The origins of violence [[electronic resource] ] : religion, history and genocide / / John Docker |
Autore | Docker John |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Pluto Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
Genocide - History
Genocide - Religious aspects - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-84964-322-9
1-281-87872-3 9786611878726 1-4356-9072-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454743203321 |
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The origins of violence [[electronic resource] ] : religion, history and genocide / / John Docker |
Autore | Docker John |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Pluto Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
Genocide - History
Genocide - Religious aspects - History |
ISBN |
1-84964-322-9
1-281-87872-3 9786611878726 1-4356-9072-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782655303321 |
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London, : Pluto Press, 2008 | ||
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The origins of violence : religion, history and genocide / / John Docker |
Autore | Docker John |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Pluto Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
Disciplina | 304.66309 |
Soggetto topico |
Genocide - History
Genocide - Religious aspects - History |
ISBN |
1-84964-322-9
1-281-87872-3 9786611878726 1-4356-9072-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 GENOCIDE AS ANCIENT PRACTICE: CHIMPANZEES, HUMANS, AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY -- 2 GENOCIDE, AND QUESTIONING OF GENOCIDE, IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD: HERODOTUS AND THUCYDIDES -- 3 GENOCIDE, TRAUMA AND WORLD UPSIDE DOWN IN ANCIENT GREEK TRAGEDY: AESCHYLUS AND EURIPIDES -- 4 UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA: PLATO AND CICERO'S REPUBLICS -- 5 VICTIMOLOGY AND GENOCIDE: THE BIBLE'S EXODUS, VIRGIL'S AENEID -- 6 ROMAN SETTLER IMPERIALISM IN BRITAIN: NARRATIVE AND COUNTER-NARRATIVE IN TACITUS'S AGRICOLA AND GERMANIA -- 7 THE HONOURABLE COLONIZER -- 8 WAS THE ENLIGHTENMENT THE ORIGIN OF THE HOLOCAUST? -- 10 CONCLUSION: CAN THERE BE AN END TO VIOLENCE? -- NOTES -- INDEX. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813560103321 |
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Postmodernism and popular culture : a cultural history / / John Docker |
Autore | Docker John |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge ; ; New York : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1994 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (344 p. ) : 10 b/w illus |
Disciplina | 700/.9/045 |
Soggetto topico |
Popular culture - Study and teaching
Popular culture Postmodernism - Political aspects Postmodernism - Social aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-134-90087-2
0-415-07712-5 1-280-07499-X 0-203-16833-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface; Introduction; Part I. Modernism in Conflict: 1. Architectural modernism; 2. Literary modernism; 3. Modernism versus popular literature; 4. The Frankfurt School versus Walter Benjamin; 5. Flowering of an orthodoxy; 6. Myths of origin; 1970's screen theory and literary history; Part II. Modernism and Postmodernism: 7. Architectural postmodernism: learning from Las Vegas; 8. From Las Vegas to Sydney; 9. Are we living in a Postmodern Age?; 10. Mapping Frederic Jameson's grand narrative; 11. From structuralism to postructuralism: Derrida; 12. Cultural studies; Transitional moments from modernism to postmodernism; Part III. Carnival: 13. Bakhtin's carnival; 14. Dilemmas of a world upside down; 15. Fools: carnival-theatre-Vaudeville-television; 16. Fool, trickster, social explorer - the detective; 17. Crime fiction as a changing genre; 18. Melodrama, farce, soap opera; 19. Melodrama in action: Prisoner or Cell Block H; Conclusion: Carnival and contemporary popular culture; Notes; Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450420903321 |
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Cambridge ; ; New York : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1994 | ||
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Postmodernism and popular culture : a cultural history / / John Docker |
Autore | Docker John |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge ; ; New York : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1994 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (344 p. ) : 10 b/w illus |
Disciplina | 700/.9/045 |
Soggetto topico |
Popular culture - Study and teaching
Popular culture Postmodernism - Political aspects Postmodernism - Social aspects |
ISBN |
0-521-46598-2
1-134-90086-4 1-134-90087-2 0-415-07712-5 1-280-07499-X 0-203-16833-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface; Introduction; Part I. Modernism in Conflict: 1. Architectural modernism; 2. Literary modernism; 3. Modernism versus popular literature; 4. The Frankfurt School versus Walter Benjamin; 5. Flowering of an orthodoxy; 6. Myths of origin; 1970's screen theory and literary history; Part II. Modernism and Postmodernism: 7. Architectural postmodernism: learning from Las Vegas; 8. From Las Vegas to Sydney; 9. Are we living in a Postmodern Age?; 10. Mapping Frederic Jameson's grand narrative; 11. From structuralism to postructuralism: Derrida; 12. Cultural studies; Transitional moments from modernism to postmodernism; Part III. Carnival: 13. Bakhtin's carnival; 14. Dilemmas of a world upside down; 15. Fools: carnival-theatre-Vaudeville-television; 16. Fool, trickster, social explorer - the detective; 17. Crime fiction as a changing genre; 18. Melodrama, farce, soap opera; 19. Melodrama in action: Prisoner or Cell Block H; Conclusion: Carnival and contemporary popular culture; Notes; Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783440303321 |
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Cambridge ; ; New York : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1994 | ||
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