Imitation Nation
Author | : Jason Richards |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2017-12-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813940656 |
How did early Americans define themselves? The American exceptionalist perspective tells us that the young republic rejected Europeans, Native Americans, and African Americans in order to isolate a national culture and a white national identity. Imitativeness at this time was often seen as antithetical to self and national creation, but Jason Richards argues that imitation was in fact central to such creation. Imitation Nation shows how whites simultaneously imitated and therefore absorbed the cultures they so readily disavowed, as well as how Indians and blacks emulated the power and privilege of whiteness while they mocked and resisted white authority. By examining the republic’s foundational literature--including works by Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, and Martin Delany--Richards argues that the national desire for cultural uniqueness and racial purity was in constant conflict with the national need to imitate the racial and cultural other for self-definition. The book offers a new model for understanding the ways in which the nation’s identity and literature took shape during the early phases of the American republic.
Imitation in Animals and Artifacts
Author | : Chrystopher L. Nehaniv |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780262042031 |
An interdisciplinary overview of current research on imitation in animals and artifacts.
Copycats
Author | : Oded Shenkar |
Publisher | : Harvard Business Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1422126730 |
"In business, imitation gets a bad rap: some business leaders see imitators as 'me too' players forced to copy because they have nothing original to offer. In Copycats, Oded Shenkar challenges this viewpoint. He reveals how imitation - the exact or broad-brushed copying of an innovation - is as critical to prosperity as innovation, especially when the two are used together."--Inside jacket.
Textual Imitation: Making and Seeing in Literature
Author | : J. Hart |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2012-10-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 113730135X |
Textual Imitation offers a new critique of the space between fiction and truth, poetry and philosophy. In a nimble, yet startlingly wide-ranging argument, esteemed scholar Jonathan Hart argues that recognition and misrecognition are the keys to understanding texts and contexts from the Old World to the New World.
A Fine Imitation
Author | : Amber Brock |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Man-woman relationships |
ISBN | : 1101905115 |
Enduring a life of lonely desperation in spite of her beauty, pedigree, and Park Avenue penthouse, Vera is drawn to a secretive French artist who is painting a mural in her coveted building, a relationship that reminds her about a talented forger from her past who nearly cost her everything.
Imitations of the Self: Jiang Yan and Chinese Poetics
Author | : Nicholas Morrow Williams |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2014-11-06 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9004282459 |
Imitations of the Self reevaluates the poetry of Jiang Yan (444–505), long underappreciated because of its pervasive reliance on allusion, by emphasizing the self-conscious artistry of imitation. In context of “imitation poetry,” the popular genre of the Six Dynasties era, Jiang’s work can be seen as the culmination of central trends in Six Dynasties poetry. His own life experiences are encoded in his poetry through an array of literary impersonations, reframed in traditional literary forms that imbue them with renewed significance. A close reading of Jiang Yan’s poetry demonstrates the need to apply models of interpretation to Chinese poetry that do justice to the multiplicity of authorial self-representation.
Desire and Imitation in International Politics
Author | : Jodok Troy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Conflict management |
ISBN | : 9781611863888 |
"The book studies conflict based on the imitation of others' desire in international politics. It also looks at studies of agency and structure, normative change, peace, and reconciliation"--
Imitation of Life
Author | : Douglas Sirk |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780813516455 |
Douglas Sirk (Claus Detler Sierck) was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1900. He made nine films before fleeing Nazi Germany, eventually coming to America. His best-known films, made during the 1950s--all of them melodramas--were Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows, The Tarnished Angels, Written on the Wind, and Imitation of Life (made in 1958, released in 1959). This volume includes the complete continuity script of the film, critical commentary and published reviews, interviews with the director, and a filmography and bibliography. It also includes an excellent introduction by Lucy Fischer.