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Book Synopsis Utopia and Neoliberalism in Latin American Cinema by : Carla Grosman
Download or read book Utopia and Neoliberalism in Latin American Cinema written by Carla Grosman and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of the crisis and recovery of utopia, at both a global and regional level, stands out in these melancholic times in which the capitalist era can no longer legitimize itself as an irreplaceable form of social existence. This book reflects upon the place of utopia, moving from classic Greece to the neoliberal era, specifically as manifested in Latin America. It studies utopia as a political and literary device for paradigmatic changes. As such, it links with the literary mode of the travelogue and its supporting role in the consolidation and perpetuation of the modern/colonial discourse. The book reviews critical approaches to modernity and postmodernity as a philosophical enquiry on the role of symbolic languages, particularly the one played by the image and the theories of representation and performance. With that, and by using decolonialist theory to inform an audio-visual text analysis, it contributes to film philosophy with a model of analysis for Latin American cinema: namely, “the allegory of the motionless traveler”. This model states that Latin America millennial cinema possesses a significant aesthetic-political power achieved by enacting a process of utopic re-narration. This book will appeal to students and academics in the humanities and social sciences and readers interested in film culture, as well as those searching specifically for new perspectives on socio-symbolic decolonialist dynamics operating at the crossroads of cultural politics and political culture in Latin America.
Book Synopsis Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger by : Geoffrey P. Nash
Download or read book Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger written by Geoffrey P. Nash and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable compendium of writing on the Middle East including extracts from canonical and less well known travellers’ works.
Book Synopsis Fellow Travellers by : Graham Travers
Download or read book Fellow Travellers written by Graham Travers and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fellow Travellers by : Edward Fuller
Download or read book Fellow Travellers written by Edward Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strange Travelers written by Gene Wolfe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-02-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange Travelers contains a decade of achievement for Gene Wolfe. Some of the stories were award nominees, some were controversial, but all are unique and beautifully written.
Download or read book Mad Travelers written by Ian Hacking and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on the Reality of transient mental illnessThis text uses the case of Albert Dadas, the first diagnosed "mad traveller", to weigh the legitimacy of cultural versus physical symptoms in the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders. The author argues that psychological symptoms find niches where transient illnesses flourish.
Book Synopsis The Entre Ríos Trilogy by : Perla Suez
Download or read book The Entre Ríos Trilogy written by Perla Suez and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These novels, written by Perla Suez in Spanish and translated into English by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan, take place in Entre RAA-os, the Argentine province where thousands of Jewish immigrants settled at the end of the nineteenth century.
Download or read book The Black Cat written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Allegorical Manifold by : Mihajlo Bugarinovic
Download or read book The Allegorical Manifold written by Mihajlo Bugarinovic and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the basic premise as the presentation of the idea of an aesthetic ideal as a metaphor for the "metaphysical absurdism," the fact that if we were to say that there are no true or untrue objects the object of the discussion to be found within the idea of the absurd crumbles, author Mihajlo Bugarinovic has (though it may not seem so) written a book that belongs to the metaphysics branch of philosophy in a fashion that may very well be compared to the Copernican revolution that Immanuel Kant identified himself with with "Critique of Pure Reason." Its style is like a cross between Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Hegel. This is Mihajlo Bugarinovic's third book. He lives in Vancouver.
Book Synopsis Memory, Oblivion, and Jewish Culture in Latin America by : Marjorie Agosín
Download or read book Memory, Oblivion, and Jewish Culture in Latin America written by Marjorie Agosín and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin America has been a refuge for Jews fleeing persecution from 1492, when Sepharad Jews were expelled from Spain, until well into the twentieth century, when European Jews sought sanctuary there from the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. Vibrant Jewish communities have deep roots in countries such as Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala, and Chile—though members of these communities have at times experienced the pain of being "the other," ostracized by Christian society and even tortured by military governments. While commonalities of religion and culture link these communities across time and national boundaries, the Jewish experience in Latin America is irreducible to a single perspective. Only a multitude of voices can express it. This anthology gathers fifteen essays by historians, creative writers, artists, literary scholars, anthropologists, and social scientists who collectively tell the story of Jewish life in Latin America. Some of the pieces are personal tales of exile and survival; some explore Jewish humor and its role in amalgamating histories of past and present; and others look at serious episodes of political persecution and military dictatorship. As a whole, these challenging essays ask what Jewish identity is in Latin America and how it changes throughout history. They leave us to ponder the tantalizing question: Does being Jewish in the Americas speak to a transitory history or a more permanent one?
Book Synopsis Romantic Readers and Transatlantic Travel by : Robin Jarvis
Download or read book Romantic Readers and Transatlantic Travel written by Robin Jarvis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why and how did people read literature on North America by explorers, travellers, emigrants, and tourists? This is the central question Robin Jarvis takes up as he addresses a significant gap in scholarship on travel writing: its contemporary reception. Referencing reviews in the periodical press, personal journals, letters, autobiographies, marginalia, and bibliographical evidence relating to the production, distribution, and reception of travel literature, Jarvis focuses especially on the ideas and perceptions of North America expressed by individuals who never visited the subcontinent. Among the issues Jarvis explores are what the British reception of North American travel narratives says about the ways in which the United States was imagined in the Romantic period; how poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Felicia Hemans, Robert Southey, and William Wordsworth, all voracious travel readers, incorporated their readings of travel books into their works; and the ways in which the reception of North American travel writing should be contextualized within the broader contours of British society and culture. Significantly, Jarvis differentiates between different communities of readers to show the extent to which class or professional status affected the way travel literature was read. Of equally crucial importance, he discusses the reception of travel literature on Canada and the Arctic as distinct from that on the United States. His book constitutes the most thorough exploration to date of the private reading experiences of travel literature during the Romantic period.
Book Synopsis The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader by : Lawrence Durrell
Download or read book The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader written by Lawrence Durrell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of travel essays from the bestselling author whose writing sparkles with “prose as luminous as the Mediterranean air he loves” (Time). Few men have traveled as wisely as Lawrence Durrell. Born in India, he lived in Corfu as a young man, enjoying salt air, cobalt water, and an unfettered bohemian lifestyle. Over the following decades, he rambled around the Mediterranean, making homes in Egypt, Cyprus, and Greece. Each time he moved, he asked himself why he felt compelled to travel. In this book, he gives his answer. Durrell knew that the wise traveler looks not for pleasure, education, or landmarks, but is hungry for a sense of place—the element of a landscape, city, or nation that makes its people who they are. In this anthology, passages from Durrell’s classic Mediterranean writings are paired with observations on other lands. His writing is poetic, lush, and achingly clear, for this was a man who truly saw the world.
Book Synopsis Travelers' Tales, American Southwest by : Sean O'Reilly
Download or read book Travelers' Tales, American Southwest written by Sean O'Reilly and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its vast vistas, splendid sunsets, and rich history, the American Southwest has always inspired superb writing. "Travelers' Tales Southwest" features a choice selection of some of the best by Tony Hillerman, David Roberts, Barbara Kingsolver, Alex Schoumatoff, Terry Tempest Williams, Edward Abbey, and others. Maps.
Book Synopsis Nikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters: Volume 3 - Letters from Germany by : Nikolai Gretsch
Download or read book Nikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters: Volume 3 - Letters from Germany written by Nikolai Gretsch and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters is a fully translated English edition of a three-volume account published by Nikolai Gretsch (1787–1867) in St. Petersburg in 1839. In the original Russian, Gretsch describes his travels in post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837 at the behest of the Russian Empire. His official task was to examine educational systems, but as he travelled, he also noticed the cultural norms in his surroundings, the history of each country, and the personal experiences of the people he met. On his return home, Gretsch assembled his entertaining and often humorous personal observations into the edition that forms the basis for the present translation. His astute observations provide a rich contemporary resource for information about the countries he visited, especially given his status as an outsider. Additionally, as a result of his government position, Gretsch was able to move in social circles that would have been closed to many other people. In England, he once found himself in the same room with Princess (the future Queen) Victoria, and in France, he dined with Victor Hugo. Gretsch’s observations offer a treasure-trove of contextual information that will be valuable to anyone interested in cultural interactions during the nineteenth century.
Book Synopsis Successful Farming Ineex for 1914 by : Successful Farming
Download or read book Successful Farming Ineex for 1914 written by Successful Farming and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Trail-Hunter A Tale of the Far West by : Gustave Aimard
Download or read book The Trail-Hunter A Tale of the Far West written by Gustave Aimard and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Trail-Hunter: A Tale of the Far West" by Gustave Aimard is a gripping adventure novel that immerses readers in the untamed wilderness of the Wild West. Aimard, known for his vivid storytelling, takes us on a journey through the rugged frontier alongside the Trail-Hunter, a courageous pioneer exploring the vast expanses of the Far West. Set against the backdrop of the Gold Rush era, Aimard's narrative is steeped in the excitement and danger of frontier life. As the Trail-Hunter navigates through the wilderness, encountering Native Americans, outlaws, and other pioneers, readers are drawn into a world of exploration and survival. Aimard's depiction of the Far West is rich in detail, painting a vivid picture of the challenges and opportunities that awaited the brave souls who ventured into the unknown. With its action-packed scenes and encounters with cowboys, the novel captures the essence of life on the frontier. "The Trail-Hunter" is a thrilling tale of adventure and discovery, showcasing Aimard's mastery of the genre and his ability to transport readers to a bygone era of exploration and conquest in the Wild West.
Book Synopsis Tales of Travel by : Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston
Download or read book Tales of Travel written by Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The drums of Kairwan -- The Amir of Afghanistan -- The voice of Mennon -- The falls of the Zambesi -- The great waterfalls of the world -- "Lest we forget." I. The death-bed of Sir Henry Lawrence. II. The billiard table of Napoleon -- The palaestra of Japan -- Pages from a diary -- Humours of travel -- The singing sands.
