Repetition, Recurrence, Returns

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.

Joan Ramon Resina is professor of comparative literature and of Iberian cultures at Stanford University.



Christoph Wulfis 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 Platos 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 Psychoanalysts 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 () 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. Lets do it again?!: Shaping Global Art Production in Urban Nepal

Christiane Brosius



Index

About the Editors

About the Contributors