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Book Synopsis A Wise Extravagance by : Kenneth Neal
Download or read book A Wise Extravagance written by Kenneth Neal and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1996 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and a major American philanthropist, sought to bring world-class art and culture to Pittsburgh. This book looks at how the Carnegie International exhibit came into being in 1895, the early exhibitions, the art, artists, and the public reception to it.
Book Synopsis March's Thesaurus Dictionary by : Francis Andrew March
Download or read book March's Thesaurus Dictionary written by Francis Andrew March and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Extravagant Postcolonialism by : Brian T. May
Download or read book Extravagant Postcolonialism written by Brian T. May and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian T. May argues that, contrary to widely held assumptions of postcolonial literary criticism, a distinctive subset of postcolonial novels significantly values and scrupulously explores a healthy individuality. These “extravagant” postcolonial works focus less on collective social reality than on the intimate subjectivity of their characters. Their authors, most of whom received some portion of a canonical western education, do not subordinate the ambitions of their fiction to explicit political causes, but they do create a cosmopolitan rhetorical focus suitable to their well-educated, “western trained,” audiences. May pursues this argument by scrutinizing novels composed during the thirty-year post-independence postcolonial era of Anglophone fiction, a period that began with the Nigerian Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and that ended, many would say, with the Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1989 publication of the Rushdie Fatwa. He contends that the postcolonial authors under consideration—Naipaul, Rushdie, Achebe, Rhys, Gordimer, and Coetzee—inherited modernism and refashioned it. His account of their work demonstrates how it reflects and transfigures modernists such as Conrad, Eliot, Yeats, Proust, Joyce and Beckett. Tracing the influence of humanistic virtues and the ethical and aesthetic significance of individualism, May demonstrates that these works of “extravagant postcolonialism” are less postcolonial than they are a continuation and evolution of modernism.
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Book Synopsis Cather Studies, Volume 13 by : Cather Studies
Download or read book Cather Studies, Volume 13 written by Cather Studies and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willa Cather wrote about the places she knew, including Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, and Virginia. Often forgotten among these essential locations has been Pittsburgh. During the ten years Pittsburgh was her home (1896-1906), Cather worked as an editor, journalist, teacher, and freelance writer. She mixed with all sorts of people and formed friendships both ephemeral and lasting. She published extensively--and not just profiles and reviews but also a collection of poetry, April Twilights, and more than thirty short stories, including several collected in The Troll Garden that are now considered masterpieces: "A Death in the Desert," "The Sculptor's Funeral," "A Wagner Matinee," and "Paul's Case." During extended working vacations through 1916, she finished four novels in Pittsburgh. Cather Studies, Volume 13 explores the myriad ways that these crucial years in Pittsburgh shaped Cather's writing career and the artistic, professional, and personal connections she made there. With contributions from fourteen well-known Cather scholars, this collection of essays recognizes the importance Pittsburgh played in Cather's life and work and deepens our appreciation of how her art examines and elucidates the human experience.
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Book Synopsis Extravagant Abjection by : Darieck Scott
Download or read book Extravagant Abjection written by Darieck Scott and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: Challenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies, this title contends that power can be found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation.
Book Synopsis Extravagant Expectations by : Paul Hollander
Download or read book Extravagant Expectations written by Paul Hollander and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proliferation of dating websites, printed personals and self-help relationship books reflect the new ways Americans seek close, personal relationships. Exposed to changing and often conflicting values, trends, and fashions—disseminated by popular culture, advertising and assorted "experts"—Americans face uncertainties about the best ways to meet important emotional and social needs. How do we establish lasting and intimate personal relationships including marriage? In Extravagant Expectations Paul Hollander investigates how Americans today pursue romantic relationships, with special reference to the advantages and drawbacks of Internet dating compared to connections made in school, college, and the workplace. By analyzing printed personals, dating websites, and advice offered by pop psychology books, he examines the qualities that people seek in a partner and also assesses the influence of the remaining conventional ideas of romantic love. Hollander suggests that notions of romantic love have changed due to conflicting values and expectations and the impact of pragmatic considerations. Individualism, high expectations, social and geographic mobility, changing sex roles, and the American national character all play a part in this fascinating and finally sobering exploration of men and women to find love and meaning in life.
Download or read book The Extravagant written by Robert Baker and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Extravagant Robert Baker explores the interplay between poetry and philosophy in the modern period, engaging a broad range of writers: Kant, Wordsworth, and Lyotard in a chapter on the sublime; Rimbaud, Nietzsche, and Bataille in a chapter on visionary quest; and Kierkegaard, Dickinson, Mallarmé, and Derrida in a chapter on apocalyptic negativity. His guiding concern is to illuminate adventures of "extravagant" or "wandering" language that, from the romantic period on, both poets and philosophers have undertaken in opposition to the dominant social and discursive frames of a pervasively instrumentalized world. The larger interpretative narrative shaping the book is that a dialectic of instrumental reason and creative negativity has been at work throughout modern culture. Baker argues that adventures of exploratory wandering emerge in the romantic period as displaced articulations of older religious discourses. Given the dominant trends of the modern world, however, these adventures repeatedly lead to severe collisions and crises, in response to which they are later revised or further displaced. Over time, as instrumental structures come to disfigure every realm of modern life, poetries and philosophies at odds with these structures are forced to criticize and surpass earlier voices in their traditions that seem to have lost a transformative power. Thus, Baker argues, these adventures gradually unfold into various discourses of the negative prominent in contemporary culture: discourses of decentering, dispersing, undoing, and erring. It is this dialectic that Baker traces and interprets in this ambitious study.
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Book Synopsis Clarence H. White and His World by : Anne McCauley
Download or read book Clarence H. White and His World written by Anne McCauley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restoring a gifted art photographer to his place in the American canon and, in the process, reshaping and expanding our understanding of early 20th-century American photography Clarence H. White (1871–1925) was one of the most influential art photographers and teachers of the early 20th century and a founding member of the Photo-Secession. This beautiful publication offers a new appraisal of White’s contributions, including his groundbreaking aesthetic experiments, his commitment to the ideals of American socialism, and his embrace of the expanding fields of photographic book and fashion illustration, celebrity portraiture, and advertising. Based on extensive archival research, the book challenges the idea of an abrupt rupture between prewar, soft-focus idealizing photography and postwar “modernism” to paint a more nuanced picture of American culture in the Progressive era. Clarence H. White and His World begins with the artist’s early work in Ohio, which shares with the nascent Arts and Crafts movement the advocacy of hand production, closeness to nature, and the simple life. White’s involvement with the Photo-Secession and his move to New York in 1906 mark a shift in his production, as it grew to encompass commercial portraiture and an increasing commitment to teaching, which ultimately led him to establish the first institutions in America to combine instruction in both technical and aesthetic aspects of photography. The book also incorporates new formal and scientific analysis of White’s work and techniques, a complete exhibition record, and many unpublished illustrations of the moody outdoor scenes and quiet images of domestic life for which he was revered.
Book Synopsis Annual Report by : Ohio. State. Board of Agriculture
Download or read book Annual Report written by Ohio. State. Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume) by : Orison Swett Marden
Download or read book ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume) written by Orison Swett Marden and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2015-11-14 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Dr. Orison Swett Marden (1848-1924) was an American inspirational author who wrote about achieving success in life and founded SUCCESS magazine in 1897. He is often considered as the father of the modern-day inspirational talks and writings and his words make sense even to this day. In his books he discussed the common-sense principles and virtues that make for a well-rounded, successful life. His first book, Pushing to the Front (1894), became an instant best-seller. Marden later published fifty or more books and booklets, averaging two titles per year. TABLE OF CONTENTS An Iron Will Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power Be Good to Yourself Character: The Grandest Thing in the World Cheerfulness as a Life Power Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life Every Man A King or, Might in Mind Mastery He Can Who Thinks He Can, and Other Papers on Success in Life How to Get What You Want How To Succeed - Or, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune Keeping Fit Little Visits with Great Americans or, Success Ideals and How to Attain Them Peace, Power and Plenty Prosperity - How to Attract It Pushing to the Front or, Success Under Difficulties The Miracles of Right Thought The Victorious Attitude Thrift Excerpt: "Somehow, even when we feel that it is impossible for us to make the necessary effort, when the crisis comes, when the emergency is upon us, when we feel the prodding of this imperative, imperious necessity, there is a latent power within us which comes to our rescue, which answers the all, and we do the impossible.”
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Ohio State Horticultural Society by : Ohio State Horticultural Society
Download or read book Proceedings of the Ohio State Horticultural Society written by Ohio State Horticultural Society and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of Board of Agriculture of State of Ohio by : Ohio State Board of Agriculture
Download or read book Report of Board of Agriculture of State of Ohio written by Ohio State Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Re-edited by E. H. Barker. The third edition ... inlarged from the ... American edition by C. Anthon, etc by : John LEMPRIERE (D.D.)
Download or read book Re-edited by E. H. Barker. The third edition ... inlarged from the ... American edition by C. Anthon, etc written by John LEMPRIERE (D.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: