Mirror of Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mirror of Modernity write by Stephen Vlastos. This book was released on 1998-05. Mirror of Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays challenges the notion that Japan's present cultural identity is the simple legacy of its pre-modern and insular past. Scholars examine "age-old" Japanese cultural practices and show these to be largely creations of the modern era.
The Distorting Mirror
The Distorting Mirror - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Distorting Mirror write by Laikwan Pang. This book was released on 2007-10-31. The Distorting Mirror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Distorting Mirror analyzes the multiple and complex ways in which urban Chinese subjects saw themselves interacting with the new visual culture that emerged during the turbulent period between the 1880s and the 1930s. The media and visual forms examined include lithography, photography, advertising, film, and theatrical performances. Urbanites actively engaged with and enjoyed this visual culture, which was largely driven by the subjective desire for the empty promises of modernity—promises comprised of such abstract and fleeting concepts as new, exciting, and fashionable. Detailing and analyzing the trajectories of development of various visual representations, Laikwan Pang emphasizes their interactions. In doing so, she demonstrates that visual modernity was not only a combination of independent cultural phenomena, but also a partially coherent sociocultural discourse whose influences were seen in different and collective parts of the culture. The work begins with an overall historical account and theorization of a new lithographic pictorial culture developing at the end of the nineteenth century and an examination of modernity’s obsession with the investigation of the real. Subsequent chapters treat the fascination with the image of the female body in the new visual culture; entertainment venues in which this culture unfolded and was performed; how urbanites came to terms with and interacted with the new reality; and the production and reception of images, the dynamics between these two being a theme explored throughout the book. Modernity, as the author shows, can be seen as spectacle. At the same time, she demonstrates that, although the excessiveness of this spectacle captivated the modern subject, it did not completely overwhelm or immobilize those who engaged with it. After all, she argues, they participated in and performed with this ephemeral visual culture in an attempt to come to terms with their own new, modern self.
A Literary Mirror
A Literary Mirror - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Literary Mirror write by I . Nyoman Darma Putra. This book was released on 2011-01-01. A Literary Mirror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Literary mirror is the first English-language work to comprehensively analyse Indonesian-language literature from Bali from a literary and cultural viewpoint. It covers the period from 1920 to 2000. This is an extremely rich field for research into the ways Balinese view their culture and how they respond to external cultural forces. This work complements the large number of existing studies of Bali and its history, anthropology, traditional literature, and the performing arts. A Literary Mirror is an invaluable resource for those researching twentieth-century Balinese authors who wrote in Indonesian. Until now, such writers have received very little attention in the existing literature. An appendix gives short biographical details of many significant writers and lists their work.
Enemy in the Mirror
Enemy in the Mirror - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Enemy in the Mirror write by Roxanne L. Euben. This book was released on 1999-11-21. Enemy in the Mirror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text draws on different diciplines, including postmodernist and critical theory, comparative politics, and anthropology, to examine Islamic fundamentalisim.
The Persian Mirror
The Persian Mirror - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Persian Mirror write by Susan Mokhberi. This book was released on 2019-10-21. The Persian Mirror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Persian Mirror explores France's preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu's Persian Letters, French intellectuals, diplomats and even ordinary Parisians were fascinated by Persia and eagerly consumed travel accounts, fairy tales, and the spectacle of the Persian ambassador's visit to Paris and Versailles in 1715. Using diplomatic sources, fiction and printed and painted images, The Persian Mirror describes how the French came to see themselves in Safavid Persia. In doing so, it revises our notions of orientalism and the exotic and suggests that early modern Europeans had more nuanced responses to Asia than previously imagined.
