Literatuuropgave : p. 431-440. Met reg. Philosophical theory that addresses a broad range of issues: the distinction between fiction and nonfiction, how depiction differs from description, the notion of points of view in the arts, what it means for one work to be more 'realistic…
Aandacht voor de verbeelding van de moslimvrouw, van helleveeg tot haremmeisje, in westerse literaire genres vanaf de middeleeuwen tot aan het midden van de negentiende eeuw.
Veiled, secluded, submissive, oppressed--the "odalisque" image has held sway over Western representations of Muslim women since the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Yet during medieval and Renaissance times, European writers portrayed Muslim women in exactly the opposite…
by Cooke, Maeve
fromStudies in contemporary German social thought
by Cooke, Maeve
fromStudies in contemporary German social thought
A proposal for negotiating the tension between an anti-authoritarian impulse and a guiding idea of context-transcending validity in critical social theory. Contemporary critical social theories face the question of how to justify the ideas of the good society that guide their cr…
This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive outline of how visual images, language and discourse work as 'systems of representation'. Individual chapters explore: representation as a signifying practice in a rich diversity of social contexts and institutional sites; the use o…
"This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive treatment of how visual images, language and discourse work as 'systems of representation'." "Individual chapters explain a variety of approaches to representation, bringing to bear concepts from semiotic, discursive, psychoanalyti…
