Rishona Zimring
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 102205 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rishona Zimring |
| NOMBRES | Rishona |
| APELLIDO | Zimring |
| FIRMA | ZIMRING R |
| AFILIACIONES | Lewis & Clark College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 5 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Found in translation
This essay foregrounds two figures previously neglected in feminist modernist studies and modernist studies more generally: Rosika Schwimmer and Ignazio Silone. Their unpublished correspondence constitutes a poignant and significant episode in the rise of modernism. Schwimmer consulted extensively on Silone’s first novel, Fontamara, a global sensation in its time that has long since fallen into obscurity. She was one of the most conspicuous femin…
Ballet, Folk Dance, and the Cultural History of Interwar Modernism
This essay singles out the Camargo Society's 1931 production of Job as an ‘emblematic’ modernist ballet. Whereas Sacre is emblematic of the pre-war crucible of the modernist avant-garde, Job is emblematic of the culturally reparative interwar years. To approach Job as an emblematic and innovative artwork of interwar modernism, we should locate its genealogy both in the radical, liberatory, experimentalist, and primitivist energies of Sacre, and i…
The passionate cosmopolitan in Salman Rushdie'sFury
Relating Rushdie's work to theories of cosmopolitanism and to Rushdie's own comments on the intersection of globalization and American hegemony, this essay argues that Fury treats cosmopolitanism in an American guise with ambivalence. It foregrounds American immigrant experiences as ones with limited recourse to the consolations of nostalgia and authenticity, and it links justice‐seeking anger to the transnational allegiances and cultural and geo…
Introduction
This paper introduces a Literature Compass cluster of articles which examines the current state of Virgina Woolf Studies and aims to provide a snapshot of the field. These papers grew out of the 15 th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference (College of Lewis and Clark, Portland, OR, June 9–12, 2005). The full cluster is made up of the following articles: “Introduction: Virginia Woolf and The Art of Exploration,” Urmila Seshagiri and Rishon…
City Life
Reviewed by: City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World Rishona Zimring (bio) Witold Rybczynski, City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World. New York: Scribner, 1995. 256 pp. $23.00. Near the beginning of City Life, Witold Rybczynski informs the reader that the ratio of police to citizens in Paris is 15:1,000; in New York City, it is 4:1,000; and in Los Angeles, 2:1,000. The comparison instructs us at the outset to consider why American citie…
The passionate cosmopolitan in Salman Rushdie'sFury
Relating Rushdie's work to theories of cosmopolitanism and to Rushdie's own comments on the intersection of globalization and American hegemony, this essay argues that Fury treats cosmopolitanism in an American guise with ambivalence. It foregrounds American immigrant experiences as ones with limited recourse to the consolations of nostalgia and authenticity, and it links justice‐seeking anger to the transnational allegiances and cultural and geo…
City Life
Reviewed by: City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World Rishona Zimring (bio) Witold Rybczynski, City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World. New York: Scribner, 1995. 256 pp. $23.00. Near the beginning of City Life, Witold Rybczynski informs the reader that the ratio of police to citizens in Paris is 15:1,000; in New York City, it is 4:1,000; and in Los Angeles, 2:1,000. The comparison instructs us at the outset to consider why American citie…
Introduction
This paper introduces a Literature Compass cluster of articles which examines the current state of Virgina Woolf Studies and aims to provide a snapshot of the field. These papers grew out of the 15 th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference (College of Lewis and Clark, Portland, OR, June 9–12, 2005). The full cluster is made up of the following articles: “Introduction: Virginia Woolf and The Art of Exploration,” Urmila Seshagiri and Rishon…
The passionate cosmopolitan in Salman Rushdie'sFury
Relating Rushdie's work to theories of cosmopolitanism and to Rushdie's own comments on the intersection of globalization and American hegemony, this essay argues that Fury treats cosmopolitanism in an American guise with ambivalence. It foregrounds American immigrant experiences as ones with limited recourse to the consolations of nostalgia and authenticity, and it links justice‐seeking anger to the transnational allegiances and cultural and geo…
Ballet, Folk Dance, and the Cultural History of Interwar Modernism
This essay singles out the Camargo Society's 1931 production of Job as an ‘emblematic’ modernist ballet. Whereas Sacre is emblematic of the pre-war crucible of the modernist avant-garde, Job is emblematic of the culturally reparative interwar years. To approach Job as an emblematic and innovative artwork of interwar modernism, we should locate its genealogy both in the radical, liberatory, experimentalist, and primitivist energies of Sacre, and i…
Found in translation
This essay foregrounds two figures previously neglected in feminist modernist studies and modernist studies more generally: Rosika Schwimmer and Ignazio Silone. Their unpublished correspondence constitutes a poignant and significant episode in the rise of modernism. Schwimmer consulted extensively on Silone’s first novel, Fontamara, a global sensation in its time that has long since fallen into obscurity. She was one of the most conspicuous femin…
Art (5 obras) · Aesthetics (3 obras) · Literature (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · Art history (2 obras) · History (2 obras) · History (2 obras) · Political science (2 obras) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 obras)