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Intervening Spaces
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Intervening Spaces

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-05-07
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Intervening Spaces examines the interconnectedness between bodies, time and space - the oscillating and at times political impact that occurs when bodies and space engage in non-conventional ways. Bodies intervene with space, creating place. Likewise, space can reconceptualise notions of the subject-body. Such respatialisation does not occur in a temporal vacuum. The moment can be more significant than a millennia in producing new ways to see corporeal connections with space. Drawing on theorists as diverse as Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Lefebvre and Grosz, temporal and spatial dichotomies are dissolved, disrupted and interrupted via interventions—revealing new ways of inhabiting space. The volume crosses disciplines contributing to the fields of Sociology, Literature, Performance Arts, Visual Arts, Architecture and Urban Design. Contributors are Burcu Baykan, Pelin Dursun Çebi, Michelle Collins, Christobel Kelly, Anthi Kosma, Ana Carolina Lima e Ferreira, Katerina Mojanchevska, Clementine Monro, Katsuhiko Muramoto, Nycole Prowse, Shelley Smith, Nicolai Steinø and İklim Topaloğlu.

Cultures of Addiction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

Cultures of Addiction

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The Evil Body
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

The Evil Body

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-09-25
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  • Publisher: BRILL

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Reframing Punishment: Reflections of Culture, Literature and Morals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Reframing Punishment: Reflections of Culture, Literature and Morals

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-09-25
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This interdisciplinary volume offers an attempt to question, perplex and ultimately reframe our collective understanding of punishment.

Claiming Space for Australian Women’s Writing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 351

Claiming Space for Australian Women’s Writing

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-06-29
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  • Publisher: Springer

This volume explores the subterfuges, strategies, and choices that Australian women writers have navigated in order to challenge patriarchal stereotypes and assert themselves as writers of substance. Contextualized within the pioneering efforts of white, Aboriginal, and immigrant Australian women in initiating an alternative literary tradition, the text captures a wide range of multiracial Australian women authors’ insightful reflections on crucial issues such as war and silent mourning, emergence of a Australian national heroine, racial purity and Aboriginal motherhood, communism and activism, feminist rivalry, sexual transgressions, autobiography and art of letter writing, city space and female subjectivity, lesbianism, gender implications of spatial categories, placement and displacement, dwelling and travel, location and dislocation and female body politics. Claiming Space for Australian Women’s Writing tracks Australian women authors’ varied journeys across cultural, political and racial borders in the canter of contemporary political discourse.

Time, Space and the Human Body: An Interdisciplinary Look
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 190

Time, Space and the Human Body: An Interdisciplinary Look

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-01-04
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. Concerns about the human body and soul, and their relationship to the world around us, are as old as Western Culture itself. Beyond philosophy and theology, these sorts of preoccupations have also marked the arts, literature, and poetry; and to be sure, they have influenced Western culture, and have marked westerners’ imaginations and our everyday understanding of human nature. This book considers various ways in which the body is, and has been, addressed and depicted over time, and it is also a reflection on the ways in which the very spaces that we design and inhabit likewise reflect perceived ideas and misconceptions about the human body.

The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 701

The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-12-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In recent years, Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and internationally. The increasing prominence of work by writers like Christos Tsiolkas, heightened through television and film adaptation, as well as the award of major international prizes to writers like Richard Flanagan, and the development of new, high-profile prizes like the Stella Prize, have all reinvigorated interest in Australian literature both at home and abroad. This Companion emerges as a part of that reinvigoration, considering anew the history and development of Australian literature and its key themes, as well as tracing the transition of the field through those critical debates. ...

Werewolves and Other Shapeshifters in Popular Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 213

Werewolves and Other Shapeshifters in Popular Culture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-10-01
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  • Publisher: McFarland

In recent years, shapeshifting characters in literature, film and television have been on the rise. This has followed the increased use of such characters as metaphors, with novelists and critics identifying specific meanings and topics behind them. This book aims to unravel the shapeshifting trope. Rather than pursue a case-based study, the works are grouped around specific themes--adolescence, gender, sexuality, race, disability, addiction, and spirituality--that are explored through the metaphor of shapeshifting. Because of the transformative possibilities of this metaphor and its flexibility, the shapeshifter has the potential to change how we see our world. With coverage of iconic fantasy texts and a focus on current works, the book engages with the shapeshifting figure in popular culture from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Fear and Loathing Worldwide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 351

Fear and Loathing Worldwide

For more than 40 years, the radically subjective style of participatory journalism known as Gonzo has been inextricably associated with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. Around the world, however, other journalists approach unconventional material in risky ways, placing themselves in the middle of off-beat stories, and relate those accounts in the supercharged rhetoric of Gonzo. In some cases, Thompson's influence is apparent, even explicit; in others, writers have crafted their journalistic provocations independently, only later to have that work labelled "Gonzo." In either case, Gonzo journalism has clearly become an international phenomenon. In Fear and Loathing Worldwide, scholars ...

Safe Houses
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

Safe Houses

Against the background of the escalating violence of the 1980s, this novel tells a story of three families -- black and Jewish -- who are inextricably bound by love and hate, hope and betrayal.