Off Beat
Off Beat

Author: Jan Hein Hoogstad

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2013-08-01

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 9401208875

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Off Beat: Pluralizing Rhythm draws attention to rhythm as a tool for analyzing various cultural objects. In fields as diverse as music, culture, nature, and economy, rhythm can be seen as a phenomenon that both connects and divides. It suggests a certain measure with which people, practices, and cultures may comply. Yet, for this very reason rhythm can also function as a field of exclusion, contestation, and debate. In that respect, rhythm possesses an underestimated meaning-creating potential. Whereas its connecting force is often accentuated in the aesthetic, political, and commercial usage of the term, the divisive aspect of rhythm is at least as important. This volume wants to rid rhythm of its harmless, nearly esoteric, reputation as a cosmic unifier by understanding it in the light of the contemporary medial turn. In the present collection of essays, we have encouraged approaches that combine political, aesthetic, musical, and theoretical dimensions of rhythm. Jan Hein Hoogstad is Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen is Associate Professor in the Section for Aesthetics and Culture, Department of Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes
Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes

Author: Sanjay Srivastava

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2004-03-20

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780761997771

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Discussions on sexuality in the South Asian context have tended to focus largely on men`s preoccupations through notions such as `semen-anxiety`. Another restrictive framework is the excessive importance ascribed to religion in everyday life. The result has been a rather narrow debate on sexuality. By providing accounts of a myriad sites and meanings of sexuality, this remarkable volume broadens the debate on sexuality in South Asia. It combines perspectives from history, anthropology, and cultural and literary studies to provide an interdisciplinary exploration of the cultures of, and the multiple meanings and contestations that gather around, masculinities and sexualities. The collection is unique in the breadth of its theoretical concerns; its focus on hitherto marginalized sexual identities; and its novel juxtapositions of analyses of colonial discourses with those of postcolonised modernity.

Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan
Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan

Author: Mark J. McLelland

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-07-08

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1135791309

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This book is the first to look at the wide range of contrasting images of the gay male body in Japanese popular culture, both mainstream and gay, and relate these images to the experience of an interview sample of Japanese gay men. In so doing, it touches on a number of important issues, including whether there can be a universal 'gay identity' and whether or not strategies developed for increasing gay and lesbian visibility in western countries are appropriate to the social situation in Japan

The Homer and the Homeric Age (Vol. 1-3)
The Homer and the Homeric Age (Vol. 1-3)

Author: W. E. Gladstone

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2021-05-07

Total Pages: 1025

ISBN-13:

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Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age are a comprehensive 3-volume work that features the history of the ancient Greek literature, focusing on the Homeric Question – concerning by whom, when, where and under what circumstances the Iliad and Odyssey, its foundational works, were composed. Contents: Prolegomena: On the State of the Homeric Question The Place of Homer in Classical Education On the Historic Aims of Homer On the Probable Date of Homer The Probable Trustworthiness of the Text of Homer Place and Authority of Homer in Historical Inquiry Achæis - Ethnology of the Greek Races: Scope of the Inquiry On the Pelasgians, and Cognate Races The Pelasgians: and Certain States Naturalized or Akin to Greece On the Phœnicians and the Outer Geography of the Odyssey On the Catalogue On the Hellenes of Homer On the Respective Contributions of the Pelasgian and Hellenic Factors to the Compound of the Greek Nation On the Three Greater Homeric Appellatives On the Homeric Title of Ἄναξ Ἀνδρῶν On the Connection of the Hellenes and Achæans With the East Olympus or the Religion of the Homeric Age: On the Mixed Character of the Supernatural System, or Theo-mythology of Homer The Traditive Element of the Homeric Theo-mythology The Inventive Element of the Homeric Theo-mythology The Composition of the Olympian Court; and the Classification of the Whole Supernatural Order in Homer The Olympian Community and Its Members Considered in Themselves The Olympian Community and Its Members Considered in Their Influence on Human Society and Conduct On the Traces of an Origin Abroad for the Olympian Religion The Morals of the Homeric Age Woman in the Heroic Age The Office of the Homeric Poems in Relation to That of the Early Books of Holy Scripture Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared Thalassa: The Outer Geography Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer