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Repetition, recurrence, returns : how cultural renewal works /

"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 an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Resina, Joan Ramon (Author, Editor), Wulf, Christoph, 1944- (Author, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]
Series:Transforming literary studies.
Subjects:
Culture.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Recollection (Psychology)
Repetition (Aesthetics)
Repetition in literature.
Table of 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 Warstat
  • The domestication of sound: on the generativity of repetition / Holger Schulze
  • "Let's do it again?!" shaping "global" art production in urban Nepal / Christiane Brosius.