Creatives are taught the rules of design by mentors and professors. We are told what to do and how to do it. "Follow the rules and color within the lines," they say. "Only use two fonts on a page and don't make your logo too complicated," they say. It's time for us to tell them to shove it. Creative Anarchy explains and explores both rule-following and rule-breaking design. It includes tips …
In early 1999 Australian television personality George Negus signed off from Australia to spend a 'working sabbatical' in Italy with his partner and two sons. Residing in a poky apartment in San Giovanni Valdarno, a Tuscan town south of Florence, Negus and his family absorbed themselves completely in the rhythms of Italian life. On one of their forays into the bustling daily market, they came a…
For over four decades, Gilbert Sorrentino has produced brilliant, penetrating essays and reviews, each one an uncompromising statement of what is good - and what is not - in literature and culture. Something Said collects in a single volume these definitive readings of such major twentieth-century innovators as William Carlos Williams, Edward Dahlberg, Hubert Selby, John Hawkes, Flann O'Brien, …
The Russian Empire and modern Russian versification were established almost simultaneously during the 18th century, says Ram (Slavic languages and literature, U. of California-Berkeley), and he investigates the extent to which the evolution of modern Russian poetry was a response to and an effect of the imperial state. He tracks the rise of empire as a literary theme in tandem with the first sy…
How did the Victorians read novels? Nicholas Dames answers that deceptively simple question by revealing a now-forgotten range of nineteenth-century theories of the novel, a range based in a study of human physiology during the act of reading, He demonstrates the ways in which the Victorians thought they read, and uncovers surprising responses to the question of what might have transpired in…
Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of Orientalism (1978), a book which changed the face of critical theory and shaped the emerging field of post-colonial studies. He is also widely known for his controversial journalism on the Palestinian political situation. This volume explains Said's key ideas, their contexts and impact, with reference to both his scholarship and journ…
This classic work, back in print for the first time in over a decade, questions the public's harsh perception of the artist, while at the same time gently poking fun at the artists' own, often inflated self-image.
Account of Kartolo as a famous comedian in East Java.
Mexico's leading poet, essayist, and cultural critic writes of a Mexican poet of another time and another world, the world of seventeenth-century New Spain. His subject is Sor Juana In�s de la Cruz, the most striking figure in all of Spanish-American colonial literature and one of the great poets of her age.
Her life reads like a novel. A spirited and precocious girl, one of six ille…
Hikayat lebak merupakan sebuah tentang mitos dan pandangan hiidup douwes dekker, asisten residen di lebak pada abad 19, dalam kasus yang terkenal karena tuduhannya terhadap bupati lebak. dan permintaan berhenti sebagai asisten residen yang diajukannya kepada gubernur jendral belanda. Apakah douwes dekker yang berpandangan eropa-sentris itu memahami adat istiadat rakyat?
Literary criticism of Linus Suryadi Ag's poem Pengakuan Pariyem.
Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelists of post-war France. This work, retrieved from the papers she left at her death, consists of four notebooks written between 1943 and 1949 followed by ten previously unpublished short stories and autobiographical texts. She writes vividly about her childhood and teenage years in Indochina, stuck between a mother whom she loves an…
Building on the critical foundations established by Edward Said in Orientalism, Foreign Bodies examines the relationship between the Orientalist tradition in French art and literature and France�s colonial history. It focuses on a central dimension of this exchange: the prevalent figure of the �oriental woman,� and the interplay of race and gender in both domestic and colonial history. It…
Editor : Henri Nurcahyo Penerbit : Dewan Kesenian Jawa Timur Tebal : xii + 216 halaman Cetakan : Cetakan I, November 2009 Peresensi : Risang Anom Pujayanto Indonesia telah dikenal oleh masyarakat dunia sebagai salah satu pemilik dan penyumbang sektor terbaik kesenian dan kebudayaan dunia. Determinasi yang…
DAFTAR ISI -Sekapur sirih : Achmad Fauzi Ketua Umum Dewan Kesenian Jawa Timur -Pengantar Penulis Buku l: Kondisi Puisi Indonesia 1. Krisis Kepenyairan Kita 2.Surabaya 1962, Kerja Sebagai Sumber Estetika 3.Pergeseran pola Puitik (dari Chairil Anwar Menuju arif B Prasetyo) 4.Kerja kepenyairan: Tentang Masa Lalu Penyair Tardji 5.Gaya Barok Pada Puisi Indonesia 6.Mengenang Penyair…
In 1953, Samuel Beckett�s Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type of theatre whose proponents�Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others�shattered dramatic conventions and paid …
Pada bulan Mei 2007, saya bertemu dengan Mbak Pon dan Fajar dalam sebuah seminar tentang 'Wiji Thukul: Merekam Ketidakadilan Melalui Seni' yang diadakan di Kampus Unpad di Jatinangor.Kebetulan kami berdua sama-sama diundang menjadi narasumber. Mbak Pon dan Fajar datang ke Bandung dengan menumpang kereta api Senja Utama kelas bisnis dari Solo. Wajah kelelahan dan sedikit mengantuk tampak di…
Judul: Proses Kreatif Penulis: Idha Saraswati dkk Penyunting: Hasta Indriyana & Astrid Reza Wijaya Tebal: 15X21cm, x+110 hal. Penerbit: INSISTPress, AKY (ON/OFF Book) Cet.: I, Mei 2006. Harga: Rp.23.000,- Ibarat hidup, ini adalah masa dimana kami akan mengisahkan hidup kami. Dimana ada mula disitu ada akhir. Dimana ada perjumpaan disitu ada perpisahan. Ini mungkin adalah kata-k…
Buku ini menceritakan wayang secara sekilas. Tokoh-tokoh wayang beserta gambarnya diberikan penjelasan singkat. Di awal pembahasan disampaikan maksud dari wayang itu sendiri, dimana dipaparkan bahwa wayang adalah sebagai perlambang kehidupan manusia di dunia ini. Dengan wayang kita dapat belajar memaknai kehidupan yang kita jalani dunia, dapat belajar melalui karakter dari para tokoh wayan…
Daftar Isi : 1. Indonesia antara kelisanan dan keberaksaraan 2. Hamzah Fansuri Sang pemula puisi indonesia 3. Puitika Eropa Abad Pertengahan dan sastra indonesia 4. Kartini Dalam bahasa indonesia 5. Dari jan smees ke si jamin dan si johan 6. Puisi sebagai penggelaran 7. Anasir-anasir kejawaan dalam sastra indonesia mutakhir 8. Tentang priyayi 9. Prestise Bahasa Indonesia …
The legacy of Bertolt Brecht is much contested, whether by those who wish to forget or to vilify his politics, but his stature as the outstanding political playwright and poet of the twentieth century is unforgettably established in this major critical work. Fredric Jameson elegantly dissects the intricate connections between Brecht's drama and politics, demonstrating the way these combined to …
Jean Des Esseintes is the last member of a powerful and once proud noble family. He has lived an extremely decadent life in Paris, which has left him disgusted with human society. Without telling anyone, he retreats to a house in the countryside. He fills the house with his eclectic art collection (which notably consists of reprints of paintings of Gustave Moreau). Drawing from the theme of G…
Ini adalah buku kedua Mangan Ora Mangan Kumpul, Sketsa-sketsa Umar Kayam. Buku ini masih lincah meloncat dari satu tema ke tema lain tanpa meninggalkan gaya penulisannya yang kenyal dan segar-menggelitik. Konsisten dengan warna lokal yang Jawa pekat, ia tidak sampai tergelincir pada kepicikan sikap primordial.