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Author : George L. Hersey
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262582032
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Monumental Impulse written by George L. Hersey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly original view of the relationship between architecture and the biological sciences.
Author : Joseph Burney Trapp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Poet and the Monumental Impulse written by Joseph Burney Trapp and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dana Luciano
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814752225
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Arranging Grief written by Dana Luciano and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2008 Winner, MLA First Book Prize Charting the proliferation of forms of mourning and memorial across a century increasingly concerned with their historical and temporal significance, Arranging Grief offers an innovative new view of the aesthetic, social, and political implications of emotion. Dana Luciano argues that the cultural plotting of grief provides a distinctive insight into the nineteenth-century American temporal imaginary, since grief both underwrote the social arrangements that supported the nation’s standard chronologies and sponsored other ways of advancing history. Nineteenth-century appeals to grief, as Luciano demonstrates, diffused modes of “sacred time” across both religious and ostensibly secular frameworks, at once authorizing and unsettling established schemes of connection to the past and the future. Examining mourning manuals, sermons, memorial tracts, poetry, and fiction by Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Apess, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Susan Warner, Harriet E. Wilson, Herman Melville, Frances E. W. Harper, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Keckley, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Luciano illustrates the ways that grief coupled the affective body to time. Drawing on formalist, Foucauldian, and psychoanalytic criticism, Arranging Grief shows how literary engagements with grief put forth ways of challenging deep-seated cultural assumptions about history, progress, bodies, and behaviors.
Author : Donald J. Olsen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300042122
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (421 download)
Download or read book The City as a Work of Art written by Donald J. Olsen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines public buildings and homes in ninteenth-century London, Paris, and Vienna, and explains how each city reflected the characteristic lifestyle of its population.
Author : Daniel M. Bluestone
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300057508
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Constructing Chicago written by Daniel M. Bluestone and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the architectural history of nineteenth century Chicago, looks at Chicago's parks, churches, offices, and civic buildings, and looks at the image of Chicago they created
Author : Thomas R. Dunn
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611176719
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Queerly Remembered written by Thomas R. Dunn and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary examination of the strategies GLBTQ communities have used to advocate for political, social, and cultural change Queerly Remembered investigates the ways in which gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GLBTQ) individuals and communities have increasingly turned to public tellings of their ostensibly shared pasts in order to advocate for political, social, and cultural change in the present. Much like nations, institutions, and other minority groups before them, GLBTQ people have found communicating their past(s)—particularly as expressed through the concept of memory—a rich resource for leveraging historical and contemporary opinions toward their cause. Drawing from the interdisciplinary fields of rhetorical studies, memory studies, gay and lesbian studies, and queer theory, Thomas R. Dunn considers both the ephemeral tactics and monumental strategies that GLBTQ communities have used to effect their queer persuasion. More broadly this volume addresses the challenges and opportunities posed by embracing historical representations of GLBTQ individuals and communities as a political strategy. Particularly for a diverse community whose past is marked by the traumas of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the forgetting and destruction of GLBTQ history, and the sometimes-divisive representational politics of fluid, intersectional identities, portraying a shared past is an exercise fraught with conflict despite its potential rewards. Nonetheless, by investigating rich rhetorical case studies through time and across diverse artifacts—including monuments, memorials, statues, media publications, gravestones, and textbooks—Queerly Remembered reveals that our current queer "turn toward memory" is a complex, enduring, and avowedly rich rhetorical undertaking.
Author : Goran V. Stanivukovic
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802035158
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Ovid and the Renaissance Body written by Goran V. Stanivukovic and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays uses contemporary theory to examine Renaissance writers' reworking of Ovid's texts in order to analyze the strategies in the construction of the early modern discourses of gender, sexuality, and writing.
Author : David Der-wei Wang
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674967917
Total Pages : 1033 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book A New Literary History of Modern China written by David Der-wei Wang and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 1033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring over 140 Chinese and non-Chinese contributors, this landmark volume, edited by David Der-wei Wang, explores unconventional forms as well as traditional genres, emphasizes Chinese authors’ influence on foreign writers as well as China’s receptivity to outside literary influences, and offers vibrant contrasting voices and points of view.
Author : Martin Devecka
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421438437
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Broken Cities written by Martin Devecka and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative study of cities that fell into ruin through human involvement. We have been taught to think of ruins as historical artifacts, relegated to the past by a catastrophic event. Instead, Martin Devecka argues that we should see them as processes taking place over a long present. In Broken Cities, Devecka offers a wide-ranging comparative study of ruination, the process by which monuments, architectural sites, and urban centers decay into ruin over time. Weaving together four case studies—of classical Athens, late antique Rome, medieval Baghdad, and sixteenth-century Mexico City—Devecka shows that ruination is a complex social process largely contingent on changing imperial control rather than the result of immediate or natural events. Drawing on literature, legal texts, epigraphic evidence, and the narratives embodied in monuments and painting, Broken Cities is an expansive and nuanced study that holds great significance for the field of historiography.
Author : Lúcia Nagib
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857721046
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Theorizing World Cinema written by Lúcia Nagib and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book is about the place of world cinema in the cultural imaginary. It also repositions world cinema in a wider discursive space than is usually the case and treats it as an object of theoretical enquiry, rather than as a commercial label. The editors and distinguished group of contributors offer a range of approaches and case studies whose organizing principle is the developing idea of polycentrism as applied to cinema. They refine and redefine key concepts in film studies, including identification and identity, narrative and realism, allegory and the national project, auteurism and the popular, art and genre. They re-evaluate how cinema shapes and responds to the philosophical, cultural and political effects of transnationalism and cosmopolitanism in the age of the moving image, and explore the interconnectedness of films produced worldwide, as well as the links between cinema and other visual cultural forms. The contributors include: John Caughie, Felicia Chan, Tiago de Luca, Rajinder Dudrah, Song Hwee Lim, Laura Mulvey, Lucia Nagib, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Chris Perriam, Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Julian Smith, and Ismail Xavier.
Author : Judith H. Anderson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804726313
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Words That Matter written by Judith H. Anderson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grammar and rhetoric of Tudor and Stuart England prioritized words and word-like figures rather than sentences, a prioritizing that had significant consequences for linguistic representation. Examining a wide range of historical sources?treatises, grammars, poems, plays, rhetorics, logics, dictionaries, and sermons?the author investigates how words matter as currency or memento, graphic symbol or template, icon or topos.
Author : Julia Bekman Chadaga
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810167883
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Optical Play written by Julia Bekman Chadaga and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlist finalist, 2015 Historia Nova Prize for Best Book on Russian Intellectual and Cultural History Julia Bekman Chadaga’s ambitious study posits that glass—in its uses as a material and as captured in culture—is a key to understanding the evolution of Russian identity from the eighteenth century onward. From the contemporary perspective, it is easy to overlook how glass has profoundly transformed vision. Chadaga shows the far-reaching effects of this phenomenon. Her book examines the similarities between glass and language, the ideological uses of glass, and the material’s associations with modernity, while illuminating the work of Lomonosov, Dostoevsky, Zamyatin, and Eisenstein, among others. In particular, Chadaga explores the prominent role of glass in the discourse around Russia’s contentious relationship with the West—by turns admiring and antagonistic—as the nation crafted a vision for its own future. Chadaga returns throughout to the spectacular aspect of glass and shows how both the tendentious capacity and the playfulness of this material have shaped Russian culture.
Author : Julian Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199888205
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Mahler's Voices written by Julian Johnson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-17 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mahler's Voices brings together a close reading of the renowned composer's music with wide-ranging cultural and historical interpretation, unique in being a study not of Mahler's works as such but of Mahler's musical style.
Author : Jean-Pierre Chupin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350343633
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Analogical Thinking in Architecture written by Jean-Pierre Chupin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth exploration of the rich and persistent use of analogical thinking in the built environment. Since the turn of the 21st century, design thinking has permeated many fields outside of the design disciplines. It is expected to succeed whenever disciplinary boundaries need to be transcended in order to think outside the box. This book argues that these qualities have long been supported by analogical thinking-an agile way of reasoning in which think the unknown through the familiar. The book is organized into four case studies: the first reviews analogical models that have been at the heart of design thinking representations from the 1960s to the present day; the second investigates the staying power of biological analogies; the third explores the paradoxical imaginary of "analogous cities" as a means of integrating contemporary architecture with heritage contexts; while the fourth unpacks the critical and theoretical potential of linguistic metaphors and visual comparisons in architectural discourse. Comparing views on the role of analogies and metaphors by prominent voices in architecture and related disciplines from the 17th century to the present, the book shows how the analogical world of the project is revealed as a wide-open field of creative and cognitive interactions. These visual and textual operations are explained through 36 analogical plates which can be read as an inter-text demonstrating how analogy has the power to reconcile design and theories.
Author : Eliza Richards
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812295587
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Battle Lines written by Eliza Richards and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the U.S. Civil War, a combination of innovative technologies and catastrophic events stimulated the development of news media into a central cultural force. Reacting to the dramatic increases in news reportage and circulation, poets responded to an urgent need to make their work immediately relevant to current events. As poetry's compressed forms traveled more quickly and easily than stories, novels, or essays through ephemeral print media, it moved alongside and engaged with news reports, often taking on the task of imagining the mental states of readers on receiving accounts from the war front. Newspaper and magazine poetry had long editorialized on political happenings—Indian wars, slavery and abolition, prison reform, women's rights—but the unprecedented scope of what has been called the first modern war, and the centrality of the issues involved for national futures, generated a powerful sense of single-mindedness among readers and writers that altered the terms of poetic expression. In Battle Lines, Eliza Richards charts the transformation of Civil War poetry, arguing that it was fueled by a symbiotic relationship between the development of mass media networks and modern warfare. Focusing primarily on the North, Richards explores how poets working in this new environment mediated events via received literary traditions. Collectively and with a remarkable consistency, poems pulled out key features of events and drew on common tropes and practices to mythologize, commemorate, and ponder the consequences of distant battles. The lines of communication reached outward through newspapers and magazines to writers such as Dickinson, Whitman, and Melville, who drew their inspiration from their peers' poetic practices and reconfigured them in ways that bear the traces of their engagements.
Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The art-work of the future written by Richard Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Thomas
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191558435
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Monumentality and the Roman Empire written by Edmund Thomas and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-11-16 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quality of 'monumentality' is attributed to the buildings of few historical epochs or cultures more frequently or consistently than to those of the Roman Empire. It is this quality that has helped to make them enduring models for builders of later periods. This extensively illustrated book, the first full-length study of the concept of monumentality in Classical Antiquity, asks what it is that the notion encompasses and how significant it was for the Romans themselves in moulding their individual or collective aspirations and identities. Although no single word existed in antiquity for the qualities that modern authors regard as making up that term, its Latin derivation - from monumentum, 'a monument' - attests plainly to the presence of the concept in the mentalities of ancient Romans, and the development of that notion through the Roman era laid the foundation for the classical ideal of monumentality, which reached a height in early modern Europe. This book is also the first full-length study of architecture in the Antonine Age - when it is generally agreed the Roman Empire was at its height. By exploring the public architecture of Roman Italy and both Western and Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire from the point of view of the benefactors who funded such buildings, the architects who designed them, and the public who used and experienced them, Edmund Thomas analyses the reasons why Roman builders sought to construct monumental buildings and uncovers the close link between architectural monumentality and the identity and ideology of the Roman Empire itself.
