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The first monograph on a groundbreaking Surrealist masterpiece,
Reading Claude Cahun's Disavowals offers a comprehensive account of
Cahun's most important published work, Aveux non avenus
(Disavowals), 1930. Jennifer L. Shaw provides an encompassing
interpretation of this groundbreaking work, paying careful
attention to the complex interrelationship between the
photomontages and writings of Aveux non avenus. This study argues
that the texts and images of Aveux non avenus not only explore
Cahun's own subjectivity, they formulate a trenchant social and
cultural critique. Shaw explores how Cahun's work both calls into
question the dominant culture of interwar France - with its
traditional gender roles, religious conservatism, and pronatalism -
and takes to task the era's artistic avant-garde and in particular
its models of desire. This volume cuts across the disciplinary
boundaries of interwar art studies, demonstrating how one artist's
personal exploration intervened in wider contemporary debates about
the purpose of art, the role of women in French culture, and the
status of homosexuality, in the aftermath of World War I.
Exciting intellectual frontiers are open for exploration as
agenda-setting theory moves beyond its 25th anniversary. This
volume offers an intriguing set of maps to guide this exploration
over the near future. It is intended for those who are already
reasonably well read in the research literature that has
accumulated since the publication of McCombs and Shaw's original
1972 "Public Opinion Quarterly" article. This piece of literature
documented the influence of the news media agenda on the public
agenda in a wide variety of geographic and social settings,
elaborated the characteristics of audiences and media that enhance
or diminish those agenda-setting effects, and cataloged those
exogenous factors explaining who sets the media's agenda. In the
current volume, a provocative set of maps for explicating new
levels of agenda-setting theory have been sketched by a new
generation of young scholars, launching an enterprise that has
significant implications for theoretical research and for the
day-to-day role of mass communication in democratic societies.
At the first level of agenda setting are agendas of "objects"--the
traditional domain of agenda setting research--represented by an
accumulation of hundreds of studies over the past quarter century.
At the second level of agenda setting are agendas of
"attributes"--one of the new theoretical frontiers whose aspects
are discussed in detail in the opening chapters. Other chapters
offer maps of yet other theoretical frontiers, including political
advertising agendas and their impact on behavior, the framing of
various agendas in the mass media and the differential impact of
print and TV, the theoretical role of individual differences in the
agenda-setting influence of the news media on the public agenda,
methodological advances for determining cause and effect roles in
agenda-setting, and the application of agenda-setting theory to
historical analysis. This volume is an invitation to others to
become active members of the invisible college of agenda-setting
scholarship. As such, the goals of this book are threefold:
* to introduce a broad set of ideas about agenda-setting;
* to enrich the exploration of these ideas by enhancing scholarly
dialogue among the members of this invisible college; and
* to enhance the discussion of agenda-setting research in seminars
and research groups around the world.
Agenda-setting has remained a vital and productive area of
communication research over a quarter century because it has
continued to introduce new research questions into the marketplace
of ideas and to integrate this work with other theoretical concepts
and perspectives about journalism and mass communication.
Understanding the dynamics of agenda- setting is central to
understanding the dynamics of contemporary democracy. This book's
set of theoretical essays, grounded in the accumulated literature
of agenda- setting theory and in the creative insights of young
scholars, will help lead the way toward that understanding.
In "Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes", Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I.
Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw present a series of guidelines,
suggestions, and practical advice for creating useful fieldnotes in
a variety of settings, demystifying a process that is often assumed
to be intuitive and impossible to teach. Using actual unfinished
notes as examples, the authors illustrate options for composing,
reviewing, and working fieldnotes into finished texts. They discuss
different organizational and descriptive strategies and show how
transforming direct observations into vivid descriptions results
not simply from good memory but from learning to envision scenes as
written. A good ethnographer, they demonstrate, must learn to
remember dialogue and movement like an actor, to see colors and
shapes like a painter, and to sense moods and rhythms like a poet.
This new edition reflects the extensive feedback the authors have
received from students and instructors since the first edition was
published in 1995. As a result, they have updated the race, class,
and gender section, created new sections on coding programs and
revising first drafts, and provided new examples of working notes.
An essential tool for budding social scientists, the second edition
of "Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes" will be invaluable for a new
generation of researchers entering the field.
Exciting intellectual frontiers are open for exploration as
agenda-setting theory moves beyond its 25th anniversary. This
volume offers an intriguing set of maps to guide this exploration
over the near future. It is intended for those who are already
reasonably well read in the research literature that has
accumulated since the publication of McCombs and Shaw's original
1972 "Public Opinion Quarterly" article. This piece of literature
documented the influence of the news media agenda on the public
agenda in a wide variety of geographic and social settings,
elaborated the characteristics of audiences and media that enhance
or diminish those agenda-setting effects, and cataloged those
exogenous factors explaining who sets the media's agenda. In the
current volume, a provocative set of maps for explicating new
levels of agenda-setting theory have been sketched by a new
generation of young scholars, launching an enterprise that has
significant implications for theoretical research and for the
day-to-day role of mass communication in democratic societies.
At the first level of agenda setting are agendas of "objects"--the
traditional domain of agenda setting research--represented by an
accumulation of hundreds of studies over the past quarter century.
At the second level of agenda setting are agendas of
"attributes"--one of the new theoretical frontiers whose aspects
are discussed in detail in the opening chapters. Other chapters
offer maps of yet other theoretical frontiers, including political
advertising agendas and their impact on behavior, the framing of
various agendas in the mass media and the differential impact of
print and TV, the theoretical role of individual differences in the
agenda-setting influence of the news media on the public agenda,
methodological advances for determining cause and effect roles in
agenda-setting, and the application of agenda-setting theory to
historical analysis. This volume is an invitation to others to
become active members of the invisible college of agenda-setting
scholarship. As such, the goals of this book are threefold:
* to introduce a broad set of ideas about agenda-setting;
* to enrich the exploration of these ideas by enhancing scholarly
dialogue among the members of this invisible college; and
* to enhance the discussion of agenda-setting research in seminars
and research groups around the world.
Agenda-setting has remained a vital and productive area of
communication research over a quarter century because it has
continued to introduce new research questions into the marketplace
of ideas and to integrate this work with other theoretical concepts
and perspectives about journalism and mass communication.
Understanding the dynamics of agenda- setting is central to
understanding the dynamics of contemporary democracy. This book's
set of theoretical essays, grounded in the accumulated literature
of agenda- setting theory and in the creative insights of young
scholars, will help lead the way toward that understanding.
Freshwater field tests are an integral part of the process of
hazard assessment of pesticides and other chemicals in the
environment. This book brings together international experts on
microcosms and mesocosms for a critical appraisal of theory and
practice on the subject of freshwater field tests for hazard
assessment. It is an authoritative and comprehensive summary of
knowledge about freshwater field tests, with particular emphasis on
their optimization for scientific and regulatory purposes. This
valuable reference covers both lotic and lentic outdoor systems and
addresses the choice of endpoints and test methodology. Instructive
case histories show how to extrapolate test results to the real
world.
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A Companion to Magical Realism (Paperback)
Stephen M. Hart, Wen-chin Ouyang; Contributions by Alejandra Rengifo, David Henn, Donald L. Shaw, …
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A refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an
international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of
colonial dispossession. Companion to Magical Realism provides an
assessment of the world-wide impact of a movement which was
incubated in Germany, flourished in Latin America and then spread
to the rest of the world. It provides a set of up-to-date
assessments of the work of writers traditionally associated with
magical realism such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez [in particular his
recently published memoirs], Alejo Carpentier, Miguel ngel
Asturias, Juan Rulfo, Isabel Allende,Laura Esquivel and Salman
Rushdie, as well as bringing into the fold new authors such as W.B.
Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Jose Saramago, Dorit Rabinyan, Ovid, Maria
Luisa Bombal, Ibrahim al-Kawni, Mayra Montero, Nakagami Kenji, Jose
Eustasio Rivera and Elias Khoury, discussed for the first time in
the context of magical realism. Written in a jargon-free style, and
with all quotations translated into English, this book offers a
refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an
international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of
colonial dispossession. The companion also has a Guide to Further
Reading. Stephen Hart is Professor of Hispanic Studies, University
College London and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad Nacional
Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Wen-chin Ouyang lectures in Arabic
Literature and Comparative Literature at the School of Oriental and
African Studies,London.
A comprehensive survey of Spanish American fiction as it has
eveolved through successive phases. With such figures as Jorge Luis
Borges, Miguel Angel Asturias and Gabriel Garcia Marquez (both the
latter Nobel Prizewinners) Spanish American fiction is now
unquestionably an integral part of the mainstream of Western
literature.This book draws on the most recent research in
describing the origins and development of narrative in Spanish
America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing the
pattern from Romanticism and Realism, through Modernismo,
Naturalism and Regionalism to the Boom and beyond. It shows how,
while seldom moving completely away from satire, social criticism
and protest, Spanish American fiction has evolved through
successive phases in which both the conceptions of the writer's
task and presumptions about narrative and reality have undergone
radical alterations. DONALD SHAW holds the Brown Forman Chair of
Spanish American literature in the University of Virginia.
In the turmoil of the 1920s and '30s, Claude Cahun challenged
gender stereotypes with her powerful photographs, photomontages and
writings: work that appears contemporary, or even ahead of our
time, when viewed with twenty-first-century eyes. Cahun wrote
poetry and prose for major French literary magazines, worked in
avant-garde theatre, and was both comrade and critical outsider of
the Surrealists. Her artful resistance tactics mocked and disrupted
the Nazi occupiers of Jersey during the Second World War, putting
her in mortal danger. Cahun worked collaboratively with Marcel
Moore, her stepsister, lover and life partner, to create some of
the most compelling photographs and photomontages of the period
between the wars. This is the first work in English to tell the
full story of Claude Cahun's art and life.It both recounts her life
and analyses her complex writings and images, making them available
to a wide audience. Shaw's account embeds Cahun's work in the
exciting milieu of Paris between the wars and follows it into the
dangerous territory of the Nazi-occupied Isle of Jersey. Using
letters and diaries, Shaw brings Cahun's ideas and feelings to life
and contributes to our understanding of photography, Surrealism and
the histories of women artists and queer culture. This book
includes a full range of illustrations by Cahun and other renowned
photographers, as well as writings never before translated into
English. Shaw's book will appeal to art and photography lovers and
scholars alike.
Now available in paperback, this is the first work in English to
tell the full story of Claude Cahun’s art and life. It both
recounts her life and analyses her complex writings and images,
making them available to a wide audience. Shaw’s account embeds
Cahun’s work in the exciting milieu of Paris between the wars and
follows it into the dangerous territory of the Nazi-occupied Isle
of Jersey. Using letters and diaries, Shaw brings Cahun’s ideas
and feelings to life and contributes to our understanding of
photography, Surrealism and the histories of women artists and
queer culture. This book includes a full range of illustrations by
Cahun and other renowned photographers, as well as writings never
before translated into English. Shaw’s book will appeal to art
and photography lovers and scholars alike.
The principal developments in Spanish American poetry in the second
half of the twentieth century. Providing a basis for understanding
the main lines of development of poetry in Spanish America after
Vanguardism, this volume begins with an overview of the situation
at the mid-century: the later work of Neruda and Borges, the
emergence of Paz. Consideration is then given to the decisive
impact of Parra and the rise of colloquial poetry, politico-social
poetry [Dalton, Cardenal] and representative figures such as
Orozco, Pacheco and Cisneros. Theaim is to establish a few paths
through the largely unmapped jungle of Spanish American poetry in
the time period. The author emphasises the persistence of a
generally negative view of the human condition and the poets'
exploration of different ways of responding to it. These vary from
outright scepticism to the ideological, the religious or those
derived from some degree of confidence in the creative imagination
as cognitive. At the same time there is analysis of the evolving
outlook on poetry of the writers in question, both in regard to its
possible social role and in regard to diction. DONALD SHAW holds
the Brown Forman Chair of Spanish American literature in the
University of Virginia.
As women's studies departments and programs undergo rapid
transformation in higher education, there has been a burgeoning
demand for instructional material that addresses feminist and queer
studies at all levels in the curricula. Feminist and Queer Theory:
An Intersectional and Transnational Reader reflects this vibrantly
expanding field and meets the urgent need for theory courses.
Feminist and Queer Theory: An Intersectional and Transnational
Reader is not simply a feminist theory text that includes queer
theories; rather, it theorizes at the intersection of feminist and
queer theories, and by doing so, transforms and reshapes the
boundaries of the fields. The book invites students to think
critically about the limitations of understanding feminist theory
as separate, but tangentially related, to queer theory and moves
them beyond transnationalism as "additive" to U.S.-centered
intersectional perspectives. The book frames feminist and queer
inquiry as being articulated through each other and within a global
context. It also provide new voices-scholarly, activist, and
creative-inside and outside the U.S. that are shaping the field and
selections that highlight the importance of im/migration and
borders as well as science, technology, and digital cultures.
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