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Images Of/And The Postmodern. Review Of Spectacular Allegories: Postmodern American Writing And The Politics Of Seeing By Josh Cohen, Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Images Of/And The Postmodern. Review Of Spectacular Allegories: Postmodern American Writing And The Politics Of Seeing By Josh Cohen, Kathleen Fitzpatrick
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Josh Cohen, in his new book Spectacular Allegories: Postmodern American Writing and the Politics of Seeing, argues that postmodern American novelists ranging from Norman Mailer to Joan Didion, Robert Coover to James Ellroy, do not merely fall into accord with this critique -text good; image bad- but are in fact using the allegorical nature of their encounters with and representations of visual culture as a means of reintroducing the image to history, an attempt to construct a new critical politics of visuality. The possibility of a critical visual agency is raised for Cohen in these writers’ gendered representations of the …
Grazing Arizona: Public Land Management In The Southwest, Char Miller
Grazing Arizona: Public Land Management In The Southwest, Char Miller
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
In February of 1999, the chief of the U.S. Forest Service, Michael Dombeck, placed a moratorium on road building on most roadless areas. In October, President Clinton put forth an initiative to prohibit road building on 40 million acres of roadless area. Such modifications in Forest Service land management decisions is not new as suggested by Char Miller in this look back at early grazing decisions by Pinchot. To be proactive and reactive at the same time in relation to changing social pressures and political realties may be the legacy of the agency.
Review: Jean-Claude Schmitt, Ghosts In The Middle Ages: The Living And The Dead In Medieval Society (Chicago, 1998), Kenneth Baxter Wolf
Review: Jean-Claude Schmitt, Ghosts In The Middle Ages: The Living And The Dead In Medieval Society (Chicago, 1998), Kenneth Baxter Wolf
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Reviews the book `Ghosts in the Middle Ages: The Living and the Dead in Medieval Society,' by Jean-Claude Schmitt Jr. and translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.
Parallel Traditions: State Folk Dance Ensembles And Folk Dance In "The Field", Anthony Shay
Parallel Traditions: State Folk Dance Ensembles And Folk Dance In "The Field", Anthony Shay
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In this introductory essay I put forth several concepts and elements that can be profitably examined before any meaningful analysis of these ensembles and their choreographic output can be properly addressed. These include issues of authenticity and representation, as well as the variety of social and technical restrictions and limitations—political, financial, artistic—faced by the artistic directors of these companies. Thus, the main intent of this essay is to establish a theoretical and methodological model for the study of professional and semi-professional state folk dance ensembles as well as the numerous amateur performing and exhibition groups that emulate the state dance …