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Museums & Women and Other Stories

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 067964573X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Museums & Women and Other Stories written by John Updike and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Museums and Women gathers twenty-nine short stories from the 1960s and early 1970s. It is John Updike’s most various collection, a book as full of departures and surprises as the historical period that produced them. Some stories, such as the title piece, have the tone and personality of essays. Others objectify the chimeras of middle-class life, especially life in a fictional New England enclave called Tarbox. The illustrated jeux d’esprit in the section called “Other Modes” place Updike somewhere between Robert Benchley and Donald Barthelme as a toymaker in prose. Crowning the collection are five scenes from the marriage of Richard and Joan Maple, a story sequence with the narrative interest and cumulative power of a novel.

The Trojan War Museum: and Other Stories

Author : Ayse Papatya Bucak
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324002980
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Trojan War Museum: and Other Stories written by Ayse Papatya Bucak and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debut story collection of spectacular imaginative range and lyricism from a Pushcart Prize–winning author. In Ayse Papatya Bucak’s dreamlike narratives, dead girls recount the effects of an earthquake and a chess-playing automaton falls in love. A student stops eating and no one knows whether her act is personal or political. A Turkish wrestler, a hero in the East, is seen as a brute in the West. The anguish of an Armenian refugee is “performed” at an American fund-raiser. An Ottoman ambassador in Paris amasses a tantalizing collection of erotic art. And in the masterful title story, the Greek god Apollo confronts his personal history and bewails his Homeric reputation as he tries to memorialize, and make sense of, generations of war. A joy and a provocation, Bucak’s stories confront the nature of historical memory with humor and humanity. Surreal and poignant, they examine the tension between myth and history, cultural categories and personal identity, performance and authenticity.

Museums and women

Author : John Updike
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Museums and women written by John Updike and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imagination and Idealism in John Updike's Fiction

Author : Michial Farmer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571139427
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Imagination and Idealism in John Updike's Fiction written by Michial Farmer and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on the role of the imagination in Updike's works, this book shows him to be an original and powerful thinker and not the callow sensationalist that he is sometimes accused of being.

Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism

Author : Joshua G. Adair
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429514905
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism written by Joshua G. Adair and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism examines the role of exhibitionary institutions in representing LGBTQ+ people, cisgender women, and nonbinary individuals. Considering recent gender and sexuality-related developments through a critical lens, the volume contributes significantly to the growing body of activist writing on this topic. Building on Gender, Sexuality and Museums and featuring work from established voices, as well as newcomers, this volume offers risky and exciting articles from around the world. Chapters cover diverse topics, including transgender representation, erasure, and activism; two-spirit people, indigeneity, and museums; third genders; gender and sexuality in heritage sites and historic homes; temporary exhibitions on gender and sexuality; museum representations of HIV/AIDS; interventions to increase queer visibility and inclusion in galleries; LGBTQ+ staff alliances; and museums, gender ambiguity, and the disruption of binaries. Several chapters focus on areas outside the US and Europe, while others explore central topics through the perspectives of racial and ethnic minorities. Containing contributions that engage in sustained critique of current policies, theory, and practice, Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism is essential reading for those studying museums, women and gender, sexuality, culture, history, heritage, art, media, and anthropology. The book will also spark interest among museum practitioners, public archivists, and scholars researching related topics.

Why Does Literature Matter?

Author : Frank B. Farrell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501721453
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Why Does Literature Matter? written by Frank B. Farrell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Literature matters because... it allows for experiences important to the living out of a sophisticated and satisfying human life; because other arenas of culture cannot provide them to the same degree; and because a relatively small number of texts carry out these functions in so exceptional a manner that we owe it to past and future members of the species to keep such texts alive in our cultural traditions."—from Chapter One Frank B. Farrell defends a rich conception of the space of literature that retains its links to issues of self-formation and metaphysics and does not let that space collapse into just another reflection of social space. He maintains that recent literary theory has badly misread findings in the philosophy of language and the theory of subjectivity. That misreading, Farrell says, has tended to endorse ways of understanding literature that make one question why it matters at all. Farrell here opposes some recent theoretical trends and, through a mix of philosophical and literary studies, tells us why in his view literature does truly matter.Among the writers Farrell discusses are John Ashbery, Samuel Beckett, Amit Chaudhuri, Cormac McCarthy, James Merrill, Marcel Proust, Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, W. G. Sebald, and John Updike. The philosophers important to his arguments include Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett, and Bernard Williams; G. W. F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ludwig Wittgenstein play roles as well. Among the literary theorists addressed are Stephen Greenblatt, Paul de Man, and Marjorie Perloff. In addition to his close readings of literary, philosophical, and critical texts, Farrell considers cultural studies and postcolonial studies more generally and speculates on the possible contributions of object-relations theory in psychology to the study of literature.

Rabbit (un)redeemed

Author : Peter J. Bailey
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838640531
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Rabbit (un)redeemed written by Peter J. Bailey and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book approaches Updike's oeuvre by illuminating its ongoing, pervasive conflict between faith and doubt. Concentrating on a trio of Olinger stories, the Rabbit Angstrom tetralogy, In the Beauty of the Lilies, and Rabbit Remembered and dramatizing most emphatically Updike's career-spanning dialogue with his complexly fragile religious beliefs, Bailey interprets the Rabbit saga as fictionalized spiritual autobiography in which, through imposing Harry Angstrom's perceptual limitations upon his own stylistic gifts, Updike set himself the toughest trial of his ethical and aesthetic creed of the spirit-affirming capacities of human perception and expression.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1612 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1976 with total page 1612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Becoming John Updike

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571135111
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Becoming John Updike written by Laurence W. Mazzeno and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2013 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Updike died in 2009, tributes from the literary establishment were immediate and fulsome. However, no one reading reviews of Updike's work in the late 1960s would have predicted that kind of praise for a man who was known then as a brilliant stylist who had nothing to say. What changed? Why? And what is likely to be his legacy? These are the questions that Becoming John Updike pursues by examining the journalistic and academic response to his writings. Several things about Updike's career make a reception study appropriate. First, he was prolific: he began publishing fiction and essays in 1956, published his first book in 1958, and from then on, brought out at least one new book each year. Second, his books were reviewed widely - usually in major American newspapers and magazines, and often in foreign ones as well. Third, Updike quickly became a darling of academics; the first book about his work was published in 1967, less than a decade after his own first book. More than three dozen books and hundreds of articles of academic criticism have been devoted to Updike. The present volume will appeal to the continuing interest in Updike's writing among academics and general readers alike. Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia University. Among other books, he has written volumes on Austen, Dickens, Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold for Camden House's Literary Criticism in Perspective series.

The John Updike Encyclopedia

Author : Jack De Bellis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313007209
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The John Updike Encyclopedia written by Jack De Bellis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Updike is one of the most seminal American writers of the 20th century and one of the most prolific as well. In addition to his best-selling novels, he has written numerous poems, short stories, reviews, and essays. His writing consistently reveals stylistic brilliance, and through his engagement with America's moral and spiritual problems, his works chronicle America's hopes and dreams, failures and disappointments. Though he is an enormously popular writer, the complexity and elegance of his works have elicited growing scholarly attention. Through several hundred alphabetically arranged entries, this book provides both casual and serious readers an exceptional guide to his life and writings. Whether the reader is seeking a novel summary, an authoritative analysis of subjects, elucidation of an allusion, or a point about Updike's life or manner of composition, the encyclopedia is indispensable. A chronology summarizes the major events in Updike's career, while an introductory essay examines his progress as a writer, from his crafted light verse and informed reviews to his innovative novels and stories. The entries that follow summarize Updike's books, describe all major characters, explain allusions, identify major images and symbols, analyze principal subjects, discuss his life and career, and draw on the most significant scholarship. Entries include bibliographies, and the volume closes with a list of works for further reading.

Corrections and Collections

Author : Joe Day
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135040842
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Corrections and Collections written by Joe Day and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America holds more than two million inmates in its prisons and jails, and hosts more than two million daily visits to museums, figures which represent a ten-fold increase in the last twenty-five years. Corrections and Collections explores and connects these two massive expansions in our built environment. Author Joe Day shows how institutions of discipline and exhibition have replaced malls and office towers as the anchor tenants of U.S. cities. Prisons and museums, though diametrically opposed in terms of public engagement, class representation, and civic pride, are complementary structures, employing related spatial and visual tactics to secure and array problematic citizens or priceless treasures. Our recent demand for museums and prisons has encouraged architects to be innovative with their design, and experimental with their scale and distribution through our cities. Contemporary museums are the petri dishes of advanced architectural speculation; prisons remain the staging grounds for every new technology of constraint and oversight. Now that criminal and creative transgression are America’s defining civic priorities, Corrections and Collections will recalibrate your assumptions about art, architecture, and urban design.

The Short Story and Photography, 1880's-1980's

Author : Jane Marjorie Rabb
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826318718
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book The Short Story and Photography, 1880's-1980's written by Jane Marjorie Rabb and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a hundred years stories about photographs and photography have reflected the profound uncertainties and inconclusive endings of the modern world. For many writers, photography, supposedly the most realistic of the arts, turns out to be the most ambiguous. As Jane Rabb observes in her introduction, a number of the stories in this collection involve mysteries, perhaps because photography has a capacity for both documentary reality and moral and psychological ambiguity. Many nineteenth-century writers represented here, including Thomas Hardy and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, helped make short fiction as respectable as the novel. Some of them were even serious photographers themselves. The twentieth century is arguably a golden age for both the short story and photography. This collection includes examples from a worldly group of writer--Eugène Ionesco, Julio Cortá¡zar, Michel Tournier, and Italo Calvino, as well as the Chinese writer Bing Xin and John Updike, Cynthia Ozick, and Raymond Carver. In this wide range of stories, varying from sentimental to obsessive, to sinister, to tragic and even fatal, the reader will find provocative examples of the confluence of the short story and photography, both once considered the bastard stepchildren of literature and art.

John Updike Remembered

Author : Jack A. De Bellis
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476667063
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book John Updike Remembered written by Jack A. De Bellis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-three individuals present a prismatic view of the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and his work through anecdote and insight. Interviews and essays from family, friends and associates reveal sides of the novelist perhaps unfamiliar to the public--the high school prankster, the golfer, the creator of bedtime stories, the charming ironist, the faithful correspondent with scholars, the devoted friend and the dedicated practitioner of his craft. The contributors include his first wife, Mary Pennington, and three of their children; high school and college friends; authors John Barth, Joyce Carol Oates and Nicholson Baker; journalists Terri Gross and Ann Goldstein; and scholars Jay Parini, William Pritchard, James Plath, and Adam Begley, Updike's biographer.

Updike and Politics

Author : Matthew Shipe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498575617
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Updike and Politics written by Matthew Shipe and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updike & Politics presents the first collection of essays devoted to the political aspects of Updike’s work and showcases a variety of international perspectives.

Museum Skepticism

Author : David Carrier
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822336945
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Museum Skepticism written by David Carrier and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-31 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVProminent art historian looks at the birth of the art museum and contemplates its future as a public institution./div

Book Review Index

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.

Wrangling Women

Author : Kristin M. McAndrews
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874176875
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Wrangling Women written by Kristin M. McAndrews and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2008-08-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The small Methow Valley community of Winthrop, Washington, has reinvented itself as a western-theme town. Winthrop women function as trail guides, wranglers, horse trainers, packers, and ranchers and work in an environment where gender stereotypes must be carefully preserved for the sake of the tourist-based economy. Yet these women often subvert and undermine traditional gender images with humor. How the wrangling women of Winthrop accomplish this challenging balancing act is a fascinating study of women’s manipulation of language and gender stereotypes in the modern West. Kristin McAndrews states that she “began to suspect that the reason there was so little scholarship on women’s humor was that male researchers didn’t understand it, or perhaps they didn’t recognize it.” To examine the humor of one group of women, she conducted interviews with Winthrop’s female wranglers, collecting stories about their lives as workers and as members of their community. For all these women, professional success depends on courage, ingenuity, a sense of humor, and a facility with language—as well as on an ability to perform within the traditional gender stereotypes evoked by their town’s Wild west image.