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Timely in its offering of an account that is both historically and psychoanalytically informed, The Shattering of the Self argues for a renewed attention to the place of fantasy in this literature and will be of interest to scholars working in Renaissance and early modern studies, literary theory, gender studies, and film theory.

Catharsis. --- Self in literature. --- Violence in literature. --- Renaissance --- Subjectivity in literature. --- English drama (Tragedy) --- English literature --- Abreaction --- Emotions --- Psychoanalysis --- Tragedy --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism

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Mainstreaming Black Power upends the narrative that the Black Power movement allowed for a catharsis of black rage but achieved little institutional transformation or black uplift. Retelling the story of the 1960s and 1970s across the United States-and focusing on New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles-this book reveals how the War on Poverty cultivated black self-determination politics and demonstrates that federal, state, and local policies during this period bolstered economic, social, and educational institutions for black control. Mainstreaming Black Power shows more convincingly than ever before that white power structures did engage with Black Power in specific ways that tended ultimately to reinforce rather than challenge existing racial, class, and gender hierarchies. This book emphasizes that Black Power's reach and legacies can be understood only in the context of an ideologically diverse black community.

Black power --- African American political activists --- African Americans --- History --- Politics and government --- 1960s. --- 1970s. --- activism. --- activist. --- african american. --- american history. --- atlanta. --- black community. --- black history. --- black mayors. --- black panther party. --- black politics. --- black power movement. --- black power. --- black rage. --- catharsis. --- city life. --- ideology. --- legacy. --- los angeles. --- mainstream. --- new york. --- people of color. --- self determination. --- united states. --- urban. --- us history. --- war on poverty.

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Artists today are at a crossroads. With funding for the arts and humanities endowments perpetually under attack, and school districts all over the United States scrapping their art curricula altogether, the place of the arts in our civic future is uncertain to say the least. At the same time, faced with the problems of the modern world-from water shortages and grave health concerns to global climate change and the now constant threat of terrorism-one might question the urgency of this waning support for the arts. In the politically fraught world we live in, is the "felt" experience even something worth fighting for? In this soul-searching collection of vignettes, Patrick Summers gives us an adamant, impassioned affirmative. Art, he argues, nurtures freedom of thought, and is more necessary now than ever before. As artistic director of the Houston Grand Opera, Summers is well positioned to take stock of the limitations of the professional arts world-a world where the conversation revolves almost entirely around financial questions and whose reputation tends toward elitism-and to remind us of art's fundamental relationship to joy and meaning. Offering a vehement defense of long-form arts in a world with a short attention span, Summers argues that art is spiritual, and that music in particular has the ability to ask spiritual questions, to inspire cathartic pathos, and to express spiritual truths. Summers guides us through his personal encounters with art and music in disparate places, from Houston's Rothko Chapel to a music classroom in rural China, and reflects on musical works he has conducted all over the world. Assessing the growing canon of new operas performed in American opera houses today, he calls for musical artists to be innovative and brave as opera continues to reinvent itself. This book is a moving credo elucidating Summers's belief that the arts, especially music, help us to understand our own humanity as intellectual, aesthetic, and ultimately spiritual.

Spirituality in music. --- Music --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Religious ethical aspects. --- music, art, houston grand opera, artistic director, humanities, affect theory, emotions, human spirit, joy, meaning, spirituality, catharsis, pathos, rothko chapel, classroom, china, curriculum, endowments, canon, education, nonfiction, funding, business, culture, fine arts, entertainment, creativity, technology, open access, conducting, wagner, mozart, handel, bach, classical.

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This study is a theoretical reconsideration of the concept of the “tragic” combined with detailed analyses of Japanese literary texts. Inspired by contemporary critical discourse (especially the works by such thinkers as Theodor Adorno, Fredric Jameson and Raymond Williams), the author challenges both exotic and postmodern representation of Japanese culture as “the other” of the West. By examining the social backgrounds of artists’ endeavors to create new literary forms, the author unveils a rich tradition of tragic literature that, unlike the dominant local tradition of naturalism, has registered the unbridgeable gap between universal ideals and social values at a particular historical moment.

Tragic, The, in literature. --- Aristotle. --- Buddhism. --- Christianity. --- Daiichiji sengo-ha. --- Dainiji sengo-ha. --- Daisanji sengo-ha. --- Edo period. --- Hiroshima. --- Japanese literature. --- Kamakura. --- Marxism. --- Meiji period. --- Muromachi. --- Nagasaki. --- Oriental. --- Qin dinasty. --- Shintoism. --- Taisho. --- Taoism. --- Tokugawa period. --- World War II. --- aesthetics. --- allegory. --- ambiguity. --- androgyny. --- anthropology. --- anti-pastoral. --- atomic bomb. --- bunka. --- capitalism. --- catharsis. --- classical Japanese theater. --- colonialism. --- comparative literature. --- critical theory. --- exoticism. --- feminism. --- haiku. --- imperialism. --- industrialization. --- mimesis. --- modernism. --- multiculturalism. --- naturalism. --- othering. --- phenomenology. --- poetry. --- post-structuralism. --- postmodernism. --- postwar. --- realism. --- socialism. --- tragedy. --- trauma. --- universalism.

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The first edition of Film as Religion was one of the first texts to develop a framework for the analysis of the religious function of films for audiences. Like more formal religious institutions, films can provide us with ways to view the world and the values to confront it. Lyden argues that the cultural influence of films is analogous to that of religions, so that films can be understood as representing a "religious" worldview in their own right. Thoroughly updating his examples, Lyden examines a range of film genres and individual films, from The Godfather to The Hunger Games to Frozen, to show how film can function religiously.

Motion pictures --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Religious aspects. --- Action Film. --- Aliens. --- Attitudes. --- Audience Reception. --- Autonomy. --- Backlash. --- Beliefs. --- Catharsis. --- Circuit of culture. --- Civilization. --- Clifford Geertz. --- Communitas. --- Cultural Studies. --- Death. --- Discernment. --- Disenfranchised. --- Disney. --- Diversity. --- Dualism. --- Dystopia. --- Evaluation. --- Fascism. --- Fear. --- Feminism. --- Functionalist. --- Gangster. --- Genre. --- Heroism. --- Heterosexual. --- Ideal. --- Implied Viewer. --- Influence. --- Interreligious Dialogue. --- Irrational. --- Liminal Power. --- Liminal. --- Liminality. --- Melodrama. --- Metonymy. --- Models for Reality. --- Models of Reality. --- Monstrous. --- Moral Values. --- Norms. --- Popular Culture. --- Primitive. --- Projection. --- Reductionism. --- Relationships. --- Representation. --- Robots. --- Romantic. --- Sacrifice. --- Sexist. --- Sexuality. --- Status Quo. --- Subordination. --- Suffering. --- Superhero. --- Trends. --- Utopia. --- Values. --- Vietnam War. --- Violence. --- War on Terror. --- Western. --- Religious aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects