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French Food
On the Table, On the Page, and in French Culture
Av Lawrence R. Schehr, Allen S. Weiss
Inbunden, 2001
2504 kr
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More than a book about food alone, French Food uses diet as a window into issues of nationality, literature, and culture in France and abroad. Outstanding contributors from cultural studies, literary criticism, performance studies, and the emerging field of food studies explore a wide range of food …
French Food
On the Table, On the Page, and in French Culture
Av Lawrence R. Schehr, Allen S. Weiss
Häftad, 2001
631 kr
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More than a book about food alone, French Food uses diet as a window into issues of nationality, literature, and culture in France and abroad. Outstanding contributors from cultural studies, literary criticism, performance studies, and the emerging field of food studies explore a wide range of food …
Sade and the Narrative of Transgression
Av David B. Allison, Mark S. Roberts m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
710 kr
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This major collection of essays on the Marquis de Sade, first published in 1995, encompasses a wide range of critical approaches to his œuvre, including some of the most celebrated texts in Sade scholarship. It focuses on several distinctly contemporary areas of interest: the explicitly libidinal …
Sade and the Narrative of Transgression
Av Csf Allison, David B. Allison m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
1928 kr
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This major collection of essays on the Marquis de Sade, first published in 1995, encompasses a wide range of critical approaches to his œuvre, including some of the most celebrated texts in Sade scholarship. It focuses on several distinctly contemporary areas of interest: the explicitly libidinal …
Wind and the Source
In the Shadow of Mont Ventoux
Inbunden, 2005
1286 kr
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Explores the role of a significant yet elusive feature of the French landscape in literature, philosophy, and art.What does it mean to love a landscape? Why do certain authors have a predilection for specific landscapes? Why might one be fascinated by a landscape in which one would never wish to …
Breathless
Häftad, 2002
364 kr
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Breathless explores early sound recording and the literature that both foreshadowed its invention and was contemporaneous with its early years, revealing the broad influence of this new technology at the very origins of Modernism. Through close readings of works by Edgar Allan Poe, Stéphane …
Phantasmic Radio
Häftad, 1995
494 kr
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The alienation of the self, the annihilation of the body, the fracturing, dispersal, and reconstruction of the disembodied voice: the themes of modernism, even of modern consciousness, occur as a matter of course in the phantasmic realm of radio. In this original work of cultural criticism, Allen …
Phantasmic Radio
E-bok, 1995
460 kr
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The alienation of the self, the annihilation of the body, the fracturing, dispersal, and reconstruction of the disembodied voice: the themes of modernism, even of modern consciousness, occur as a matter of course in the phantasmic realm of radio. In this original work of cultural criticism, Allen …
French Food
On the Table, On the Page, and in French Culture
Av Allen S. Weiss, Lawrence R. Schehr
E-bok, 2013
856 kr
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More than a book about food alone, French Food uses diet as a window into issues of nationality, literature, and culture in France and abroad. Outstanding contributors from cultural studies, literary criticism, performance studies, and the emerging field of food studies explore a wide range of food …
French Food
On the Table, On the Page, and in French Culture
Av Allen S. Weiss, Lawrence R. Schehr
E-bok, 2013
838 kr
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More than a book about food alone, French Food uses diet as a window into issues of nationality, literature, and culture in France and abroad. Outstanding contributors from cultural studies, literary criticism, performance studies, and the emerging field of food studies explore a wide range of food …
Illusory Dwellings
Aesthetic Meditations in Kyoto
Häftad, 2024
211 kr
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Essays on the nature, production, and presentation of art, craft, and architecture in Japan, inspired by the author’s experiences in Kyoto.Illusory Dwellings is not a guide concerning what to see in Kyoto, but a philosophical meditation on how to travel and observe in this capital of traditional …
Illusory Dwellings
Aesthetic Meditations in Kyoto
E-bok, 2024
140 kr
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Essays on the nature, production, and presentation of art, craft, and architecture in Japan, inspired by the author’s experiences in Kyoto. Illusory Dwellings is not a guide concerning what to see in Kyoto, but a philosophical meditation on how to travel and observe in this capital of traditional …
Zen Landscapes
Perspectives on Japanese Gardens and Ceramics
Inbunden, 2013
446 kr
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The essential elements of the dry Japanese garden are few: rocks, gravel, moss. Simultaneously a sensual matrix, a symbolic form and a mythic domain, these gardens exhibit precise craftsmanship and exquisite miniaturization. However, their apparent minimalism belies a profound complexity, which …
Grain of the Clay
Reflections on Ceramics and the Art of Collecting
Inbunden, 2016
318 kr
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People collect to connect with the past, personal and historic, to exercise some small and perfect degree of control over a carefully chosen portion of the world. The Grain of the Clay is Allen S. Weiss’s engaging exploration of the meaning and practice of collecting through his relationship with …
Aesthetics of Excess
Häftad, 1989
401 kr
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This book investigates the reciprocal and often transgressive relations between rhetorical figures and libidinal activity. The works of Nietzsche, Artaud, Bataille, Klossowski, and Sade are reconsidered in light of the modernist and postmodernist problematics of simulacra, fascination, sublimation …
Shattered Forms
Art Brut, Phantasms, Modernism
Häftad, 1992
398 kr
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Art Brut, also termed Outsider Art, has long been suppressed from most art historical writing. Why this rejection? The hyperbolic expressions of Romanticism and Symbolism nourished a desire for derangement and dissociation that inspired both Expressionism and Surrealism. Simulated delirium became …
Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon
Häftad, 1994
453 kr
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Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon analyzes the limits of the applicability of psychoanalytic theory to aesthetic discourse, and in doing so expands the range of non-normative paradigms of spectatorial identification and sexual identity. These considerations are based on the epistemological …
Feast and Folly
Cuisine, Intoxication, and the Poetics of the Sublime
Inbunden, 2002
1111 kr
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Treats French cuisine as a "fine art," offering both historical background as well as a deep analysis of the social, political, and aesthetic aspects of cuisine and taste.What would it mean to speak of cuisine as a "fine art"? Combining an analysis of French cuisine with cutting-edge postmodernist …
Feast and Folly
Cuisine, Intoxication, and the Poetics of the Sublime
Häftad, 2002
296 kr
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Treats French cuisine as a "fine art," offering both historical background as well as a deep analysis of the social, political, and aesthetic aspects of cuisine and taste.What would it mean to speak of cuisine as a "fine art"? Combining an analysis of French cuisine with cutting-edge postmodernist …
Wind and the Source
In the Shadow of Mont Ventoux
Häftad, 2006
373 kr
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Explores the role of a significant yet elusive feature of the French landscape in literature, philosophy, and art.What does it mean to love a landscape? Why do certain authors have a predilection for specific landscapes? Why might one be fascinated by a landscape in which one would never wish to …
Phantasmic Radio
Inbunden, 1995
1179 kr
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The alienation of the self, the annihilation of the body, the fracturing, dispersal, and reconstruction of the disembodied voice: the themes of modernism, even of modern consciousness, occur as a matter of course in the phantasmic realm of radio. In this original work of cultural criticism, Allen …
Psychosis and Sexual Identity
Toward a Post-Analytic View of the Schreber Case
Av David B. Allison, Prado de Oliveira m. fl.
Häftad, 1988
414 kr
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This book examines Freud's most famous case study with newly discovered material written by Schreber and photos of significant persons in Schreber's life.
