Repetition, Recurrence, Returns: How Cultural Renewal Works

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Repetition is constitutive of human life. Both the species and the individual develop through repetition. Unlike simple recall, repetition is permeated by the past and the present and is oriented toward the future. Repetition of central actions and events plays an important role in the lives of individuals and the life of society. It helps to create meaning and memory. Because repetition is a central aspect of human life, it plays a role in all social and cultural spheres. It is important for several branches of the humanities and social studies. This book presents studies of an array of repetitive phenomena and to show that repetition analysis is opening up a new field of study within single disciplines and interdisciplinary research. Recommended for scholars of literature, music, culture, and communication. Contents Introduction • Joan Ramon Resina and Christoph Wulf Part 1: Human Development: Memory and Self-Transformation in Ritual and Mimetic Processes 1 Repetition of the Self in Memory and Anticipation • Joan Ramon Resina 2 Repetition and Reenactment in Rituals • Axel Michaels 3 Repetition and Difference in Physical, Mimetic, and Ritual Processes • Christoph Wulf 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 5 The Need to Repeat: Young Children’s Reliving of Stories • Ursula Stenger 6 Re-Petition in (Therapeutic) Conversation: A Psychoanalyst’s Perspective Using Conversation Analysis • Michael B. Buchholz 7 Notes on Rhetoric and Repetition in Tourism • Stephanie Malia Hom Part 3: Creativity: Rhythm and Repetition 8 Etoku (会得) and Rhythms of Nature • Shoko Suzuki 9 The Births of Rhythm: John Dewey and Aesthetic Form • Vincent Barletta 10 Repeating Sound, Sounding Repetition in Music • Tiago de Oliveira Pinto 11 Gertrude Stein on Serial Repetition • Ulla Haselstein Part 4: Aesthetics: Repetition and Creation of Art 12 Creativity and Repetition : Some Notes on the Practice and Cultural Discourses of Literary Creativity • Günter Blamberger 13 The Compulsion to Be Cruel : Contemporary Returns • Isabel Capeloa Gil 14 Leap into the Open Sky : Political Theatre as a Return to the Past • Matthias Warstat 15 The Domestication of Sound : On the Generativity of Repetition • Holger Sch 16 “Let’s Do It Again?!”: Shaping “Global” Art Production in Urban Nepal • Christiane Brosius Index About the Editors About the Contributors