Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
Mashya and Mashyana unearthed : myth, metonymy and the unknowing subject
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
- Summary
-
This is the story of Mashya and Mashyana Unearthed, an exploration of when and where ancient myths become metonymic in varied forms of contemporary cultural and aesthetic representations.
Details
- Creator
- Hamid Dabashi
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
-
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024
- ©2024
- Physical Details
-
- 1 online resource (viii, 332 pages) : illustrations
- ISBNs
- 9781399517966, 1399517961, 9781399517942, 1399517945, 1399517945
- OCLC
- on1423347880
- Includes index (pages 324-334).
- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: The World of Pure Verisimilitude -- From Truth to Verisimilitude -- Under the Debris of the Fourth Wall -- Ostranenie and the Arrested Mimesis of the Body -- Framing the Performances, Spacing Performativity -- The Liberating World of Pure Verisimilitudes -- Mashya and Mashyana Unearthed -- Part I Men and Women -- 1 Men without Women -- Lumpens, Intellectuals, Clerics -- Searching for Deeper Roots -- From Lumpenism to Fascism -- Inorganic Intellectuals -- Lumpenism in Cinema
- The Mythic Gap of a Gender Imbalance -- 2 Women without Men -- The Creative Constitution of a Public Persona -- Knowledge of the Unknown -- Seven Shades of Memory -- Rethinking the Human in Literary Humanism -- Gleichschaltung -- Writing Women into Humanism -- Part II Masculine and Feminine -- 3 Masculine/Feminine -- Men of Honour and Fear of Castration -- The Metaphoric Body -- The Colonised Masculinity -- Dash Akol: The Mythic Man Idolised -- Contingency of the Body -- In Search of 'Authenticity' -- The Dialectics of the Body's Being-in-the-World -- Sexual Thralldom
- Mutilating the Feminine Body -- Where Men are Men ... -- ... And Women are Not Men -- 4 Feminine/Masculine -- Daybreak -- Women at Work -- The Mythically Pregnant Reality -- Re-Mythologising the Real -- Mythologies -- Ritual Birth -- Urban Legends -- Meanwhile, the Ma'arefi Family ... -- Metonymic Mythologies of the Present -- 5 Liberation in Three Moves -- The Realism of the Real -- Fear of the Real -- Towards a Neo-Realism -- Reality under Erasure -- The Taste of Cherry -- The Bread and the Flower Pot -- Baran and the Native -- 6 To Be at Home in the World -- Dis-Engaging the Metaphysical
- To De-Oedipalise the Oedipal -- Re-Configuring the Body -- Trusting the Camera -- Subjectivity, Sexuality and the Imaginary -- Towards a Counter-Symbolic -- Visions of the Invisible -- 'Semiotic Chora' -- Part III Home and Exile -- 7 The Cinema of Solitude -- A Nocturnal Journey -- Ice as a Floating Signifier -- Simple, Solitary and Serene -- The Site of the Solitary Unknowing Subject -- 8 The Ballad of Occidental Exile -- The Exile as the Unknowing Subject -- Exilic Cinema -- Exile on Exile: Amir Naderi on Sohrab Shahid-Saless -- Amir Naderi's New York -- Born Again in New York
- A Migratory and Mobile State of Mind -- On the Poetry of Concrete and Steel -- Suspended of All Imported Meanings -- The Troubadour of the Occidental Exile -- Part IV Mysticism and Mythologies -- 9 The World of Verisimilitude -- The Nature and Disposition of Creativity -- Towards a Culture of Bodily Denials -- Fabling the World -- The Metaphysics of the Absolutes -- Subjection and Re-Subjection -- Against Dead Certainties -- A Material Celebration of Life -- The Sound of Gabriel's Wing -- Towards a Cinematic (Counter-)Culture -- Part V Visions Impermissible -- 10 Visions of the Invisible