Book Description
Lowentahal looks at the benefits and burdens of the past, how we study the past, and how we change it.
Author : David Lowenthal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 1985-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521294805
Lowentahal looks at the benefits and burdens of the past, how we study the past, and how we change it.
Author : Roman Katsman
Publisher :
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781618115287
This volume focuses on several Russian authors among many who immigrated to Israel with the "big wave" of the 1990s or later, and whose largest part of their works was written in Israel: Dina Rubina, Nekod Singer, Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis, and Mikhail Yudson. They are popular and active authors on the Israeli scene, in the printed and electronic media, and some of them are also editors of the renowned journals and authors of literary and cultural reviews and essays. They constitute a new generation of Jewish-Russian writers: diasporic Russians and new Israelis.
Author : Gregory Maertz
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 24,43 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3838212819
In the first chapter on the German military’s unlikely function as an incubator of modernist art and in the second chapter on Adolf Hitler’s advocacy for “eugenic” figurative representation embodying nostalgia for lost Aryan racial perfection and the aspiration for the future perfection of the German Volk, Maertz conclusively proves that the Nazi attack on modernism was inconsistent. In further chapters, on the appropriation of Christian iconography in constructing symbols of a Nazi racial utopia and on Baldur von Schirach’s heretical patronage of modernist art as the supreme Nazi Party authority in Vienna, Maertz reveals that sponsorship of modernist artists continued until the collapse of the regime. Also based on previously unexamined evidence, including 10,000 works of art and documents confiscated by the U.S. Army, Maertz’s final chapter reconstructs the anarchic denazification and rehabilitation of German artists during the Allied occupation, which had unforeseen consequences for the postwar art world.
Author : Tinatin Japaridze
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 35,17 MB
Release : 2022-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1793641870
This book examines Joseph Stalin’s increasing popularity in the post-Soviet space, and analyzes how his image, and the nostalgia it evokes, is manipulated and exploited for political gain. The author argues that, in addition to the evil dictator and the Georgian comrade, there is a third portrayal of Stalin—the one projected by the generation that saw the tail end of the USSR, the post-Soviet millennials. This book is not a biography of one of the most controversial historical figures of the past century. Rather, through a combination of sociopolitical commentary and autobiographical elements that are uncommon in monographs of this kind, the attempt is to explore how Joseph Stalin’s complex legacies and the conflicting cult of his irreconcilable tripartite of personalities still loom over the region as a whole, including Russia and, perhaps to an even deeper extent, Koba’s native land—now the independent Republic of Georgia, caught between its unreconciled Soviet past and the potential future within the European Union.
Author : Leslie Poles Hartley
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 1987
Category :
ISBN :
Author : David Lowenthal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 33,65 MB
Release : 2015-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521851424
A completely updated new edition of David Lowenthal's classic account of how we reshape the past to serve present needs.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 1993
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 47,65 MB
Release : 1992-05-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0140140360
“Read every page of this book; better still, re-read them. The invocation means no hardship, since every true reader must surely be captivated by Rushdie’s masterful invention and ease, the flow of wit and insight and passion. How literature of the highest order can serve the interests of our common humanity is freshly illustrated here: a defence of his past, a promise for the future, and a surrender to nobody or nothing whatever except his own all-powerful imagination.”-Michael Foot, Observer Salman Rushdie’s Imaginary Homelands is an important record of one writer’s intellectual and personal odyssey. The seventy essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects –the literature of the received masters and of Rushdie’s contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression. For this paperback edition, the author has written a new essay to mark the third anniversary of the fatwa.
Author : Fred Davis
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Stephanie Malia Hom
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442648724
Every year, Italy swells with millions of tourists who infuse the economy with billions of dollars and almost outnumber Italians themselves. In fact, Italy has been a model tourist destination for longer than it has been a modern state.The Beautiful Country explores the enduring popularity of destination Italy, and its role in the development of the global mass tourism industry. Stephanie Malia Hom tracks the evolution of this particular touristic imaginary through texts, practices, and spaces, beginning with the guidebooks that frame Italy as an idealized land of leisure and finishing with destination Italy's replication around the world. Today, more tourists encounter Italy through places like Las Vegas's The Venetian Hotel and Casino or Dubai's Mercato shopping mall than experience the country in Italy itself. Using an interdisciplinary methodology that includes archival research, ethnographic fieldwork, literary criticism, and spatial analysis,The Beautiful Country reveals destination Italy's paramount role in the creation of modern mass tourism.