Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto - Rilegato

Greenblatt, Stephen; Županov, Ines; Meyer-Kalkus, Reinhard; Paul, Heike; Nyķri, Pįl; Pannewick, Frederike

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ISBN 10: 0521863562 ISBN 13: 9780521863568

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Riassunto

Cultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even traditional cultures, are rarely stable or fixed. Radical mobility is not a phenomenon of the twenty-first century alone, but is a key constituent element of human life in virtually all periods. Yet academic accounts of culture tend to operate on exactly the opposite assumption and to celebrate what they imagine to be rooted or whole or undamaged. To grasp the shaping power of colonization, exile, emigration, wandering, contamination, and unexpected, random events, along with the fierce compulsions of greed, longing, and restlessness, cultural analysis needs to operate with a new set of principles. An international group of authors spells out these principles and puts them into practice.

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Descrizione del libro:

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.

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521863562
• ISBN 13: 9780521863568
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 282