Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama shows how the leading Irish playwright explores a series of dynamic physical and intellectual environments, charting the impact of modernity on ...rural culture and on the imagined communities he strove to create between readers, and script, actors and audience.
This paper presents several additions to the Tree of Life narrative process. By expanding the 'forest' section of this process to include collective consideration of mycelium, possibilities were ...opened to exploring 'underground' networks of care and support, including those that might not be seen or recognised by the dominant culture. Exploring the role of hub trees in a forest system enabled conversations about the contributions of elders in a community. Considering forests as place sparked discussion of the contributions of place and the more-than-human world in our lives. The Tree of Life metaphor was modified in this way in the context of a co-research project seeking to elicit the insider knowledge of long-term activists about sustaining activism addressing ecological and social justice issues, particularly climate change.
Our own birth and death elude our conscious experience. The world’s literatures give us the opportunity to access the beginning and end of a life, to represent, reflect upon, and (re)stage birth, ...life, dying, and death. This highly mobile configuration releases a tremendous creative energy, which this volume analyzes against the backdrop of the question of the knowledge of life.
Dörfliche Idylle oder Trugbild?Ländliche Landschaften stellen die Ur- Topographie des Idyllischen dar, die Idylle selbst hat aber kaum eine Mimesis des realen Landlebens zum Ziel. Vielmehr hängt es ...vom historischen und sozialen Kontext ab, wie viel Dörflichkeit die Idylle als Genre und als Denkbild verträgt: von den Prozessen der Urbanisierung und Globalisierung, von politischer Ideologisierung dörflicher Gemeinschaften oder aber von Konzepten eines guten Lebens. Die Beiträger_innen des Bandes befragen das paradoxe Verhältnis von Idylle und Dorf in der Literatur aus einer komparatistischen ost-westeuropäischen Perspektive.Mit Beiträgen u.a. von Werner Nell, Marcus Twellmann, Alina Molisak und Alhierd Bacharevic.
Only one out of ten early modern Europeans lived in cities. Yet cities were crucial nodes, joining together producers and consumers, rulers and ruled, and believers in diverse faiths and futures. ...They also generated an enormous amount of writing, much of which focused on civic life itself. But despite its obvious importance, historians have paid surprisingly little attention to urban discourse; its forms, themes, emphases and silences all invite further study. This book explores three dimensions of early modern citizens’ writing about their cities: the diverse social backgrounds of the men and women who contributed to urban discourse; their notions of what made for a beautiful city; and their use of dialogue as a literary vehicle particularly apt for expressing city life and culture. Amelang concludes that early modern urban discourse increasingly moves from oral discussion to take the form of writing. And while the dominant tone of those who wrote about cities continued to be one of celebration and glorification, over time a more detached and less judgmental mode developed. More and more they came to see their fundamental task as presenting a description that was objective.
This book takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and the visual arts by examining the potential for movement and transformation in the idea of stillness and the ordinary.
It was easy to fall for the Garden of St Erth. This was true for visitors at any time of its life, from when the Garnetts first used it as a retreat in the late 1960s and through the next decade, ...when they more or less had it to themselves, into the 1980s when it became famous and was visited by thousands. It was true when the Garnetts left it in the later 1990s and although - as Tommy Garnett knew and so often proclaimed - no garden can ever stay the same, it remains true twenty years later.
