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Author : Roy Prentice Basler
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Touchstone for Greatness written by Roy Prentice Basler and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1973-04-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roy Prentice Basler
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0837161355
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (371 download)
Download or read book A Touchstone for Greatness written by Roy Prentice Basler and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1973-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert A. Ferguson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674514652
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Law and Letters in American Culture written by Robert A. Ferguson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of religion in early American literature has been endlessly studied; the role of the law has been virtually ignored. Robert A. Ferguson's book seeks to correct this imbalance. With the Revolution, Ferguson demonstrates, the lawyer replaced the clergyman as the dominant intellectual force in the new nation. Lawyers wrote the first important plays, novels, and poems; as gentlemen of letters they controlled many of the journals and literary societies; and their education in the law led to a controlling aesthetic that shaped both the civic and the imaginative literature of the early republic. An awareness of this aesthetic enables us to see works as diverse as Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia and Irving's burlesque History of New York as unified texts, products of the legal mind of the time. The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the great political orations were written by lawyers, and so too were the literary works of Trumbull, Tyler, Brackenridge, Charles Brockden Brown, William Cullen Bryant, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and a dozen other important writers. To recover the original meaning and context of these writings is to gain new understanding of a whole era of American culture. The nexus of law and letters persisted for more than a half-century. Ferguson explores a range of factors that contributed to its gradual dissolution: the yielding of neoclassicism to romanticism; the changing role of the writer; the shift in the lawyer's stance from generalist to specialist and from ideological spokesman to tactician of compromise; the onslaught of Jacksonian democracy and the problems of a country torn by sectional strife. At the same time, he demonstrates continuities with the American Renaissance. And in Abraham Lincoln he sees a memorable late flowering of the earlier tradition.
Author : Robert Miner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319667459
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Nietzsche and Montaigne written by Robert Miner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a historically informed and textually grounded study of the connections between Montaigne, the inventor of the essay, and Nietzsche, who thought of himself as an “attempter.” In conversation with the Essais, Nietzsche developed key themes of his oeuvre: experimental scepticism, gay science, the quest for drives beneath consciousness, the free spirit, the affirmation of sexuality and the body, and the meaning of greatness. Robert Miner explores these connections in the context of Nietzsche's reverence for Montaigne—a reverence he held for no other author—and asks what Montaigne would make of Nietzsche. The question arises from Nietzsche himself, who both celebrates Montaigne and includes him among a small number of authors to whose judgment he is prepared to submit.
Author : Michael D. Garval
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 0874138620
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book "A Dream of Stone" written by Michael D. Garval and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With democratization of fame in the wake of the French Revolution, writers enjoyed ever greater celebrity status. But in nineteenth-century France, the availability and perceived impermanence of such renown cheapened it, and prompted longing for enduring fame, exemplified by monuments - commemorative sculptural or architectural works, helping a nation in flux define itself, its past, and anticipated future. Within this cultural climate, there evolved an ideal of great writers and their work as immortal, that envisioned literary greatness through the metaphor of monuments and monumentality. study draws upon wide-ranging evidence, from journalism to poetry, caricature to statuary. Focusing on the lives, work, and fame of Honore de Balzac, George Sand, and Victor Hugo, it uncovers the salient features, and traces the rise and fall of this monumentalizing vision of literary greatness, largely forgotten today yet so central to nineteenth-century French culture. North Carolina State University.
Author : Matthew Dennis
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501723707
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Red, White, and Blue Letter Days written by Matthew Dennis and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Columbus Day, Labor Day, Martin Luther King's Birthday, and other celebrations matter to Americans and reflect the state of American local and national politics. Commemorations of cataclysmic events and light, apparently trivial observances mirror American political and cultural life. Both reveal much about the material conditions of the United States and its citizens' identities, historical consciousness, and political attitudes. Lying dormant within these festivals is the potential for political consequence, controversy, even transformation. American political fetes remain works in progress, as Americans use historical celebrations as occasions to reinvent themselves and their nation, often with surprising results. In six engaging chapters 'assaying particular political holidays over the course of their histories, Red, White, and Blue Letter Days examines how Americans have shaped and been shaped by their calendar. Matthew Dennis explores this vast political and cultural terrain, charting how Americans defined their identities through celebration. Independence Day invited African Americans to demand the equality promised in the Declaration of Independence, for example, just as Columbus Day—celebrating the Italian, Catholic explorer—helped immigrants proclaim their legitimacy as Americans. Native Americans too could use public holidays, such as Thanksgiving or Veterans Day, to express dissent or demonstrate their claims to citizenship. Merchants and advertisers colonized the American calendar, moving in to sell their products by linking them, often tenuously, with holiday occasions or casting consumption as a patriotic act.
Author : Kevin M. F. Platt
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801460956
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Terror and Greatness written by Kevin M. F. Platt and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ambitious book, Kevin M. F. Platt focuses on a cruel paradox central to Russian history: that the price of progress has so often been the traumatic suffering of society at the hands of the state. The reigns of Ivan IV (the Terrible) and Peter the Great are the most vivid exemplars of this phenomenon in the pre-Soviet period. Both rulers have been alternately lionized for great achievements and despised for the extraordinary violence of their reigns. In many accounts, the balance of praise and condemnation remains unresolved; often the violence is simply repressed. Platt explores historical and cultural representations of the two rulers from the early nineteenth century to the present, as they shaped and served the changing dictates of Russian political life. Throughout, he shows how past representations exerted pressure on subsequent attempts to evaluate these liminal figures. In ever-changing and often counterposed treatments of the two, Russians have debated the relationship between greatness and terror in Russian political practice, while wrestling with the fact that the nation’s collective selfhood has seemingly been forged only through shared, often self-inflicted trauma. Platt investigates the work of all the major historians, from Karamzin to the present, who wrote on Ivan and Peter. Yet he casts his net widely, and "historians" of the two tsars include poets, novelists, composers, and painters, giants of the opera stage, Party hacks, filmmakers, and Stalin himself. To this day the contradictory legacies of Ivan and Peter burden any attempt to come to terms with the nature of political power—past, present, future—in Russia.
Author : David Zarefsky
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226978761
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery written by David Zarefsky and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published in hbk.: Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1990.
Author : Barry Jeffrey Scherr
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820495408
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (954 download)
Download or read book Love and Death in Lawrence and Foucault written by Barry Jeffrey Scherr and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and Death in Lawrence and Foucault is the first full-length study of Foucault and the Foucaultians not to look at them from a quasi-hagiographical perspective. The Lawrentian point of view employed here to deal with Foucault and his oeuvre is utterly unique, imaginative, and efficacious in explicating/demystifying Foucaultian theory, while at the same time promoting Barry J. Scherr's courageous, indefatigable project of restoring D. H. Lawrence to his rightfully and supremely high place in the pantheon of great British literature. Rebellious and unconventional yet scholarly and mature, Love and Death in Lawrence and Foucault is the bravest and most unorthodox study of Foucault to date. It is a worthy addition to Scherr's previous literary-cultural studies, D. H. Lawrence Today and D. H. Lawrence's Response to Plato. A supremely lively, incisive, lucid, and profound critique, Love and Death in Lawrence and Foucault is indispensable to students and scholars of Lawrence and Foucault alike.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey A. Auerbach
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300080070
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Great Exhibition of 1851 written by Jeffrey A. Auerbach and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book challenges the common view that the Exhibition symbolized peace, progress, prosperity, and the emergence of an industrial middle class. Auerbach suggests instead that the Great Exhibition became a cultural battlefield on which proponents of different visions of industrialization, modernization, and internationalism fought for ascendancy in the struggle for a new national identity."--BOOK JACKET.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The British Controversialist written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott R. Stroud
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271056878
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book John Dewey and the Artful Life written by Scott R. Stroud and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesthetic experience has had a long and contentious history in the Western intellectual tradition. Following Kant and Hegel, a human’s interaction with nature or art frequently has been conceptualized as separate from issues of practical activity or moral value. This book examines how art can be seen as a way of moral cultivation. Scott Stroud uses the thought of the American pragmatist John Dewey to argue that art and the aesthetic have a close connection to morality. Dewey gives us a way to reconceptualize our ideas of ends, means, and experience so as to locate the moral value of aesthetic experience in the experience of absorption itself, as well as in the experience of reflective attention evoked by an art object.
Author : Simon P. Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139826646
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Mozart written by Simon P. Keefe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Mozart paints a rounded yet focussed picture of one of the most revered artists of all time. Bringing the most recent scholarship into the public arena, this volume bridges the gap between scholarly and popular images of the composer, enhancing the readers' appreciation of Mozart and his extraordinary output, regardless of their prior knowledge of the music. Part I situates Mozart in the context of late eighteenth-century musical environments and aesthetic trends that played a pivotal role in his artistic development and examines his methods of composition. Part II surveys Mozart's works in all of the genres in which he excelled and Part III looks at the reception of the composer and his music since his death. Part IV offers insight into Mozart's career as a performer as well as theoretical and practical perspectives on historically informed performances of his music.
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Author : Cambridge city, St. Mary the great
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Sermons preached during Lent, 1864, in Great st. Mary's church, Cambridge, by the bishop of Oxford [and others, ed. by H.R. Luard]. written by Cambridge city, St. Mary the great and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. P. Liddon
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752594810
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (525 download)
Download or read book Sermons Preached during Lent, 1864 in Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge written by H. P. Liddon and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1864.
