Adam Kotsko: Awkwardness

Awkwardness


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Awkwardness has been one of the defining traits of the awkwardly unnamed first decade of our young century, dominating comedy on both the big and small screens. Could this trend point toward something deeper? In Awkwardness, Adam Kotsko answers that question with a resounding yes. Drawing on key insights of cultural theory, he argues that awkwardness is a structuring principle of human experience, something that the particular conditions of our time allow us to see with greater clarity than ever before. In an analysis that begins with the difference between the US and UK versions of Ricky Gervais's The Office, passes through the films of Judd Apatow, and culminates in the apotheosis of awkwardness, Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm, Kotsko looks at the ways we cope with our awkwardness and the unexpected opportunities awkwardness opens up when we stop resisting it and learn to enjoy it.

Singapore and Penang have a lot in common both culinary and culturally. For centuries they have been crossroads of ancient trade, and immigration gave them a strong multicultural personality. 'Singapore & Penang Street Food' shows the authentic taste of delicious street food in Malaysia and how the street food scene in Singapore has become more food court nowadays. Regulated out of existence years ago, street food vendors moved into hawker centres where even the most delicate stomachs have the opportunity to partake. Strict safety and hygiene regulations make Singapore's hawker food some of the safest street food around, keeping high standards of tastiness and authenticity. Beside five different Chinese cuisines, Singapore also The Fifth Agreement Cards free download pdf offers Indian, Malaysian, Indonesian and Thai street food dishes. In Penang you will find similar dishes but with a different touch, a different interpretation. The range of regional varieties is endless.


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Author: Adam Kotsko
Number of Pages: 89 pages
Published Date: 16 Nov 2010
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Publication Country: Ropley, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781846943911
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