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Download or read book The Fragment written by William Tronzo and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universe may well have begun with an immense act of fragmentation, "the big bang," that sent particles flying in all directions to perform spectacular acts of creation and destruction. The fragment, volatile and unpredictable, is not simply the static part of a once-whole thing but itself something in motion. Drawing upon art history, archaeology, literature, numismatics, philosophy, and film, this book explores the significance of the fragment and addresses the powerful drives that have impelled it into the cultural mainstream. Book jacket.
Book Synopsis The Iron Whim by : Darren Sean Wershler-Henry
Download or read book The Iron Whim written by Darren Sean Wershler-Henry and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iron Whim is an intelligent, irreverent, and humorous history of writing culture and technology. It covers the early history and evolution of the typewriter as well as the various attempts over the years to change the keyboard configuration, but it is primarily about the role played by this marvel in the writer's life. Darren Wershler-Henry populates his book with figures as disparate as Bram Stoker, Mark Twain, Franz Kafka, Norman Mailer, Alger Hiss, William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Northrop Frye, David Cronenberg, and David Letterman; the soundtrack ranges from the industrial clatter of a newsroom full of Underwoods to the more muted tapping and hum of the Selectric. Wershler-Henry casts a bemused eye on the odd history of early writing machines, important and unusual typewritten texts, the creation of On the Road, and the exploits of a typewriting cockroach named Archy, numerous monkeys, poets, and even a couple of vampires. He gathers into his narrative typewriter-related rumors and anecdotes (Henry James became so accustomed to dictating his novels to a typist that he required the sound of a randomly operated typewriter even to begin to compose). And by broadening his focus to look at typewriting as a social system as well as the typewriter as a technological form, he examines the fascinating way that the tool has actually shaped the creative process. With engaging subject matter that ranges over two hundred years of literature and culture in English, The Iron Whim builds on recent interest in books about familiar objects and taps into our nostalgia for a method of communication and composition that has all but vanished.
Book Synopsis A Fragmented History by : Gijs Willem Tol
Download or read book A Fragmented History written by Gijs Willem Tol and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2012 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation presents four methodological case studies that elaborate on the results of two field survey projects (the Astura and Nettuno surveys) that were carried out by the Groningen Institute of Archaeology (GIA). The case studies aim at investigating biasing factors that limit the analytical and comparative value of data from archaeological survey in general using these two projects as a suitable testing ground. Both surveys, carried out between 2003 and 2005, fell within the ambit of the Pontine Region Project (PRP), a long-term research program aimed at the diachronic archaeological investigation of the various landscape units forming this region. They covered two contiguous areas, situated on the Tyrrhenian seaboard, approximately 60 kilometres south of Rome. The study area comprises the communal area of the modern town of Nettuno, as well as the lower valleys of the Astura and Moscarello rivers (see fig. 0.1).2 As such it incorporates parts of the hinterland of the ancient towns of Antium and Satricum. In chronological terms this dissertation considers a time-span of 1300 years, from the 6th century BC to the 7th century AD.
Book Synopsis Fragmented Memories by : Yasmin Saikia
Download or read book Fragmented Memories written by Yasmin Saikia and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fragmented Memories is a beautifully rendered exploration of how, during the 1990s, socially and economically marginalized people in the northeastern Indian state of Assam sought to produce a past on which to base a distinctive contemporary identity recognized within late-twentieth-century India. Yasmin Saikia describes how groups of Assamese identified themselves as Tai-Ahom—a people with a glorious past stretching back to the invasion of what is now Assam by Ahom warriors in the thirteenth century. In her account of the 1990s Tai-Ahom identity movement, Saikia considers the problem of competing identities in India, the significance of place and culture, and the outcome of the memory-building project of the Tai-Ahom. Assamese herself, Saikia lived in several different Tai-Ahom villages between 1994 and 1996. She spoke with political activists, intellectuals, militant leaders, shamans, and students and observed and participated in Tai-Ahom religious, social, and political events. She read Tai-Ahom sacred texts and did archival research—looking at colonial documents and government reports—in Calcutta, New Delhi, and London. In Fragmented Memories, Saikia reveals the different narratives relating to the Tai-Ahom as told by the postcolonial Indian government, British colonists, and various texts reaching back to the thirteenth century. She shows how Tai-Ahom identity is practiced in Assam and also in Thailand. Revealing how the “dead” history of Tai-Ahom has been transformed into living memory to demand rights of citizenship, Fragmented Memories is a landmark history told from the periphery of the Indian nation.
Book Synopsis The Tiny and the Fragmented by : S. Rebecca Martin
Download or read book The Tiny and the Fragmented written by S. Rebecca Martin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miniature and fragmentary objects are both eye-catching and yet easily dismissed. Tiny scale entices users with visions of Lilliputian worlds. The ambiguity of fragments intrigues us, offering tactile reminders of reality's transience. Yet, the standard scholarly approach to such objects has been to see them as secondary, incomplete things, whose principal purpose was to refer to a complete and often life-size whole. The Tiny and the Fragmented offers a series of fresh perspectives on the familiar concepts of the tiny and the fragmented. Written by a prestigious group of internationally-acclaimed scholars, the volume presents a remarkable diversity of case studies that range from Neolithic Europe to pre-Colombian Honduras to the classical Mediterranean and ancient Near East. Each scholar takes a different approach to issues of miniaturization and fragmentation but is united in considering the little and broken things of the past as objects in their own right. Whether a life-size or whole thing is made in a scaled-down form, deliberately broken as part of its use, or only considered successful in the eyes of ancient users if it shows some signs of wear, it challenges our expectations of representation and wholeness, of what it means for a work of art to be "finished" and "affective." Overall, The Tiny and the Fragmented demands a reconsideration of the social and contextual nature of miniaturization, fragmentation, and incompleteness, making the case that it was because of, rather than in spite of, their small or partial state that these objects were valued parts of the personal and social worlds they inhabited.
Download or read book The Fragment written by Camelia Elias and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is an interdisciplinary study of the concept of 'fragment' in literature and in critical and literary theory. It discusses the fragment's performativity and function within a historical perspective, stretching from Heraclitus, via the German Romantics and European writers of the Modernist period, to American postmodern manifestations of the fragment. This is the first history of the fragment to appear in English, and it is also the first attempt at producing a consistent taxonomy of literary and critical fragments. The fragments are categorised according to function, not author intention, and the study addresses a number of questions: What constitutes the fragment, when the fragment can only be defined a posteriori? Does the fragment begin on its own, or is it begun by others, writers and critics? Does it acquire a name of its own, or is it labelled by others? All these questions revolve around issues of agency, and they are best discussed in terms of performativity, which means seeing fragments as acts: acts of literature, acts of reading, acts of writing. The book demonstrates how a poetics of the fragment as a performative genre can be created, situating the fragment both as literature and as a phenomenon within postmodern criticism against the background of philosophy, art history, and theology.
Download or read book Memory written by Alison Winter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picture your 21st birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? How clear are these memories? Should we trust them? Such questions have fascinated scientists for hundreds of years, and, as Alison Winter shows in this book, the answers have changed dramatically in just the past century.
Book Synopsis Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada by : Seymour de Ricci
Download or read book Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada written by Seymour de Ricci and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Age of Fragmentation by : Alessandro Roncaglia
Download or read book The Age of Fragmentation written by Alessandro Roncaglia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging historical account and critical analysis of the global development of economics from 1940 to the present day.
Book Synopsis A Fragment of the History of Servia by : David Urquhart
Download or read book A Fragment of the History of Servia written by David Urquhart and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Origines Celticae (A Fragment) and Other Contributions to the History of Britain by : Edwin Guest
Download or read book Origines Celticae (A Fragment) and Other Contributions to the History of Britain written by Edwin Guest and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Book Synopsis Simiocracy, a fragment from future history, by the author of 'Post mortem'. by : Arthur Montagu Brookfield
Download or read book Simiocracy, a fragment from future history, by the author of 'Post mortem'. written by Arthur Montagu Brookfield and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Napoleon's Bequest to Cantillon. A Fragment of International History by : Sir William Stirling Maxwell
Download or read book Napoleon's Bequest to Cantillon. A Fragment of International History written by Sir William Stirling Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Napoleon's Bequest to Cantillon. A fragment of International History by : Sir afterwards STIRLING MAXWELL STIRLING (William)
Download or read book Napoleon's Bequest to Cantillon. A fragment of International History written by Sir afterwards STIRLING MAXWELL STIRLING (William) and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Tho. Whitehead ... Part I. A Fragment by : John BLACK (Village Schoolmaster.)
Download or read book The History of Tho. Whitehead ... Part I. A Fragment written by John BLACK (Village Schoolmaster.) and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Origines Celticae (A Fragment) and Other Contributions to the History of Britain by : William Stubbs
Download or read book Origines Celticae (A Fragment) and Other Contributions to the History of Britain written by William Stubbs and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1883 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Origines Celticae (A Fragment) and Other Contributions to the History of Britain. In two volumes. Volume 2.
Book Synopsis A Fragment of Church History at the Cape of Good Hope. [By A. J. Jardine.] by :
Download or read book A Fragment of Church History at the Cape of Good Hope. [By A. J. Jardine.] written by and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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