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Recycling Culture(s).
Title:
Recycling Culture(s).
Author:
Martin, Sara.
ISBN:
9781443808200
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (228 pages)
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I -- THE DONKEY-GOD AND THE HOLY STAKE -- A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, EXPLOITATION AND THE ART FILM -- RECYCLING THE FAIRY TALE -- THE BUSH REVISITED -- RECYCLING GOYA'S MONSTERS -- CULTURE OF SHIT -- ADVENTUROUS RESPONSES TO CULTURAL DIVERSITY -- AWAITING WORDS -- AN INTERPLAY OF SCREENS -- YOU KNOW MY NAME, BUT WHO AM I? -- PART II -- CULTURAL HYBRIDITY IN AFRO-CARIBBEAN WOMEN WRITERS -- NI SOY DE AQUÍ, NI SOY DE ALLÁ -- INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS IN FICTION AT THE TURN OF THE 21ST CENTURY -- RECYCLING OLDER DISCOURSES -- RECYCLING THE PAST -- COMPLEXITY, CHANGE AND EUROPEAN CONVERGENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION -- THE AGENTS OF PUBLIC ORDER ON THE ALERT -- RECYCLING 'CULTURE' AND THE CULTURE OF RECYCLING -- OUTSIDE THE KALEIDOSCOPE -- HISTORY AS RECYCLED DEBRIS -- CONTRIBUTORS.
Abstract:
Culture survives today by means of a constant recycling, optimistically trying to overcome its own decadence in the 21st century. Recycling Culture(s) addresses from a variety of perspectives this strategy, analyzing not only a wide range of texts but also of cultural practices. As the volume shows, culture thrives on a permanent state of flux, borrowing materials for its own survival wherever they are found and always favouring hybridity. This refers not only to how texts cross genre and med...
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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