1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910136791003321

Autore

Nugin Raili

Titolo

Generations in Estonia : contemporary perspectives on turbulent times / / edited by Raili Nugin, Anu Kannike, Maaris Raudsepp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tartu, : University of Tartu Press, 2016

Tartu : , : University of Tartu Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

9789949770564 (ebook)

9789949770557 (paperback)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 pages) : illustrations (some colour)

Collana

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Approaches to culture theory ; ; volume 5

Disciplina

305.209479

Soggetti

Intergenerational relations - Estonia - 20th century

Generations - Estonia - 20th century

Estonia Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides the international reader with the first study of different generations and intergenerational relations in Estonia. The chapters highlight generational patterns in the 20th and 21st centuries, with the volume as a whole taking an interdisciplinary approach. Sharing the idea that generations are dynamic, that their borders are blurred and change over time, and that their construction is interdependent, the authors have each chosen a specific perspective on and framework for generations. Several studies take an interest in how and by whom generations are constructed, and how generational identity has been perceived and reshaped over time. Others use generation as a concept or an analytical tool with which to investigate different social processes, or as a community of experience and carrier of memory. The volume suggests novel and diverse approaches to the definition of generation and the formation of generational



consciousness, as well as to generational theory.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910823934503321

Titolo

Beauty : exploring critical perspectives. / / Pierre Wilhelm, Rebecca Nash

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Inter-Disciplinary Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-84888-394-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

808.032

Soggetti

Metaphor

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Pierre Wilhelm and Rebecca Nash -- Fat as Natural Beauty: Construction of Fat Embodiment among U.S. Second Wave Feminist Fat Activists / Amy Erdman Farrell -- Family, Peer and Media Influence on Cuban and Mexican Women’s Perception of Feminine Beauty and Their Body Esteem / Pierre Wilhelm and Marianela Morales Calatayud -- The Absolution of the Beautiful Horror: The Erotic and the Sublime in Representations of War / Alberto José Viralhadas Ferreira -- Beauty at the Service of Humanity: A Review on the Therapeutic Value of Aesthetic Treatments / Eva Carpigo -- The Beauty Landscape: Why the Role of the Web on Aesthetic Surgery Matters / Rebecca Nash -- Decline of Perceived Beauty: Facial Representations between the 18th and 20th Century in Western Art / Javier de la Rosa , Natalia Caldas , Nandita Dutta and Juan Luis Suárez -- Digital Beauties: Strategies of Self-Presentation and Resistance / Olga Vainshtein -- Beauty and the Politics of Translation / Jane Elisabeth Wilhelm -- Sing a Soundless Song for Beauty: Beauty in Literature and Music through Shen Congwen’s Fengzi / Qianwei He -- Beauty in Economics: On the Literary Character of Mathematical Models / Oliver Fohrmann -- Beauty as Ideological Enemy: Corporal Re-Education of Female Inmates in Yugoslav Political Prisons (1949-1956) / Milica Prokić -- Rejection of



Beauty: An Unsightly Appearance as a Form of Nonverbal Communication / Marta Kargól -- Gagging Beauty / Laini Burton -- The Ugly Problem: The Lived Experience / Jacque Lynn Foltyn -- Perceiving One’s Own Personal Beauty: Emotional indicators of the Identification Crisis / Vyacheslav Simonov and Irina Strebkova -- Tourist Resorts as Stages of Social Display: Beauty and Fashion in 1930s Estoril / Cristina Carvalho -- On Beauty: A Manifesto / Patricia A. Sayre.

Sommario/riassunto

Rather than accept society’s ‘preferred metaphors’ about beauty at face value, the authors in this volume question the fact that beauty can also surprise us in the least foreseeable setting, at the most unexpected moment and in the most surprising or unsettling ways. Their work underscores beauty’s ephemeral, transitory, fleeting and at times confounding nature. The way beauty reveals itself to us, they point out, may challenge or even contradict established conventions, norms and values about aesthetics. The emergence of unconventional metaphors and analogies about beauty in these chapters calls on us to pay attention to competing and seemingly intractable connotations of fear, darkness, ugliness, oppression, repression, callousness and dejection that won’t leave us indifferent to their appeal. How we, as researchers, envisage beauty as a topic of investigation tells us as much about our conceptualization of beauty arising from particular scientific perceptions as about the language and symbols that express this perception. It raises the important question about why we rely on conceptual constructs to explain beauty and whether beauty remains a mystery to be explored or, ultimately, one best left unexplained.