This collection of essays brings together the best of modern scholarship by international specialists in empire studies. Focusing on British travel narratives from the seventeenth through to the nineteenth centuries, the essays investigate how the early explorers' sense of self …
This collection of essays brings together the best of modern scholarship by international specialists in empire studies. Focusing on British travel narratives from the seventeenth through to the nineteenth centuries, the essays investigate how the early explorers' sense of self …
Art historians have long been accustomed to thinking about art and artists in terms of national traditions. This volume takes a different approach, suggesting instead that a history of art based on national divisions often obscures the processes of cultural appropriation and glo…
Cultural contact and the making of European art, 1492-1930 / Mary D. Sheriff -- On the peripatetic life of objects in the era of globalization / Claire Farago -- Remapping Dutch art in global perspective : other points of view / Julie Hochstrasser -- Travel and cultural exchange…
""This groundbreaking book allows the reader to appreciate the complexity and variety of cultural contacts that have shaped not only European art, but also the very idea of Europe." David O' Brien, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign." ""The questions that are engaged in …
Art historians have long been accustomed to thinking about art and artists in terms of national traditions.
"In this book Tamar Herzog explores the emergence of a specifically Spanish concept of community in both Spain and Spanish America in the eighteenth century. Challenging the assumption that communities were the natural result of common factors such as language or religion, or th…
An exploration of the emergence of a specifically Spanish concept of community in both Spain and Spanish America in the 18th century. Challenging the assumption that communities were the natural result of common factors such as language or religion, or that they were artificiall…
Menschen können missachtet werden. Woher aber rührt diese symbolische Verletzbarkeit? Und welche Folgen hat sie für unser soziales Zusammenleben? Im Ausgang von den Theorien der Anerkennung und den Theorien der Alterität geht Steffen Herrmann diesen beiden Fragen nach. Er argume…
Leading international film scholars assess the impact and evolution of the concept of ostrannenie, or defamiliarisation, since its original appearance in literary debates in the 1920s.
In dit boek wordt Sjklovsky's manifest van het Russische Formalisme opnieuw geïnterpreteerd, ditmaal binnen de context van de vroege film en de sterk -vervreemdende" impact daarvan op de kijkers. In zijn manifest introduceerde Sjklovsky de term -ostrannenie, die vaak wordt verta…
