1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787202503321

Titolo

Symbolism : an international annual of critical aesthetics . Volume 14 / / edited by Rüdiger Ahrens and Klaus Stierstorfer ; assistant editor, Florian Kläger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , 2014

ISBN

3-11-040804-X

3-11-040799-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Collana

Symbolism : An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics , , 1528-3623 ; ; 14

Disciplina

304.8

Soggetti

Symbolism in literature

Symbolism (Art movement)

Symbolism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Special focus : symbols of diaspora.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Foreword from the Editors -- Contents -- Special Focus: Symbols of Diaspora -- Introduction: Symbols of Diaspora / Kläger, Florian -- Tied to the Land: A Semiotic Challenging of Terms Concerning Land as Used in Diaspora Discourse / Wattenbarger, Melanie R. -- Diasporic Memory and Narratives of Spatiotemporality / Drnovšek Zorko, Špela -- Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Political Aesthetics of Diasporic Social Spaces in London / Swaby, Nydia A. -- The Symbolism of Emplacement and Displacement in Sudanese British Fiction by Tayeb Salih and Leila Aboulela / Windt, Leonie -- Ain't I a Woman? A Mother? A Nation? 'Woman' and 'Nation' in Pre- and Post- Independence India / Rascanu, Iulia -- Christmas in the Diaspora: Dislocating Symbols in Kipling, Cary and Dabydeen / Knor, Sarah -- Two Stone Lions: Law, Home, and Diasporic Sovereignty / Patchett, Emma -- Oddity Magnified: In Search of Identity in Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans / Quabeck, Franziska -- Writing Her Own Story: Acculturation, Metatextuality and Symbolizing Queerness in Shamim Sarif's I Can't Think Straight / Morgan, Holly -- 'A Bootless Inquisition?' Searching for Imaginary Homelands in The Tempest / Tronicke, Marlena -- General Section -- Discourses of Terror in French



and Spanish Novels after 9/11 / Hennigfeld, Ursula -- William Earle's Novella: Obi, Obeah and the Ideological Work of Haunting / Sandiford, Keith -- A Great Good Place or Ghastly Pile? Representations of the English Country House in Recent British Fiction: Metamorphosis of a Literary Motif / Puschmann-Nalenz, Barbara -- Book Reviews -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Symbolic representation is a crucial subject for and a potent heuristic instrument of diaspora studies. This special focus inquires into the forms and functions of symbols of diaspora both in aesthetic practice and in critical discourse, analyzing and theorizing symbols from Shakespeare to Bollywood as well as in critical writings of theorists of diaspora. What kinds of symbols and symbolic practices, contributors ask, are germane to the representation, both emic and etic, of diasporics and diasporas? How are specific symbols and symbolic practices analyzed across the academic fields contributing to diaspora studies? Which symbols and symbolic practices inform the academic study of diasporas, sometimes unconsciously or without being remarked on? To study these phenomena is to engage in a dialogue that aims at refining the theoretical and methodological vocabulary and practice of truly transdisciplinary diaspora studies while attending to the imperative of specificity that inheres in this emerging field. The volume collects a range of analyses from social anthropology, history and ethnography to literary and film studies, all combining readings of individual symbolic practices with meta-theoretical reflections.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910891634003321

Titolo

International Symposium on Theory and Practice in Transport Economics / / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : OECD Publishing

Paris : , : OECD Publishing, , 2005

ISSN

2311-827X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

International Symposium on Theory and Practice in Transport Economics

Disciplina

380.5

Soggetti

Transportation

transport

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Sommario/riassunto

This group of publications presents the proceedings of the periodic European Conference of Ministers of Transport / International Transport Forum Symposia on Theory and Practice in Transport Economics, first held in 1964 and which have addressed a variety of transport issues. The first four volumes were published in single trilingual (French, English, German) volumes,  and the succeeding volumes were published separately in English and French.