Tag: Modernity

Free Download Raktima Bhuyan, "Print Modernity in Colonial Assam"
English | ISBN: 1666905410 | 2023 | 154 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 3 MB
Print Modernity in Colonial Assam considers the historical context of colonial Assam and traces literary trends which were subject to acknowledgment and evasion in the (over)emphasized periodicals and magazines of the time. Raktima Bhuyan and Sanjib Pol Deka argue for alternative literary trends and reading public in colonial Assam. The standardization of the Assamese language, along with the rise of the middle-class, engendered ‘purity’ of the language and experimentation with western mediums like the novel. This book places ‘pre-modern verse’ as an alternative literary practice equally embraced by the reading public during this period. At the threshold of Indian independence, issues like education as a blessing of colonial modernity needs to be subjected to discourses of morality and gender bias (and an attempt to prevent this) in the writings of the period, such as speeches, essays, and textbooks.

Free Download Lubomír Dunaj, "Civilization, Modernity, and Critique: Engaging Jóhann P. Árnason’s Macro-Social Theory "
English | ISBN: 1032217723 | 2023 | 276 pages | PDF | 4 MB

Free Download Gilberto Conde, "Fluid Modernity "
English | ISBN: 1032412259 | 2022 | 138 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Fluid Modernity offers an innovative, encompassing, historical grasp of the politics of water in the Middle East in the context of modern capitalism and world politics. Drawing upon conceptions of power by Foucault and Agamben, it examines how water, through its modern capitalist production, is transformed into a water apparatus that binds people to power. In trans-boundary watercourses, states get involved in the formation of international governmentalities.

Free Download Mark William Roche, "Beautiful Ugliness: Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts"
English | ISBN: 0268207011 | 2023 | 520 pages | EPUB | 81 MB
This book probes the intersection of the beautiful and the ugly, offering a systematic framework to understand, interpret, and evaluate how ugliness can contribute to beautiful art.

Free Download Marion Thain, "The Lyric Poem and Aestheticism: Forms of Modernity "
English | ISBN: 1474415660 | 2016 | 280 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Lyric poetry’s response to a crisis of relevance in Victorian Modernity

Free Download Janet Janzen, "Media, Modernity and Dynamic Plants in Early 20th Century German Culture "
English | ISBN: 9004327169 | 2016 | 21600 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In Media, Modernity and the Dynamic Plant, Janet Janzen traces the motif of the dynamic plant through early 20th century German culture. In examples from film and literature, she demonstrates a shift in the perception of plants to living beings.

Free Download Kate Campbell, "Journalism, Literature and Modernity"
English | ISBN: 1853311758 | 2000 | 288 pages | PDF | 13 MB
Journalism has often been disregarded by literary critics and authors alike. Its difference from literature has been heightened by its identification with daily newspaper journalism and reporting. Yet ‘journalism’ broadly refers to all writing in public journals, spanning high culture and popular culture. It has been central to experiences of modernity, making its dismissal problematic. Journalism, Literature and Modernity considers journalism in its diversity, suggesting its aptness for interdisciplinary study. The authors examine writing in journals across a cultural spectrum-literary journals, organs of culture, magazines, journals promoting modernism, and daily newspapers. Demonstrating a variety of approaches, they explore journalism’s importance in relation to gender, modernity and modernism through readings of established writers and critics – William Hazlitt, Charles Dickens, Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater, Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf, Laura Riding – and journals and journalists – Henry Mayhew,

Free Download Mohammad H. Fadel, "Islamic Jurisprudence, Islamic Law, and Modernity "
English | ISBN: 1957454792 | 2023 | 386 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Mohammad Fadel’s scholarship on Islamic law and legal history ranges from medieval institutions and the history of Islamic legal interpretation to urgent problems relating to the modern reception and re-assessment of Islamic legal doctrine. Fadel’s intellectual concerns focus primarily on the compatibility of the Islamic legal tradition with modern liberal political arrangements, but in his research and writing he also delves into the realm of premodern Islamic legal thought and institutions. His Rawlsian approach leads him to a political reading of the Islamic legal tradition, which he accomplishes by teasing out jurists’ assumptions about politics, economics, and the domestic sphere. Fadel’s readings of Islamic legal sources suggest that Islamic law remains relevant to a society in which legitimate disagreements over law and morality seem intractable. At the same time, from the Rawlsian perspective he adopts, Fadel reminds us that premodern Muslim jurists formulated Islamic law also under conditions of substantial controversy over matters of law and morality, as well as over questions of religion, politics, theology, and metaphysics. The studies gathered together in this volume adroitly illustrate Fadel’s interest in Islamic law as a domain of Islamic political thought and as a framework that might be deployed in today’s pluralistic and secularized societies.

Free Download Max Saunders, "Imagined Futures: Writing, Science, and Modernity in the To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series, 1923-31"
English | ISBN: 0198829450 | 2019 | 448 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This study provides the first substantial history and analysis of the To-Day and To-Morrow series of 110 books, published by Kegan Paul Trench and Trubner (and E. P. Dutton in the USA) from 1923 to 1931, in which writers chose a topic, described its present, and predicted its future. Contributors included J. B. S. Haldane, Bertrand Russell, Vernon Lee, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, Sylvia Pankhurst, Hugh MacDiarmid, James Jeans, J. D. Bernal, Winifred Holtby, Andre Maurois, and many others. The study combines a comprehensive account of its interest, history, and range with a discussion of its key concerns, tropes, and influence.

Free Download Heba Arafa Abdelfattah, "Filming Modernity and Islam in Colonial Egypt"
English | ISBN: 139952075X | 2023 | 488 pages | PDF | 31 MB
This book studies the rise of cinema in colonial Egypt as a supplemental secular public sphere that is not anti-religion. To this end, it investigates the reception of film by three centers of powers: the colonial authorities, the Muslim clergy, and the Cairene bourgeoisie. It inquires about the representations of modernity in films produced during the time and the place filmmakers assigned to Islam in these representations. The result is a story of survival and coexistence told through the lens of cinema as modern art and popular culture negotiating its overt and covert censorship in the public sphere, despite colonization and war.