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The Awkward Age Annotated Includes Essay And Biography
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Book Synopsis The Awkward Age (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) by : Henry James
Download or read book The Awkward Age (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography) written by Henry James and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel The Awkward Age was published in 1899. The story, set in contemporary time, revolves around Nanda Brookenham, the daughter of Fernanda. Fernanda, who goes by the name of Mrs. Brook, keeps a fashionable London salon. She has ambitions for her daughter to marry well, and has delayed her daughters debut into society for as long as possible. The title of the novel, The Awkward Age, is open to speculative interpretation as to whose awkward age James is referring to.
Book Synopsis An Awkward Echo by : Mark David Dietz
Download or read book An Awkward Echo written by Mark David Dietz and published by IAP. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Arnold, 19th century English poet, literary critic and school inspector, felt that each age had to determine that philosophy that was most adequate to its own concerns and contexts. This study looks at the influence that Matthew Arnold had on John Dewey and attempts to fashion a philosophy of education that is adequate for our own peculiarly awkward age. Today, Arnold and Dewey are embraced by opposing political positions. Arnold, as the apostle of culture, is often advocated by conservative educators who see in him a support for an education founded on great books and Victorian values, while Dewey still has a notably liberal coloring and is not too infrequently tarred for the excesses of progressive education, even those for which he bears no responsibility at all. Both, no doubt, are misread by those who rather carelessly use them as idols for their own politics of education. This study proposes a pluralistic approach to education in which pluralism means not only plurality of voices, but also plurality of processes. Using a model built out of a study of rhetoric and hermeneutics, four aspects of mind are indentified that draw Arnold and Dewey into close correspondence. These aspects are the tentacle mind (using Dewey’s favorite metaphor for breaking down the barrier between mind and body), the critical mind (which builds on the concepts of criticism that animated both Arnold and Dewey’s approach to experience), the intentional mind (which attempts a long overdue rehabilitation of the concept of authority and an expansion upon the increasingly apparent limitations of reader-response theory) and the reflective-response mind (in which the contemplative mind is treated to that active quality that makes it more a true instrumentality and less an obscuring mechanism of isolation). Dewey echoed Matthew Arnold who himself echoed so many of the voices that preceded and were contemporary with his own. Theirs were awkward echoes, as all such echoes invariably are. They caught at the intentionality of those voices they echoed, trying for nearness, but hoping, at least, for adequacy. Awkward, but adequate, is what this study offers, but it may well be what we most need right now.
Book Synopsis The Self as Object in Modernist Fiction by : Timo Müller
Download or read book The Self as Object in Modernist Fiction written by Timo Müller and published by Königshausen & Neumann. This book was released on 2010 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Connecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media by : Vanessa Joosen
Download or read book Connecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media written by Vanessa Joosen and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Gökçe Elif Baykal, Lincoln Geraghty, Verónica Gottau, Vanessa Joosen, Sung-Ae Lee, Cecilia Lindgren, Mayako Murai, Emily Murphy, Mariano Narodowski, Johanna Sjöberg, Anna Sparrman, Ingrid Tomkowiak, Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer, Ilgim Veryeri Alaca, and Elisabeth Wesseling Media narratives in popular culture often assign interchangeable characteristics to childhood and old age, presuming a resemblance between children and the elderly. These designations in media can have far-reaching repercussions in shaping not only language, but also cognitive activity and behavior. The meaning attached to biological, numerical age—even the mere fact that we calculate a numerical age at all—is culturally determined, as is the way people “act their age.” With populations aging all around the world, awareness of intergenerational relationships and associations surrounding old age is becoming urgent. Connecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media caters to this urgency and contributes to age literacy by supplying insights into the connection between childhood and senescence to show that people are aged by culture. Treating classic stories like the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales and Heidi; pop culture hits like The Simpsons and Mad Men; and international productions, such as Turkish television cartoons and South Korean films, contributors explore the recurrent idea that “children are like old people,” as well as other relationships between children and elderly characters as constructed in literature and media from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. This volume deals with fiction and analyzes language as well as verbally sparse, visual productions, including children's literature, film, television, animation, and advertising.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 4, The Hellenistic Period and the Empire by : P. E. Easterling
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 4, The Hellenistic Period and the Empire written by P. E. Easterling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-05-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emphasis of this volume is on Greek literature produced in the period between the foundation of Alexandria late in the fourth century B.C. and the end of the 'high empire' in the third century A.D. Here we see a shift away from the city states of the Greek mainland to the new centres of culture and power, first Alexandria under the Ptolemies and then imperial Rome, Greek literature, being traditionally cosmopolitan, adapted to these changes with remarkable success, and through the efficiency of the Hellenistic educational system Greek literary culture became the essential mark of an educated person in the Graeco-Roman world.
Book Synopsis Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle by : James Silk Buckingham
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Book Synopsis Princeton Review AP U.S. History Premium Prep, 24th Edition by : The Princeton Review
Download or read book Princeton Review AP U.S. History Premium Prep, 24th Edition written by The Princeton Review and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREMIUM PRACTICE FOR A PERFECT 5! Ace the new Digital AP U.S. History Exam with The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide—including 6 practice tests with answer explanations, timed online practice, and thorough content reviews. Techniques That Actually Work • Tried-and-true strategies to help you avoid traps and beat the test • Tips for pacing yourself and guessing logically • Essential tactics to help you work smarter, not harder Everything You Need for a High Score • Updated to address the new digital exam • Detailed coverage of the short-answer and source-based multiple-choice questions • In-depth guidance on the document-based and long essay questions • Access to digital flashcards for core content, study plans, a key terms and concepts list, and more via your online Student Tools Premium Practice for AP Excellence • 6 full-length practice tests (4 in the book, 2 online) with complete answer explanations • Online tests provided as both digital versions (with timer option to simulate exam experience) online, and as downloadable PDFs (with interactive elements mimicking the exam interface) • Pacing drills to help you maximize points
Book Synopsis The History of Love: A Novel by : Nicole Krauss
Download or read book The History of Love: A Novel written by Nicole Krauss and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-05-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE. A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But it wasn’t always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book…Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of "extraordinary depth and beauty" (Newsday).
Book Synopsis Full Grown People by : Jennifer Niesslein
Download or read book Full Grown People written by Jennifer Niesslein and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of thirty essays from the site fullgrownpeople.com.
Book Synopsis Cracking the AP U. S. History Exam, 2020 Edition by : The Princeton Review
Download or read book Cracking the AP U. S. History Exam, 2020 Edition written by The Princeton Review and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cracking the AP U.S. History Exam, 2020 Edition, provides students with an in-depth review of key terms and concepts organized by time period, including the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the creation of government and early democracy, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Machine Age, the early twentieth century, post-World War America, and more. It also includes winning strategies to help students crack the multiple-choice section and detailed coverage of both essay types--DBQ (document-based question) and free-response.
Book Synopsis Cracking the AP U.S. History Exam 2020, Premium Edition by : The Princeton Review
Download or read book Cracking the AP U.S. History Exam 2020, Premium Edition written by The Princeton Review and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make sure you’re studying with the most up-to-date prep materials! Look for the newest edition of this title, Princeton Review AP U.S. History Premium Prep, 2021 (ISBN: 9780525569688, on-sale August 2020). Publisher's Note: Products purchased from third-party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality or authenticity, and may not include access to online tests or materials included with the original product.
Book Synopsis What is Cultural History? by : Peter Burke
Download or read book What is Cultural History? written by Peter Burke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Cultural History? has established itself as an essential guide to what cultural historians do and how they do it. Now fully updated in its third edition, leading historian Peter Burke offers afresh his accessible account of the past, present and future of cultural history, as it has been practised not only in the English-speaking world, but also in Continental Europe, Asia, South America and elsewhere. Burke begins by discussing the ‘classic’ phase of cultural history, associated with Jacob Burckhardt and Johan Huizinga, and the Marxist reaction to it, from Frederick Antal to Edward Thompson. He then charts the rise of cultural history in more recent times, concentrating on the work of the last generation, often described as the ‘New Cultural History’. He places cultural history in its own cultural context, noting links between new approaches to historical thought and writing and the rise of feminism, postcolonial studies and an everyday discourse in which the idea of culture plays an increasingly important part. The new edition also surveys the latest developments in the field and considers the directions that cultural history has been taking in the twenty-first century and may take in the future. This landmark book will continue to be essential reading for students of history, anthropology, cultural studies and literary studies.
Book Synopsis Wow, No Thank You. by : Samantha Irby
Download or read book Wow, No Thank You. written by Samantha Irby and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction Award Winner • A rip-roaring, edgy and unabashedly raunchy new collection of hilarious essays from the New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. “Stay-up-all-night, miss-your-subway-stop, spit-out-your-beverage funny.” —Jia Tolentino, New York Times bestselling author of Trick Mirror Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and has been friendzoned by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife in a Blue town in the middle of a Red state where she now hosts book clubs and makes mason jar salads. This is the bourgeois life of a Hallmark Channel dream. She goes on bad dates with new friends, spends weeks in Los Angeles taking meetings with "tv executives slash amateur astrologers" while being a "cheese fry-eating slightly damp Midwest person," "with neck pain and no cartilage in [her] knees," who still hides past due bills under her pillow. The essays in this collection draw on the raw, hilarious particulars of Irby's new life. Wow, No Thank You. is Irby at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable. Don't miss Samantha Irby's bestselling new book, Quietly Hostile!
Book Synopsis Princeton Review AP U.S. History Prep, 2021 by : The Princeton Review
Download or read book Princeton Review AP U.S. History Prep, 2021 written by The Princeton Review and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make sure you’re studying with the most up-to-date prep materials! Look for the newest edition of this title, The Princeton Review AP U.S. History Prep, 2022 (ISBN: 9780525570783, on-sale August 2021). Publisher's Note: Products purchased from third-party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality or authenticity, and may not include access to online tests or materials included with the original product.
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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English written by Jenny Stringer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey of twentieth century English-language writers and writing from around the world, celebrating all major genres, with entries on literary movements, periodicals, more than 400 individual works, and articles on approximately 2,400 authors.
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