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  • Gestural Imaginaries

    Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century

    by Lucia Ruprecht ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
    Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy. Taking further Cornelius Castoriadis's concept of the social imaginary, it explores this imaginary's embodied forms. Close readings of dances, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Dances of the Self in Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine

    by Lucia Ruprecht ...
    Lucia Ruprecht's study is the first monograph in English to analyse the relationship between nineteenth-century German literature and theatrical dance. Combining cultural history with close readings of major texts by Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine, the author brings to light little-known German resources on dance to address the theoretical implications of examining the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Dance and Modernism in Irish and German Literature and Culture

    Connections in Motion

    by Sabine Egger, Finola Cronin, Marguerite Donlon, Ruth Fleischmann, Jan Frohburg, Gisela Holfter, Susan Jones, Deirdre Mulrooney, Tanja Poppelreuter, Siobhán Purcell0, Lucia Ruprecht1, Joseph Twist2, Catherine E. Foley4, Margaret Mills Harper6 ...
    A collection of scholarly articles and essays by dancers and scholars of ethnochoreology, dance studies, drama studies, cultural studies, literature, and architecture, Dance and Modernism in Irish and German Literature and Culture: Connections in Motion explores Irish-German connections through dance in choreographic processes and on stage, in literary texts, dance documentation, film, and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Aesthetics

    by Theodor W. Adorno ...
    Translated by Wieland Hoban ...
    This volume of lectures on aesthetics, given by Adorno in the winter semester of 1958–9, formed the foundation for his later Aesthetic Theory, widely regarded as one of his greatest works.The lectures cover a wide range of topics, from an intense analysis of the work of Georg Lukács to a sustained reflection on the theory of aesthetic experience, from an examination of works by Plato, Kant, Hegel, ... Read more

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  • Kundera and Modernity

    by Liisa Steinby ...
    Series series Comparative Cultural Studies
    While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in Liisa Steinby's opinion his work has not been studied within the context of (European) modernity as a sociohistorical and a cultural concept. Of course, he is considered to be a modernist writer (some call him even a postmodernist), but what the broader concept of modernity intellectually, historically, socially, and ... Read more

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    Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary

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    German Culture and Jewish Identity in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

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  • Afterness

    Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics

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