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  1. The homing place :
    indigenous and settler literary legacies of the Atlantic /
    Author: Bryant, Rachel,
    Published: 2017.; ©2017
    Publisher:  Wilfrid Laurier University Press,, Waterloo, Ontario :

    Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insular regionalisms, established knowledge systems, state borders, and narrow definitions continuing to... more

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    Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insular regionalisms, established knowledge systems, state borders, and narrow definitions continuing to hinder the transfer of information across epistemological divides in the twenty-first century? What might nation-to-nation literary relations look like? Through readings of a wide range of northeastern texts - including Puritan captivity narratives, Wabanaki wampum belts, and contemporary Innu poetry - Rachel Bryant explores how colonized and Indigenous environments occupy the same given geographical coordinates even while existing in distinct epistemological worlds. Her analyses call for a vital and unprecedented process of listening to the stories that Indigenous peoples have been telling about this continent for centuries. At the same time, she performs this process herself, creating a model for listening and for incorporating those stories throughout. This commitment to listening is analogous to homing - the sophisticated skill that turtles, insects, lobsters, birds, and countless other beings use to return to sites of familiarity. Bryant adopts the homing process as a reading strategy that continuously seeks to transcend the distortions and distractions that were intentionally built into Settler Canadian culture across centuries.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1-77112-288-9
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    Series: Indigenous Studies Series
    Subjects: Canadian literature
    Other subjects: .; American studies.; Canadian studies.; Indigenous literacies.; Indigenous studies.; atlantic world.; border studies.; colonial northeast.; eastern Canada.; hemispheric studies.; literary history.; non-alphabetic literature.; northeastern North America.; reconciliation.; settler colonial studies.; transatlantic.; what is an early American.; what is literature.
    Scope: 1 online resource (pages cm.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
  2. The curious humanist :
    Siegfried Kracauer in America /
    Author: von Moltke, Johannes,
    Published: [2016]; ©2016
    Publisher:  University of California Press,, Berkeley, CA :

    During the Weimar Republic, Siegfried Kracauer established himself as a trenchant theorist of film, culture, and modernity, and he is now considered one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century. When he arrived in Manhattan aboard a crowded... more

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    During the Weimar Republic, Siegfried Kracauer established himself as a trenchant theorist of film, culture, and modernity, and he is now considered one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century. When he arrived in Manhattan aboard a crowded refugee ship in 1941, however, he was virtually unknown in the United States and had yet to write his best-known books, From Caligari to Hitler and Theory of Film. Johannes von Moltke details the intricate ways in which the American intellectual and political context shaped Kracauer's seminal contributions to film studies and shows how, in turn, Kracauer's American writings helped shape the emergent discipline. Using archival sources and detailed readings, von Moltke asks what it means to consider Kracauer as the New York Intellectual he became in the last quarter century of his life. Adopting a transatlantic perspective on Kracauer's work, von Moltke demonstrates how he pursued questions in conversation with contemporary critics from Theodor Adorno to Hannah Arendt, from Clement Greenberg to Robert Warshow: questions about the origins of totalitarianism and the authoritarian personality; about high and low culture; about liberalism, democracy, and what it means to be human. From these wide-flung debates, Kracauer's own voice emerges as that of an incisive cultural critic invested in a humanist understanding of the cinema.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0-520-96485-3
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    Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion pictures; Motion pictures; Film critics
    Other subjects: Kracauer, Siegfried, (1889-1966); 1940s.; 20th century.; academic.; american history.; authoritarian.; caligari.; clement greenberg.; contemporary philosopher.; contemporary thinker.; culture.; film making.; film studies.; film theory.; great thinkers.; hannah arendt.; hitler.; immigrant.; immigration.; intellectual.; manhattan.; modern thinker.; modern world.; modernity.; new york.; philosopher.; philosophy.; refugee.; research.; robert warshow.; siegfried kracauer.; theodor adorno.; theorist.; theory of film.; theory.; totalitarianism.; transatlantic.; united states.; weimar republic.; world history.
    Scope: 1 online resource (333 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Introduction: Siegfried Kracauer and the politics of film theory -- Metropolitan contact zones: Kracauer in New York -- Totalitarian propaganda -- Nazi cinema -- Freedom from fear? -- From Hitler to Caligari: spaces of Weimar cinema -- Authoritarian, totalitarian -- Reframing Caligari: the politics of cinema -- Theory of film and the subject of experience -- The curious humanist -- History and humanist subjectivity -- Epilogue: Siegfried Kracauer and the emergence of film studies.