Cultural Mobility - A Manifesto

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. The author most recently of Will in the World (2004), Professor Greenblatt is one of the most distinguished and influential literary and cultural critics at work today, and a co-general editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Klappentext Cultural Mobility offers! from Stephen Greenblatt and colleagues! a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Zusammenfassung Cultural Mobility offers a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. It has emerged under the very distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt and represents a new way of thinking about culture and cultures with which scholars in many disciplines will need to engage. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Cultural mobility: an introduction Stephen Greenblatt; 2. 'The wheel of torments': mobility and redemption in Portuguese colonial India (16th century) Ines Zupanov; 3. Theatrical mobility Stephen Greenblatt; 4. World literature beyond Goethe Reinhard Meyler-Kalkus; 5. Mobility between Boston and Berlin: how Germans have read and reread narratives of American slavery Heike Paul; 6. Struggling for mobility: migration, tourism, and cultural authority in contemporary China Pal Nyiri; 7. Performativity and mobility: Middle Eastern traditions on the move Friederike Pannewick; 8. A mobility studies manifesto Stephen Greenblatt.

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• Authors: Stephen Greenblatt, Stephen J. Greenblatt, Stephen J. Guencheva Greenblatt, Rossitza Guencheva, Reinhard Meyer-Kalkus, Pal Nyiri, Frederike Pannewick, Heike Paul, Ines Upanov, Ines Zupanov, Ines G. Zupanov
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.12.2009
• EAN: 9780521682206
• ISBN: 978-0-521-68220-6
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories