Imagined Spaces

2020-11-12

This is what we hope for in these Imagined Spaces... Room to think and be. The philosopher poet Li-Young Lee once said in an interview, 'Thinking and thought are two different things. A thought is encapsulated and already dead.

Author: Kirsty Gunn

Publisher: Saraband

ISBN: 9780995512351

Category: Art

Page: 224

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Our everyday senses supply only a small fraction of what we actually perceive—the rest is filled in by what we think we already know, or have learnt from newspapers and magazines, and other media. So how much of our experience is really thought about, felt and reflected upon? This ground-breaking anthology asks us to consider the space between the known and the unknown, between fact and the imagination, between the external and the internal. In words and images that explore our environment and culture, that reflect on literary and artistic creation, mortality, mental wellness, home and belonging, Imagined Spaces returns the essay to its original activity of having a go, trying and weighing something out, taking a risk. An exciting and provocative collection that is fun, entertaining, and deeply serious. Join us in the space that follows and be part of an adventure essaying into the unknown...
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Sex in Imagined Spaces

2017-07-05

The contrast between the unknown/imagined society and the known/real leads to scrutiny of the latter: whether spatial or temporal, utopia is a form of criticism, the utopian space or 'epoch'11 a vantage point from which to gain a ...

Author: Caitriona Dhuill

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351549004

Category: Foreign Language Study

Page: 299

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From Thomas More onwards, writers of utopias have constructed alternative models of society as a way of commenting critically on existing social orders. In the utopian alternative, the sex-gender system of the contemporary society may be either reproduced or radically re-organised. Reading utopian writing as a dialogue between reality and possibility, this study examines the relationship between historical sex-gender systems and those envisioned by utopian texts. Surveying a broad range of utopian writing from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Huxley, Zamyatin, Wedekind, Hauptmann, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this book reveals the variety and complexity of approaches to re-arranging gender, and locates these 're-arrangements' within contemporary debates on sex and reproduction, masculinity and femininity, desire, taboo and family structure. These issues occupy a position of central importance in the dialogue between utopian imagination and anti-utopian thought which culminates in the great dystopias of the twentieth century and the postmodern re-invention of utopia.
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Imagined Spaces

2001

Entertainment and Utopia in Science Fiction Films and Television Series of the 1980s and 1990s Katrina G. Boyd. "======~~~=== -- " " - - ----- IMAGINED SPACES: ENTERTAINMENT AND UTOPIA IN SCIENCE FICTION FILMS AND.

Author: Katrina G. Boyd

Publisher:

ISBN: IND:30000067787998

Category: Science fiction films

Page: 586

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Imagining Southern Spaces

2021-02-22

64 Consequently, scholars of American studies, too, has paid a “renewed attention [to space] as an important category of inquiry”, especially ever since the 1980s. ... real and imagined spaces of cultural encounter”.

Author: Deniz Bozkurt-Pekár

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

ISBN: 9783110692600

Category: History

Page: 299

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Identifying the antebellum era in the United States as a transitional setting, Imagining Southern Spaces ́investigates spatialization processes about the South during a time when intensifying debates over the abolition of slavery led to a heightened period of (re)spatialization in the region. Taking the question of abolition as a major factor that shaped how different actors responded to these processes, this book studies spatial imaginations in a selection of abolitionist and proslavery literature of the era. Through this diversity of imaginations, the book points to a multitude of Souths in various economic, political, and cultural entanglements in the American Hemisphere and the Circumatlantic. Thus, it challenges monolithic and provincial representations of the South as a provincial region distinct from the rest of the country.
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Space and Place Diversity in Reality Imagination and Representation

2019-01-04

Eventually, both geographical landscape of Bulgaria and narrations about geographical landscape of Turkey become the background of the memory and imagination of Bulgarian Turks. Immigrants' imagined spaces and places – either rural or ...

Author: Brooke L. Rogers

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9781848881266

Category: Social Science

Page: 254

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Imagining Women s Conventual Spaces in France 1600 1800

2016-12-05

These real or imagined spaces are feminotopic, because they represent an alternative place for women; yet at the same time, they are also feminutopic, because they suggest alternate forms of community, often in opposition to dominant ...

Author: Barbara R. Woshinsky

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351928663

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 362

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Blending history and architecture with literary analysis, this ground-breaking study explores the convent's place in the early modern imagination. The author brackets her account between two pivotal events: the Council of Trent imposing strict enclosure on cloistered nuns, and the French Revolution expelling them from their cloisters two centuries later. In the intervening time, women within convent walls were both captives and refugees from an outside world dominated by patriarchal power and discourses. Yet despite locks and bars, the cloister remained "porous" to privileged visitors. Others could catch a glimpse of veiled nuns through the elaborate grills separating cloistered space from the church, provoking imaginative accounts of convent life. Not surprisingly, the figure of the confined religious woman represents an intensified object of desire in male-authored narrative. The convent also spurred "feminutopian" discourses composed by women: convents become safe houses for those fleeing bad marriages or trying to construct an ideal, pastoral life, as a counter model to the male-dominated court or household. Recent criticism has identified certain privileged spaces that early modern women made their own: the ruelle, the salon, the hearth of fairy tale-telling. Woshinsky's book definitively adds the convent to this list.
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Space Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period

2019-02-05

We can conceive the dimensions of space by analogy with the dimensions of bodies.81 Admittedly, Gassendi's notion of space is distinguished from the traditional notion of imaginary spaces which, on theological elaborations, ...

Author: Frederik A. Bakker

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9783030027650

Category: Philosophy

Page: 291

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This volume provides a much needed, historically accurate narrative of the development of theories of space up to the beginning of the eighteenth century. It studies conceptions of space that were implicitly or explicitly entailed by ancient, medieval and early modern representations of the cosmos. The authors reassess Alexandre Koyré’s groundbreaking work From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe (1957) and they trace the permanence of arguments to be found throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. By adopting a long timescale, this book sheds new light on the continuity between various cosmological representations and their impact on the ontology and epistemology of space. Readers may explore the work of a variety of authors including Aristotle, Epicurus, Henry of Ghent, John Duns Scotus, John Wyclif, Peter Auriol, Nicholas Bonet, Francisco Suárez, Francesco Patrizi, Giordano Bruno, Libert Froidmont, Marin Mersenne, Pierre Gassendi, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Samuel Clarke. We see how reflections on space, imagination and the cosmos were the product of a plurality of philosophical traditions that found themselves confronted with, and enriched by, various scientific and theological challenges which induced multiple conceptual adaptations and innovations. This volume is a useful resource for historians of philosophy, those with an interest in the history of science, and particularly those seeking to understand the historical background of the philosophy of space.
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Architectural Space and the Imagination

2020-10-08

That is what space is for.1 The above quotation, taken from Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space (1958), seems a fitting place to begin this consideration of an imagined 'house', which centres on the imaginary and imagined spaces of ...

Author: Jane Griffiths

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030360672

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 234

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This book sheds light on the intimate relationship between built space and the mind, exploring the ways in which architecture inhabits and shapes both the memory and the imagination. Examining the role of the house, a recurrent, even haunting, image in art and literature from classical times to the present day, it includes new work by both leading scholars and early career academics, providing fresh insights into the spiritual, social, and imaginative significances of built space. Further, it reveals how engagement with both real and imagined architectural structures has long been a way of understanding the intangible workings of the mind itself.
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Imagining Spaces and Places

2014-07-18

to reflect upon and interpret these spaces and which became very popular in Urban Studies, as well as among philosophers of culture (partly thanks to Edward Soja):15 heterotopias. The concept of heterotopia was intended to designate ...

Author: Saija Isomaa

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

ISBN: 9781443864138

Category: Social Science

Page: 354

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Imagining Spaces and Places seeks to produce an interdisciplinary dialogue between art history and literature studies and other fields of cultural analysis that work with the concepts of space, place and various “scapes”, such as cityscapes, bodyscapes, mindscapes and memoryscapes, as well as the more familiar landscapes. The volume was inspired by new lines of study that underline the experiential and multidimensional aspects of spaces. We explore how art, literature or urban spaces forge “scapes” by imposing or suggesting aesthetic, evaluative or ideological orderings and perceptual as well as emotive perspectives on the “raw material” or on previous ways of spatial worldmaking. We look at the role of cultural and artistic renderings of space in relation to everyday experiences of spaces. We examine how the experiences of places are mediated in various art forms and other cultural discourses or practices and how these discourses contribute to the understanding of particular places and also to understanding space in more general terms. Imagining Spaces and Places is addressed to scholars and teachers working at the intersection of cultural and spatial analyses, as well as to their undergraduate and postgraduate students.
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Imaginary Spaces of Power in Sub Saharan Literatures and Films

2012-04-25

As Manguel points out, uniformity replaces multiplicity: “In the foreign imagination, an equalizing, all-embracing ... there stands a strange resemblance with an old colonial reflex of imagining a widely heterogeneous space as one ...

Author: Alix Mazuet

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

ISBN: 9781443839464

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 180

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This collection of essays is unlike others in the field of African studies, for it is based on three very precisely delineated focal points: a particular geographical region, the sub-Sahara; specific modes of cultural production, literature and cinema; and a focus on works of French expression. This three-fold approach to exploring the relationships between power and culture in a non-Western environment greatly contributes to making this book unique from a variety of perspectives: African, Francophone and postcolonial studies, as well as cross-disciplinary, cultural, transnational and diasporic studies. Moreover, the book offers deft and innovative analyses that move beyond the rhetoric of crises on the African continent we so very often hear of, so as to present a critical reflection on the subject at hand that is specific to the sub-Sahara and at the same time intimately linked to global culture, economy and politics. The authors’ three-fold approach also presupposes that disciplinary compartmentalization increases power conflicts in academia. If only in part, compartmentalization is the result of antagonistic and competitive relations between specialization and multidisciplinary education. This book is thus a modest attempt at presenting an alternative to excessively fixed and homogeneous academic frontiers while considering that disciplinary expertise remains a must. Keeping in mind that an increasing number of scholars in Anglophone Postcolonial studies and Francophone African studies have been attempting for quite some time now to open interstices and build crossroads that can better connect them to each other, keeping in mind that these scholars work at revealing mechanisms by which any antagonistic discourses can mix, influence, act upon or react to one another, this book seeks to take a constructive step in establishing enduring grounds for multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary and transnational academic research and collaboration.
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