5 describes the stages of digital nomadism through the lens of three vignettes. The first, focused on honeymooners testing out the location-independent lifestyle, features Pauline, a ...
More
Chapter 5 describes the stages of digital nomadism through the lens of three vignettes. The first, focused on honeymooners testing out the location-independent lifestyle, features Pauline, a twenty-eight-year-old who arrived in Bali two months after quitting a high-pressure Manhattan job in the music industry. The second vignette illustrates visa runners, who “run” to another country to receive an entry stamp before returning in order to extend their stay past the sixty days allowed on a typical visit visa. It profiles Lucy, a media content creator, who left her job in London to work as a freelancer based in Bali. The final vignette illuminates the lives of resident nomads who have been in Bali for over a year and have no immediate plans to leave. This vignette tells the story of Lorelei and Norman, a couple who moved to Bali in 2014 and have reinvented their lives through online entrepreneurship.Less
Chapter 5 describes the stages of digital nomadism through the lens of three vignettes. The first, focused on honeymooners testing out the location-independent lifestyle, features Pauline, a twenty-eight-year-old who arrived in Bali two months after quitting a high-pressure Manhattan job in the music industry. The second vignette illustrates visa runners, who “run” to another country to receive an entry stamp before returning in order to extend their stay past the sixty days allowed on a typical visit visa. It profiles Lucy, a media content creator, who left her job in London to work as a freelancer based in Bali. The final vignette illuminates the lives of resident nomads who have been in Bali for over a year and have no immediate plans to leave. This vignette tells the story of Lorelei and Norman, a couple who moved to Bali in 2014 and have reinvented their lives through online entrepreneurship.
Phoebe Wolfskill
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780252041143
- eISBN:
- 9780252099700
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041143.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Chapter 1 considers the ideologies surrounding the Negro Renaissance, and establishes the historical question that structures the project: how does an artist construct a “New” Negro detached from the ...
More
Chapter 1 considers the ideologies surrounding the Negro Renaissance, and establishes the historical question that structures the project: how does an artist construct a “New” Negro detached from the authority of past constructions? The chapter introduces the reader to Motley’s background and history, while addressing key paintings that establish the foundation of the concerns elaborated in the manuscript. The chapter further frames the book’s approach to Motley’s work by sifting through art historical discourses regarding the evolution of African American art history and the treatment of the black artist within this history. It posits that the difficulties of devising a New Negro stems not just from the task of revising black identity but rather from the suggestion that black identity can somehow be reduced or codified into a coherent idea or form of representation. Furthermore, there were as many perspectives on how to represent the New Negro as there were artists and writers seeking to redefine this figure.
Less
Chapter 1 considers the ideologies surrounding the Negro Renaissance, and establishes the historical question that structures the project: how does an artist construct a “New” Negro detached from the authority of past constructions? The chapter introduces the reader to Motley’s background and history, while addressing key paintings that establish the foundation of the concerns elaborated in the manuscript. The chapter further frames the book’s approach to Motley’s work by sifting through art historical discourses regarding the evolution of African American art history and the treatment of the black artist within this history. It posits that the difficulties of devising a New Negro stems not just from the task of revising black identity but rather from the suggestion that black identity can somehow be reduced or codified into a coherent idea or form of representation. Furthermore, there were as many perspectives on how to represent the New Negro as there were artists and writers seeking to redefine this figure.
Michael Naas
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823263288
- eISBN:
- 9780823266487
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823263288.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter looks at the life of Robinson Crusoe and how he made things around him for his convenience and comfort. To Derrida, Robinson's situation brings up questions of autobiography and the ...
More
This chapter looks at the life of Robinson Crusoe and how he made things around him for his convenience and comfort. To Derrida, Robinson's situation brings up questions of autobiography and the world that would result from an analysis of Crusoe's creations or inventions. An autobiography is compared to the figure of a wheel where the self takes a detour but eventually returns to himself in the process of self-discovery. The main theme of Derrida in these terms is the impossibility of returning home, or the point of one's departure, or even the preoccupation of deconstruction. Deconstruction is even considered as the beginning of the reinvention of the wheel, the end of the circle of thinking to start and take on a new journey and new self-identity. He questions the importance of returning, circularity, and homecoming in “Violence and Metaphysics.” In the end, Derrida speaks that in returning, there is always iteration, original difference, and supplementarity because for every one turn of the wheel, there is always added another point of departure where one can start from.Less
This chapter looks at the life of Robinson Crusoe and how he made things around him for his convenience and comfort. To Derrida, Robinson's situation brings up questions of autobiography and the world that would result from an analysis of Crusoe's creations or inventions. An autobiography is compared to the figure of a wheel where the self takes a detour but eventually returns to himself in the process of self-discovery. The main theme of Derrida in these terms is the impossibility of returning home, or the point of one's departure, or even the preoccupation of deconstruction. Deconstruction is even considered as the beginning of the reinvention of the wheel, the end of the circle of thinking to start and take on a new journey and new self-identity. He questions the importance of returning, circularity, and homecoming in “Violence and Metaphysics.” In the end, Derrida speaks that in returning, there is always iteration, original difference, and supplementarity because for every one turn of the wheel, there is always added another point of departure where one can start from.
