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Author : Ted McKeever
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Release Date : 1995
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015052694901
Pages : pages
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Author : Ted McKeever
Publisher :
Release Date : 1996
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015052694919
Pages : pages
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Author : Ted McKeever
Publisher :
Release Date : 1996
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015052694935
Pages : pages
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Author : Ted McKeever
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Release Date : 1996
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015052694943
Pages : pages
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Author : Agnieszka ?owczanin
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2018-07-06
ISBN 10 : 9780429859700
Pages : 272 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (97 downloads)
Download Gothic Peregrinations in PDF Full Online Free by Agnieszka ?owczanin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over two hundred years, the Gothic has remained fixed in the European and American imaginations, steadily securing its position as a global cultural mode in recent decades. The globalization of Gothic studies has resulted in the proliferation of new critical concepts and a growing academic interest in the genre. Yet, despite its longevity, unprecedented expansion, and accusations of prescriptiveness, the Gothic remains elusive and without a straightforward definition. Gothic Peregrinations: The Unexplored and Re-explored Territories looks at Gothic productions largely marginalized in the studies of the genre, including the European absorption of and response to the Gothic. This collection of essays identifies landmarks and ley lines in the insufficiently probed territories of Gothic scholarship and sets out to explore its unmapped regions. This volume not only examines Gothic peregrinations from a geographical perspective but also investigates how the genre has been at odds with strict demarcation of generic boundaries. Analyzing texts which come from outside the Gothic canon, yet prove to be deeply indebted to it, like bereavement memoirs, stories produced by and about factory girls of Massachusetts, and the Mattel Monster High franchise, this volume illuminates the previously unexplored fields in Gothic studies. The chapters in this volume reveal the truly transnational expansion of the Gothic and the importance of exchange – exchange now seen not only as crucial to the genre’s gestation, or vital to the processes of globalization, but also to legitimizing Gothic studies in the global world.
Author : Lauren M. E. Goodlad
Publisher : Duke University Press
Release Date : 2007-03-21
ISBN 10 : 9780822389705
Pages : 454 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (97 downloads)
Download Goth in PDF Full Online Free by Lauren M. E. Goodlad and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-21 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it first emerged from Britain’s punk-rock scene in the late 1970s, goth subculture has haunted postmodern culture and society, reinventing itself inside and against the mainstream. Goth: Undead Subculture is the first collection of scholarly essays devoted to this enduring yet little examined cultural phenomenon. Twenty-three essays from various disciplines explore the music, cinema, television, fashion, literature, aesthetics, and fandoms associated with the subculture. They examine goth’s many dimensions—including its melancholy, androgyny, spirituality, and perversity—and take readers inside locations in Los Angeles, Austin, Leeds, London, Buffalo, New York City, and Sydney. A number of the contributors are or have been participants in the subculture, and several draw on their own experiences. The volume’s editors provide a rich history of goth, describing its play of resistance and consumerism; its impact on class, race, and gender; and its distinctive features as an “undead” subculture in light of post-subculture studies and other critical approaches. The essays include an interview with the distinguished fashion historian Valerie Steele; analyses of novels by Anne Rice, Poppy Z. Brite, and Nick Cave; discussions of goths on the Internet; and readings of iconic goth texts from Bram Stoker’s Dracula to James O’Barr’s graphic novel The Crow. Other essays focus on gothic music, including seminal precursors such as Joy Division and David Bowie, and goth-influenced performers such as the Cure, Nine Inch Nails, and Marilyn Manson. Gothic sexuality is explored in multiple ways, the subjects ranging from the San Francisco queercore scene of the 1980s to the increasing influence of fetishism and fetish play. Together these essays demonstrate that while its participants are often middle-class suburbanites, goth blurs normalizing boundaries even as it appears as an everlasting shadow of late capitalism. Contributors: Heather Arnet, Michael Bibby, Jessica Burstein, Angel M. Butts, Michael du Plessis, Jason Friedman, Nancy Gagnier, Ken Gelder, Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Joshua Gunn, Trevor Holmes, Paul Hodkinson, David Lenson, Robert Markley, Mark Nowak, Anna Powell, Kristen Schilt, Rebecca Schraffenberger, David Shumway, Carol Siegel, Catherine Spooner, Lauren Stasiak, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Author : Jeffrey S. Kaplan
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Release Date : 2002-07-31
ISBN 10 : 9780759116580
Pages : 360 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (658 downloads)
Download The Cultic Milieu in PDF Full Online Free by Jeffrey S. Kaplan and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2002-07-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1999, a seemingly incongruous collection of protestors converged in Seattle to shut down the meetings of the World Trade Organization. Union leaders, environmentalists dressed as endangered turtles, mainstream Christian clergy, violence-advocating anarchists, gay and lesbian activists, and many other diverse groups came together to protest what they saw as the unfair power of a nondemocratic elite. But how did such strange bedfellows come together? And can their unity continue? In 1972—another period of social upheaval—sociologist Colin Campbell posited a 'cultic milieu': An underground region where true seekers test hidden, forgotten, and forbidden knowledge. Ideas and allegiances within the milieu change as individuals move between loosely organized groups, but the larger milieu persists in opposition to the dominant culture. Jeffrey Kaplan and Helene Loow find Campbell's theory especially useful in coming to grips with the varied oppositional groups of today. While the issues differ, current subcultures often behave in similar ways to deviant groups of the past. The Cultic Milieu brings together scholars looking at racial, religious and environmental oppositional groups as well as looking at the watchdog groups that oppose these groups in turn. While providing fascinating information on their own subjects, each essay contributes to a larger understanding of our present-day cultic milieu. For classes in the social sciences or religious studies, The Cultic Milieu offers a novel way to look at the interactions and ideas of those who fight against the powerful in our global age.
Author : Jane Suzanne Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2012-08-06
ISBN 10 : 9781136321177
Pages : 258 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (117 downloads)
Download Landscape in Children's Literature in PDF Full Online Free by Jane Suzanne Carroll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new critical methodology for the study of landscapes in children's literature. Treating landscape as the integration of unchanging and irreducible physical elements, or topoi, Carroll identifies and analyses four kinds of space — sacred spaces, green spaces, roadways, and lapsed spaces — that are the component elements of the physical environments of canonical British children’s fantasy. Using Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Sequence as the test-case for this methodology, the book traces the development of the physical features and symbolic functions of landscape topoi from their earliest inception in medieval vernacular texts through to contemporary children's literature. The identification and analysis of landscape topoi synthesizes recent theories about interstitial space together with earlier morphological and topoanalytical studies, enabling the study of fictional landscapes in terms of their physical characteristics as well as in terms of their relationship with contemporary texts and historical precedents. Ultimately, by providing topoanalytical studies of other children’s texts, Carroll proposes topoanalysis as a rich critical method for the study and understanding of children’s literature and indicates how the findings of this approach may be expanded upon. In offering both transferable methodologies and detailed case-studies, this book outlines a new approach to literary landscapes as geographical places within socio-historical contexts.
Author : Catherine Spooner
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2007-10-08
ISBN 10 : 9781134151028
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (12 downloads)
Download The Routledge Companion to Gothic in PDF Full Online Free by Catherine Spooner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a wide ranging series of introductory essays written by some of the leading figures in the field, this essential guide explores the world of Gothic in all its myriad forms throughout the mid-eighteenth Century to the internet age. The Routledge Companion to Gothic includes discussion on: the history of Gothic gothic throughout the English-speaking world i.e. London and USA as well as the postcolonial landscapes of Australia, Canada and the Indian subcontinent key themes and concepts ranging from hauntings and the uncanny; Gothic femininities and queer Gothic gothic in the modern world, from youth to graphic novels and films. With ideas for further reading, this book is one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date guides on the diverse and murky world of the gothic in literature, film and culture.
Author : Wickham Clayton
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2015-10-12
ISBN 10 : 9781137496478
Pages : 254 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (647 downloads)
Download Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film in PDF Full Online Free by Wickham Clayton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film fills a broad scholastic gap by analysing the elements of narrative and stylistic construction of films in the slasher subgenre of horror that have been produced and/or distributed in the Hollywood studio system from its initial boom in the late 1970s to the present.
Author : Carl Grodach
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2012-10-19
ISBN 10 : 9780415683784
Pages : 272 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (378 downloads)
Download The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy in PDF Full Online Free by Carl Grodach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Urban Cultural Policy brings together a range of international experts to critically analyze the ways that governmental actors and non-governmental entities attempt to influence the production and implementation of urban policies directed at the arts, culture, and creative activity. Presenting a global set of case studies that span five continents and 22 cities, the essays in this book advance our understanding of how the dynamic interplay between economic and political context, institutional arrangements, and social networks affect urban cultural policy-making and the ways that these policies impact urban development and influence urban governance. The volume comparatively studies urban cultural policy-making in a diverse set of contexts, analyzes the positive and negative outcomes of policy for different constituencies, and identifies the most effective policy directions, emerging political challenges, and most promising opportunities for building effective cultural policy coalitions. The volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth engagement with the political process of urban cultural policy and urban development studies around the world. It will be of interest to students and researchers interested in urban planning, urban studies and cultural studies.
Author : Carol Siegel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2005-08-04
ISBN 10 : 9780253111562
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (156 downloads)
Download Goth's Dark Empire in PDF Full Online Free by Carol Siegel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Goth's Dark Empire cultural historian Carol Siegel provides a fascinating look at Goth, a subculture among Western youth. It came to prominence with punk performers such as Marilyn Manson and was made infamous when it was linked (erroneously) to the Columbine High School murders. While the fortunes of Goth culture form a portion of this book's story, Carol Siegel is more interested in pursuing Goth as a means of resisting regimes of sexual normalcy, especially in its celebration of sadomasochism (S/M). The world of Goth can appear wide-ranging: from films such as Edward Scissorhands and The Crow to popular fiction such as Anne Rice's "vampire" novels to rock bands such as Nine Inch Nails. But for Siegel, Goth appears as a mode of being sexually undead -- and loving it. What was Goth and what happened to it? In this book, Siegel tracks Goth down, reveals the sources of its darkness, and shows that Goth as a response to the modern world has not disappeared but only escaped underground.
Author : M. Gardiner
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2012-08-07
ISBN 10 : 9781137026026
Pages : 211 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (62 downloads)
Download The Return of England in English Literature in PDF Full Online Free by M. Gardiner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively study provides an account of the 'fall and rise' of the English nation within the British discipline of English Literature between the late eighteenth century and the present day, offering a reconceptualisation of the relationship between English Literature and the formation of English cultural identity.
Author : Florence S. Boos
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-14
ISBN 10 : 9781317299530
Pages : 300 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (953 downloads)
Download History and Community in PDF Full Online Free by Florence S. Boos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume, originally published in 1992, examine some of the pervasive implications of Victorian medievalism, and assess its creative manifestations and dual capacities for expression of reformist anger and escapist retreat. Some of the emotional and intllectual reasons for the strong Victorian attraction to ‘medieval’ history and litereature are discussed and emblematic responses to this attraction are examined.
Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2021-06-23
ISBN 10 : 9781317268086
Pages : 8494 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (88 downloads)
Download Routledge Library Editions: Historiography in PDF Full Online Free by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 8494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest problem in historical scholarship, theoretically and practically, is the relation between historians and their subject matter. The past is gone and historians can only study its remnants. On what basis do scholars select certain facts from the mass of data left from the past? How do they explain the interrelationship of the facts they select? What criteria do they use to evaluate their subject? The 35 volumes in this set, originally published between 1926 and 1990 discuss and answer these essential questions faced by historians. The development of historical understanding during the 18th and 19th centuries was one of the most striking features of Western culture. Both historiography and historical thinking advanced as never before. The historial movment of the 19th century was perhaps second only to the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century in transforming Western thought. One consequence was extensive organisation and professionalization of research, which the volumes in this set reflect.
Author : Carl Rhodes
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-13
ISBN 10 : 9781135751081
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (18 downloads)
Download Organizations and Popular Culture in PDF Full Online Free by Carl Rhodes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout its history, popular mass-mediated culture has turned its attention to representing and interrogating organizational life. As early as Charlie Chaplin’s cinematic classic Modern Times and as recently as the primetime television hit The Simpsons, we see cultural products that engage reflexively in coming to terms with the meaning of work, technology and workplace relations. It is only since the late 1990s, however, that those who research management and organizations have come to collectively dwell on the relationship between organizations and popular culture – a relationship where the cultural meanings of work are articulated in popular culture, and where popular culture challenges taken for granted knowledge about the structure and practice work. Key to this development has been the journal Culture and Organization – a journal that has been centre stage in creating new vistas through which the ‘cultural studies of organization’ can be explored. This book brings together the journal’s best contributions which specifically address how popular culture represents, informs and potentially transforms organizational practice. Featuring contributors from the UK, USA, Europe and Australia, this exciting anthology provides a comprehensive review of research in organization and popular culture.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2010
ISBN 10 : 9781438132747
Pages : 197 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (274 downloads)
Download Charles Dickens's Great Expectations in PDF Full Online Free by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of interpretations of Charles Dickens's novel, Great expectations.