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The popular view that “everyone can be creative” is a fashionable nonsense. But so was the old idea that creativity is only for a select few. This book shows an alternative way to understand creative thinking that will change how we see imagination and innovation.
The popular view that “everyone can be creative” is a fashionable nonsense. But so was the old idea that creativity is only for a select few. This book shows an alternative way to understand creative thinking that will change how we see imagination and innovation.
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The Future of Text and Image
Collected Essays on Literary and Visual Conjunctures
This volume explores the evolving relationship between text and image in literature. Scholars examine this dynamic across diverse forms—from novels and poetry to collage books and digital poetry—reflecting the significance of the visual in today’s image culture.
This volume explores the evolving relationship between text and image in literature. Scholars examine this dynamic across diverse forms—from novels and poetry to collage books and digital poetry—reflecting the significance of the visual in today’s image culture.
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Socrates and Dionysus
Philosophy and Art in Dialogue
Nietzsche argued Socratic reason destroyed the tragic art of Dionysus, pitting science against art. But are they enemies? This volume challenges that division, exploring how artists and thinkers bridge the gap between the world of fact and the world of fiction.
Nietzsche argued Socratic reason destroyed the tragic art of Dionysus, pitting science against art. But are they enemies? This volume challenges that division, exploring how artists and thinkers bridge the gap between the world of fact and the world of fiction.
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In 19th-century France, painting asserted its independence from literature as art's influence on authors grew. This investigation reveals their complex relationship through case studies of David, Hugo, Van Gogh, and Balzac, shedding new light on both fields.
In 19th-century France, painting asserted its independence from literature as art’s influence on authors grew. This investigation reveals their complex relationship through case studies of David, Hugo, Van Gogh, and Balzac, shedding new light on both fields.
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Documents on the Balkans – History, Memory, Identity
Representations of Historical Discourses in the Balkan Documentary Film
This book explores how Balkan films produce identities based on memory, often in response to the 1990s conflicts. Case studies connect the 'private space' of everyday lives to macro-debates, making this a powerful contribution to cultural and visual history.
This book explores how Balkan films produce identities based on memory, often in response to the 1990s conflicts. Case studies connect the ‘private space’ of everyday lives to macro-debates, making this a powerful contribution to cultural and visual history.
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The “I” and the “Eye”
The Verbal and the Visual in Post-Renaissance Western Aesthetics
Tracing the opposition between verbal and visual arts from Lessing to Greenberg, the author delineates it as a history of diffusions, displacements and idealist reparations of class division.
Tracing the opposition between verbal and visual arts from Lessing to Greenberg, the author delineates it as a history of diffusions, displacements and idealist reparations of class division.
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Projecting Words, Writing Images
Intersections of the Textual and the Visual in American Cultural Practices
This compilation of essays explores the energetic field of visual cultural studies. Scholars engage with photography, film, television, and literature, re-theorizing the relationship between word and image and their intersections with race, gender, and public spheres.
This compilation of essays explores the energetic field of visual cultural studies. Scholars engage with photography, film, television, and literature, re-theorizing the relationship between word and image and their intersections with race, gender, and public spheres.
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These essays from international experts highlight the growing interdisciplinary interest in the relationship between human consciousness and the arts. The collection reflects a wide range of approaches to theatre, literature, film, fine arts, and music.
These essays from international experts highlight the growing interdisciplinary interest in the relationship between human consciousness and the arts. The collection reflects a wide range of approaches to theatre, literature, film, fine arts, and music.
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Film and Morality examines how morality is presented in films and how they serve as a source of moral values. It shows how audiences explore moral issues by following characters who make life-changing decisions and live with the consequences of their choices.
Film and Morality examines how morality is presented in films and how they serve as a source of moral values. It shows how audiences explore moral issues by following characters who make life-changing decisions and live with the consequences of their choices.
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Beyond Buildings
Designed Spaces as Visual Persuasion
Beyond Buildings demonstrates that designed spaces are as socially influential as speeches or advertisements. This assessment of spaces—from parks and battlefields to cities and interiors—provides insight into their cultural roles and social impact.
Beyond Buildings demonstrates that designed spaces are as socially influential as speeches or advertisements. This assessment of spaces—from parks and battlefields to cities and interiors—provides insight into their cultural roles and social impact.
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The First International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature, and the Arts brought together 80 delegates from fourteen countries. This book collects 40 papers characteristic of the wide range of topics and disciplines represented at the conference.
The First International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature, and the Arts brought together 80 delegates from fourteen countries. This book collects 40 papers characteristic of the wide range of topics and disciplines represented at the conference.
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Mutual (In)Comprehensions
France and Britain in the Long Nineteenth Century
This collection of essays explores the complex relationship between France and Britain in the nineteenth century. With both admiration and anxiety, each nation used its “best enemy” to shape its own national identity through art, literature, and history.
This collection of essays explores the complex relationship between France and Britain in the nineteenth century. With both admiration and anxiety, each nation used its “best enemy” to shape its own national identity through art, literature, and history.
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Envisaging Death
Visual Culture and Dying
This book connects Death Studies to visual culture, arguing death is not universal. Who you are and where you live influences how your death is imaged and imagined, exploring how the distance between the living and the dead is both reinforced and disrupted.
This book connects Death Studies to visual culture, arguing death is not universal. Who you are and where you live influences how your death is imaged and imagined, exploring how the distance between the living and the dead is both reinforced and disrupted.
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Au Naturel
(Re)Reading Hispanic Naturalism
The essays in this collection propose a major revision of Hispanic naturalism. Reframing it as a phenomenon that transcends time, they demonstrate how naturalist texts–literary and filmic–engage societal problems from the 19th century to the present day.
The essays in this collection propose a major revision of Hispanic naturalism. Reframing it as a phenomenon that transcends time, they demonstrate how naturalist texts–literary and filmic–engage societal problems from the 19th century to the present day.
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Ruminations, Peregrinations, and Regenerations
A Critical Approach to Doctor Who
A critical approach to Doctor Who, this book examines the famous science fiction show as a cultural artifact. It explores the show’s dialogue with politics, religion, and culture, as well as the peculiarities of its audience response.
A critical approach to Doctor Who, this book examines the famous science fiction show as a cultural artifact. It explores the show’s dialogue with politics, religion, and culture, as well as the peculiarities of its audience response.
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This book explores drama as an intervention in conflict. It maps theatre's transformative role in contexts from South Africa to New Zealand, addressing violence in prisons, cities, and families. Includes two new play scripts on xenophobia and family violence.
This book explores drama as an intervention in conflict. It maps theatre’s transformative role in contexts from South Africa to New Zealand, addressing violence in prisons, cities, and families. Includes two new play scripts on xenophobia and family violence.
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Anti-Tales
The Uses of Disenchantment
The anti-tale is the fairy tale’s evil twin. It subverts, inverts, and deconstructs familiar stories. In this collection, Red Riding Hood retaliates, Cinderella’s stepmother tells her side, and Snow White becomes a postmodern vampire.
The anti-tale is the fairy tale’s evil twin. It subverts, inverts, and deconstructs familiar stories. In this collection, Red Riding Hood retaliates, Cinderella’s stepmother tells her side, and Snow White becomes a postmodern vampire.
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Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 1
Diaspora Representations and the Interweaving of Cultures
This book explores how plays of the African diaspora acknowledge home cultures while interacting with host cultures. Contributions attest that the diaspora is not solely outside the continent, but can be found in performances within Africa that engage with the world.
This book explores how plays of the African diaspora acknowledge home cultures while interacting with host cultures. Contributions attest that the diaspora is not solely outside the continent, but can be found in performances within Africa that engage with the world.
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Kitsch
History, Theory, Practice
Often dismissed as facile or lowbrow, kitsch is surprisingly complex. The contributors to this collection address how and what kitsch might signify, moving well beyond the simple binaries of good/bad, high/low, or art/kitsch into far more rewarding territory.
Often dismissed as facile or lowbrow, kitsch is surprisingly complex. The contributors to this collection address how and what kitsch might signify, moving well beyond the simple binaries of good/bad, high/low, or art/kitsch into far more rewarding territory.
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This volume explores the cultural significance of the ‘noughties’ in the Hispanic and Lusophone world, defining a new generation through its film, digital media, theatre, and history.
This volume explores the cultural significance of the ‘noughties’ in the Hispanic and Lusophone world, defining a new generation through its film, digital media, theatre, and history.
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