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Ritual and Narrative
Theoretical Explorations and Historical Case Studies Vera Nünning, Jan Rupp, and Gregor Ahn, eds.
Sound Worlds of Japanese Gardens
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Spatial Thinking
Art/Commerce
The Convergence of Art and Marketing in Contemporary Culture Maria A. Slowinska
Michael D. Fowler
Vera Nünning
is chair of English
philology at Heidelberg University. Jan Rupp
is a postdoctoral research
assistant in the English Department at Heidelberg University. Gregor Ahn
is chair of religious
studies at Heidelberg University.
Michael D. Fowler uses semiotics, acoustic ecology, philosophy, mathematical modeling, architecture, music, landscape theory, and acoustic analysis to investigate the sound world of traditional Japanese gardens. Using data visualizations, immersive sound installations, algorithmically generated meta-gardens, and proto-architectural formfinding missions as creative paradigms, Fowler builds a framework for inquiry that generates knowledge through spatial thinking. Michael D. Fowler
is a researcher
at the Audio Communication Group, University of Applied Sciences, Berlin.
Combining the history and theory of art with theories of contemporary culture and marketing, Maria A. Slowinska uses space, object, and persona to bridge present and past, aesthetic appearance and theoretical discourse, and traditional divisions between art and commerce. Transcending both pessimistic and celebratory rhetoric, her work contextualizes the aestheticization of commerce and the commercialization of aesthetics. Maria A. Slowinska
studied at
Johns Hopkins University, Yale University, and the Free University of Berlin, where she received her doctorate in American studies.
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Ava i l a b l e N o w 278 pages
S e p t e m b e r 250 pages / 50 b&w and
S e p t e m b e r 340 pages / 59 b&w
literary S tudies / C ultural S tudies
5 color illustrations
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music / M edia S tudies
A rt H isto ry / M edia S tudies
F o r S a l e O n ly i n t h e u n i t e d s tat e s , C a n a d a , M e x i c o , Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia
How can models and categories from narrative theory benefit the study of ritual, and what can we gain from applying concepts in ritual studies to narrative? This book joins literary studies, archaeology, biblical and religious studies, and political science to explore in-depth case studies of ritual and narrative within different media and historical contexts.
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