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This book critically analyzes the global hegemony of the United
States – a hegemony whose innovative aspect consists in
articulating postcoloniality to imperial control – in relation to
knowledge and knowledge production. Through targeted case studies
on the historical relationship between regional areas and the
United States, the authors explore possibilities and obstacles to
epistemic decolonization. By highlighting the connection between
the control of work and the control of communication that has been
at the core of the colonial regimes of accumulation (‘classic
colonialism’), they present an entirely new form of disciplinary
practice, not based on the equation of evolution and knowledge. An
extensive introduction outlines the historical genealogy of Pax
Americana epistemic hegemony, while individual chapters examine the
implications for different regions of the world and different
domains of activity, including visual culture, economy, migration,
the arts, and translation. This interdisciplinary collection will
appeal to students and scholars in many fields, including Asian
studies, American studies, postcolonialism, and political theory.
Ben-Hur was the first literary blockbuster to generate multiple and
hugely profitable adaptations, highlighted by the 1959 film that
won a record-setting 11 Oscars. General Lew Wallace's book was spun
off into dozens of popular publications and media productions,
becoming a veritable commercial brand name that earned tens of
millions of dollars. Ben-Hur: The Original Blockbuster surveys the
Ben-Hur phenomenon's unprecedented range and extraordinary
endurance: various editions, spin-off publications, stage
productions, movies, comic books, radio plays, and retail products
were successfully marketed and sold from the 1880s and throughout
the twentieth century. Today Ben-Hur Live is touring Europe and
Asia, with a third MGM film in production in Italy. Jon Solomon's
new book offers an exciting and detailed study of the Ben-Hur
brand, tracking its spectacular journey from Wallace's original
novel through to twenty-first century adaptations, and encompassing
a wealth of previously unexplored material along the way
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is an
ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder
ancient and medieval literary sources so as to create a massive
synthesis of Greek and Roman mythology. The work also contains a
famous defense of the value of studying ancient pagan poetry in a
Christian world. The complete work in fifteen books contains a
meticulously organized genealogical tree identifying approximately
950 Greco-Roman mythological figures. The scope is enormous: 723
chapters include over a thousand citations from 200 Greek, Roman,
medieval, and Trecento authors. Throughout the Genealogy, Boccaccio
deploys an array of allegorical, historical, and philological
critiques of the ancient myths and their iconography. Much more
than a mere compilation of pagan myths, the Genealogy incorporates
hundreds of excerpts from and comments on ancient poetry,
illustrative of the new spirit of philological and cultural inquiry
emerging in the early Renaissance. It is at once the most ambitious
work of literary scholarship of the early Renaissance and a
demonstration to contemporaries of the moral and cultural value of
studying ancient poetry.
Giovanni Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Pagan Gods is an ambitious
work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and
medieval literary sources so as to create a massive synthesis of
Greek and Roman mythology. The work also contains a famous defense
of the value of studying ancient pagan poetry in a Christian world.
The complete work in fifteen books contains a meticulously
organized genealogical tree identifying approximately 950
Greco-Roman mythological figures. The scope is enormous: 723
chapters include over a thousand citations from two hundred Greek,
Roman, medieval, and Trecento authors. Throughout the Genealogy,
Boccaccio deploys an array of allegorical, historical, and
philological critiques of the ancient myths and their iconography.
Much more than a mere compilation of pagan myths, the Genealogy
incorporates hundreds of excerpts from and comments on ancient
poetry, illustrative of the new spirit of philological and cultural
inquiry emerging in the early Renaissance. It is at once the most
ambitious work of literary scholarship of the early Renaissance and
a demonstration to contemporaries of the moral and cultural value
of studying ancient poetry. This is the first volume of a projected
three-volume set of Boccaccio's complete Genealogy.
Ben-Hur was the first literary blockbuster to generate multiple and
hugely profitable adaptations, highlighted by the 1959 film that
won a record-setting 11 Oscars. General Lew Wallace's book was spun
off into dozens of popular publications and media productions,
becoming a veritable commercial brand name that earned tens of
millions of dollars. Ben-Hur: The Original Blockbuster surveys the
Ben-Hur phenomenon's unprecedented range and extraordinary
endurance: various editions, spin-off publications, stage
productions, movies, comic books, radio plays, and retail products
were successfully marketed and sold from the 1880s and throughout
the twentieth century. Today Ben-Hur Live is touring Europe and
Asia, with a third MGM film in production in Italy. Jon Solomon's
new book offers an exciting and detailed study of the Ben-Hur
brand, tracking its spectacular journey from Wallace's original
novel through to twenty-first century adaptations, and encompassing
a wealth of previously unexplored material along the way
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