Melissa North
Biographic Data
| ID | 94768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa North |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | North |
| SIGNATURE | NORTH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Greifswald |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2436-6392 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mental Reflexes
Conceptually, Timothy Wientzen's Automatic resembles a large, inverted pyramid. The top level describes a general conviction in the twentieth century that the human mind is governed by reflexes much like those that can be observed in the body. The next level down, slightly narrower, finds versions of and reactions to this general idea in four social developments: Bergsonian vitalism, the industry of public relations, Pavlovian physiology and beha…
Lotteries, Art Markets, and Visual Culture in the Low Countries, 15th–17th Centuries
Lotteries, Art Markets, and Visual Culture in the Low Countries, 15th–17th Centuries. Sophie Raux. Studies in the History of Collecting and Art Markets 4. Leiden: Brill, 2018. xx + 370 pp. $159. - Volume 73 Issue 4
Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery
Historians often assume a one-directional transmission of knowledge and ideas, leading to the establishment of spatial hierarchies defined as centres and peripheries. In recent decades, transnational and global history have contributed to a more inclusive understanding of intellectual and cultural exchanges that profoundly challenged the ways in which we draw our mental maps. \n \nCovering the early modern and modern periods, Re-Mapping Centre an…
The Afterlife of Modernism
The Afterlife of Modernism Michael North (bio) I For some time now, anxiety has been building around the fact that we live in a period without a name. It seems that the passing of the postmodern into history has left a vacuum, at least in nomenclature, that nothing is able to fill.1 Since, by most accounts, the postmodern has been gone for almost thirty years, this crisis in periodization has lasted as long as some periods.2 It has lasted so long…
What Is the Present?: A History of the Here and Now
A provocative new look at concepts of the present, their connection to ideas about time, and their effect on literature, art, and cultureThe problem of the present—what it is and what it means—is one that has vexed generations of thinkers and artists. Because modernity places so much value on the present, many critics argue that people today spend far too much time in the here and now—but how can we tell without first knowing what the here and no…
What Is the Present?
Connected seas I
In the flourishing fields of World History and Global History, Maritime History has at best played an ancillary role. Although seas and oceans were not at the center of attention, they have received their monographs. Following Fernand Braudel's Méditerranée , historians interpreted the Mediterranean, Baltic, Atlantic, Indian Ocean, or Pacific as closed maritime systems, consisting of multiple microenvironments. This essay seeks to overcome these …
Connected Seas II: The perception and memory of the seas
The second part of my article “Connected Seas” examines the perception and memory of the seas as an element of maritime connectivity. It introduces the concept of realm of memory ( lieu de mémoire ) into maritime history. In four comparative case studies on the Sound , the Straits of Gibraltar , the Dardanelles , and the Straits of Malacca , the application of the concept of lieu de mémoire is tested with respect to the various memories of the se…
Artistic and Cultural Exchanges between Europe and Asia, 1400-1900: Rethinking Markets, Workshops and Collections
Contents: Preface Introduction, Michael North and Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann Asian objects and Western European court culture in the Middle Ages, Karl-Heinz Spiess The Euro-Asian trade in bezoar stones (approx. 1500 to 1700), Peter Borschberg Asia as a fantasy of France in the 19th century, Ting Chang Material culture, knowledge, and European society in colonial India around 1800: Danish Tranquebar, Martin Krieger Changing cultural contexts: the inc…
Laurence Fontaine, Le Marché. Histoire et usages d’une conquête sociale
The Baltic: A History
From the Vikings to the EU the Baltic has been a Nordic Mediterranean, a shared maritime zone with distinct patterns of trade, cultural exchange, and conflict. Covering a thousand years in a part of the globe where seas are more connective than land, Michael North's overview transforms the way we think about one of the world's great waterways
An Empire of Communication
Joachim Whaley’s two volumes on the Holy Roman Empire constitute what is undoubtedly the best work on the topic currently available on the European market. Of course, we already have a wide variety of historical accounts of the Empire, but Whaley surpasses all of them. Research into the history of the Holy Roman Empire has a long tradition, in particular after it experienced a surge of interest in the 1970s thanks to Karl Otmar von Arentin, Peter…
The End of the Old Reich
1806: The End of the Old Reich Get access German History, Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2006, Pages 455–474, https://doi.org/10.1191/0266355406gh383fa Published: 01 July 2006
Luxury and pleasure in eighteenth-century Britain - Maxine Berg
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of American literary modernism from 1890 to 1939. These original essays by twelve distinguished scholars of international reputation offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of Modern American literature and cultural studies. Among the diverse topics covered are nationalism, rac…
International Media, International Modernism, and the Struggle with Sound
An early episode in the history of globalization took place in the fall of 1927 with the premiere of what was commonly referred to at the time as 'the most important picture in the history of the movies.'1 The picture in question was F. W. Murnau's Sunrise, and one source of its contemporary prestige was the fact that it could be billed as the 'first international' film production.2 It's a little hard at this remove to see what right Sunrise had …
The Hamburg art market and influences on Northern and Central Europe
Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy: "The Politics of "Rotten English
Research Article| January 01 2001 Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy: The Politics of “Rotten English” Michael North Michael North Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2001) 13 (1): 97–112. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-1-97 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael North; Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy: The Politics of “Rotten English”. Public Culture 1 January 2001; 13 (1): 97–112…
Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern
This engaging study returns to a truly remarkable year, the year in which both Ulysses and The Waste Land were published, in which The Great Gatsby was set, and during which the Fascisti took over in Italy, the Irish Free State was born, the Harlem Renaissance reached its peak, Charlie Chaplin's popularity crested, and King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered. In short, the year which not only in hindsight became the primal scene of literary modern…
The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature
This treatise describes the crucial role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism. It describes how modernists have rebelled against the standard image, reimagining themselves as racial aliens and mimicking the strategies of dialect speakers. At the same time, African-American writers have struggled to free themselves from dialect as it has been rendered by white dialect writers
The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound
Journal Article The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound. By Michael North. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. viii + 241 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-521-41432-6.) Get access Timothy Materer Timothy Materer University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Pages 729–730, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079992 Pub…
Sampling Techniques and Sampling Error in Naturalistic Observation: An Empirical Evaluation With Implications for Cross-Cultural Research
Naturalistic observation plays an important role in cross-cultural research, and in virtually all cases observations are made of popu lation samples, not whole populations. A variety of sampling strat egies have been devised for naturalistic fieldwork, but deviations from actual target populations differ widely depending on the strategy used. This study uses two sets of continuous observations of child touching behavior to empirically evaluate th…
The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound
The politics of Yeats, Eliot and Pound have long been a source of discomfort and difficulty for literary critics and cultural historians. In The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot and Pound, Michael North offers a subtle reading of these issues by linking aesthetic modernism with an attempt in all these writers to resolve basic contradictions in modern liberalism. The many contradictions of modernism, which is seen as inwardly personal yet imper…
The Public as Sculpture: From Heavenly City to Mass Ornament
The Word as Bond: Money and Performative Language in Hill's Mercian Hymns
The Public as Sculpture: From Heavenly City to Mass Ornament
Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy: "The Politics of "Rotten English
Research Article| January 01 2001 Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy: The Politics of “Rotten English” Michael North Michael North Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2001) 13 (1): 97–112. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-1-97 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael North; Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy: The Politics of “Rotten English”. Public Culture 1 January 2001; 13 (1): 97–112…
Symbolism and obscurity in Meditations in time of civil war
Edward Taylor's Metaphors of Promise
rm HE TORMENTS of Edward Taylor's position as Puritan poet have I been emphasized recently, almost to the exclusion of its meager joys.1 Yet Puritan dogma also presents certain opportunities for poetry. It offers kind of metaphor and poetic strategy that help poet like Taylor solve the spiritual problems under which he labors. The Lord's Supper was for Taylor the crowning ritual of Christianity, and its celebration was the occasion for each of hi…
The Ambiguity of Repose: Sculpture and the Public Art of W. B. Yeats
The Architecture of Memory: Pound and the Tempio Malatestiano
N beginning his new poem of some length, Ezra Pound balances the relative merits of two different poetic methods. He proposes to Give up th'intaglio and perhaps to replace it with the appropriate to the modern world: rag-bag to stuff all its thought in.1 The two different methods represent two entirely different, in fact opposed, methods of arriving at poetic truth. Where one relies on selection, on the carefully incised lines of the intaglio, th…
A Guide to Ezra Pound's Selected Poems
Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear: Their Letters 1909-1914
Forms of Farewell: The Late Poetry of Wallace Stevens
The Word as Bond: Money and Performative Language in Hill's Mercian Hymns
The Public as Sculpture: From Heavenly City to Mass Ornament
The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound
The politics of Yeats, Eliot and Pound have long been a source of discomfort and difficulty for literary critics and cultural historians. In The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot and Pound, Michael North offers a subtle reading of these issues by linking aesthetic modernism with an attempt in all these writers to resolve basic contradictions in modern liberalism. The many contradictions of modernism, which is seen as inwardly personal yet imper…
The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound
Journal Article The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound. By Michael North. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. viii + 241 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-521-41432-6.) Get access Timothy Materer Timothy Materer University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Pages 729–730, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079992 Pub…
Sampling Techniques and Sampling Error in Naturalistic Observation: An Empirical Evaluation With Implications for Cross-Cultural Research
Naturalistic observation plays an important role in cross-cultural research, and in virtually all cases observations are made of popu lation samples, not whole populations. A variety of sampling strat egies have been devised for naturalistic fieldwork, but deviations from actual target populations differ widely depending on the strategy used. This study uses two sets of continuous observations of child touching behavior to empirically evaluate th…
The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature
This treatise describes the crucial role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism. It describes how modernists have rebelled against the standard image, reimagining themselves as racial aliens and mimicking the strategies of dialect speakers. At the same time, African-American writers have struggled to free themselves from dialect as it has been rendered by white dialect writers
Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern
This engaging study returns to a truly remarkable year, the year in which both Ulysses and The Waste Land were published, in which The Great Gatsby was set, and during which the Fascisti took over in Italy, the Irish Free State was born, the Harlem Renaissance reached its peak, Charlie Chaplin's popularity crested, and King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered. In short, the year which not only in hindsight became the primal scene of literary modern…
Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy: "The Politics of "Rotten English
Research Article| January 01 2001 Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy: The Politics of “Rotten English” Michael North Michael North Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2001) 13 (1): 97–112. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-1-97 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael North; Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy: The Politics of “Rotten English”. Public Culture 1 January 2001; 13 (1): 97–112…
International Media, International Modernism, and the Struggle with Sound
An early episode in the history of globalization took place in the fall of 1927 with the premiere of what was commonly referred to at the time as 'the most important picture in the history of the movies.'1 The picture in question was F. W. Murnau's Sunrise, and one source of its contemporary prestige was the fact that it could be billed as the 'first international' film production.2 It's a little hard at this remove to see what right Sunrise had …
The Hamburg art market and influences on Northern and Central Europe
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of American literary modernism from 1890 to 1939. These original essays by twelve distinguished scholars of international reputation offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of Modern American literature and cultural studies. Among the diverse topics covered are nationalism, rac…
The End of the Old Reich
1806: The End of the Old Reich Get access German History, Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2006, Pages 455–474, https://doi.org/10.1191/0266355406gh383fa Published: 01 July 2006
Luxury and pleasure in eighteenth-century Britain - Maxine Berg
The Baltic: A History
From the Vikings to the EU the Baltic has been a Nordic Mediterranean, a shared maritime zone with distinct patterns of trade, cultural exchange, and conflict. Covering a thousand years in a part of the globe where seas are more connective than land, Michael North's overview transforms the way we think about one of the world's great waterways
An Empire of Communication
Joachim Whaley’s two volumes on the Holy Roman Empire constitute what is undoubtedly the best work on the topic currently available on the European market. Of course, we already have a wide variety of historical accounts of the Empire, but Whaley surpasses all of them. Research into the history of the Holy Roman Empire has a long tradition, in particular after it experienced a surge of interest in the 1970s thanks to Karl Otmar von Arentin, Peter…
Artistic and Cultural Exchanges between Europe and Asia, 1400-1900: Rethinking Markets, Workshops and Collections
Contents: Preface Introduction, Michael North and Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann Asian objects and Western European court culture in the Middle Ages, Karl-Heinz Spiess The Euro-Asian trade in bezoar stones (approx. 1500 to 1700), Peter Borschberg Asia as a fantasy of France in the 19th century, Ting Chang Material culture, knowledge, and European society in colonial India around 1800: Danish Tranquebar, Martin Krieger Changing cultural contexts: the inc…
Laurence Fontaine, Le Marché. Histoire et usages d’une conquête sociale
What Is the Present?: A History of the Here and Now
A provocative new look at concepts of the present, their connection to ideas about time, and their effect on literature, art, and cultureThe problem of the present—what it is and what it means—is one that has vexed generations of thinkers and artists. Because modernity places so much value on the present, many critics argue that people today spend far too much time in the here and now—but how can we tell without first knowing what the here and no…
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