Repetition, recurrence, returns : how cultural renewal works / [edited by] Joan Ramon Resina and Christoph Wulf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Resina, Joan Ramon, editor, author.

Wulf, Christoph, 1944- editor, author.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Transforming literary studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Repetition in literature.

Recollection (Psychology).

Repetition (Aesthetics).

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Culture.

Physical Description:

xxii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

How cultural renewal works

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]

Summary:

"Repetition is constitutive of human life. Unlike simple recall, repetition is permeated by the past and the present and is oriented toward the future. This book investigates the significance of different forms of repetition in literature, culture, and society through studies of the function and importance of an array of repetitive phenomenon." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1. Human development: memory and self-transformation in ritual and mimetic processes. Repetition of the self in memory and anticipation / Joan Ramon Resina

Repetition and reenactment in rituals / Axel Michaels

Repetitions and difference in physical, mimetic, and ritual processes / Christoph Wulf

Repetition, training, exercise: from Plato's care of the soul to the contemporary self-help industry / Almut-Barbara Renger

Part 2. The need to repeat: education, rhetoric, and conversation. The need to repeat: young childrens' reliving of stories / Ursula Stenger ; translated by James Garrison

Re-petition in (therapeutic) conversation: a psychoanalyst's perspective using conversation analysis / Michael B. Buchholz

Notes on rhetoric and repetition in tourism / Stephanie Malia Hom

Part 3. Creativity: rhythm and repetition. Etoku (??) and rhythms of nature / Shoko Suzuki

The births of rhythm: John Dewey and aesthetic form / Vincent Barletta

Repeating sound, sounding repetition in music / Tiago de Oliviera Pinto

Gertrud Stein on serial repetition / Ulla Haselstein

Part 4. Aesthetics: repetition and creation of art. Creativity and repetition. Some notes on the practice and cultural discourses of literary creativity / Günter Blamberger

The compulsion to be cruel: contemporary returns / Isabel Capeloa Gil

Leap into the open sky: political theater as a return to the past / Matthias Earstat

The domestication of sound: on the generativity of repetition / Holger Dchulze

"Let's do it again?!" shaping "global" art production in urban Nepal / Christiane Brosius.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Repetition, recurrence, returns

Online Online version: Repetition, recurrence, returns

ISBN:

9781498593991

1498593992

OCLC:

1081351688