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"Invisible Cities" and the Urban Imagination / / edited by Benjamin Linder
| "Invisible Cities" and the Urban Imagination / / edited by Benjamin Linder |
| Autore | Linder Benjamin |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (355 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina |
354.81150006
853.914 |
| Collana | Literary Urban Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 20th century
Literature, Modern - 21st century European literature Comparative literature Space Culture Cities and towns - History Contemporary Literature European Literature Comparative Literature Space and Place in Culture Urban History |
| ISBN |
9783031130489 (electronic book)
9783031130472 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Invisible Cities and the Urban Imagination -- Part I Cities & Theory -- 2. Invisible Cities: Learning to Recognize Urban Society -- 3. How to Map the Invisible -- 4. Invisible Cities and the Work of Storying the Future -- 5. Paris, Latour, and Calvino -- 6. Queer Cities, Bodies & Desire: Reading Nicole Brossard alongside Italo Calvino -- 7. On the Epistemic Ruins of Existence -- Part II Cities & Cities -- 8. “The Void not Filled with Words": The Role of Venice in Invisible Cities -- 9. A Tale of Two Ethnographers: Urban Anthropologists Read Invisible Cities -- 10. Fifty Years of Soul City: Lessons of a Black Utopia -- 11. Tirana Visible and Invisible -- 12. The Lost City: The Pathos of Arab Jerusalem -- 13. “Submerging the City in Its Own Past”: Tracing Glasgow’s Architectures of Inhabitation -- 14. Poetics of the Invisible, Poetics of Rubble -- 15. Encountering Urban Mutualities and Indeterminacy with a Dar es Salaam Taxi Driver -- 16. Reconstructing Memory and Desire in Bhaktapur, Nepal -- 17. The Weight of the City: The Burden and Opportunities of Urban Villages -- 18. Don’t Nuisance the Relented City: Community Barriers and Urban “Keepers” in the Haedo, Buenos Aires -- Part III Cities & Practice -- 19. The Architect and Invisible Cities -- 20. Visible Cities: Calvino in Performance -- 21. The Pedagogy of Storytelling in Invisible Cities -- 22. Invisible Smart Cities -- 23. Peripheral Visions of Empire: Zagreb, Belgrade, Sarajevo (Homage to Calvino) -- 24. Imagining São Paulo with Invisible Cities -- 25. Desires and Fears in the Invisible Eternal City -- 26. Nyctopolis, the City of Darkness -- 27. Epilogue: A Comparative Palimpsest of Urban Plenitude and Difference. |
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 | ||
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"Nonscientific” Traditional Maps of China [[electronic resource] ] : A Study of Traditional Chinese Mapmaking / / by Yinong Cheng
| "Nonscientific” Traditional Maps of China [[electronic resource] ] : A Study of Traditional Chinese Mapmaking / / by Yinong Cheng |
| Autore | Cheng Yinong |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 pages) |
| Disciplina | 526.09 |
| Soggetto topico |
Human geography
Cartography Ethnology - Asia Culture History of China Human Geography Asian Culture |
| ISBN | 981-19-1219-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Chapter 2 - The revaluation of the “Six Basic Principles for Cartography” and “Jilihuafang” -- Chapter 3 - The cartographic methods and data sources of the national maps -- Chapter 4 - The cartographic history of city maps in ancient China -- Chapter 5 - The cartographic methods of other types of maps -- Chapter 6 - Straight-line distance or road distance? -- Chapter 7 - Conclusion. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910590045603321 |
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Cheng Yinong
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| Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 | ||
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'Bad' Women of Bombay Films : Studies in Desire and Anxiety / / edited by Saswati Sengupta, Shampa Roy, Sharmila Purkayastha
| 'Bad' Women of Bombay Films : Studies in Desire and Anxiety / / edited by Saswati Sengupta, Shampa Roy, Sharmila Purkayastha |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (384 pages) |
| Disciplina |
791.43652042
791.43 |
| Soggetto topico |
Motion pictures—Asia
Culture Gender Motion pictures Ethnology—Asia Asian Cinema and TV Culture and Gender Global Cinema and TV Asian Culture Global/International Culture |
| ISBN | 3-030-26788-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Breaking Bad -- The Disorderly Presence at Home -- 2. Desire, Deviancy and Defiance in Bombay Cinema (1937-1960) -- 3. “haan, haan mein alaida hoon!” (Yes, yes I am different!): the Disorderly Bibi in Sahib, Bibi aur Ghulam (1962) -- 4. The Goddess of Mean Things: the Mother-in-law in Hindi Films -- 5. “ek admi tha, usne shadi karli!” (“There was a man who got married!”): Female Agency and Domestication in Omkara (2006) -- The Business of the Body -- 6. The Politics of Sanitisation / Sanskritisation: the Court Dancers and Classical Pasts (Rajnartaki, 1941; Chitralekha, 1964; Amrapali, 1966) -- 7. Goddess, Saint and Journeying Soul: Courtesans and Religion in Bombay Cinema (1939-2015) -- 8. The Prison-House of Performance: the Figure of the Dancing Girl in Bombay Films of the1960s -- 9. Guns, Gangsters and “Gandagi”: the Moll in Hindi Cinema -- 10. Sex Workers in Hindi Cinema: Imagos and Realities -- The Question of Violence -- 11. The Caged Woman: Female Guilt, Desire and Transgression in Bandini (1963) -- 12. “itni bhhi mahaan main nahi hoon, raja!” (“I’m not that great, O king”): the Angry Young Woman of the 1970s -- 13. Outcast[e] / Outlawed: The Bandit Queen (1996) -- 14. The Female Atankvadi: Gender, Militancy and the Politics of Representation in the late 90s -- 15. Honoured Mother and ‘Honour’ Killing: Ammaji in NH10 (2015) -- The Advent of the New Woman -- 16. Of Pallus and Pants: Fabricating the New Woman of the New Nation -- Andaz (1949), Mr. and Mrs. 55 (1955), Shri 420 (1955) -- 17. Consumer Pleasures and Hindi Cinema’s En-gendered Distribution of Moral Capital in Hum Aapke Hain Koun (1994) and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011) -- 18. Twenty-first century Heroines: Modernity in Cocktail (2012), Queen (2014) and Highway (2014) -- 19. Curiosity, Consent and Desire in Masaan (2015), Pink (2016), Lipstick Under My Burkha (2016) and Veere Di Wedding (2018) -- The Screening of the Actress -- 20. “naye naam nit naye roop dhar” (Don new names and new forms daily): the Figure of the Actress in Hindi Cinema -- 21. Playing Anaarkali: Gender, Morality and Erotica. . |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910483825503321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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'Ndrangheta : The Glocal Dimensions of the Most Powerful Italian Mafia / / by Anna Sergi, Anita Lavorgna
| 'Ndrangheta : The Glocal Dimensions of the Most Powerful Italian Mafia / / by Anna Sergi, Anita Lavorgna |
| Autore | Sergi Anna |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (IX, 122 p. 1 illus.) |
| Disciplina | 364.106 |
| Soggetto topico |
Organized crime
Transnational crime Crime—Sociological aspects Criminology Culture Italy—History Organized Crime Transnational Crime Crime and Society Criminological Theory Sociology of Culture History of Italy |
| ISBN | 3-319-32585-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Part I. Structures and Governance -- Chapter 1. Calabria and the ‘Ndrangheta -- Chapter 2. 'Ndrangheta Movements in the Centre-North of Italy -- Chapter 3. ‘Ndrangheta Movements Around the World -- Part II. Illegal Activities -- Chapter 4. Drug Trafficking and Investments -- Chapter 5. Poly-crime ‘Ndrangheta -- Conclusion. |
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Sergi Anna
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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'Race,’ Space and Multiculturalism in Northern England : The (M62) Corridor of Uncertainty / / by Shamim Miah, Pete Sanderson, Paul Thomas
| 'Race,’ Space and Multiculturalism in Northern England : The (M62) Corridor of Uncertainty / / by Shamim Miah, Pete Sanderson, Paul Thomas |
| Autore | Miah Shamim |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 291 pages) |
| Disciplina |
305.8
305.809427 |
| Collana | Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Culture
Critical criminology Sociology, Urban Sociology of Culture Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime Urban Studies/Sociology |
| ISBN | 3-030-42032-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: 'Race', Space and Place in Northern England -- 2. Failed Spaces of Multiculturalism? -- 3. Parallel Lives? -- 4. Policy: From Assimilation to Integration? -- 5. Black, Asian and the Muslim Cool -- 6. From the Oppressive Majority to Oppressed Minority? Changing White Self-identifications -- 7. Educated to be Separate? -- 8. Conclusion: Not Such a 'Failure' - A Multiculturalism Space in Development. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910407720003321 |
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Miah Shamim
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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(Re)birthing the Feminine in Academe : Creating Spaces of Motherhood in Patriarchal Contexts / / edited by Linda Henderson, Alison L. Black, Susanne Garvis
| (Re)birthing the Feminine in Academe : Creating Spaces of Motherhood in Patriarchal Contexts / / edited by Linda Henderson, Alison L. Black, Susanne Garvis |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (308 pages) |
| Disciplina |
378.0082
370.81 |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education |
| Soggetto topico |
Gender identity in education
Educational sociology Educational sociology Education and sociology Sociology Culture Gender Social groups Family Gender and Education Sociology of Education Gender Studies Culture and Gender Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging |
| ISBN | 3-030-38211-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | THEME I. Mothering bodies and sensations -- Chapter 1. Breathing room; Agnes Bosanquet, Jayde Cahir, Gail Crimmins, Janet Free, Karina Luzia, Lilia Mantai and Ann Werner -- Chapter 2. Embodied motherly research: Re-birthing sustenance through the common (im)material; Sarah Crinall and Anna Vladimirova -- Chapter 3. Mothering bodies in unloving institutions; Louise Phillips, Helen Johnson, Sarah Misra and Agli Zazros-Orr -- Chapter 4. Creating spaces of feminine possibilities in the academy; Sandy Farquhar and Justine O'Hara-Gregan -- Chapter 5. (Re)claiming our soulful intuitive lives: Initiating wildish energy into the academy through story, dreaming and connecting with Mother Earth; Linda Henderson, Alison L. Black and Prasanna Srinivasan -- Response: Mothering bodies and sensations: The sound of lamentation: Hearing maternal academic subjects; Alison Bartlett -- THEME II. Mothering relations and vulnerabilities -- Chapter 6. The imperceptible beingness of m/otherhood in academia; Anne B. Reinertsen, Bojana Gajic and Louise Thomas -- Chapter 7. Mentoring in the academy between academic mothers; Tina Yngvesson, Susanne Garvis and Donna Pendergast -- Chapter 8. The vulnerability of pregnancy and the motherhood myth; Liisa Uusimäki and Karmen Johansson -- Chapter 9. Becoming-with as becoming-maternal - writing with our children and companion species: A poetic and visual autoethnographic portrayal of mothering assemblages; Alexandra Lasczik, Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, Bronte Cutcher, Remy Cutcher, Lily Cutter-Mackenzie and Finley Cutter-Knowles -- Chapter 10. (Re)birthing the academy: Unruly daughters striving for feminist futures; Catherine Manathunga, Barbara Grant, Frances Kelly, Arwen Raddon and Jisun Jung -- Response: Double-time: Motherhood and professorhood; Laurel Richardson. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910410012303321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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(Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape / / edited by Cristina Herrera, Larissa M. Mercado-López
| (Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape / / edited by Cristina Herrera, Larissa M. Mercado-López |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
| Disciplina | 863.009 |
| Collana | Literatures of the Americas |
| Soggetto topico |
Ethnology - Latin America
Culture Literature Literature, Modern - 20th century Literature, Modern - 21st century Latino Culture World Literature Twentieth-Century Literature Contemporary Literature |
| ISBN | 1-349-94901-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Part 1 Expanding Latinidades -- “Metaphors of Miscegenation: Genre Mixing in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera.” Shelley García -- “Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Cuban Characters: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda,” Judie Newman -- “Pedro Medina and Suburbano Come to the Fore: Miami as a Cultural Stage and Source of Creativity,” Naida Saavedra -- “Latin/o American Perspectives of the United States in Sam no es mi tío,” Amrita Das -- The Twenty-first Century Politics of Latinidad: Decolonizing Consciousness, Transnational Solidarity, and Global Activism in Demetria Martínez’s Mother Tongue,” Georgina Guzmán -- Part 2 Crossing Literary Terrains -- “‘The Waltons, Chicana Style’: Queer Familia and Reclaimed Sisterhood in Terri de la Peña’s Faults” Cristina Herrera -- “Crossing Borders Through Prostitution: Esperanza’s Box of Saints by María Amparo Escandón and Across a Hundred Mountains by Reyna Grande,” Carolyn González -- “Twenty-first Century Literary Border Formations: Neoliberalism and Domingo Martínez's The Boy Kings of Texas,” Magda García -- “Capirotada: A Renewed Chicana Spirituality through a Chicana Literary Lens,” Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs -- Part 3 Mapping the Body -- “Creating a More Compassionate Narrative: Undoing Desconocimiento through Embodied Intimacy in Helena María Viramontes’ Under the Feet of Jesus and Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway,” Christina García López -- “Entering the Mainstream: Chicana Lesbian Subjectivity in Contemporary Drama and Performance,” Trevor Boffone -- “Slow Lightning: Image, Time, and An Erotics of Reading,” Eliza Rodríguez y Gibson -- “From Lost Woman to Third Space Mestiza Maternal Subject: La Llorona as a Metaphor of Transformation,” Larissa M. Mercado-López -- Part 4 Writers on Literary (In)visibility: Voicing Activism from the Margins -- “Extremely Brown and Incredibly Ignored,” Alex Espinoza -- “Latino Literature for Children and the Lack of Diversity,” Gabriela Baeza Ventura. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910733718703321 |
| New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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(Re)presenting Brunei Darussalam [[electronic resource] ] : A Sociology of the Everyday / / edited by Lian Kwen Fee, Paul J. Carnegie, Noor Hasharina Hassan
| (Re)presenting Brunei Darussalam [[electronic resource] ] : A Sociology of the Everyday / / edited by Lian Kwen Fee, Paul J. Carnegie, Noor Hasharina Hassan |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXXI, 346 p. 39 illus., 32 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 306 |
| Collana | Asia in Transition |
| Soggetto topico |
Culture
Social sciences Race Anthropology of religion Ethnology - Asia Islam Sociology of Culture Society Race and Ethnicity Studies Anthropology of Religion Asian Culture |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Towards a Sociology of the Everyday in Brunei Darussalam -- Traditional Malay Marriage Ceremonies in Brunei Darussalam: Between -- Halal Certification in Brunei Darussalam: Bureaucratisation in Everyday Life -- Youth Religiosity and Social Media in Brunei Darussalam -- Food Choices and the Malay Muslim Middle Class in Brunei Darussalam -- Learning Gender in a Malay Muslim Society in Brunei Darussalam -- Older Malay Muslim Women in Brunei Darussalam: A Non-Western Conception of Aging -- Domestic Maids (Amah) in Malay Households in Brunei Darussalam -- Pengangun: Female Ritual Specialists for Malay Weddings in Brunei Darussalam -- Belonging and Unbelonging in Kampong Ayer, Brunei Darussalam -- The Sociocultural Significance of Homeownership in Brunei Darussalam -- Merantau: The Worldview and Praxis of Javanese Migrants in Brunei Darussalam -- Negotiating Assimilation and Hybridity: The Identity of Chinese-Malays in Brunei Darussalam -- Zoomers in Brunei Darussalam: Language Use, Social Interaction and Identity -- From Migrants to Citizens: The Iban of Melilas Longhouse, Brunei Darussalam. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910684560303321 |
| Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The abject of desire [[electronic resource] ] : the aestheticization of the unaesthetic in contemporary literature and culture / / edited by Konstanze Kutzbach and Monika Mueller
| The abject of desire [[electronic resource] ] : the aestheticization of the unaesthetic in contemporary literature and culture / / edited by Konstanze Kutzbach and Monika Mueller |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
KutzbachKonstanze
MuellerMonika <1960-> |
| Collana | Genus--gender in modern culture |
| Soggetto topico |
Aesthetics
Culture Literature, Modern - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-26558-X
9786612265587 94-012-0489-6 1-4356-0492-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Konstanze Kutzbach and Monika Mueller -- On the Matter of Abjection / Hanjo Berressem -- Queer Transformations: Renegotiating the Abject in Contemporary Anglo-American Lesbian Fiction / Paulina Palmer -- The Bhibhitsa Rasa in Anglophone Indian Cultural Discourse: The Repugnant and Distasteful at the Level of Gender, Race, and Caste / Nilufer E. Bharucha -- The Gothic-Grotesque of Haunted: Joyce Carol Oates’s Tales of Abjection / Susana Araújo -- “Now we know that gay men are just men after all”: Abject Sexualities in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung -- Consuming the Body: Literal and Metaphorical Cannibalism in Peter Greenaway’s Films / Tatjana Pavlov -- Shape-Shifters from the Wilderness: Werewolves Roaming the Twentieth Century / Andrea Gutenberg -- The Two-…, One-…, None-Sex Model: The Flesh(-)Made Machine in Herman Melville’s “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids” and J. G. Ballard’s Crash / Konstanze Kutzbach -- Fear, Melancholy, and Loss in the Poetry of Stevie Smith / Ruth Baumert -- American Environmentalism and Encounters with the Abject: T. Coraghessan Boyle’s A Friend of the Earth / Sylvia Mayer -- Abject Cannibalism: Anthropophagic Poetics in Conrad, White, and Tennant – Towards a Critique of Julia Kristeva’s Theory of Abjection / Russell West -- “A Wet Festival of Scarlet”: Poppy Z. Brite’s (Un)Aesthetics of Murder / Monika Mueller -- Interior Landscapes: Anatomy Art and the Work of Gunther von Hagens / Alison Goeller -- Violence, Transgression, and the Fun Factor: The Imagined Atrocities of Will Self’s My Idea of Fun / Frank Lay -- Notes on Contributors. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451721203321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The abject of desire [[electronic resource] ] : the aestheticization of the unaesthetic in contemporary literature and culture / / edited by Konstanze Kutzbach and Monika Mueller
| The abject of desire [[electronic resource] ] : the aestheticization of the unaesthetic in contemporary literature and culture / / edited by Konstanze Kutzbach and Monika Mueller |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
KutzbachKonstanze
MuellerMonika <1960-> |
| Collana | Genus--gender in modern culture |
| Soggetto topico |
Aesthetics
Culture Literature, Modern - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-282-26558-X
9786612265587 94-012-0489-6 1-4356-0492-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Konstanze Kutzbach and Monika Mueller -- On the Matter of Abjection / Hanjo Berressem -- Queer Transformations: Renegotiating the Abject in Contemporary Anglo-American Lesbian Fiction / Paulina Palmer -- The Bhibhitsa Rasa in Anglophone Indian Cultural Discourse: The Repugnant and Distasteful at the Level of Gender, Race, and Caste / Nilufer E. Bharucha -- The Gothic-Grotesque of Haunted: Joyce Carol Oates’s Tales of Abjection / Susana Araújo -- “Now we know that gay men are just men after all”: Abject Sexualities in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung -- Consuming the Body: Literal and Metaphorical Cannibalism in Peter Greenaway’s Films / Tatjana Pavlov -- Shape-Shifters from the Wilderness: Werewolves Roaming the Twentieth Century / Andrea Gutenberg -- The Two-…, One-…, None-Sex Model: The Flesh(-)Made Machine in Herman Melville’s “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids” and J. G. Ballard’s Crash / Konstanze Kutzbach -- Fear, Melancholy, and Loss in the Poetry of Stevie Smith / Ruth Baumert -- American Environmentalism and Encounters with the Abject: T. Coraghessan Boyle’s A Friend of the Earth / Sylvia Mayer -- Abject Cannibalism: Anthropophagic Poetics in Conrad, White, and Tennant – Towards a Critique of Julia Kristeva’s Theory of Abjection / Russell West -- “A Wet Festival of Scarlet”: Poppy Z. Brite’s (Un)Aesthetics of Murder / Monika Mueller -- Interior Landscapes: Anatomy Art and the Work of Gunther von Hagens / Alison Goeller -- Violence, Transgression, and the Fun Factor: The Imagined Atrocities of Will Self’s My Idea of Fun / Frank Lay -- Notes on Contributors. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778113403321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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