1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783311503321

Autore

Leong Karen J. <1968->

Titolo

The China mystique [[electronic resource] ] : Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the transformation of American Orientalism / / Karen J. Leong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2005

ISBN

0-520-93863-1

1-59875-544-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Disciplina

305.48/8951073/0922

Soggetti

International relations

United States Relations China

China Relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front  matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- 1. Gendering American Orientalism -- 2. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck -- 3. Anna May Wong -- 4. Mayling Soong -- 5. Transforming American National Identity- The China Mystique -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Throughout the history of the United States, images of China have populated the American imagination. Always in flux, these images shift rapidly, as they did during the early decades of the twentieth century. In this erudite and original study, Karen J. Leong explores the gendering of American orientalism during the 1930's and 1940's. Focusing on three women who were popularly and publicly associated with China-Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, and Mayling Soong-Leong shows how each negotiated what it meant to be American, Chinese American, and Chinese against the backdrop of changes in the United States as a national community and as an international power. The China Mystique illustrates how each of these women encountered the possibilities as well as the limitations of transnational status in attempting to shape her own opportunities. During these two decades, each woman enjoyed expanding visibility due to an increasingly global



mass culture, rising nationalism in Asia, the emergence of the United States from the shadows of imperialism to world power, and the more assertive participation of women in civic and consumer culture.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791945603321

Autore

Bassett Caroline

Titolo

The arc and the machine : narrative and new media / / Caroline Bassett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2007

ISBN

1-84779-649-4

1-78170-090-7

1-84779-161-1

Edizione

[Online-ausg.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

EBL-Schweitzer

Disciplina

302.231

Soggetti

Digital media

Discourse analysis, Narrative

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

9780719073427; 9780719073427; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Narrative machines; 2 'Beautiful patterns of bits': cybernetics, interfaces, new media; 3 Those with whom the archive dwells; 4 Annihilating all that's made?Legends of virtual community; 5 'Just because' stories:on Elephant; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Arc and the machine is a timely and original defence of narrative in an age of information. Stressing interpretation and experience alongside affect and sensation it convincingly argues that narrative is key to contemporary forms of cultural production and to the practice of contemporary life. Re-appraising the prospects for narrative in the digital age, it insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture and provokes a critical re-appraisal of how innovations in information technology as a material cultural form can be understood and assessed.The book offers a careful explo



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910566442603321

Autore

Colombo Lorenzo

Titolo

Il De modo audiendi confessiones di Heinrich Lur e la penitenza sacramentale nel basso medioevo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milan, : FrancoAngeli, 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (163 p.)

Soggetti

Christian ministry & pastoral activity

Christian sacraments

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Since the central centuries of the Middle Ages the sacrament of penance became one of the central aspects of religious life and Christian practice. To help the clergy tasked with pastoral care in listening penitents' confessions manuals were penned, which are to this day not much studied. The analysis of one of these texts, the De modo audiendi confessiones of Heinrich Lur, canon in the cathedral of Trento around the half of the fifteenth century, is the occasion to reflect on what in the late Middle Ages revolved around the administration of sacramental penance, in regards to theology and canon law as well as pastoral care.