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Who Decides?
How is the meaning of food created, communicated, and continually transformed? How are food practices defined, shaped, delineated, constructed, modified, resisted, and reinvented – by whom and for whom? These are but a few of the questions Who Decides? Competing Narratives in Constructing Tastes, Consumption and Choice explores. Part I (Taste, Authenticity & Identity) explicitly centres on the connection between food and identity construction. Part II (Food Discourses) focuses on how food-related language shapes perceptions that in turn construct particular behaviours that in turn demonstrate underlying value systems. Thus, as a collection, this volume explores how tastes are shaped, forme...
Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe
Despite the fact that, if only by number, small and peripheral cities played an important role in fifteenth and sixteenth-century European print culture, book history has mainly been dominated by monographs on individual big book centres. Through a number of specific case studies, which deploy a variety of methods and a wide range of sources, this volume seeks to enhance our understanding of printing and the book trade in small and peripheral European cities in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and to emphasize the necessity of new research for the study of print culture in such cities.
Dimensions of Humor
This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to exploring humor in the academic world. It is a rich collection of essays by an international array of scholars representing various theoretical perspectives and practical orientations in the disciplines of Linguistics, Literature, Cultural Studies, and Translation, but all concerned with the interactional aspects of humor. The two main reasons behind the publication of this volume are, first, to continue the journey along the path towards full recognition of humor as a discipline worthy of research and assessment, and, second, to offer a new and integrating perspective on hu¬mor to showcase the wide range of dimensions that it offers. This book is sure to become an important reference and source of inspiration for scholars in the various subfields of Humor Studies: Linguistics, Literature, Cultural Studies, and Translation.
Reflecting on the City Through Literature
This book develops and demonstrates an interdisciplinary method that reads literary works as a way of thinking about the city. Literary works do not only provide reflections of the city – depictions of the city as an aesthetically compelling setting – but the literary reflection of the city also offers a critical reflection on the city. How can spatial difference be conceived in cities that are changing beyond the form of the classical modern metropolis of the early 20th century? How can one think of the relation between individual urban subjects and their urban environment, when neither spaces nor discourses of the city provide them with an answer to the question where they might "belong"? How does the human body interact with its urban surroundings, and how should technological mediations be thought of? This book approaches these questions through analysing literary texts, focusing on concepts like heterotopia, non-place and the posthuman. This book will be of interest to interdisciplinary scholars and students of the city, particularly in the fields of Urban Studies, Literary Studies, Geography, and Architecture.
Anthropocene Ecologies of Food
Anthropocene Ecologies of Food provides a detailed exploration of cross-cultural aspects of food production, culinary practices, and their ecological underpinning in culture. The authors draw connections between humans and the entire process of global food production, focusing on the broad implications these processes have within the geographical and cultural context of India. Each chapter analyzes and critiques existing agricultural/food practices, and representations of aspects of food through various media (such as film, literature, and new media) as they relate to global issues generally and Indian contexts specifically, correcting the omission of analyses focused on the Global South in virtually all of the work that has been done on "Anthropocene ecologies of food." This unique volume employs an ecocritical framework that connects food with the land, in physical and virtual communities, and the book as a whole interrogates the meanings and implications of the Anthropocene itself.
Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century
Can heterotopia help us make sense of globalisation? Against simplistic visions that the world is becoming one, Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century shows how contemporary globalising processes are driven by heterotopian tension and complexities. A heterotopia, in Michel Foucault’s initial formulations, describes the spatial articulation of a discursive order, manifesting its own distinct logics and categories in ways that refract or disturb prevailing paradigms. While in the twenty-first century the concept of globalisation is frequently seen as a tumultuous undifferentiation of cultures and spaces, this volume breaks new ground by interrogating how heterotopia and gl...
Flower World - Mundo Florido
The bilingual series Flower World - Music Archaeology of the Americas raises the study of ancient music and music-related activities of the pre-Columbian Americas to the next level. For the first time in the history of science, a series offering anthologies featuring scientific investigations in this fascinating multidisciplinary field is available. The series encompasses peer-reviewed studies by renowned scholars on both past and living music traditions from South, Central and North America, and thus constitute a platform for the most up-to-date information on the music archaeology of the continent. It features case studies and the results of research projects in the field, in which a great...
Lope de Vega en la piel de Brugalla
La muestra exhibe una selección de las encuadernaciones más valiosas realizadas por Emilio Brugalla de la "Colección Lope de Vega", un tesoro conservado en la Biblioteca Histórica Municipal, recopilada durante décadas por el bibliófilo Ricardo Viñas, y comprada por el Ayuntamiento en 1963. Dos son los valores de esta muestra. Por un lado, el lujo de contemplar los ejemplares únicos de la colección, primeras ediciones o piezas de gran valor bibliográfico. Y por otro, disfrutar de las encuadernaciones realizadas por el maestro Brugalla (1901-1987), considerado el mejor dorador de España, para vestirlos. La exposición se compone de un centenar de libros de lujo, acompañados de las ...
Mujer y prensa en la Modernidad
La función social, cultural y política de la mujer en el primer tercio del siglo XX no ha sido suficientemente valorada. Durante este período, la mujer en España y en las otras culturas hispanohablantes fue conquistando derechos, defendió sus ideales y participó en la vida colectiva para alcanzar cotas de Modernidad que fueran equiparables al resto de los países occidentales. El volumen ofrece diez aportaciones que indagan, desde ambos lados del Atlántico, la compleja relación entre las mujeres y la prensa, focalizando las tensiones que se dieron en muchos contextos entre la tradición de los roles de género y los cambios que llegaban con el progreso socioeconómico. Poco a poco se...
Materialität und Präsenz von Inkunabeln
Die Untersuchung greift ein in der buchistorischen Forschung bisher vernachlässigtes Phänomen auf: die zentrale Bedeutung der deutschen Buchdrucker im 15. Jahrhundert für den entstehenden französischen Buchmarkt. Aber sie leistet mehr als die bloße Darstellung einer besonderen Gruppe von Akteuren. Auf der Basis zahlreicher Quellen gelingt es der Autorin, die spezifischen Lebenswege der Drucker in Verbindung zu bringen mit den ökonomischen und kulturellen Rahmenbedingungen, unter denen sich die Buchproduktion vollzog. Sie gelangt so zu aussagekräftigen Erkenntnissen über den Medienwandel in der Inkunabelzeit: Die Frühgeschichte des Buchdrucks ist keine geradlinige Erfolgsgeschichte, sondern vielmehr ein komplexer Innovationsprozess, an dessen Ende die Ablösung von der Handschrift durch den Buchdruck steht. Hierbei kommen sowohl bedeutende Druckereien wie die von Johannes Heynlin von Stein und Guillaume Fichet gegründete Pariser Offizin als auch kleine, weitgehend unbeachtet gebliebene Pressen wie diejenige von Johann Walther in Moûtiers zur Darstellung, was den besonderen Reiz dieser umfassenden Untersuchung ausmacht.
