Cultural Studies
Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La noblesa valenciana en el Cancionero general (1511): L’exemple de Francesc Gilabert de Fenollet (ca. 1480–1548), batlle de Xàtiva in the group
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El 22 de desembre de 1509, l‘erudit castellà Hernando del Castillo, el mercader genovés Lorenzo Ganoto i l’impressor Cristóbal Cofman firmaven a la ciutat de València, davant el notari Joan Casanova, el contracte de la primera edició del Cancionero general, que va veure la llum finalment l’any 1511. En esència, la distribució del treball era…[Read more]
Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Valencia en el Cancionero general de Hernando del Castillo: los poetas y los poemas in the group
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El presente trabajo presenta un panorama de síntesis biográfica con respecto a los poetas valencianos presentes en el Cancionero general de Hernando del Castillo. Asimismo, los poemas que contienen temas típicos de Valencia también son analizados, con el objetivo de estimular un mayor conocimiento de los hombres y la ciudad en cuyo entorno cul…[Read more]
Francesca Falk deposited Einleitung in the group
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1970 wurde die Schwarzenbach-Initiative nur knapp verworfen. Sie war der Auftakt zu einer bis heute anhaltenden Reihe von «Überfremdungsinitiativen», die Generationen von Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichte traumatisiert haben. In diesem Buch sprechen Zeitzeug:innen der Schwarzenbach-Initiative über ihr Leben im Provisorium. Sie erzählen von prek…[Read more]
Rita Singer deposited “The Devil may take Snowdon”, or: inscribing touristic disappointment in Victorian visitors’ books in the group
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Historically, tourism in Wales was invigorated by the reinvention of mountain scenery during the Romantic period when travellers gained new perspectives of the terrain from higher ground. It is also during this period that inns and guesthouses began keeping visitors’ books in which guests evaluated their surroundings and their hosts’ good ser…[Read more]
Muhammad Naeem deposited SOCIAL MOBILITY, ECONOMICS AND HUMAN AGENCY: A Study of Shahid-e-Råna in the group
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To determine the social status of a person, Sorokin coined the idea of Social space. This theme is useful in analyzing the relative position of a person in one’s group and one’s horizontal or vertical movement within and to other groups. Novel is a symbolic space, which makes possible for writers to construct the relative social status of…[Read more]
Muhammad Naeem deposited Mirat-ul-Uroos: Female Agency and Male Reform in the group
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In this article, much discussed and popular novel of Nazir Ahmad, Miratul Uroos is analyzed in gender perspective. With the analysis of its main character Asghari, it is argued that novelistic fiction brings about in Urdu literature possibilities of human Agency, especially for the hitherto silenced voices of oppressed gender. This character also…[Read more]
Muhammad Naeem deposited Sorat-e Hal and Willful Modernism in the group
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Urdu literature saw a “Reform boom” in the second half of nineteenth century. Most of the literati were engaged in understanding, and presenting their views on, the rapidly changing world around them. This article analyses a text produced in 1893 by Shad Azeemabadi, enhancing the need for reform in the Zenana. By underscoring the relationship of…[Read more]
Muhammad Naeem deposited Ayyama: Emancipation and Narrative in the group
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Nazir Ahmad, often considered to be the first Urdu novelist, used narratives for understanding the quickly changing world around him, and in his work, shaped expanding possibilities and new roles for Muslim ashrāf women. Although he is usually thought of as a cleric who had a traditional approach towards society and new forms of knowledge, in…[Read more]
Muhammad Naeem deposited Culture, Colonialsim and Curriculum: Normalization in Majalis un-Nisa in the group
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This article explores the normalization of Ashraf Culture and Colonizers in Majalis un-Nisa. It is argued that the colonial authorities tried at their capacity to keep themselves at length from the colonized physically and disseminated the discourse of colonial difference to present themselves as role models symbolically. While preparing the…[Read more]
Muhammad Naeem deposited Meena Bazar: Religious Construction of History in the group
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Identity is a cultural construction. Literary genres also take part in this process. In novel, characters’ particular traits are selected and their actions’ interpreted by the writer in their cultural context. Even the historical novel is no exception. While presenting the historical persons the selection and interpretation are derived from…[Read more]
Manfred Engel deposited Typologizing the Dream / Le rêve du point de vue typologique. Ed. by Bernard Dieterle and Manfred Engel. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2022 (Cultural Dream Studies; 5) — Contents and Preface in the group
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There is nothing like a firmly established typology of dreams – simply because the taxonomies on which existing typologies are based vary widely: They can be oneirocritical, thematic, or based on dreaming characters or their responses, on narratological functions, etc. The essays in this volume will discuss a broad range of dream types, with a s…[Read more]
Gil Rodman deposited Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Film: What Does It Mean to Be a Black Film in Twenty-First Century America? in the group
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“What does it mean to be a black film in twenty-first century America?”
Riffing off of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s work in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, who in turn drew heavily from Wallace Stevens’ 1917 poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” this chapter wrestles with some of the controversies surrounding the 2012 film Dj…[Read more]Valeria Graziano deposited Verso una teoria delle pratiche prefigurative in the group
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Verso una teoria delle pratiche prefigurative – traduzione dall’inglese.
Valeria Graziano deposited Rivoluzioni domestiche contro domesticazioni tecnologiche in the group
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Una critica ai miti dell’automazione da una prospettiva femminista
Valeria Graziano deposited Quando il prendersi cura ha bisogno della pirateria: sull’uso della disobbedienza contro i regimi di proprietà imperiali in the group
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Sul perchè la cura ha sempre più a che fare con la disobbedienza della proprietà privata
Valeria Graziano deposited When Care Needs Piracy: The Case for Disobedience in Struggles Against Imperial Property Regimes in the group
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Why to care means to disobey private property
Luis de Orueta deposited Las Hermanas Livermore in the group
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España, a finales del siglo XVIII, todavía era un imperio colonial. El comercio con las provincias de ultramar estimulaba la venida de irlandeses, prusianos, suecos, holandeses, marselleses y sobre todo ingleses, que fundaban Casas de Comercio con españoles. Pero con la aparición de Napoleón en la escena europea, Inglaterra impuso el “blo…[Read more]
Gil Rodman deposited Textual Stealing?: Copyright, Race, and Elusive Justice in the group
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A critical analysis of the racial politics of the “Blurred Lines” copyright infringement case.
Sonia D. Andras deposited Creating City Chic. The Parisian Influence on Interwar Bucharest Fashion Preprint PDF in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
This paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the so-colled ”Little Paris”. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what typ…[Read more]
Jefferson Pooley deposited Writing onto the Clouds: John Durham Peters and Inscription Media in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
This short essay suggests that John Durham Peters’ Speaking into the Air (1999) re-capitulates its arguments through form. In its written medium, with its hermeneutic mode, and by its promiscuous prose, the book exemplifies its own moral case for dissemination over (in Peters’ chilling phrase) ‘interpersonal mimesis’. The essay positions the boo…[Read more]
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