Representations and contradictions
ambivalence towards images, theatre, fiction, relics, and sexuality
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Word Count
73,250 words, Guess
Page Count
293 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1001661M
- ISBN-10063120525X
- OCLC Control Number503317420
- OCLC Control Number35822523
- Internet Archiverepresentationsc0000good
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- Library of Congress Control Number96040927
- LibraryThing836136
- Goodreads1446607
Classifications
- DDC306/.01
- LCCGN357 .G665 1997
Description
The author explores the uneven distribution of representations in human societies and at different times within the same society. He shows how prone representations are to change during and after revolutions, and explains what lies behind their absence or suppression: the widespread scarcity, for example, of figurative representation, and the decline of secular literature, between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance, and the suppression of theatre during the Reformation. Jack Goody's accessible approach to his subject will ensure that this book appeals equally to anthropologists and historians, and to all students of culture, art history and literature.
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