Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Ethnic Studies - European Studies

Barzini is startlingly frank as he examines "the two Italies" the one that created and nurtured such luminaries as Dante Alighieri, St. Thomas of Aquino, and Leonardo da Vinci; the other, feeble and prone to catastrophe, backward in political action if not in thought, "invaded, ravaged, sacked, and humiliated in every century." Deeply ambivalent, Barzini...

The destruction of local identity through the relentless encroachment of a 'McDonald-ized' cultural imperialism is a global phenomenon. Yet the reactions of Pacific peoples to this Western hegemony are diverse and encourage the creation of independent cultural identities through sports and games, political mediations, tourism, media and filmmaking, and the struggles for land rights and titles, particularly in Australia.

This book, based on extensive fieldwork, addresses a subject of great immediacy to peoples of the Pacific Island nations. It fills an important gap in existing...

This book focuses on the re-invigoration of Charlie Chaplin s Little Tramp persona in America from the point at which Chaplin reached the acme of his disfavor in the States, promoted by the media, through his departure from America forever in 1952, and ending with his death in Switzerland in 1977. By considering factions of America as diverse as 8mm film collectors, Beat poets and writers and readers of Chaplin biographies, this cultural study determines conclusively that Chaplin s Little Tramp never died, but in fact experienced a resurgence, which began slowly even before 1950 and was...

This book explores the cultural bridges connecting George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, such as Charles Dickens and Arthur Miller, to China. Analyzing readings, adaptations, and connections of Shaw in China through the lens of Chinese culture, Li details the negotiations between the focused and culturally specific standpoints of eastern and western culture while also investigating the simultaneously diffused, multi-focal, and comprehensive perspectives that create strategic moments that favor cross-cultural readings.

With sources ranging from Shaw's connections with his...

Das Handbuch der deutschen Literatur Prags und der Bohmischen Lander gibt einen umfassenden Uberblick uber die Literatur einer mitteleuropaischen Region und ihre Entwicklung seit der Aufklarung. Dabei werden bisherige Konzeptualisierungen, die u.a. von einer strikten Trennung der Prager von der sogenannten sudetendeutschen Literatur ausgingen, uberwunden. Das Handbuch bietet vielmehr eine transkulturelle und -regionale Neuverortung der deutschsprachigen Literatur der Bohmischen Lander im komplexen Wirkungs- und Spannungsfeld von deutscher, judischer, tschechischer und habsburgischer...