Results 11 to 20 of about 25,405 (289)
Exoticism in Gertrude Bell's Persian pictures [PDF]
, 2014 Victorian travelers in colonial contexts encountered differences in landscape, mores and manners, society, politics and culture, among other things, and registered their responses to the places visited in their published travel books for the home ...
Amoia +45 more
core +1 more source
Book review: inventing exoticism: geography, globalism and Europe's early modern world [PDF]
, 2016 Benjamin Schmidt, Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism and Europe's Early Modern World (University of Pennsylvania Press ...
Stock, Paul
core +1 more source
Culture & Musées, 2020 Universal Exhibitions are one of numerous instances elaborated in order to display animals during the second half of the 19th century. But the role of animals in such events has yet to be studied: how are they exhibited and staged?
Sophie Corbillé, Emmanuelle Fantin
doaj +1 more source
When cultural modifications are taken into account: Ibsen's a doll's house on Iranian screen [PDF]
, 2015 How cross-cultural communications terminate in imperfect understanding can arguably be rendered by critical awareness about culturally differentiating conceptions in the interacting communities.
Baggali, Hamideh, Khiabani, Mahdiyeh T.
core +3 more sources
Nouveaux lieux de sociabilité cosmopolites à Antananarivo
Territoire en Mouvement, 2015 In Antananarivo as well as in other Eastern African cities, there is a growing and visible presence of foreigners coming from developing countries.
Catherine Fournet-Guérin
doaj +1 more source
A “Stranger” as a Sick Person in Yugoslav Travelogues of the First Half of the 20th Century
Филологический класс, 2021 The paper deals with the connection between the figure of the ethnic “stranger” and the phenomenon of illness in Yugoslav travelogues in the second half of the 20th century.
doaj +1 more source
« Comme à l’époque de Suzie Wong ». Les mutations du red-light district de Wan Chai
Genre, Sexualité et Société, 2011 The exotic novel, The World of Suzie Wong, and its many adaptations immortalized the red-light district of Wan Chai, Hong Kong with its American sailors, British Empire expatriates and Hong Kong prostitutes in the late 1950s.
Nicolas Paris
doaj +1 more source
Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 2013 In this article, we explore how traveling relates to image production and how transcultural filmic representations both uphold and are sustained by a “coloniality of seeing.” We pay special attention to the historical conditions of film ...
Anne Gustavsson, Mariana Giordano
doaj +1 more source
The style of the present: Karel Teige on constructivism and poetism [PDF]
, 2004 In this essay the Czech avant-gardist Karel Teige's dual program of Constructivism/Poetism is interrogated in the context of his own claim that architectural historicism was degraded by the rupture into a duality of structure and ornament. This inability
Zusi, PA
core +1 more source
EXPLICATION POTENTIAL OF INTERTEXTUAL ELEMENTS IN CONVEYING CULTURE-SPECIFIC COMPONENTS OF CONTENT
Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021 The article studies the identification and description of the ways the linguocultural overtones of generalized meaning are expressed in the process of conveying everyday realities. Various methods of ensuring the adequacy of the perception of the foreign
S. Sidorenko
doaj