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This book, first published in 1947, is an anthology of Chinese
poetry from a period when it was entering an entirely new world,
where all or nearly all the ancient poetic traditions were being
cast aside. No longer could Chinese poetry be regarded as the
graceful accomplishment of retired sages: the new voices were
powerful, realistic, even brutal.
This book, first published in 1947, is an anthology of Chinese
poetry from a period when it was entering an entirely new world,
where all or nearly all the ancient poetic traditions were being
cast aside. No longer could Chinese poetry be regarded as the
graceful accomplishment of retired sages: the new voices were
powerful, realistic, even brutal.
Liking, sharing, friending, going viral: what would it mean to
recognize these current modes of media interaction as promiscuous?
In a contemporary network culture characterized by a proliferation
of new forms of intimate mediated sociality, this book argues that
promiscuity is a new standard of user engagement. Intimate
relations among media users and between users and their media are
increasingly structured by an entrepreneurial logic and put to work
for the economic interests of media corporations. But these
multiple intimacies can also be understood as technologies of
promiscuous desire serving both to liberalize mediated social
connection and to contain it within normative frames of value.
Payne brings crucial questions of gender, sexuality, intimacy, and
attention back into conversation with recent thinking on network
culture and social media, identifying the queer undercurrents of
these current media dynamics.
Liking, sharing, friending, going viral: what would it mean to
recognize these current modes of media interaction as promiscuous?
In a contemporary network culture characterized by a proliferation
of new forms of intimate mediated sociality, this book argues that
promiscuity is a new standard of user engagement. Intimate
relations among media users and between users and their media are
increasingly structured by an entrepreneurial logic and put to work
for the economic interests of media corporations. But these
multiple intimacies can also be understood as technologies of
promiscuous desire serving both to liberalize mediated social
connection and to contain it within normative frames of value.
Payne brings crucial questions of gender, sexuality, intimacy, and
attention back into conversation with recent thinking on network
culture and social media, identifying the queer undercurrents of
these current media dynamics.
"First we shape things, then they shape us," was Churchill's view.
What kind of architecture can be said to shape? Who does it shape?
And by what means does it shape? The author's answers to these
questions are a surprise in this diverting manifesto.
This is a comprehensive account of the eight religious wars between
the Christian West and the Muslim East that dominated the Middle
Ages. Calling themselves "pilgrims of Christ," thousands of
Europeans from all stations in life undertook the harsh and bloody
quest to reclaim Jerusalem, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and
Christ's tomb for Christendom. Robert Payne brings to life every
step of the Crusaders' thousand-mile journey: the deprivation; the
desperate, rapacious, and brutal raids for food and supplies; the
epic battles for Antioch, Jerusalem, and Acre; the barbarous
treatment of captives; and the quarreling European princes who vied
for power and wealth in the Near East. An epic tale of the glorious
and the base, of unshakable faith and unspeakable atrocities, The
Dream and the Tomb captures not only the events but the very
essence of the Crusades.
Drawn into the circuit of men cruising for sex in and around a
train station, restless adolescent Henri begins a frenzied pursuit
of a dangerously charismatic older man, with sometimes violent and
ultimately tragic consequences. Premiering at Cannes in 1983,
Patrice Chereau's L'Homme blesse (The Wounded Man) was one of
France's first major cinematic releases to depict homosexual desire
and queer sexual cultures in an unapologetic and complex way. It is
a film that continues to resonate to this day. L'Homme blesse
generated controversy with its dark tone and its treatment of an
adolescent's obsessive homoerotic desire, as well as Chereau's
denial that the film is about homosexuality. Robert Payne guides
readers through the powerfully erotic underworld of L'Homme blesse,
where the film sidesteps fixed identities and draws viewers into
the ambiguous spaces of queer desire, and argues that its visual
composition depicts queer ways of seeing and generates queer ways
of feeling. A look into the production's historical and cultural
backdrop uncovers a behind-the-scenes story of power and desire
between its two screenwriters and the presence of HIV/AIDS hovering
ominously and inevitably off screen. Original interviews trace the
lives of L'Homme blesse across three continents and three decades
and measure the film's enduring value beyond its prestigious debut.
Payne cements L'Homme blesse in its rightful place within queer
cultural history and introduces the film to a new generation of
viewers.
Studying both France and Germany in its discussion of post-war
issues, this book uses a new cultural-theoretical approach to
develop a philosophy to overcome post-war traumata, or the
traumatization effects that affect entire national cultures.
In the sheer scope, the Roman epoch is unsurpassed in history. What
has endured to our own time is its great legacy to Western
civilization-in law, language, architecture, and the art of
government-and the fascination of its story. Ancient Rome presents
the history and heritage of that remarkable era. In this richly
illustrated volume, the reader can enjoy an all-around introduction
to the politics, people, culture, and everyday life of the world
ruled by Rome. Unlike most general histories of the subject, it
enables the reader to know the Romans not only from reading about
them, but by hearing directly from them, through the words of
orators, philosophers, historians, poets, playwrights, and
satirists. Here is an intelligent and remarkably handsome survey of
ancient Rome, designed for anyone who would welcome the chance to
learn more about that 1,200-year epic with ease, clarity, and
accuracy.
This is a collection of 40 short stories from author Anton Chekhov,
and ranging from the abashed happiness of a woman in the presence
of the husband who abandoned her years before, to the poignant
astonishment of an aging Don Juan overtaken by love, and many more.
.."..entertaining, and ... highly illuminating ... his research has
been thorough and he offers some intriguing speculations regarding
the influence on certain plays of ... national events ... He also
offers some excellent shafts of criticism, particularly with
respect to the final plays." -Publishers' Weekly
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