Consuming Traditions: Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic

Consuming Traditions: Modernity, Moderni

📁 Consuming Traditions: Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic

✍ Elizabeth Outka 📂 Library 📅 2008 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

In an unprecedented phenomenon that swept across Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century, writers, advertisers, and architects began to create and sell images of an authentic cultural realm paradoxically considered outside the marketplace. Such images were located in nostalgic pictures of an

Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and

📁 Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity: Commodification, Tourism, and Performance

✍ Laurel Kendall (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 University of Hawaii Press 🌐 English

<p>Contributors to this volume explore the irony of modern things made in the image of a traditional "us." They describe the multifaceted ways "tradition" is produced and consumed within the frame of contemporary Korean life and how these processes are enabled by different apparatuses of modernity t

Travel, Modernism and Modernity

📁 Travel, Modernism and Modernity

✍ Dr Robert Burden 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Ashgate Publishing Company 🌐 English

Focusing on the significance of travel in Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, Robert Burden shows how travel enabled a new consciousness of mobility and borders during the modernist period. For these authors, Burden suggests, travel becomes a narrative paradig

Travel, Modernism and Modernity

📁 Travel, Modernism and Modernity

✍ Burden, Robert 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Ashgate Publishing Company 🌐 English

Focusing on the significance of travel in Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, Robert Burden shows how travel enabled a new consciousness of mobility and borders during the modernist period. For these authors, Burden suggests, travel becomes a narrative paradig

Overcoming Tradition And Modernity: The

📁 Overcoming Tradition And Modernity: The Search For Islamic Authenticity

✍ Robert D. Lee 📂 Library 📅 1997 🏛 Westview Press 🌐 English

“Authenticity” has begun to rival “development” as a key to understanding the political aspirations of the Islamic world. Almost everywhere modernity has laid waste to tradition, those habits and practices deemed to be timeless and true. Imperialism carried European notions of progress into Muslim-d

Development, Modernism and Modernity in

📁 Development, Modernism and Modernity in Africa

✍ Augustine Agwuele 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

<p><span>This anthology examines the "unfinished project of modernity" with respect to the unrealized potential for economic, social, and political development in Africa. It also shows how, facing the consequences of modernism, Africans in and out of the continent are responding to these unfinished