Author: Australian National University. Humanities Research CentrePublisher:
ISBN: 9780731504596
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
The Humanities Research Centre
Author: Australian National University. Humanities Research CentrePublisher:
ISBN: 9780731504596
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Humanities Research Centre, the Australian National University
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780731508112
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Humanities Research Centre
Author: Glen St. John BarclayPublisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 0975122983
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
A history of the HRC at the ANU, but also an examination of the role and predicament of the humanities within universities and the wider community, and contributes substantially to the ongoing debate on an Australian identity.
The Humanities Research Centre
Author: Australian National University. Humanities Research CentrePublisher:
ISBN: 9780909851293
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Artisanal Enlightenment
Author: Paola BertucciPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300231628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A groundbreaking work that places the mechanical arts and the world of making at the heart of the Enlightenment What would the Enlightenment look like from the perspective of artistes, the learned artisans with esprit, who presented themselves in contrast to philosophers, savants, and routine-bound craftsmen? Making a radical change of historical protagonists, Paola Bertucci places the mechanical arts and the world of making at the heart of the Enlightenment. At a time of great colonial, commercial, and imperial concerns, artistes planned encyclopedic projects and sought an official role in the administration of the French state. The Société des Arts, which they envisioned as a state institution that would foster France’s colonial and economic expansion, was the most ambitious expression of their collective aspirations. Artisanal Enlightenment provides the first in-depth study of the Société, and demonstrates its legacy in scientific programs, academies, and the making of Diderot and D’Alembert’s Encyclopédie. Through insightful analysis of textual, visual, and material sources, Bertucci provides a groundbreaking perspective on the politics of writing on the mechanical arts and the development of key Enlightenment concepts such as improvement, utility, and progress.
Humanities Research Centre
Author: Glen St John BarclayPublisher:
ISBN: 9789751229830
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A history of the HRC at the ANU, but also an examination of the role and predicament of the humanities within universities and the wider community, and contributes substantially to the ongoing debate on an Australian identity.
Freedomville
Author: Laura MurphyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781734420746
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
NEH Fellowships
Author: Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies
Author: Salma MonaniPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317449126
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This book addresses the intersections between the interdisciplinary realms of Ecocriticism and Indigenous and Native American Studies, and between academic theory and pragmatic eco-activism conducted by multiethnic and indigenous communities. It illuminates the multi-layered, polyvocal ways in which artistic expressions render ecological connections, drawing on scholars working in collaboration with Indigenous artists from all walks of life, including film, literature, performance, and other forms of multimedia to expand existing conversations. Both local and global in its focus, the volume includes essays from multiethnic and Indigenous communities across the world, visiting topics such as Navajo opera, Sami film production history, south Indian tribal documentary, Maori art installations, Native American and First Nations science-fiction literature and film, Amazonian poetry, and many others. Highlighting trans-Indigenous sensibilities that speak to worldwide crises of environmental politics and action against marginalization, the collection alerts readers to movements of community resilience and resistance, cosmological thinking about inter- and intra-generational multi-species relations, and understandings of indigenous aesthetics and material ecologies. It engages with emerging environmental concepts such as multispecies ethnography, cosmopolitics, and trans-indigeneity, as well as with new areas of ecocritical research such as material ecocriticism, biosemiotics, and media studies. In its breadth and scope, this book promises new directions for ecocritical thought and environmental humanities practice, providing thought-provoking insight into what it means to be human in a locally situated, globally networked, and cosmologically complex world.
Thinking with Literature
Author: Terence CavePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198749414
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
To speak of 'thinking with literature' is to make the assumption that literature (in the broadest sense) is neither a side-show nor a side-issue in human cultures: it belongs to the spectrum of imaginative modes that includes both philosophical and scientific thought. Whether one regards it as a practice or as an archive, literature is highly pervasive, robust, enduring, and pregnant with values. Thinking with Literature argues that what it affords above all is a way of thinking, whether for writer, reader, or critic. Literature constitutes one of the prime instruments of cultural improvisation; it is the embodiment of a powerful, inventive, and ever-changing cognitive agency. As such, it invites a cognitive mode of criticism, one which asserts the priority of the individual literary work as a unique product of human cognition. In this book, discussions of topics, arguments, and hypotheses from the cognitive sciences, philosophy, and the theory of communication are woven into the fabric of a critical analysis which insists on the value of close reading: a poem by Yeats, a scene from Shakespeare, novels by Mme de Lafayette, Conrad, Frantzen, stories from Winnie-the-Pooh, and many others appear here on their own terms, with their own cognitive energies. Written in an accessible style, Thinking with Literature speaks both to mainstream readers of literature and to specialists in cognitive studies.