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Author: United States. Congress Senate

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Total Pages: 2802

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Skyscraping Frontiers
Skyscraping Frontiers

Author: Sascha Klein

Publisher: Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (CEALS)

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783631792018

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This study models the skyscraper as a complex network of actors and retraces its initial assemblage during the 19th century to its evolution into a smart structure from the mid-20th century onwards by looking at a great number of US-American novels and movies. It connects classic spatial theories with concepts and methods of ANT and Urban Studies.

Commitment and Beyond
Commitment and Beyond

Author: Georges Khalil

Publisher: Dr Ludwig Reichert

Published: 2015-11-03

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9783954900404

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This book is about relations between literature, society and politics in the Arab world. It is an attempt to come to terms with the changing conceptualizations of the political in Arabic literature in recent modern history. It examines historical and contemporary conceptions of literary commitment (iltizam) and how notions of 'writing with a cause' have been shaped, contested, re-actualized since the 1940s until today. Against the backdrop of the current social and political transformations in the Arab world, questions on the role of the arts, specifically literature and its politics, arise with immediacy and require profound reflection and analysis. The chapters reexamine critically both current and historical notions of the political in modern Arabic literature as well as the legacy of iltizam as a term and an agenda. Literary commitment is understood here not just solely as a (completed) period in Arabic literary history but also as a vivid, changing and continuing idea that questions the role of literature and the author in and for a society.

Future Imperfect
Future Imperfect

Author: Jason P. Vest

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2009-03-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780803218604

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Examines the first eight cinematic adaptations of Dick's fiction in light of their literary sources.

Festival Cultures
Festival Cultures

Author: Maria Nita

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-11-30

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 3030883922

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This book brings together interdisciplinary research from the fields of Anthropology, Sociology, Archaeology, Art, History and Religious Studies, showing the necessity of a transdisciplinary and diachronic approach to examine the last half-century of modern arts and performance festivals. The volume focuses on new theoretical and methodological approaches for the examination of festivals and festival cultures, both the Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert and burner culture in Europe. The editors argue that festival cultures are becoming values-inflected global forms of travel, dwelling, festivity, communication, and social organisation that are transforming contemporary cultures and have significant political capital.