Globalizing American studies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Brian T. Edwards and Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460123803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago ; ; London, : University of Chicago Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1-283-05818-9; 9786613058188; 0-226-18508-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (350 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): EdwardsBrian T. <1968->; GaonkarDilip Parameshwar <1945->
• Disciplina: 973.071
• Soggetti: Exceptionalism - United States; Americanists - Philosophy; Electronic books.; United States Study and teaching
• 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: American studies after American exceptionalism? : toward a comparative analysis of imperial state exceptionalisms / Donald E. Pease -- Bodies of knowledge: the exchange of intellectuals and intellectual exchange between Scotland and America in the post-revolutionary period / Kariann Akemi Yokota -- Ralph Ellison and the grain of internationalism / Brent Hayes Edwards -- Cold war, hot kitchen: Alice Childress, Natalya Baranskaya and the speakin place of Cold War womanhood / Kate Baldwin -- Circulating empires: colonial authority and the immoral, subversive problem of American film / Brian Larkin -- Scarlett O'Hara in Damascus: Hollywood, colonial politics, and Arab spectatorship during World War II / Elizabeth F. Thompson -- Chronotopes of a dystopic nation: cultures of dependency and border crossings in late Porfirian Mexico / Claudio Lomnitz -- Transpacific complicity and comparatist strategy: failure in decolonization and the rise of Japanese nationalism / Naoki Sakai -- War in several tongues: nations, languages, genres / Wai Chee Dimock -- Neo-orientalism / Ali Behdad and Juliet Williams -- American studies in motion: Tehran, ; Hyderabad, Cairo / Brian T. Edwards.
• Sommario/riassunto: The discipline of American studies was established in the early days of World War II and drew on the myth of American exceptionalism. Now that the so-called American Century has come to an end, what would a truly globalized version of American studies look like? Brian T. Edwards and Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar offer a new standard for the field's transnational aspiration with Globalizing American Studies. The essays here offer a comparative, multilingual, or multisited approach to ideas and representations of America. The contributors explore unexpected perspectives on the international circulation of American culture: the traffic of American movies within the British Empire, the reception of the film Gone with the Wind in the Arab world, the parallels between Japanese and American styles of nativism, and new incarnations of American studies itself in the Middle East and South Asia. The essays elicit a forgotten multilateralism long inherent in American history and provide vivid accounts of post-Revolutionary science communities, late-nineteenth century Mexican border crossings, African American internationalism, Cold War womanhood in the United States and Soviet Russia, and the neo-Orientalism of the new obsession with Iran, among others. Bringing together established scholars already associated with the global turn in American studies with contributors who specialize in African studies, East Asian studies, Latin American studies, media studies, anthropology, and other areas, Globalizing American Studies is an original response to an important disciplinary shift in academia.

Toward a historiography of linguistics : selected essays / / E.F.K. Koerner ; foreword by R.H. Robins

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910964301003321
• Autore: Koerner E. F. K
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, : J. Benjamins, 1978
• ISBN: 90-272-8654-X; 1-283-09310-3; 9786613093103
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (247 p.)
• Collana: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series 3, Studies in the history of linguistics ; ; v. 19
• Altri autori (Persone): RobinsR. H
• Disciplina: 410/.9
• Soggetti: Linguistics - Historiography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: English or German.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: TOWARD A HISTORIOGRAPHY OF LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Table of contents; FOREWORD; PREFACE; I. TOWARD A HISTORIOGRAPHY OF LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTIC HISTORIOGRAPHY TILL 1970 A STATE-OF-THE-ART REPORT; TOWARD A HISTORIOGRAPHY OF LINGUISTICS 19th AND 20th CENTURY PARADIGMS; FOUR TYPES OF HISTORY WRITING IN LINGUISTICS; THE IMPORTANCE OF LINGUISTIC HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE PLACE OF HISTORY IN LINGUISTIC SCIENCE; II. APPRAISALS OF INDIVIDUAL SCHOLARS; HERMANNPAUL AND SYNCHRONIC LINGUISTICS; JAN BAUDOUIN DE COURTENAY: HIS PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCEA MINOR FIGURE IN 19th-CENTURY FRENCH LINGUISTICS: A. DUFRICHE-DESGENETTES; ANIMADVERSIONS ON SOME RECENT CLAIMS REGARDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GEORG VON DER GABELENTZ AND FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE; III. TRENDS AND TRADITIONS IN LINGUISTICS; BLOOMFIELDIAN LINGUISTICS AND THE PROBLEM OF ""MEANING"" A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF THE THEORY AND STUDY OF LANGUAGE; ZU URSPRUNG UND ENTWICKLUNG DES PHONEM - BEGRIFFS EINE HISTORISCHE NOTIZ; 1876 AS A TURNING POINT IN THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS; ZU URSPRUNG UND GESCHICHTE DER BESTERNUNG IN DER HISTORISCHEN SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT EINE HISTORIOGRAPHISCHE ; NOTIZINDEX OF AUTHORS; The series Studies in the History of the Language Sciences
• Sommario/riassunto: The papers brought together in the present volume represent the essence of the author's reflections on issues concerning linguistic historiography and of particular investigations in 19th and 20th century linguistic thought. The papers are clustered in three sections: I. Towards a Historiography of Linguistics, II. Appraisals of Individual Scholars, and III. Trends and Traditions in Linguistics.

The Biopolitics of Gesture in the Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos : Operations of Life / / by Carlo Comanducci

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910913793703321
• Autore: Comanducci Carlo
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024
• ISBN: 9783031741890; 3031741897
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2024.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (299 pages)
• Disciplina: 791.4094
• Soggetti: Motion picture plays, European; Motion pictures - Aesthetics; Motion pictures; European Film and TV; Film Philosophy; Close Readings in Film and TV
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1: Constellations of Gestures -- Part I: Mimic Subjects -- Chapter 2: The Gesture of Suffering - Kinetta -- Chapter 3: The Irreparable Act – Dogtooth -- Chapter 4: The Office of Being - Alps -- Part II: Sacred Animals -- Chapter 5: The Rule and the Animal – The Lobster -- Chapter 6: The Economy of Justice – The Killing of a Sacred Deer -- Chapter 7: Unfinished Metamorphoses: From Infamous ; Gestures to Spectacular biopolitics.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book establishes a dialogue between Yorgos Lanthimos and Giorgio Agamben as a way of interpreting the “weird” roles, rules, and rituals that define and discipline lives in Lanthimos’s early works, from Kinetta to The Killing of a Sacred Deer. By exploring the resonance between Lanthimos’s cinema and Agamben’s understanding of gesture, this work wants to contribute to a theory of performative power under biopolitical and spectacular modalities of government, focussing in particular on Agamben’s ideas of operativity and inoperativity and on the construction and deconstruction of the white bourgeois, normative, and consensual “formality” of life. In turn, the role gestures play in Lanthimos’s critique of patriarchy and of neoliberal forms of vulnerabilisation is used to question Agamben’s unspoken affinities with contemporary radical feminism and queer theory. Carlo Comanducci is the author of Spectatorship and Film Theory: The Wayward Spectator (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and co-editor, with Alex Wilkinson, of Matters of Telling: The Impulse of the Story (2019). He writes on cinema, gesture, and film experience, critical and queer theory. He lives, mostly, in France, and teaches film history and film theory at Vistula University in Warsaw, Poland. This book establishes a dialogue between Yorgos Lanthimos and Giorgio Agamben as a way of interpreting the “weird” roles, rules, and rituals that define and discipline lives in Lanthimos’s early works, from Kinetta to The Killing of a Sacred Deer. By exploring the resonance between Lanthimos’s cinema and Agamben’s understanding of gesture, this work wants to contribute to a theory of performative power under biopolitical and spectacular modalities of government, focussing in particular on Agamben’s ideas of operativity and inoperativity and on the construction and deconstruction of the white bourgeois, normative, and consensual “formality” of life. In turn, the role gestures play in Lanthimos’s critique of patriarchy and of neoliberal forms of vulnerabilisation is used to question Agamben’s unspoken affinities with contemporary radical feminism and queer theory. Carlo Comanducci is the author of Spectatorship and Film Theory: The Wayward Spectator (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and co-editor, with Alex Wilkinson, of Matters of Telling: The Impulse of the Story (2019). He writes on cinema, gesture, and film experience, critical and queer theory. He lives, mostly, in France, and teaches film history and film theory at Vistula University in Warsaw, Poland.