The Sublime Savage
Author: Fiona J. Stafford
Publisher:
Published: 1988-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780852245699
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Author: Fiona J. Stafford
Publisher:
Published: 1988-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780852245699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrew Wilton
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780226061894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the development of the aesthetic theory of the sublime and looks at Turner's prints, drawings, and watercolors to illuminate the ways he interpreted and individualized the eighteenth-century theory in his own works
Author: Fiona J. Stafford
Publisher:
Published: 1988-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780852246092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Fiona J. Stafford
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9789042007819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe appearance of James Macpherson's Ossian in the 1760s caused an international sensation. The discovery of poetic fragments that seemed to have survived in the Highlands of Scotland for some 1500 years gripped the imagination of the reading public, who seized eagerly on the newly available texts for glimpses of a lost primitive world. That Macpherson's versions of the ancient heroic verse were more creative adaptations of the oral tradition than literal translations of a clearly identifiable original may have exercised contemporary antiquarians and contributed eventually to a decline in the popularity of Ossian. Yet for most early readers, as for generations of enthusiastic followers, what mattered was not the accuracy of the translation, but the excitement of encountering the primitive, and the mood engendered by the process of reading. The essays in this collection represent an attempt by late twentieth-century readers to chart the cultural currents that flowed into Macpherson's texts, and to examine their peculiar energy. Scholars distinguished in the fields of Gaelic, German, Irish, Scottish, French, English and American literature, language, history and cultural studies have each contributed to the exploration of Macpherson's achievement, with the aim of situating his notoriously elusive texts in a web of diverse contexts. Important new research into the traditional Gaelic sources is placed side by side with discussions of the more immediate political impetus of his poetry, while studies of the reception of Ossian in Scotland, Germany, France and England are part of the larger recognition of the cultural significance of Macpherson's work, and its importance to issues of fragmentation, liminality, colonialism, national identity, sensibility and gender.
Author: Tusiata Avia
Publisher:
Published: 2021-05-06
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781776564095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe voices of Tusiata Avia are infinite. She ranges from vulnerable to forbidding to celebratory with forms including pantoums, prayers and invocations. And in this electrifying new work, she gathers all the power of her voice to speak directly into histories of violence.Avia addresses James Cook in fury. She unravels the 2019 Christchurch massacre, walking us back to the beginning. She describes the contortions we make to avoid blame. And she locates the many voices that offer hope. The Savage Coloniser Book is a personal and political reckoning. As it holds history accountable, it rises in power.
Author: Williams James Williams
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2019-09-11
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1474439144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe call sublime those things and experiences supposed to be the very best. But what if the best actually leads to inequality and exploitation? Williams critiques the sublime over its long history and in recent returns to sublime nature and technologies. Deploying a new critical method that draws on process philosophy, he shows how the sublime has always led to inequality. This holds true even where it underpins ideas of cosmopolitan enlightenment, and even when refined by Burke, Kant, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and Zizek. Against the unjust legacies of the traditional sublime, James Williams defends a new, anarchist sublime: multiple, self-destructive and temporary; opposed to any idea of highest value to be shared by all but always imposed on the powerless.
Author: Kaius Tuori
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-19
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 131781598X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLegal primitivism was a complex phenomenon that combined the study of early European legal traditions with studies of the legal customs of indigenous peoples. Lawyers and Savages: Ancient History and Legal Realism in the Making of Legal Anthropology explores the rise and fall of legal primitivism, and its connection to the colonial encounter. Through examples such as blood feuds, communalism, ordeals, ritual formalism and polygamy, this book traces the intellectual revolution of legal anthropology and demonstrates how this scholarship had a clear impact in legitimating the colonial experience. Detailing how legal realism drew on anthropology in order to help counter the hypothetical constructs of legal formalism, this book also shows how, despite their explicit rejection, the central themes of primitive law continue to influence current ideas – about indigenous legal systems, but also of the place and role of law in development. Written in an engaging style and rich in examples from history and literature, this book will be invaluable to those with interests in legal realism, legal history or legal anthropology.
Author: Peter Rhoads Silver
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780393334906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn potent, graceful prose that sensitively unearths the social complexity and tangled history of colonial relations, Silver presents an astonishingly vivid picture of 18th-century America. 13 illustrations; 2 maps.
Author: Bonnie Mann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0195187466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomens Liberation and the Sublime is a passionate report on the state of feminist thinking and practice after the linguistic turn. A critical assessment of masculinist notions of the sublime in modern and postmodern accounts grounds the author's positive and constructive recuperation of sublime experience in a feminist voice.
Author: Marilyn Friedman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-10-19
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 0190293187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe notion of citizenship is complex; it can be at once an identity; a set of rights, privileges, and responsibilities; an elevated and exclusionary status, a relationship between individual and state, and more. In recent decades citizenship has attracted interdisciplinary attention, particularly with the transnational growth of Western capitalism. Yet citizenship's relationship to gender has gone relatively unexplored--despite the globally pervasive denial of citizenship to women, historically and in many places, ongoing today. This highly interdisciplinary volume explores the political and cultural dimensions of citizenship and their relevance to women and gender. Containing essays by a well-known group of scholars, including Iris Marion Young, Alison Jaggar, Martha Nussbaum, and Sandra Bartky, this book examines the conceptual issues and strategies at play in the feminist quest to give women full citizenship status. The contributors take a fresh look at the issues, going beyond conventional critiques, and examine problems in the political and social arrangements, practices, and conditions that diminish women's citizenship in various parts of the world.