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Tracks the emergence and vicissitudes of attitudes to wrongdoing in
Spain from the 19th century through the decades before the Civil
War. The international contributors to this volume explore the rich
diversity of cultures and representations of wrongdoing in Spain
through the 19th century and the decades up to the Civil War. Their
line of enquiry is predicated on the belief that cultural
constructions of wrongdoing are far from simple reflections of
historical or social realities, and that they reveal not a line of
historical development, but rather variation and movement. Voices
and discourses arise in response to the social phenomena associated
with wrongdoing. They set out to persuade, to shock, to entice, and
in so doing provide complex windows on to social aspiration and
desire. The book's three sections (Realities, Representations, and
Reactions) offer distinct points of focus, and move between areas
where control is paramount and on the agenda from above and those
where the subtleties of emotional response take pride of place.
Alison Sinclair was Professor of Modern Spanish Literature and
Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge until
retirement in 2014. Samuel Llano is a Lecturer in Spanish Cultural
Studies at the Universityof Manchester.
The nineteenth-century Hispanic world was shattered to its core by
war, civil war, and revolution. At the same time, it confronted a
new period of European and North-American expansion and
development. In these essays, authors explore major, dynamic ways
that people in Spain envisaged how they would adapt and change, or
simply continue as they were. Each chapter title begins with the
words "How to...", and examines the ways in which Spaniards
conceived or undertook major activities that shaped their lives.
These range from telling the time to being a man. Adaptability,
paradox, and inconsistency come to the fore in many of the essays.
We find before us a human quest for opportunity and survival in a
complex and changing world. This wide-ranging book contains
chapters by leading scholars from the United States, United
Kingdom, and Spain. -- .
When all that was solid melted into air... For decades,
intellectuals from Benjamin to Bourdieu, Berman to Foucault, have
been in thrall to this vision of the mid-nineteenth century. It
shaped and underpinned their most influential thoughts, its legacy
insinuated into institutionalized theories of culture. In this new
book, that vision implodes, as if in a cultural supernova, its
exceptionalism and limitations exposed. The story of modernity
fades before a spectacle of linkages, stretching from and into the
depths of history, the breadths of place. And, in a parallel
substitution, the vast territories of the former Spanish Empire's
thread through the narrative, rather than lurking on the
peripheries, no longer just the fallen founders of modernity.
Instead of modernity goes to the very heart of comparative cultural
study: the question of what happens when intimate, dynamic
connections are made over place and time, what it is to feel at
home amid the lavish diversity of culture. This ambitious
interdisciplinary book reconsiders foundational figures of the
modern western canon, from Darwin to Cameron, Baudelaire to
Whistler. It weaves together brain images from France, preserved
insects from the Americas, glass in London, poetry from Argentina,
paintings from Spain. Flaubert, Whitman, and Nietzsche find
themselves with Hostos from Puerto Rico and Gorriti from Argentina.
The flotsam and jetsam of history - optical toys from Madrid - sit
with Melville and Marx. The book ranges over theoretical fields:
trauma and sexuality studies, theories of visuality, the philosophy
of sacrifice and intimacy, the thought of Wittgenstein. Instead of
modernity is an adventure in the practice of comparative writing:
resonances join suggestively over place and time, the textures of
words, phrases and images combine to form moods. This book will be
of interest to anyone concerned with the question of modernity and
with the fate of cultural theory and comparison. -- .
Cecil Beaton (1904 1980) was one of twentieth- century Britain s
Renaissance men: photographer, costume designer, set designer,
playwright, creator of fashion fabrics, and writer on raffine
interiors and the personalities who inhabited them. He also
happened to be a fine interior decorator. Cecil Beaton at Home
focuses on two homes dear to Beaton s heart Ashcombe House, near
the Wiltshire village of Tollard Royal, and Reddish House, located
in Broad Chalke, another village in the same county as well as
London's Pelham Place and Beaton s New York hotel suites.
Simultaneously a retreat, an inspiration, a photographer s studio,
and a stage for impressive entertaining, Beaton s country homes
also fuelled his passion for art, gardening, and delight in village
life. Against his often-extravagant interiors, Beaton s private
life unfolds his unique talent for self-promotion, desire for
theatricality, and uncertain pursuit of love. This lavishly
illustrated visual biography brings together original photographs,
artworks, and possessions from his interiors to present an intimate
picture of Beaton s extraordinary life.
As public and private sectors become stakeholders, nation-states
become corporations, interests become strategic objectives, and
identities become brands, branding emerges as a key feature of the
pervasiveness of market logic in today's world. Branding Latin
America: Strategies, Aims, Resistance offers a sustained critical
analysis of these transformations, which see identities
deliberately (re)defined according to the principle of competition
and strategically (re)oriented towards the market. Through
context-sensitive case studies that foreground a specific, under
examined set of practices and concepts, this volume draws
particular attention not only to the reconfigurations of
citizenship, identity, and culture according to an insidious logic
of market competitiveness, but also to the ways in which different
actors resist, survive, and even thrive in such a context. In so
doing, it illuminates the ambivalent relationships between the
local, national, and global; the individual and collective; the
public and private; and the economic, political, and cultural
landscapes that characterize contemporary Latin America and the
wider world.
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