1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797537003321

Autore

Fitch Melissa A. <1964->

Titolo

Global tangos : travels in the transnational imaginary / / Melissa A. Fitch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : , : Bucknell University Press

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-61148-653-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Disciplina

793.33

Soggetti

Tango (Dance) - Argentina

Tango (Dance) - Social aspects - Argentina

Dance and globalization

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

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Arrival; 1 From Valentino to Viagra, Foundational Clichés; 2 Tango "Discovery" and the Neocolonial Gaze; 3 Tango Queer Rebellions; 4 Touch, Healing, and Zen; 5 Activism, Social Media, Crisis, and Community; Conclusion: Departure; Bibliography; Appendix; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Global Tangos starts from the premise that Argentine tango may be used as a way to understand the profound transformations that have taken place as a result of two of the defining features of globalization: transnationalism and the rise of social media. This book argues against hackneyed Hollywood-centric notions of the dance and instead explores the meanings found in an unusual array of cultural narratives created in almost thirty countries around the world.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798796003321

Autore

Savage Douglas

Titolo

The last years of Robert E. Lee : from Gettysburg to Lexington / / Douglas Savage

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Taylor Trade Publishing, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-63076-011-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

973.73092

Soggetti

Generals - Confederate States of America

College presidents - Virginia - Lexington

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Biography

Lexington (Va.) Biography

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.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Chapter Fifteen; Chapter Sixteen; Chapter Seventeen; Chapter Eighteen; Chapter Nineteen; Chapter Twenty; Chapter Twenty-One; Chapter Twenty-Two; Chapter Twenty-Three; Chapter Twenty-Four; Acknowledgments; Endnotes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book details Lee's life from Gettysburg to his death just five years after the South's surrender at Appomattox. After the war, Lee sought to heal the nation, even meeting with his rival, Ulysses S. Grant, while he occupied the White House. Leaving his military life behind, Lee went on to become president of Washington College.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910567786503321

Titolo

Rethinking Orality I : Codification, Transcodification and Transmission of 'Cultural Messages' / / ed. by Andrea Ercolani, Laura Lulli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

9783110751987

3110751984

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 239 p.)

Collana

Transcodification: Arts, Languages and Media , , 2702-7732 ; ; 1

Disciplina

302.20938

Soggetti

Art and rhetoric - Greece - History - To 1500

Art and society - Greece - History - To 1500

Communication and culture - Greece - History - To 1500

LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical

History

Greece Civilization

Grèce Civilisation

Greece

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction. Rethinking Orality: Some Reasons for a Research -- The Sources of Orality: Belief, Opinion, Acceptance -- Words, Gestures, Brains and Caves. Remarks on the Material Bases of Language -- Epigenetic Cell Memory -- Some Remarks on Orality and the Antinomy between Writing and Speaking in Western Linguistic Thought -- Beyond Orality: The Case of Sign Languages -- Epic and Ethology: The ‘Saddleback Model’. An Analogical Model for the Study of Archaic Greek Epic -- To Speak Like a Bird: Beyond a Literary Topos -- Epos and Paideia between Orality and Writing -- Muses and Teachers: Poets’ Apprenticeship in the Greek Epic Tradition -- From Oral Theory to Neuroscience: a Dialogue on Communication -- Plato and the Charm of Epideictics in the Menexenus -- Erga Gynaikon: Female Supremacy in the Hesiodic



Catalogue of Women -- Index of Discussed Passages -- Index of Notable Things

Sommario/riassunto

The volume deals with the mechanisms of the oral communication in the ancient Greek culture. Considering the critical debate about orality, the analysis of the communicative system in a predominantly oral-aural ancient society implies a reassessment and a deep reconsideration of the traces which orality embedded in the texts transmitted to us. In particular, the focus is on the 'cultural message', a set of information which is processed and transmitted vertically as well as horizontally by a living being, so to be differently from a genetically encoded information, a culturally defined process. The survey intertwines different approaches: the methodologies of cognitivism, biology, ethology, to analyze the embrional processes of the cultural messages, and the tools of historical and literary analysis, to highlight the development of the cultural messages in the traditional knowledge, their codification, transmission, and evolutions in the dialectics between orality and writing. The reconstructed pattern of the mechanisms of cultural messages in a prevailing oral-aural system cast a light on a shadowy aspect of a sophisticated communication system that has long influenced European culture.