Repetition, Recurrence, Returns

How Cultural Renewal Works

Joan Ramon Resina, Christoph Wulf (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

290 Seiten

2019
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9399-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Repetition is constitutive of human life. Both the species and the individual develop through repetition. Unlike simple recall, repetition is permeated by the past and the present and is oriented toward the future. Repetition of central actions and events plays an important role in the lives of individuals and the life of society. It helps to create meaning and memory. Because repetition is a central aspect of human life, it plays a role in all social and cultural spheres. It is important for several branches of the humanities and social studies. This book presents studies of an array of repetitive phenomena and to show that repetition analysis is opening up a new field of study within single disciplines and interdisciplinary research. Recommended for scholars of literature, music, culture, and communication.

Joan Ramon Resina is professor of comparative literature and of Iberian cultures at Stanford University. Christoph Wulf is professor of anthropology and education at Freie Universität Berlin.

Contents

Introduction

Part 1. Human Development: Memory and Self-Transformation in Ritual and Mimetic Processes

Chapter 1. Repetition of the Self in Memory and Anticipation
Joan Ramon Resina
Chapter 2. Repetition and Reenactment in Rituals
Axel Michaels
Chapter 3. Repetitions and Difference in Physical, Mimetic, and Ritual Processes
Christoph Wulf
Chapter 4. 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

Chapter 5. The Need to Repeat: Young Children’ Reliving of Stories
Ursula Stenger, Translated by James Garrison
Chapter 6. Re-Petition in (Therapeutic) Conversation: A Psychoanalyst’s Perspective Using Conversation Analysis
Michael B. Buchholz
Chapter 7. Notes on Rhetoric and Repetition in Tourism
Stephanie Malia Hom

Part 3. Creativity: Rhythm and Repetition

Chapter 8. Etoku (会得) and Rhythms of Nature
Shoko Suzuki
Chapter 9. The Births of Rhythm: John Dewey and Aesthetic Form
Vincent Barletta
Chapter 10. Repeating Sound, Sounding Repetition in Music
Tiago de Oliviera Pinto
Chapter 11. Gertrud Stein on Serial Repetition
Ulla Haselstein

Part 4. Aesthetics: Repetition and Creation of Art

Chapter 12. Creativity and Repetition. Some Notes on the Practice and Cultural Discourses of Literary Creativity
Günter Blamberger
Chapter 13. The Compulsion to Be Cruel: Contemporary Returns
Isabel Capeloa Gil
Chapter 14. Leap into the Open Sky: Political Theater as a Return to the Past
Matthias Warstat
Chapter 15. The Domestication of Sound: On the Generativity of Repetition
Holger Schulze
Chapter 16. “Let’s do it again?!”: Shaping “Global” Art Production in Urban Nepal
Christiane Brosius

Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Transforming Literary Studies
Co-Autor	Vincent Barletta, Günter Blamberger, Christiane Brosius
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 232 mm
Gewicht	621 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4985-9399-2 / 1498593992
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-9399-1 / 9781498593991
Zustand	Neuware