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Splendors of the ancient East : antiquities from The al-Sabah Collection = Rawāʼiʻ al-Sharq al-qadīm : tuḥaf atharīyah min Majmūʻat al-Ṣabāḥ /
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"Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, The al-Sabah Collection." :
208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 28 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9780500970522
0500970521 (pbk.)
Mémoires d'Orient : du Hainaut à Héliopolis : [exposition, Morlanwelz, Musée royal de Mariemont, 7 mai-17 octobre 2010] /
: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Musée royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz, Belgium, May 7-Oct. 17, 2010. : 540 pages : illustrations (some color), col. maps ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9782930469317
Visual Exemplars : Biblical Figures in the Art and Literature of Jewish Late Antiquity /
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Between the third to seventh centuries of the common era, Jewish communities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean began to adorn their synagogues with figural illustrations inspired by the Hebrew Bible. Although the Bible had long been the cornerstone of Jewish life, it was only in late antiquity that its patriarchs, prophets, and heroes entered the Jewish visual lexicon. Through careful consideration of the rich history of Jewish biblical interpretation alongside similar motifs in Near Eastern, Greco-Roman, and Christian visual culture, this book challenges the reader to consider the relationship between late antique Jewish biblical art, synagogue rituals, rabbinic teachings, and exemplary paradigms.
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1 online resource (268 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004750104
Butoh and Suzuki Performance in Australia : Bent Legs on Strange Grounds, 1982-2023 /
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In Butoh and Suzuki Performance in Australia: Bent Legs on Strange Grounds, 1982-2023 , Marshall considers how the originally Japanese forms of butoh dance and Suzuki's theatre reconfigure historical lineages to find ancient yet transcultural ancestors within Australia and beyond. Marshall argues that artists working in Australia with butoh and Suzuki techniques develop conflicted yet compelling diasporic, multicultural, spiritually and corporeally compelling interpretations of theatrical practice. Marshall puts at the centre of butoh historiography the work of Tess de Quincey, Yumi Umiumare, Tony Yap, Lynne Bradley, Simon Woods, Frances Barbe, and Australian Suzuki practitioners Jacqui Carroll and John Nobbs. Jonathan W. Marshall's Bent Legs on Strange Grounds is an important contribution to the body of literature on butoh, as well as to studies of dance in Australia that will be valuable to practitioners and scholars alike. Detailed discussions of Australian butoh artists open up consideration of how global and local histories, migrations, and landscapes not only were key to butoh's formation in Japan, but also to its continued development around the world. Attention to butoh's emplacement in Australia, Marshall convincingly argues, reveals insights about national identity, race, power, and more that are relevant well beyond the Australian performance context. - Rosemary Candelario, Texas Woman's University, co-editor, Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance (2018) Marshall's Bent Legs on Strange Grounds explores the remarkable transformative era of Australia's reconsideration of its place in the region. A definitive study of Australian experiments in butoh and the theatrical vision of Suzuki Tadashi, the book shows how new corporeal and spatial dramaturgies of the Japanese avant-garde fundamentally changed Australian performance. Expansively researched and annotated, this impressive study connects Australian performance after the New Wave with globalization, postmodern dance, Indigeneity, and subcultures, and it details the work of leading Australian/Asian artists. Bent Legs on Strange Grounds speaks about the development of embodied knowledge and the consequential refiguration of Australia's sense of being in the world. It is also a study of butoh and Suzuki's legacy in global terms, wherein Australian experimental performance also becomes something larger than itself. - Peter Eckersall, The Graduate Center, CUNY, author of Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan (2013).
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1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004712317
Sacred Landscapes in Asia : Shared Traditions, Multiple Histories /
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Throughout history the peoples of Asia have been known for their mobility and interactions. The notion of territorially defined nations is historically recent. There was a continuing dialogue between Asian cultures which functioned at both the spatial and the temporal level, propelled by the movement of the great religions of Asia across continents via trading communities, clergies, Buddhist and Sufi scholars and communities of artisans. The present volume explores the aesthetic theories underlying many genres of the Asian arts. These characterize the dialogue between and amongst different Asian regions. The same Asian notions of space and time are manifested in architectural form as also in a wide variety of visual arts. The contributors in this volume identify the multi-layered discourse comprising the nature of monuments, as also the movement of motifs and symbols through sculptured and picturised representation. Some essays focus on fundamental notions such as Śūnyata as common to the Indian, Korean and other Asian countries. Also, the papers bear testimony to the phenomena of dialogue and distinctiveness, continuity and change. This is evident in architectural structures, sculptural forms, particularly in iconography, and of course in the performing arts. The IIC-Asia Project in its second phase has, with purpose, traced the trajectory of transmission systems in Asian civilization in different domains and at different levels, be it the vertical transmission from generation to generation in education, or the artistic transmission and diffusion through the arts. It is hoped that this volume will add to the meager literature that exists on the subject and will stimulate further research and study.
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1 online resource (408 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004753228
Animal Husbandry: Bestiality in Medieval Culture /
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Introduction: the Stallion and the Unicorn, or, Animal Lovers Jacqueline A. Stuhmiller Part 1: Bestiality in Theory 1 Contra naturam: Bestiality in Medieval Scientific Discourse Marian E. Polhill 2 "Between the Paws of a Tender Wolf": Medieval Influences and Other Tales (Un)Told in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber Bailey Flannery Part 2: Bestiality in Practice 3 The Animality of Man: Sexual Transgression and Animal Transformation in a Middle Welsh Prose Tale Katherine Leach 4 Bestiality, Confession and Social Control in Late Medieval England Tess Wingard 5 Bestial Intercourse in Cheuelere Assigne Crystal Beamer Part 3: Marrying the Beast 6 Sympathizing with the Werewolf's Wife: the Dynamics of Trust, Betrayal, and Bestiality in Bisclavret Larissa Tracy 7 "Wulf, min wulf": Animal Others and Animal Lovers in "Wulf and Eadwacer" Andrea Schutz Part 4: The Pleasures of Bestiality 8 Bestiality in Medieval Art: Cross-cultural Reflections on a Lascivious Lacuna Anna Russakoff 9 "Shame to Him Who Thinks Evil": the Deviant Pleasures of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Jacqueline A. Stuhmiller Conclusion: Bestiality: Some Things Stay the Same. ... Joyce E. Salisbury Bibliography 267 Index 275
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1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004707481
Le corps dans le roman des écrivaines syriennes contemporaines : dire, écrire, inscrire la différence /
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Le Corps dans le roman des écrivaines syriennes contemporaines , de Martina Censi, explore les représentations du corps dans un corpus de romans en arabe publiés (entre 2004 et 2011) par six écrivaines syriennes. L'auteure conjugue l'analyse du texte littéraire avec la critique féministe et les études de genre. Par cette approche interdisciplinaire, Censi démontre que l'attention reservée par ces écrivaines aux représentations du corps féminin et masculin témoigne de leurs engagements dans la lutte pour l'émancipation des femmes, mais aussi, et surtout, dans celle pour l'affirmation de l'individu dans la société syrienne contemporaine. Les corps des personnages, marqués par leur différence unique, sont le lieu symbolique de la négociation entre les instances individuelles et collectives. In Le Corps dans le roman des écrivaines syriennes contemporaines , Martina Censi explores the representation of the body in a selection of Arabic novels published (between 2004 and 2011) by six Syrian women authors. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, which combines analysis of the literary texts with Feminist Criticism and Gender Studies, Censi demonstrates that, by focusing on the representation of female and male bodies, these novelists deal not only with feminist issues related to women's emancipation. The author reveals that they also engage in a broader analysis concerning the status of the individual in contemporary Syrian society. Marked by their unique difference, the characters' bodies become the symbolic location for the negotiation between individual and collective claims.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004315259 :
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