The World Upside Down: Cross-Cultural Contact and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Peru. By Susan Elizabeth Ramirez. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp. 234. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00.)

Some literatures, like Canadian literature, may be considered minor because Canada is not a major power. But in reality, Canadian literature and other literatures, large or small, are part of a cultural history that is not merely local or even national, but international. The territories of culture and literature in literal or metaphorical terms shift over time. Using a comparative method, this article examines texts—such as The Saga of Eric the Red and works by Columbus, Verrazzano, Jeannette C. Armstrong, Marie Annharte Baker and Carrie Best—to demonstrate the shifting boundaries of time and space and to explore the connections between cultures and literatures in Canada, Europe and the Atlantic and international worlds as part of a longstanding globalization. The article demonstrates that the hybridity resulting from cross-cultural contact and colonization typically blurs the distinction between center and periphery, revealing the historical fluidity of the political boundaries on which the concepts of national and world literatures are based. In doing so, it focuses on how North America, particularly Canada, and the historical process of its discovery, settlement, and colonization have connected this region to other parts of the world.

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Web Site Analysis Across Cultures

Linguistic and Cultural Online Communication Issues in the Global Age ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-213-8.ch009 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 124-142 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Barry Thatcher

Keyword(s):

Cultural Values ◽

Web Site ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Cultural Patterns ◽

Web Site Design ◽

Cultural Contact ◽

Site Analysis ◽

The World ◽

Site Design ◽

Rhetorical Traditions

The countries and cultures of the world are becoming much more interdependent. At the same time, the development and use of the World Wide Web has dramatically increased cross-cultural contact in many areas. This growth in cross-cultural contact must be influencing the rhetorical and cultural patterns at the local, national, and international level. Researchers, however, simply do not know how and what is happening in such exchanges. This chapter presents a theoretical approach to Web site design, cultural values, and rhetorical traditions. The chapter then describes the methods of researchers who examined the Web site designs in nine cultures, and finally discusses the results of comparing Web site designs to local cultural and rhetorical traditions.

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The Grace of the Italian Renaissance

10.23943/princeton/9780691175485.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ita Mac Carthy

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Visual Arts ◽

Italian Renaissance ◽

Social Harmony ◽

Vittoria Colonna ◽

The World ◽

Changing World

‘Grace’ emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy. This book explores how it conveys and connects the most pressing ethical, social and aesthetic concerns of an age concerned with the reactivation of ancient ideas in a changing world. The book reassesses artists such as Francesco del Cossa, Raphael, and Michelangelo and explores anew writers like Castiglione, Ariosto, Tullia d'Aragona, and Vittoria Colonna. It shows how these artists and writers put grace at the heart of their work. The book argues that grace came to be as contested as it was prized across a range of Renaissance Italian contexts. It characterised emerging styles in literature and the visual arts, shaped ideas about how best to behave at court and sparked controversy about social harmony and human salvation. For all these reasons, grace abounded in the Italian Renaissance, yet it remained hard to define. The book explores what grace meant to theologians, artists, writers, and philosophers, showing how it influenced their thinking about themselves, each other and the world. It portrays grace not as a stable formula of expression but as a web of interventions in culture and society.

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