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The language of vision : photography and Southern literature in the 1930s and after
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ISBN: 9780807162774 Year: 2016 Publisher: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press

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Emersonian Nation : Ralph Waldo Emersons Einfluss auf die politische Kultur der USA
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Year: 2016 Publisher: Hamburg : [éditeur non identifié],

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Was ist nur los mit den Amerikanern ? Warum wehren sie sich so vehement gegen eine allgemeine Krankenversicterung und können sich so schwer zu einer strengeren Regulierung des Waffenrechtes durchringen ? Weshalb widerstrebt es ihnen selbst nach den jüngsten verheerenden Wirtschaftskrisen, das Ideal der deregulierten Märkte zu überdenken ? Und wie kann es sein, dass ein Mann vom Schlage Donald Trumps auf der politischen Bühne überhaupt Gehör findet ? Sind sie schlicht verrückt, die Amerikaner ? Nein, sicher nicht. Wenn es aus europäischer Sicht dennoch schwerfällt, die politischen Grundannahmen und Gefühlslagen Amerikas zu verstehen, so hängt dies mit einer intellektuellen Tradition zusammen, durch welche sich die USA grundlegend von europäischen Kulturen unterscheiden : Es ist das geistige Erbe des Individualismus, dessen Hauptarchitekt Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ist. Emersons Ideen sind die kulturelle DNA Amerikas. Und so hält dieser Philosoph aus dem 19. Jahrhundert noch immer den Schlüssel zum Verständnis heutiger US-Politik.


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Ralph Lemon : modern dance
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ISBN: 9781633450073 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Museum of modern art,

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Ralph Lemon (born 1952) is one of the most significant figures to emerge from New Yorks downtown dance and performance world in the past 40 years. A polymath and shape-shifter, Lemon combines dance and theater with drawing, film, writing and ethnography in works presented on the stage, in publications and in museums. He builds his politically resonant and deeply personal projects in collaboration with dance makers and artists from New York, West Africa, South and East Asia, and the American South. Lemon, who was born in Cincinnati and raised in Minneapolis, describes his explorations as a "search for the forms of formlessness." Absorbing and transmuting fractured mythologies, social history and dance techniques from multiple geographies and decades, Lemons genre-transcending works perform an alchemy of past and present, reality and fantasy. This book, the first monograph on the artist, features a wide range of texts by scholars and performers, an original photo essay by Lemon and an extensive chronology.


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Invisible subjects : Asian America in postwar literature
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ISBN: 9780190456252 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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Singularities : dance in the age of performance
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ISBN: 9781138907713 9781138907706 9781315694948 1138907707 1138907715 9781317441083 9781317441090 Year: 2016 Publisher: London Routledge

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André Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of 'performance' in the twenty-first century: not just an aesthetic category, but a mode of political power. He demonstrates the enduring ability of performance to critique and subvert this power, examining this relationship through five 'singularities' in contemporary dance: thingness, animality, persistence, darkness, and solidity. Exploring the works of Mette Ingvartsen, Yvonne Rainer, Ralph Lemon, Jérôme Bel and others, Lepecki uses his concept of 'singularity'--the resistance of categorization and aesthetic identification--to examine the function of dance and performance in political and artistic debate.


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Toward a critical theory of states
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ISBN: 9781438461816 143846181X 9781438461793 1438461798 Year: 2016 Publisher: Albany

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We have recently lived through the turmoil of a global financial crisis that originated in the United States and, despite the platitudes of neo-liberal ideology, nation-states were deeply involved in managing this crisis. If "the state" is again a preeminent actor in the global economy, then state theory and the problem of the state should also return to the forefront of political theory. Toward a Critical Theory of States is an intensive analysis of the 1970s debate between state theorists Ralph Miliband and Nicos Poulantzas, including its wider impact on Marxist theories of the state in subsequent decades. Clyde W. Barrow makes unique arguments and contributions to this continuing discussion in state theory and lays the foundation for more theoretically informed empirical and historical research on the state in the age of globalization. He argues that by merely moving past the Poulantzas-Miliband debate, as some have recommended, scholars have abandoned much that is valuable in understanding the state, particularly the need to comprehend the contemporary transformation of the state form and the state apparatuses as part of the new conditions of globalization and transnational capital accumulation. Building upon themes of state restructuring found in Poulantzas and Miliband, Barrow establishes the outlines of an approach that integrates the thought of both to propose a synthetic understanding of the new imperialism.


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The new territory : Ralph Ellison and the twenty-first century
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ISBN: 9781496806796 1496806794 Year: 2016 Publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi,

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Contributions by Herman Beavers, Robert Butler, John Callahan, Marc C. Conner, Bryan Crable, Steven D. Ealy, Lena Hill, Lucas E. Morel, Timothy Parrish, Ross Posnock, Patrice Rankine, Grant Shreve, Eric Sundquist, and Steven C. TracyRalph Ellison once said, "We're only a partially achieved nation." In The New Territory, scholars show how clearly Ellison foresaw and articulated both the challenges and the possibilities of America in the twenty-first century. Indeed, Ellison in these new essays appears more and more to be a cultural prophet of twenty-first century America. As literary scholar Ross Posnock states, "If in our global, transnational age the renewed promise of cosmopolitan democracy has emerged as an animating ideal of popular political, and academic culture, this is a way of saying that we are only now beginning to catch up with Ralph Waldo Ellison."In this collection, the editors offer fourteen original essays that seek to examine and re-examine Ellison's life and work in the context of its meanings for our own age, the early twenty-first century, the age of Obama, a period that is seemingly post-racial and yet all too acutely racial.Following a careful introduction that situates Ellison's writings in the context of new approaches and interest in his work, the book offers new essays examining Ellison's 1952 masterpiece, Invisible Man. It then turns to his vast, unfinished second novel, Three Days Before the Shooting... , with detailed readings of that powerful and elusive narrative. These essays are the first sustained treatments of that posthumous work. The New Territory concludes with five chapters that discuss Ellison's political, cultural, and historical significance, probing how he speaks to the contemporary moment and beyond.


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Conversations in jazz
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ISBN: 030022074X 9780300220742 9780300214529 Year: 2016 Publisher: New Haven

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During his nearly forty years as a music journalist, Ralph J. Gleason recorded many in-depth interviews with some of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. These informal sessions, conducted mostly in Gleason's Berkeley, California, home, have never been transcribed and published in full until now. This remarkable volume, a must-read for any jazz fan, serious musician, or musicologist, reveals fascinating, little-known details about these gifted artists, their lives, their personas, and, of course, their music. Bill Evans discusses his battle with severe depression, while John Coltrane talks about McCoy Tyner's integral role in shaping the sound of the Coltrane quartet, praising the pianist enthusiastically. Included also are interviews with Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Quincy Jones, Jon Hendricks, and the immortal Duke Ellington, plus seven more of the most notable names in twentieth-century jazz.


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Medienwissenschaften : Meyer-Struckmann-Preis 2015: Winfried Schulz
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ISBN: 3110720310 3957580277 Year: 2016 Publisher: De Gruyter

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Die Philosophische Fakultät der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf hat den Meyer-Struckmann-Preis für geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung 2015 an Winfried Schulz verliehen. Das diesjährige Thema lautete Medienwissenschaften. Professor Dr. Winfried Schulz gehört seit den 1960er-Jahren zu den prägenden Figuren der deutschen Kommunikationswissenschaft. Er war bis zu seiner Emeritierung 2004 Professor für Kommunikations- und Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Die Jury des Meyer-Struckmann-Preises würdigt mit Schulz einen Wissenschaftler, der mit seinem umfangreichen Werk das Verständnis vom Einfluss der Medien auf unser Weltbild maßgeblich geprägt hat. Sein Buch über die "Konstruktion von Realität in den Nachrichtenmedien" gehört zu den Klassikern des Fachs Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft. Es hat das Verständnis für die Eigenlogik, nach der die Medien Weltbilder erzeugen, auf eine neue Grundlage gestellt und zahlreiche Forschungsarbeiten inspiriert.

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