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Author : Richard Lowitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Interpreting Twentieth-century America written by Richard Lowitt and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Lowitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780882957449
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Interpreting Twentieth-Century America written by Richard Lowitt and published by . This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald W. Whisenhunt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742564770
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)
Download or read book Reading the Twentieth Century written by Donald W. Whisenhunt and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of Reading the Twentieth Century is on the role of the United States in the world in the twentieth century, after the nation became a major world player. Readings include public documents, memoirs, and media comments, many of which have never been published before. The book is structured in such a way that portions can be assigned to students, and the order of presentation is such that instructors can assign sections chronologically or thematically. Though highly informative, the editor's chapter introductions and the document head notes are brief, designed only to introduce the subjects so that the documents can speak for themselves.
Author : David Wyatt
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801899230
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Secret Histories written by David Wyatt and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret Histories claims that the history of the nation is hidden—in plain sight—within the pages of twentieth-century American literature. David Wyatt argues that the nation's fiction and nonfiction expose a "secret history" that cuts beneath the "straight histories" of our official accounts. And it does so by revealing personal stories of love, work, family, war, and interracial romance as they were lived out across the decades of the twentieth century. Wyatt reads authors both familiar and neglected, examining "double consciousness" in the post–Civil War era through works by Charles W. Chesnutt, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington. He reveals aspects of the Depression in the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anzia Yezierska, and John Steinbeck. Period by period, Wyatt's nuanced readings recover the felt sense of life as it was lived, opening surprising dimensions of the critical issues of a given time. The rise of the women's movement, for example, is revivified in new appraisals of works by Eudora Welty, Ann Petry, and Mary McCarthy. Running through the examination of individual works and times is Wyatt's argument about reading itself. Reading is not a passive activity but an empathetic act of cocreation, what Faulkner calls "overpassing to love." Empathetic reading recognizes and relives the emotional, cultural, and political dimensions of an individual and collective past. And discovering a usable American past, as Wyatt shows, enables us to confront the urgencies of our present moment.
Author : Donald W. Whisenhunt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742564789
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Reading the Twentieth Century written by Donald W. Whisenhunt and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009-08-16 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of Reading the Twentieth Century is on the role of the United States in the world in the twentieth century, after the nation became a major world player. Readings include public documents, memoirs, and media comments, many of which have never been published before. The book is structured in such a way that portions can be assigned to students, and the order of presentation is such that instructors can assign sections chronologically or thematically. Though highly informative, the editor's chapter introductions and the document head notes are brief, designed only to introduce the subjects so that the documents can speak for themselves.
Author : Donald Pizer
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809310272
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Twentieth-century American Literary Naturalism written by Donald Pizer and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pizer explores six novels to define naturalism and explain its tenacious hold throughout the twentieth century on the American creative imagination.
Author : Jim R. McClellan
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
ISBN 13 : 9780072283839
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (838 download)
Download or read book Changing Interpretations of America's Past written by Jim R. McClellan and published by McGraw-Hill/Dushkin. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an examination of incidents from the Civil War through the 20th Century, important to the development of the American Nation. This book features primary and secondary source materials on approximately 30 selected moments in American history. It is designed for use in introductory courses in American history.
Author : Erika Doss
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191587745
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Twentieth-Century American Art written by Erika Doss and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-04-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, and Laurie Anderson are just some of the major American artists of the twentieth century. From the 1893 Chicago World's Fair to the 2000 Whitney Biennial, a rapid succession of art movements and different styles reflected the extreme changes in American culture and society, as well as America's position within the international art world. This exciting new look at twentieth century American art explores the relationships between American art, museums, and audiences in the century that came to be called the 'American century'. Extending beyond New York, it covers the emergence of Feminist art in Los Angeles in the 1970s; the Black art movement; the expansion of galleries and art schools; and the highly political public controversies surrounding arts funding. All the key movements are fully discussed, including early American Modernism, the New Negro movement, Regionalism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Neo-Expressionism.
Author : J. Joseph Huthmacher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Twentieth-century America written by J. Joseph Huthmacher and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lois Tyson
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814206263
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Psychological Politics of the American Dream written by Lois Tyson and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it is reasonable to assume that our national literature would offer a fertile field in which to explore the interaction between the ideological and psychological dimensions of American life, critics generally have kept these two domains separate, and the dominant model has consisted of an archaic notion of the individual in society.
Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374533180
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)
Download or read book The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry written by Ilan Stavans and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a diverse sample of twentieth century Latin American poems from eighty-four authors in Spanish, Portuguese, Ladino, Spanglish, and several indigenous languages with English translations on facing pages.
Author : Dave Tell
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271060255
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America written by Dave Tell and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America revolutionizes how we think about confession and its ubiquitous place in American culture. It argues that the sheer act of labeling a text a confession has become one of the most powerful, and most overlooked, forms of intervening in American cultural politics. In the twentieth century alone, the genre of confession has profoundly shaped (and been shaped by) six of America’s most intractable cultural issues: sexuality, class, race, violence, religion, and democracy.
Author : Wolfram Wilss
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027299765
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Translation and Interpreting in the 20th Century written by Wolfram Wilss and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999-02-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a historical survey of the unfolding of translation and interpreting (language mediation) in the 20th century with special reference to the German-speaking area. It is based first, on extensive archive research in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, second, on a large number of interviews with experts in the field of language mediation, and third, on the author's observations and experiences in the field of translation practice, translation teaching, and translation studies between 1950-1995. A specific feature of the book is the description of the social role of the language mediator through the prisms of communicative targets and technological developments and to determine his function as that of an indispensable bridge-builder between the members of differing linguistic and cultural communities. Historically, it distinguishes between three main phases, the period from 1900 to 1919 with the dominance of French as lingua franca in international communication, the period from 1919 to 1945, which is characterized by English-French bilingualism, and the period from 1945 to approximately 1990 with its massive trend toward multilingualism and the development of language mediation into a “translation industry”. The book continues with chapters on the implications of globalization, specialization and automaticization for international communication and it closes with reflections on future prospects for the profession in a knowledge society, both from a practical and a pedagogical viewpoint.
Author : Thomas C. Reeves
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190281421
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Twentieth-Century America written by Thomas C. Reeves and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As this most tumultuous century draws to a close, the need for a concise and trustworthy history is clear. Recent decades have seen the publication of American histories that are either bloated with unnecessary detail or infused with a polemical purpose that undermines their authority. InTwentieth-Century America, Thomas C. Reeves provides a fluidly written narrative history that combines the rare virtues of compression, inclusiveness, and balance. From Progressivism and the New Deal right up to the present, Reeves covers all aspects of American history, providing solid coverage of each era without burying readers in needless detail or trivia. This approach allows readers to grasp the major developments and continuities of American history and to come away with a cohesive picture of the whole of the twentieth century. The volume stresses social and well as political history, emphasizing the roles played by all Americans--including immigrants, minorities, women, and working people--and pays special attention to such topics as religion, crime, public health, national prosperity, and the media. Reeves is careful throughout to present both sides of controversial subjects and yet does not leave readers bewildered about which interpretations are most strongly supported or where to explore these issues more thoroughly. At the conclusion of each chapter, the author cites ten authoritative volumes for further study. The bibliographies, as well as the text, are refreshing in their lack of ideological bent. "Objectivity," Reeves suggests, "is an illusive but worthy goal for the historian." For anyone wishing to achieve a lucid historical overview of the past 100 years, Twentieth-Century America is the best place to start.
Author : Daniel H. Borus
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742515079
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Twentieth-Century Multiplicity written by Daniel H. Borus and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes the ways in which American thinkers and artists in the first two decades of the twentieth century challenged notions that a single principle explained all relevant phenomena, opting instead for a pluralistic world in which many truths, goods, and beauties coexisted. It argues that the bracketing of the idea that all knowledge was integrated allowed for a new appreciation of the importance of context and contingency.
Author : María Constanza Guzmán
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000098176
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mapping Spaces of Translation in Twentieth-Century Latin American Print Culture written by María Constanza Guzmán and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects on translation praxis in 20th century Latin American print culture, tracing the trajectory of linguistic heterogeneity in the region and illuminating collective efforts to counteract the use of translation as a colonial tool and affirm cultural production in Latin America. In investigating the interplay of translation and the Americas as a geopolitical site, Guzmán Martínez unpacks the complex tensions that arise in these “spaces of translation” as embodied in the output of influential publishing houses and periodicals during this time period, looking at translation as both a concept and a set of narrative practices. An exploration of these spaces not only allows for an in-depth analysis of the role of translation in these institutions themselves but also provides a lens through which to uncover linguistic plurality and hybridity past borders of seemingly monolingual ideologies. A concluding chapter looks ahead to the ways in which strategic and critical uses of translation can continue to build on these efforts and contribute toward decolonial narrative practices in translation and enhance cultural production in the Americas in the future. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in translation studies, Latin American studies, and comparative literature.
Author : James Clifford
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674779600
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (796 download)
Download or read book Routes written by James Clifford and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-21 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When culture makes itself at home in motion, where does an anthropologist stand? In a follow-up to The Predicament of Culture, one of the defining books for anthropology in the last decade, James Clifford takes the proper measure: a moving picture of a world that doesn't stand still, that reveals itself en route, in the airport lounge and the parking lot as much as in the marketplace and the museum. In this collage of essays, meditations, poems, and travel reports, Clifford takes travel and its difficult companion, translation, as openings into a complex modernity. He contemplates a world ever more connected yet not homogeneous, a global history proceeding from the fraught legacies of exploration, colonization, capitalist expansion, immigration, labor mobility, and tourism. Ranging from Highland New Guinea to northern California, from Vancouver to London, he probes current approaches to the interpretation and display of non-Western arts and cultures. Wherever people and things cross paths and where institutional forces work to discipline unruly encounters, Clifford's concern is with struggles to displace stereotypes, to recognize divergent histories, to sustain "postcolonial" and "tribal" identities in contexts of domination and globalization. Travel, diaspora, border crossing, self-location, the making of homes away from home: these are transcultural predicaments for the late twentieth century. The map that might account for them, the history of an entangled modernity, emerges here as an unfinished series of paths and negotiations, leading in many directions while returning again and again to the struggles and arts of cultural encounter, the impossible, inescapable tasks of translation.
