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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “johan dresin”
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  • Cultures of Currencies

    Literature and the Symbolic Foundation of Money

    Edited by Joan Ramon Resina ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book’s premise is not only the commonly accepted cultural relativity of economic concepts, but also the observation that the current shift in the meaning of concepts like “market,” “currency,” “exchange,” and “money” suggests that culture is undergoing a change with unpredictable economic and political consequences. The essays in the book raise basic questions concerning exchange – what is ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Inscribed Identities

    Life Writing as Self-Realization

    Edited by Joan Ramon Resina ...
    Series series Routledge Auto/Biography Studies
    Autobiography is a long-established literary modality of self-exposure with commanding works such as Augustine’s Confessions, Rousseau’s book of the same title, and Salvador Dalí’s paradoxical reformulation of that title in his Unspeakable Confessions. Like all genres with a distinguished career, autobiography has elicited a fair amount of critical and theoretical reflection. Classic works by Käte ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Iberian Cities

    Edited by Joan Ramon Resina ...
    Series series Hispanic Issues
    This multi-disciplinary study explores the explosion of cultural, social, linguistic, and architectural development in urban and rural settlements on and surrounding the Iberian peninsula during the 20th century. ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • The New Ruralism: An Epistemology of Transformed Space

    Edited by Joan Ramon Resina, William Viestenz ...
    Series series Fuera de colección
    Throughout the world modernization implied the abandonment of ancestral modes of life adapted to the land and their transformation through processes of social abstraction. During the 20th century entire cultures have vanished into the urban magma of the World's megalopolis. The classic city, perfectly defined against a rural background, has spilled over its boundaries and merged with the country ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Josep Pla

    Seeing the World in the Form of Articles

    by Joan Resina ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    Josep Pla is Catalonia’s foremost twentieth-century prose writer. He witnessed and wrote about some of the twentieth-century’s most notable events including the Spanish Civil War and the foundation of the state of Israel. Due to a lack of translations of his work he is only now being discovered by the international audience and will soon join the ranks of major realist writers in world literature ... Read more

    $71.19 CAD

  • Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity

    Rise and Decline of an Urban Image

    by Joan Ramon Resina ...
    Since the closing decades of the nineteenth century, Barcelona has striven to sustain an image of modernity that distinguishes itself within Spain. Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity traces the development of that image through texts that foreground key social and historical issues. It begins with Barcelona's "coming of age" in the 1888 Universal Exposition and focuses on the first major narrative ... Read more

    $82.49 CAD

  • Luchino Visconti

    Filmmaker and Philosopher

    by Professor Joan Ramon Resina ...
    Series series Philosophical Filmmakers
    Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) was one of Europe's most prestigious filmmakers, who rose to prominence as part of the Italian neo-realist movement, alongside contemporaries Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini. Famous for his elegant lifestyle, as friend of Jean Renoir and Coco Chanel amongst others, his vibrant technicolour dramas are also known for their decadence and stunning display of ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Indiscreet Fantasies

    Iberian Queer Cinema

    by Ann Davies, Meredith Lyn Jeffers, Nina L Molinaro, Ana Corbalán, Jennifer Brady, Darío Sánchez González, Ibon Izurieta, Joan Ramon Resina, María Teresa Vera-Rojas, William Viestenz, Kelly Moore, Rui Trindade Oliveira ...
    Series series Campos Ibéricos: Bucknell Studies in Iberian Literatures and Cultures
    Pedro Almodóvar may have helped put queer Iberian cinema on the map, but there are multitudes of LGBTQ filmmakers from Catalonia, Portugal, Castile, Galicia, and the Basque Country who have made the Peninsula one of the world’s most vital sources for queer film. Together, they have produced a cinema whose expressions of queer desire have challenged the region’s conservative religious and family ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Repetition, Recurrence, Returns

    How Cultural Renewal Works

    by Joan Ramon Resina, Christoph Wulf, Vincent Barletta, Günter Blamberger, Christiane Brosius, Michael B. Buchholz, Isabel Capeloa Gil, Ulla Haselstein, Stephanie Malia Hom0, Axel Michaels1, Tiago de Oliveira Pinto2, Almut-Barbara Renger3, Holger Schulze4, Ursula Stenger5, Shoko Suzuki6, Matthias Warstat7 ...
    Series series Transforming Literary Studies
    Repetition is constitutive of human life. Both the species and the individual develop through repetition. Unlike simple recall, repetition is permeated by the past and the present and is oriented toward the future. Repetition of central actions and events plays an important role in the lives of individuals and the life of society. It helps to create meaning and memory. Because repetition is a ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

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    The Global Latin American Novel

    by Héctor Hoyos ...
    Series series Literature Now
    Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Héctor Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era. Calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation, he also ... Read more

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  • Tango And The Political Economy Of Passion

    by Marta Savigliano ...
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  • Non-literary Fiction

    Art of the Americas under Neoliberalism

    by Professor Esther Gabara ...
    Explores a new form of fiction that emerged in late-twentieth-century visual art across the Americas.With Non-literary Fiction, Esther Gabara examines how contemporary art produced across the Americas has reacted to the rising tide of neoliberal regimes, focusing on the crucial role of fiction in daily politics. Gabara argues that these fictions depart from familiar literary narrative structures ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD