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Boasian Verse explores the understudied poetic output of three
major twentieth-century anthropologists: Edward Sapir, Ruth
Benedict, and Margaret Mead. Providing a comparative analysis of
their anthropological and poetic works, this volume explores the
divergent representations of cultural others and the uses of
ethnographic studies for cultural critique. This volume aims to
illuminate central questions, including: Why did they choose to
write poetry about their ethnographic endeavors? Why did they
choose to write the way they wrote? Was poetry used to approach the
objects of their research in different, perhaps ethically more
viable ways? Did poetry allow them to transcend their own
primitivist, even evolutionist tendencies, or did it much rather
refashion or even amplify those tendencies? This in-depth
examination of these ethnographic poems invites both cultural
anthropologists and students of literature to reevaluate the
Boasian legacy of cultural relativism, primitivism, and residual
evolutionism for the twenty-first century. This volume offers a
fresh perspective on some of the key texts that have shaped
twentieth- and twenty-first-century discussions of culture and
cultural relativism, and a unique contribution to readers
interested in the dynamic area of multimodal anthropologies.
Beckett and media provides the first sustained examination of the
relationship between Beckett and media technologies. The book
analyses the rich variety of technical objects, semiotic
arrangements, communication processes and forms of data processing
that Beckett's work so uniquely engages with, as well as those that
- in historically changing configurations - determine the
continuing performance, the audience reception, and the scholarly
study of this work. Beckett and media draws on a variety of
innovative theoretical approaches, such as media archaeology, in
order to discuss Beckett's intermedial oeuvre. As such, the book
engages with Beckett as a media artist and examines the way his
engagement with media technologies continues to speak to our
cultural situation. -- .
In his novel Mao II, Don DeLillo lets his protagonist say, 'Years
ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the
inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken
that territory. They make raids on human consciousness.' DeLillo
suggests that while the collective imagination of the past was
guided by the creative order of narrative fictions, our
contemporary fantasies and anxieties are directed by the endless
narratives of war and terror relayed by the mass media. To take
DeLillo's literary reflections on media, terrorism, and literature
seriously means to engage with the ethical implications of his
media critique.
This book departs from existing works on DeLillo not only through
its focus on the function of literature as public discourse in
culture, but also in its decidedly transatlantic perspective.
Bringing together prominent DeLillo scholars in Europe and in the
US, it is the first critical book on DeLillo to position his work
in a transatlantic context.
Exploring life writing from a variety of cultural contexts, Haunted
Narratives provides new insights into how individuals and
communities across time and space deal with traumatic experiences
and haunting memories. From the perspectives of trauma theory,
memory studies, gender studies, literary studies, philosophy, and
post-colonial studies, the volume stresses the lingering, haunting
presence of the past in the present. The contributors focus on the
psychological, ethical, and representational difficulties involved
in narrative negotiations of traumatic memories. Haunted Narratives
focuses on life writing in the broadest sense of the term:
biographies and autobiographies that deal with traumatic
experiences, autobiographically inspired fictions on loss and
trauma, and limit-cases that transcend clear-cut distinctions
between the factual and the fictional. In discussing texts as
diverse as Toni Morrison's Beloved, Vikram Seth's Two Lives,
deportation narratives of Baltic women, Christa Wolf's
Kindheitsmuster, Joy Kogawa's Obasan, and Ene Mihkelson's
Ahasveeruse uni, the contributors add significantly to current
debates on life writing, trauma, and memory; the contested notion
of "cultural trauma"; and the transferability of
clinical-psychological notions to the study of literature and
culture.
In his novel Mao II, Don DeLillo lets his protagonist say, "Years
ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the
inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken
that territory. They make raids on human consciousness." DeLillo
suggests that while the collective imagination of the past was
guided by the creative order of narrative fictions, our
contemporary fantasies and anxieties are directed by the endless
narratives of war and terror relayed by the mass media. To take
DeLillo's literary reflections on media, terrorism, and literature
seriously means to engage with the ethical implications of his
media critique. This book departs from existing works on DeLillo
not only through its focus on the function of literature as public
discourse in culture, but also in its decidedly transatlantic
perspective. Bringing together prominent DeLillo scholars in Europe
and in the US, it is the first critical book on DeLillo to position
his work in a transatlantic context.
The art of the early republic abounds in representations of
deception: the villains of Gothic novels deceive their victims with
visual and acoustic tricks; the ordinary citizens of picaresque
novels are hoodwinked by quacks and illiterate but shrewd
adventurers; and innocent sentimental heroines fall for their
seducers' eloquently voiced half-truths and lies. Yet, as Philipp
Schweighauser points out in Beautiful Deceptions, deception happens
not only within these novels but also through them. The fictions of
Charles Brockden Brown, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Susanna Rowson,
Hannah Webster Foster, Tabitha Gilman Tenney, and Royall Tyler
invent worlds that do not exist. Similarly, Charles Willson Peale's
and Raphaelle Peale's trompe l'oeil paintings trick spectators into
mistaking them for the real thing, and Patience Wright's wax
sculptures deceive (and disturb) viewers. Beautiful Deceptions
examines how these and other artists of the era at times
acknowledge art's dues to other social realms-religion, morality,
politics-but at other times insist on artists' right to deceive
their audiences, thus gesturing toward a more modern, autonomous
notion of art that was only beginning to emerge in the eighteenth
century. Building on Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's definition of
aesthetics as ""the science of sensuous cognition"" and the
writings of early European aestheticians including Kant, Schiller,
Hume, and Burke, Schweighauser supplements the dominant political
readings of deception in early American studies with an aesthetic
perspective. Schweighauser argues that deception in and through
early American art constitutes a comment on eighteenth-century
debates concerning the nature and function of art as much as it
responds to shifts in social and political organization.
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