“There may be numerous ways in which international relations are implicated in the construction of masculinities and masculine identities; through the direct disciplining of male bodies‚ through numerous political and institutional practices‚ and through broader cultural and ideological links.” Unquestioningly‚ more and more people believe that “the personal becomes political” nowadays‚ we can see that even for subjects that suppose to be those of intimate details of private lives have become
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LITERARY CRITICISM LITERATURE • What is literature? Literate/ literacy - able to read/write Origin- from Latin “litteratura” (letter) • literature with the small ‘l’ Literature - piece of writing/printed information on a particular subject • literature with the big ‘L’ Literature - pieces of writing that are valued as works of art eg. Novels‚ plays‚ poems (contrast to technical books/ scientific/ academic writings) • Literary - connected with literature
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OF CIVILIZATIONS’ Challenging media EDWARD SAID The Myth of ‘The Clash of Civilizations’ Executive Producer & Director: Sut Jhally Editor: Sanjay Talreja Featuring a lecture by Edward Said Professor‚ Columbia University and author of Orientalism Introduced by Sut Jhally University of Massachusetts-Amherst Media Education Foundation © MEF1998 2 PART ONE – INTRODUCTION Thank you very much. I’m going to start‚ in fact‚ talk throughout about an essay and a book written by Samuel Huntington
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Nijinsky’s Contribution to Modernism Vaslav Nijinsky was a famous dancer turned choreographer with the Russian ballet company the Ballets Russes during the early 1900’s (Nijinsky). Though he spent only a few short years as a choreographer with the Ballets Russes‚ Nijinksy helped propel ballet into the modern era with a new form of movement that would influence dancers for many‚ many generations to come. Nijinsky’s presentation of new sexual identities held within the choreography of his ballets
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101 MIDTERM REVIEW Terms: The definition and how they are significant For the readings: explain the main points and how they relate to lecture Please choose your list; add the definition and its significance Bartolome de Las Casas a Spanish colonist‚ a priest‚ first Bishop of Chiapas‚ was a scholar‚ historian and 16th century human rights advocate. Las Casas has been called the Father of anti-imperialism and anti-racism. Las Casas came to the Indies early‚ he knew Columbus and was the
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back to 5th Century Athens and their perceptions of women. During this time period the Greeks pit their own bourgeoisie ideal of femininity against their counterparts in "barbaric societies" (Nyquist 89). This barbarism was also associated with Orientalisms and therefore Egypt was considered barbaric. The barbarians and the Greeks were considered to be complete opposites and this could be seen in many ways. The barbarians ruled with a system of "monarchy" or "tyranny" and the Greeks were run by a
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Introduction The feminist movement is also called the women ’s liberation movement. The Wikipedia Encyclopedia defines feminism as being "a diverse‚ competing and often opposing collection of social theories‚ political movements‚ and moral philosophies‚ largely motivated by or concerning the experiences of women" . Feminism is erroneously assumed as being Eurocentric for two reasons. Firstly because many people tend to reach the history of feminism with the works of French and Anglo-Saxon feminists
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This article was downloaded by: [175.110.12.122] On: 09 November 2012‚ At: 08:19 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House‚ 37-41 Mortimer Street‚ London W1T 3JH‚ UK Critical Studies on Terrorism Publication details‚ including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rter20 What ’s so ‘religious’ about ‘religious terrorism’? Jeroen Gunning & Richard Jackson a a
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and Chambers (eds) (1971) Angela Davis: If they come in the morning. The Philip Parks Press: Manchester Rawls‚ John (1971) A theory of Justice Rousseau‚ Jean-Jaques (1762) The Social Contract‚ or Principles of Political Right Said‚ Edward (1978) Orientalism Pantheon Books‚ USA Tolstoy‚ Leo (1900) Thou Shall not Kill Tucker‚ and Kopel‚ David B Weber‚ Max (1947) The Theory of Social and Economic Organisation Oxford University Press: NY Weber‚ Max (1918) Politik als Beruf‚ ’ in Gesammelte Politische
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According to David Lodge realistic literature is based on “ their obsession with form to neglect the content and the third person omniscient mode is more often used to assert or imply the existence of society or history‚ than of heaven and hell. Therefore‚ modernist fiction eschews the straight chronological ordering of realistic material and the use of reliable omniscient intrusive narrator”. In her novel‚ Jeanette Winterson uses a “method of multiple points of view” and her novel “tends towards
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