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Pathbreaking volume providing a detailed, state-of-the-art overview of the literature of this 350-year period and its cultural and historical background. Early Modern German Literature provides an overview of major literary figures and works, socio-historical contexts, philosophical backgrounds, and cultural trends during the 350 years between the first flowering of northernhumanism around 1350 and the rise of a distinctly middle-class, anti-classical aesthetics around 1700. Recent scholarship has significantly revised many traditional assumptions about the literature of this period, starting with areassessment of the canon. The notion of "literature" has expanded to include a much wider range of texts than before, such as broadsheets, illustrated books, emblem books, travelogues, demonological treatises, and letters. Greater attention to the cultural and social phenomena that affect literary production has led to hitherto neglected areas of research, including the culture of learning and learnedness; the idea of authorship; the relationship betweenthe intellectual elite and the state and other political authorities and institutions; the development of the family; gender dichotomy; and the early formation of an educated, urban middle class. In an introduction and twenty-seven essays on specific but broadly-based topics of seminal importance to the period, written by leading specialists from North America, the United Kingdom, and Germany, this pathbreaking volume reflects this state-of-the-art research. Contributors: Klaus Garber, Graeme Dunphy, Renate Born, Stephan Füssel, Scott Dixon, Wilhelm Külmann, Max Reinhart, joachim Knape, Hans-Gert Roloff, Erika Rummel, John Alexander, Peter Hess, Andreas Solbach, Peter Daly, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Jill Bepler, Gerhart Hoffmeister, Steven Saunders, jeffrey Chipps Smith, Wolfgang Neuber, Gerhild Scholz Williams, Anna Carrdus, John L. Flood, Laurel Carrington, Theodor Verweyen, John Roger Paas Max Reinhart is Professor of German at the University of Georgia.

German literature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Cultural trends. --- Early Modern German Literature. --- Literary figures. --- Philosophy. --- Socio-historical.

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Zombies and vampires, banshees and basilisks, demons and wendigos, goblins, gorgons, golems, and ghosts. From the mythical monstrous races of the ancient world to the murderous cyborgs of our day, monsters have haunted the human imagination, giving shape to the fears and desires of their time. And as long as there have been monsters, there have been attempts to make sense of them, to explain where they come from and what they mean. This book collects the best of what contemporary scholars have to say on the subject, in the process creating a map of the monstrous across the vast and complex terrain of the human psyche.Editor Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock prepares the way with a genealogy of monster theory, traveling from the earliest explanations of monsters through psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, and cultural studies, to the development of monster theory per se-and including Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's foundational essay "Monster Theory (Seven Theses)," reproduced here in its entirety. There follow sections devoted to the terminology and concepts used in talking about monstrosity; the relevance of race, religion, gender, class, sexuality, and physical appearance; the application of monster theory to contemporary cultural concerns such as ecology, religion, and terrorism; and finally the possibilities monsters present for envisioning a different future. Including the most interesting and important proponents of monster theory and its progenitors, from Sigmund Freud to Julia Kristeva to J. Halberstam, Donna Haraway, Barbara Creed, and Stephen T. Asma-as well as harder-to-find contributions such as Robin Wood's and Masahiro Mori's-this is the most extensive and comprehensive collection of scholarship on monsters and monstrosity across disciplines and methods ever to be assembled and will serve as an invaluable resource for students of the uncanny in all its guises.

Monsters in popular culture --- Popular culture --- J1723.80 --- J4143 --- Japan: Religion in general -- demonology --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural trends and movements -- popular culture

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On a longtemps confondu la modernité avec la forme prise par le développement historique des sociétés occidentales. Selon Pierre-François Souyri, l’histoire récente montre au contraire que la modernité telle que nous la concevions n’était que l’aspect particulier d’un phénomène mondial.Au Japon, elle a émergé au moins autant de la pensée japonaise et chinoise que de concepts venus d'Occident : dans les années 1880, la lutte pour la liberté et les droits du peuple et pour un régime constitutionnel s’abreuve des classiques chinois plus que des idées rousseauistes ; celle contre la destruction de la nature par le système industriel puise ses inspirations dans une cosmologie de l’harmonie entre l’homme et l’univers ; le féminisme, qui apparaît dès les années 1910, trouve certaines de ses référence dans le shintô ; et le premier socialisme se nourrit d’une vision du monde largement confucéenne.Par ses remplois d’idéologies du passé, la modernisation japonaise oblige à relativiser le statut exemplaire de l’expérience occidentale. Cette modernisation a de fait fonctionné autant comme le rejet du modèle occidental que comme son adoption. Pourtant, son rythme et les questionnements qu’elle suscite ont été identiques à ceux de l’Occident. Pierre-François Souyri peut dès lors poser ce souriant paradoxe : une grammaire commune de la modernité peut-elle puiser à des sources différentes?

Japan --- History --- Japon --- Civilisation --- Influence occidentale --- Modernism (Aesthetics) --- J4129 --- J4000.70 --- J4144 --- Aesthetics --- History. --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cross-cultural contacts, contrasts and globalization --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural trends and movements -- modernism --- Intellectual life --- Civilization --- Western influences. --- Occidental influences --- Modernisme (Esthétique) --- Histoire --- Western influences --- Vie intellectuelle --- Modernisme (Esthétique) --- Japan - History

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Dolores Martinez heads an international team of scholars in this lively discussion of Japanese popular culture. The book's contributors include Japanese as well as British, Icelandic and North American writers, offering a diversity of views of what Japanese popular culture is, and how it is best approached and understood. They bring an anthropological perspective to a broad range of topics, including sumo, karaoke, manga, vampires, women's magazines, soccer and morning television. Through these topics - many of which have never previously been addressed by scholars - the contributors also explore several deeper themes: the construction of gender in Japan; the impact of globalisation and modern consumerism; and the rapidly shifting boundaries of Japanese culture and identity. This innovative study will appeal to those interested in Japanese culture, sociology and cultural anthropology.

908 <52> --- J4143 --- J4176 --- #VCV monografie 1999 --- 908 <52> Heemkunde. Area studies--Japan en omliggende eilanden --- Heemkunde. Area studies--Japan en omliggende eilanden --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural trends and movements -- popular culture --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- gender roles, women, feminism --- Popular culture --- Japan --- Civilization --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology

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J6754 --- J4143 --- Popular music --- -Popular music --- -Popular culture --- Music, Popular --- Music, Popular (Songs, etc.) --- Pop music --- Popular songs --- Popular vocal music --- Songs, Popular --- Vocal music, Popular --- Music --- Cover versions --- Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- music -- popular music --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural trends and movements -- popular culture --- Social aspects --- -Japan --- -History and criticism --- Popular culture --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Musique populaire --- Culture populaire --- Aspect social --- Histoire et critique.