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Jonathan Swift and Philosophy - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Jonathan Swift and Philosophy - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Jonathan Swift and Philosophy is the first book to analyse and interpret Swift’s writing from a philosophical angle. By placing key texts of Swift in their philosophical and cultural contexts and providing background to their history of ideas, it demonstrates how well informed Swift’s criticism of the politics, philosophy, and science of his age actually was. Moreover, it also sets straight preconceptions about Swift as ignorant about the scientific developments of his time. The authors offer insights into, and interpretations of, Swift’s political philosophy, ethics, and his philosophy of science and demonstrate how versatile a writer and thinker Swift actually was. This book will be of interest to scholars of philosophy, history of ideas, and 18th century literature and culture.

DKK 892.00
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Reading Graham Swift - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Reading Graham Swift - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

This collection of essays on Graham Swift’s fiction brings together the perspectives of renowned Swift scholars from around the world. Authors look at the swift’s oeuvre from different interpretative angles, combining a variety of critical and theoretical approaches. This book covers all of Swift’s fiction, including his novels and short stories; special emphasis, however, is on his most recent books. By approaching Swift’s work from a number of perspectives, the volume offers a synthetic overview of his literary output. In particular, it searches for thematic and formal continuities between his early and more recent fiction, and attempts to emphasize its new developments and interests.

DKK 804.00
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Examining Blank Spaces and the Taylor Swift Phenomenon - Keith Nainby - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Examining Blank Spaces and the Taylor Swift Phenomenon - Keith Nainby - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Blank Space: Taylor Swift and Contingent Identities examines Taylor Swift’s art, her public image, and Swiftie fan communities. It features discussions of several Swift songs, with attention to the poetic effects created by their lyrics. The author argues that these songs offer a consistent focus, throughout Swift’s career to date, on personal identities that evolve through relationships with particular other people. He shows how in Swift’s songs, narrators reflect on how their identities change over time—even in some cases, over the course of the song. The book builds on this discussion of Swift’s art to consider the artist’s image, exploring how multiple forces interact to shape this image and give it meaning—forces including the artist’s management team as well as critics and fans. According to the author, the distinctive characteristics of Swft’s art and Swift’s public image help to create the unique Swiftie fan communities that have emerged and flourished. The book includes two different studies of Swifties’ communication practices, one centering online interactions and the second in-depth interviews with Swifties. It concludes with attention to the implications of Swift’s selection as Time magazine’s 2023 Person of the Year.

DKK 830.00
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Becoming Nietzsche - Paul A. Swift - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Becoming Nietzsche - Paul A. Swift - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Becoming Nietzsche is an essential book for understanding Nietzsche''s philosophical genealogy from 1866 to 1868, a phase that is punctuated by the influence of Friedrich Lange and a surprising rejection of Schopenhauer''s theory of the will. During this phase, Nietzsche focuses on the scientific and artistic status of teleological judgments and their relevance for thinking about organic life and representation. Paul A. Swift deftly connects Nietzsche''s philology with the development of his theory of human understanding by providing scholarly analysis and short original translations of Nietzsche''s early work on Democritus, Schopenhauer, and Kant. A first of its kind study suitable for Nietzsche specialists, historians of philosophy, and newcomers who have broad interests in the humanities, Becoming Nietzsche investigates how Democritus''s rejection of teleology and Kant''s analysis of reflective judgment directly influenced Nietzsche''s aesthetic perspectivism in the 1860s.

DKK 935.00
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Becoming Nietzsche - Paul A. Swift - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Becoming Nietzsche - Paul A. Swift - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Becoming Nietzsche is an essential book for understanding Nietzsche''s philosophical genealogy from 1866 to 1868, a phase that is punctuated by the influence of Friedrich Lange and a surprising rejection of Schopenhauer''s theory of the will. During this phase, Nietzsche focuses on the scientific and artistic status of teleological judgments and their relevance for thinking about organic life and representation. Paul A. Swift deftly connects Nietzsche''s philology with the development of his theory of human understanding by providing scholarly analysis and short original translations of Nietzsche''s early work on Democritus, Schopenhauer, and Kant. A first of its kind study suitable for Nietzsche specialists, historians of philosophy, and newcomers who have broad interests in the humanities, Becoming Nietzsche investigates how Democritus''s rejection of teleology and Kant''s analysis of reflective judgment directly influenced Nietzsche''s aesthetic perspectivism in the 1860s.

DKK 441.00
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Best Practices in Catholic Church Ministry Performance Management - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Best Practices in Catholic Church Ministry Performance Management - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The Church is not a business, but it does have a stewardship responsibility to ensure that all of its resources are used as effectively as possible to carry out God''s work on earth. In the case of human resource assets, good stewardship involves assisting those engaged in ministry (whether clerical or lay) to achieve their greatest potential through the various components of performance management, including performance assessment. This unique collection brings together both scholars and practitioners who tackle the tricky questions related to the performance management of lay Church workers and clergy (priests and deacons). Performance management is multi-faceted, ranging from issues about hiring, job descriptions, performance criteria, performance appraisal, formation, and firing procedures. As a charitable organization, the Church is subject to the same civil law employment regulations as companies in the private sector. Contributors demonstrate that Canon Law and Church tradition supports the performance management of Church ministers (including clergy). This is a valuable resource for programs in church ministry, pastoral administration, and in the emerging field of church management.

DKK 830.00
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Performance and Activism - Kamran Afary - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Performance and Activism - Kamran Afary - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Much has been written about the Los Angeles riots of 1992, which brought out deep racial tensions throughout the city, exposed by media images of police brutality. This book sheds light on another facet of the events, the birth of a dynamic grassroots activist and community organizing movement that has been little noticed by academics or even by the press. It also focuses on the theatrical production of Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, a performance created by Anna Deavere Smith. Performance and Activism analyzes a rich, eclectic, and ongoing ensemble of local activist struggles in the context of the history and political economy of Los Angeles. Building on the important critical urban studies work of Mike Davis and Edward Soja, it also draws on Dwight Conquergood''s writings on performance ethnography to theorize the political work of grassroots formations such as alternative/underground media collectives, gang truce parties/picnics, and women-organized prisoner support and court watch groups, such as Mothers Reclaiming Our Children. The book focuses on these events through the inter-disciplinary approach of performance studies, highlighting "performance-conscious activisms" that help bridge the enormous class, race, and gender divides of our society.

DKK 954.00
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Performance and Activism - Kamran Afary - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Performance and Activism - Kamran Afary - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Much has been written about the Los Angeles riots of 1992, which brought out deep racial tensions throughout the city, exposed by media images of police brutality. This book sheds light on another facet of the events, the birth of a dynamic grassroots activist and community organizing movement that has been little noticed by academics or even by the press. It also focuses on the theatrical production of Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, a performance created by Anna Deavere Smith. Performance and Activism analyzes a rich, eclectic, and ongoing ensemble of local activist struggles in the context of the history and political economy of Los Angeles. Building on the important critical urban studies work of Mike Davis and Edward Soja, it also draws on Dwight Conquergood''s writings on performance ethnography to theorize the political work of grassroots formations such as alternative/underground media collectives, gang truce parties/picnics, and women-organized prisoner support and court watch groups, such as Mothers Reclaiming Our Children. The book focuses on these events through the inter-disciplinary approach of performance studies, highlighting ''performance-conscious activisms'' that help bridge the enormous class, race, and gender divides of our society.

DKK 450.00
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Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

At the heart of the development of modern Japanese culture, the theatre mirrors the issues and concerns of a society transitioning from the Tokugawa era to the modern period. Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance fills a gap in current Japanese theatre scholarship; the book discusses the role of women in modern theatre, buto dance, experimental theatres that combine traditional theatre with modern forms, and plays by Abe Kobo, Mishima Yukio, and Senda Koreya. With important contributions from both established and emerging scholars, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in theatre, modern performance, or Japanese studies.

DKK 450.00
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Montazstroj’s Emancipatory Performance Politics - Leo Rafolt - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Montazstroj’s Emancipatory Performance Politics - Leo Rafolt - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

This book deals with the broader theoretical and philosophical context of the performance art in former Yugoslavia, focusing on more than three decades of politically engaged performance activity of the Montažstroj group. Their activity is only a starting point for a deeper analysis of some of the key-notions of contemporary “art-ivism” in a much broader post-political and globalized context before, during, and after Yugoslavia and its Socialist paradigm collapsed. The author analyzes and sets notions of agonism, engagement, terrorism, post-war trauma, political populism, social Darwinism, participation and publicness, and the public sphere into different theoretical matrixes.

DKK 839.00
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The Political Economy of Economic Performance - Voxi Heinrich Amavilah - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The Political Economy of Economic Performance - Voxi Heinrich Amavilah - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Extant research continues to perpetuate a myth of Sub-Saharan African countries (SSACs) as ever stuck in the past and with incurable growth maladies. However, during the years just before the great global recession some of these countries performed better than countries in other regions. What explains this turnaround? How can it be ignited everywhere in the region and made to stick? The Political Economy of Economic Performance is among a few competitors that celebrate the successes of the region and argue for the positive economics of performance of at least some countries. Organized around two themes which are pursued in six chapters, the book provides a comprehensive, balanced, and thorough analysis of the factors and forces behind the unusually good performance of SSACs just before the great global recession, and shows that there is a way forward for them. The book makes a significant contribution to both policy and research, because while its structure is scholarly and logical, with a writing style that is coherent and easily understandable to all interested readers worldwide.

DKK 733.00
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Performance-Based Funding in Higher Education - Angelo Letizia - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Performance-Based Funding in Higher Education - Angelo Letizia - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Performance-Based Funding in Higher Education examines the touted aims of higher education policies over the past thirty years. The focus on job creation and increased graduation rates has distracted educators, students, and surrounding communities from an educator’s traditional and valued role as the promoter of democracy and critical citizenship. Letizia contends that institutions of higher education must redirect and promote their policies so that this aim is achieved and acknowledged. Recommended for scholars of education, sociology, political science, and philosophy.

DKK 830.00
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Bob Dylan in Performance - John M. Radosta - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Bob Dylan in Performance - John M. Radosta - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

This study of Bob Dylan’s art employs a performance studies lens, exploring the distinctive ways he brings words and music to life on recordings, onstage, and onscreen. Chapters focus on the relationship of Dylan’s recorded performances to the historical bardic role, to the American popular song tradition, and to rock music culture. His uses of both stage and studio to shape his performances are explored, as are his forays into cinema. Special consideration is given to his vocal performances and to his use of particular personae as a performer. The full scope of Dylan’s body of work to date is situated in terms of the influences that have shaped his performances and the ways these performances have shaped contemporary popular music.

DKK 980.00
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Bob Dylan in Performance - John M. Radosta - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Bob Dylan in Performance - John M. Radosta - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

This study of Bob Dylan’s art employs a performance studies lens, exploring the distinctive ways he brings words and music to life on recordings, onstage, and onscreen. Chapters focus on the relationship of Dylan’s recorded performances to the historical bardic role, to the American popular song tradition, and to rock music culture. His uses of both stage and studio to shape his performances are explored, as are his forays into cinema. Special consideration is given to his vocal performances and to his use of particular personae as a performer. The full scope of Dylan’s body of work to date is situated in terms of the influences that have shaped his performances and the ways these performances have shaped contemporary popular music.

DKK 406.00
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Rock Concert Performance from ABBA to ZZ Top - Peter Smith - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Rock Concert Performance from ABBA to ZZ Top - Peter Smith - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

This book presents an analysis of 100 rock concert performances and attempts to answer the question "What makes a truly great rock performance?" Author Peter Smith, an experienced concert goer, delves into his own recollections of experiencing rock performances over the last 50+ years and, with the support of his daughter, Laura Smith, analyzes 100 selected performances covering the themes of icons, persona, energy, fandom, venues, communities, politics, art-rock, authenticity and maturity. The approach taken is based upon qualitative analysis, reflection, and autoethnography. The selected performances cover a range of diverse acts such as the Rolling Stones, ABBA, Sex Pistols, Barbara Streisand, David Bowie, and the like.

DKK 317.00
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Rock Concert Performance from ABBA to ZZ Top - Peter Smith - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Rock Concert Performance from ABBA to ZZ Top - Peter Smith - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

This book presents an analysis of 100 rock concert performances and answers the question "What makes a truly great rock performance?" Author Peter Smith, an experienced concert goer, delves into his own recollections of experiencing rock performances over the last 50+ years and, with the support of his daughter, Laura Smith, analyzes 100 selected performances covering the themes of icons, persona, energy, fandom, venues, communities, politics, art-rock, authenticity and maturity. The approach taken is based upon qualitative analysis, reflection, and autoethnography. The selected performances cover a range of diverse acts such as the Rolling Stones, ABBA, Sex Pistols, Barbara Streisand, David Bowie, etc.

DKK 768.00
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The Performance of Authenticity - Teofilo Espada Brignoni - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The Performance of Authenticity - Teofilo Espada Brignoni - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

In The Performance of Authenticity: The Makings of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography Teófilo Espada-Brignoni analyzes the autobiographies of New Orleans musicians (Baby Dodds, Sidney Bechet, Pops Foster, and Lee Collins) who throughout their texts construct New Orleans jazz as an authentic musical expression grounded in their experiences and culture. The author argues the autobiographies reproduce and reinterpret modernist conceptions of authenticity to assert and affirm authority over the public representations and discussions of jazz. Through the autobiographers'' use of ideas about authenticity, they establish the value of their narratives but at the same time reinforce some of the power dynamics they set out to criticize. Their narratives also reveal the complex ethics that emerged during the first decades of the music and problematize modernist values such as individualism, the dichotomy of work and life, as well as the self and the social. The book adopts Foucauldian and social-constructivist perspectives, complementing analysis of the autobiographies by drawing from literary theory, psychology, sociology, and jazz scholarship.

DKK 698.00
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The Cinema of Soviet Kazakhstan 1925–1991 - Peter Rollberg - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The Cinema of Soviet Kazakhstan 1925–1991 - Peter Rollberg - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

This monograph traces the history of Kazakh filmmaking from its conception as a Soviet cultural construction project to its peak as fully-fledged national cinema to its eventual re-imagining as an art-house phenomenon. The author’s analysis places leading directors—Shaken Aimanov, Abdulla Karsakbaev, Sultan-Akhmet Khodzhikov, Mazhit Begalin—in their sociopolitical and cultural context.

DKK 399.00
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Sociocultural Theory and Language Learning as Performance - John R. Haught - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Sociocultural Theory and Language Learning as Performance - John R. Haught - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The author leads us on a journey of his years teaching additional languages through the use of performing arts. Drama, theater games, music, and other performance activities promote language use in authentic and engaging ways that differ from typical classroom activities and allow the language learners to have fun as they solve challenges in the target language. Drawing on the work of Lev Vygotsky and Sociocultural Theory, he demonstrates how learning is social and how learners create their knowledge by working with each other. Drama and creative arts are a powerful means for teaching and learning language because of the emotional support and encouragement it entails. He shows how performing arts engage learners intellectually, physically, and emotionally while offering supports and scaffolds that lead to powerful learning outcomes. He has effectively used these techniques with children and adults both at home and abroad in many different cultures and settings and argues that anyone can use these learning strategies to augment their teaching.

DKK 724.00
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Sentient Performativities of Embodiment - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Sentient Performativities of Embodiment - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

This collection offers writings on the body with a focus on performance, defined as both staged performance and everyday performance. Traditionally, theorizations of the body have either analyzed its impact on its socio-historical environment or treated the body as a self-enclosed semiotic and affective system. This collection makes a conscious effort to merge these two approaches. It is interested in interactions between bodies and other bodies, bodies and environments, and bodies and objects.

DKK 980.00
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The Accidental Viceroy - Edwin Hirschmann - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The Accidental Viceroy - Edwin Hirschmann - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

The Age of Imperialism reached its peak in the late 19th century. The British empire was the foremost colonial power, and the keystone was India. However, even at its peak, the British India empire was beset by internal rivalries and fears of external threats. In 1875, British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli chose as vicroy Lord Robert Bulwer-Lytton, diplomat and poet, the son of an old friend, but someone with no Indian experience. Lytton accepted reluctantly – and never enjoyed it. He was under the thumb of the Secretary of State for India, the shrewd and ambitious Third Marquess of Salisbury, during most of his four years in India. During his viceroyalty, Lytton had to deal with shifting British policies, a major famine, the freedom-loving people of Afghanistan, an entrenched civil service, and a rising generation of patriotic Indians. In the 1880 elections Disraeli''s Conservatives were defeated by Gladstone''s Liberals, and Lytton resigned.

DKK 759.00
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Performative Memoir - Theresa Carilli - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Performative Memoir - Theresa Carilli - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

In Performative Memoir: Moving between Worlds, Theresa Carilli and Adrienne Viramontes construct a new genre of writing, performative memoir. Drawing on scholarship in performance studies and autoethnography, the authors outline a methodology for studying autoethnography, performance, and memoir in a new creative process. Carilli and Viramontes then demonstrate the process by creating their own performative memoirs, titled “Loving Crazy” and “Mexican Love,” and perform a close reading of each memoir to show how these theories can be applied to our own personal experiences and trauma. Scholars of performance studies, communication, media studies, cultural studies, and trauma studies will find this book particularly useful.

DKK 733.00
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Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Sport - Mark Stone - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Sport - Mark Stone - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Sport brings together martial arts and Eastern philosophical wisdom with the competitive world of sports as games. This exploration goes beyond the conventional view of martial arts as fighting skills and delves into their evolution as competitive Olympic sports and profound ways of self-cultivation. Mark Stone reveals the philosophical underpinnings of both disciplines, which engage not only the body but also the mind, fostering a holistic mind-body experience. The book illuminates concepts like “no-mind” from Japanese philosophy and ”in the zone” as a mode of peak athletic performance and showcases how these practices transcend mere physicality to encompass aesthetic, competitive, and cooperative dimensions. Martial Arts and the Philosophy of Sport argues that both martial arts and sports are forms of striving play—activities pursued for their intrinsic value and for the personal fulfillment they bring. In addition to its contributions to philosophy of sport, aesthetics, and comparative philosophy, the arguments explored in this book also offers martial artists and sports enthusiasts alike a profound understanding of their pursuits as integral to life''s enduring goals, and even to understand their pursuit of excellence as a path to enlightenment.

DKK 788.00
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Forms of the Body in Contemporary Japanese Society, Literature, and Culture - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Forms of the Body in Contemporary Japanese Society, Literature, and Culture - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

This collection brings together fifteen chapters written by scholars specializing in disciplines ranging from anthropology and sociology to literature, film, and performance studies. These scholars analyze complex questions about how the body is lived and imagined as a locus of meaning-making in contemporary Japan. Exploring such topics as mind-body dualism, aging and illness, spirit possession, beauty, performance, and gender, this collection addresses the wide array of socio-cultural and literary contexts in which the body is interpreted in Japanese culture and thought.

DKK 1029.00
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Mediatization in Popular Music Recorded Artifacts - Alessandro Bratus - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Mediatization in Popular Music Recorded Artifacts - Alessandro Bratus - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

In Performance and Technological Mediation in Popular Music, the relationship between performance, technological mediation, and the sense of live presence is investigated through a series of case studies related to popular music products. Alessandro Bratus explores technological mediation as a process of authentication that involves a chain of interconnected instances that have their roots in the cultural context in which the media products are designed to be marketed, and that also shape its recording technique and post-production. The book analyzes posthumous records, a peculiar case of the organization of recorded tracks made in absentia of their original performers that puts forward the possibility of an “otherworldly” collaboration between the living and the dead. Bratus also argues that the crucial significance of live performance for the construction of a personal, intimate relationship between performers and audiences reverberates in the audiovisual construction of the filmed concert, in which the spectator is put in the position of a witness rather than an active participant.

DKK 848.00
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