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Finding the Foreign
Editor: Robert Schechtman and Suin Roberts
Date Of Publication: Jan 2007
Isbn13: 9781847181022
Isbn: 1-84718-102-3
"Finding the Foreign" includes the proceedings of the thirteenth annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference at the University of California, Berkeley (2005), which explored constructions of the “foreign” in the German-speaking context in language, literature, music, and visual media. The collected articles discuss how various tropes and rhetorical techniques have historically been employed to position cultural works on a spectrum from familiar to the strange. The multi-disciplinary range of approaches contained in this volume reveals how diverse the portrayals of the foreign have been, as well as how contingent and varying the delineation between the foreign and the familiar can become.
Suin Roberts is a Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Indiana University–Purdue University, Fort Wayne. She received her Ph.D. in German at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2005. Her research interests include politeness theory, intercultural communication, and German migrant literature. Robert Schechtman is an Instructor and Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is writing on the German discourse of community (Gemeinschaft) in the Weimar Republic. His research interests include German intellectual history, social aspects of visual culture and new media, gender theory, and semiotics.
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Sabina de Cavi’s Architecture and Royal Presence: Domenico and Giulio Cesare Fontana in Spanish Naples (1592-1627) is an exemplary interdisciplinary study of the relationship between politics and art history. No finer or more vivid investigation exists of the role of the Spanish viceroyalty in Neapolitan architecture during its formative years. It offers an unparalleled examination of the viceregal claims to legitimacy, casts brilliant light on the relationship between architecture, etiquette and ceremonial, and makes clear the critical role played in these developments by the remarkable architecture of Domenico and Giulio Cesare Fontana.
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