Lexington Books
Pages: 290
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Trim: 6¼ x 9⅛
978-1-4985-9399-1 • Hardback • April 2019 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-1-4985-9400-4 • eBook • April 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
Joan Ramon Resina is professor of comparative literature and of Iberian cultures at Stanford University.
Christoph Wulf is professor of anthropology and education at Freie Universität Berlin.
Contents
Introduction
Part 1. Human Development: Memory and Self-Transformation in Ritual and Mimetic Processes
Chapter 1. Repetition of the Self in Memory and Anticipation
Joan Ramon Resina
Chapter 2. Repetition and Reenactment in Rituals
Axel Michaels
Chapter 3. Repetitions and Difference in Physical, Mimetic, and Ritual Processes
Christoph Wulf
Chapter 4. Repetition, Training, Exercise: From Plato’s Care of the Soul to the Contemporary Self-Help Industry
Almut-Barbara Renger
Part 2. The Need to Repeat: Education, Rhetoric, and Conversation
Chapter 5. The Need to Repeat: Young Children’ Reliving of Stories
Ursula Stenger, Translated by James Garrison
Chapter 6. Re-Petition in (Therapeutic) Conversation: A Psychoanalyst’s Perspective Using Conversation Analysis
Michael B. Buchholz
Chapter 7. Notes on Rhetoric and Repetition in Tourism
Stephanie Malia Hom
Part 3. Creativity: Rhythm and Repetition
Chapter 8. Etoku (会得) and Rhythms of Nature
Shoko Suzuki
Chapter 9. The Births of Rhythm: John Dewey and Aesthetic Form
Vincent Barletta
Chapter 10. Repeating Sound, Sounding Repetition in Music
Tiago de Oliviera Pinto
Chapter 11. Gertrud Stein on Serial Repetition
Ulla Haselstein
Part 4. Aesthetics: Repetition and Creation of Art
Chapter 12. Creativity and Repetition. Some Notes on the Practice and Cultural Discourses of Literary Creativity
Günter Blamberger
Chapter 13. The Compulsion to Be Cruel: Contemporary Returns
Isabel Capeloa Gil
Chapter 14. Leap into the Open Sky: Political Theater as a Return to the Past
Matthias Warstat
Chapter 15. The Domestication of Sound: On the Generativity of Repetition
Holger Schulze
Chapter 16. “Let’s do it again?!”: Shaping “Global” Art Production in Urban Nepal
Christiane Brosius
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors
This highly recommended book identifies nothing less than a new riddle of the Sphinx: What animal embraces mimesis; rejects repetition in the quest for freedom; and grasps for reproducibility in the face of unpredictability? The authors offer unexpected insights into this enigma and, in the process, open the human condition to sobering inspection.
— Charles Stewart, University College London
Mental innovation is usually associated with the ability to forget the past. In order to create new thoughts or new events, it seems necessary to free oneself from the past and to make a kind of tabula rasa. This book demonstrates the contrary. Because our imagination is necessarily dialogic and requests the best possible answer from the world or from the other, it needs to be enriched permanently by the past. This enrichment is conditioning our creativity, our ability to find the new thoughts or new events that fulfill ourselves as much as we desire. Our creations are always re-harmonizing the best of our past with our drive to the future and to the accomplishment of ourselves. Reading Repetition, Recurrences, Returns will teach us how to insert these memory games in our conversation with ourselves and with our human fellows. It will help you to reinforce your creative power.
— Jacques Poulain, Université Paris 8