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Looking Askance

Author : Michael Leja
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520249967
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Looking Askance written by Michael Leja and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beautifully written in an engaging style, this book provides a new perspective on turn-of-the-century American culture that nuances and complicates our vision of that historical moment. I have no doubt that it will become a classic text in American studies, the history of American art, and the study of visual culture."—Kathleen Pyne, author of Art and the Higher Life: Painting and Evolutionary Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century America "Michael Leja, one of our most original and acute historians of American art, has written an indispensable and lively study of what we might call the modern anxiety of seeing. He traces our inherently skeptical view of the world back to the turn of the last century, a golden age of hucksters, swindlers, quacks, humbugs, rascals, cheats, and confidence men, and shows how artists as diverse as Eakins and Duchamp fit into this new culture of suspicion. Leja's book breathes fresh life into the period."—Michael Kimmelman "Bringing together the strangest of bedfellows-paintings by Thomas Eakins, spirit photographs, William Harnett's still lifes, occult philosophies, Duchamp readymades-Leja uncovers a deep culture of suspicion and skepticism in America around 1900. As Americans grappled with the complexities of modern life, 'seeing was not believing,' he argues in this deeply researched and brilliantly provocative study."—Wanda M. Corn, author of The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935

Looking Askance

Author : Michael Leja
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520238077
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Looking Askance written by Michael Leja and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-10-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Leja offers a new, specifically visual, model for understanding American art in the decades before and after 1900.

A Look Askance

Author : Eugenio Espinosa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book A Look Askance written by Eugenio Espinosa and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Innocents

Author : Francesca Segal
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446484750
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book The Innocents written by Francesca Segal and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2012 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013 WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD 2013 WINNER OF THE SAMI ROHR PRIZE FOR JEWISH LITERATURE 2013 What if everything you’d ever wanted was no longer enough? Adam and Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweethearts whose lives and families have been intertwined for years; theirs is set to be the wedding of the year. But then Rachel’s cousin Ellie makes an unexpected return to the family fold. Beautiful, reckless and troubled, Ellie represents everything that Adam has tried all his life to avoid – and everything that is missing from his world. As the long-awaited wedding approaches, Adam is torn between duty and temptation, security and freedom, and must make a choice that will break either one heart, or many. 'Wonderful...witty...an astonishingly accomplished debut which will draw comparisons between Segal and Zadie Smith and Monica Ali' Stylist

Elocutionary Manual

Author : Alexander Melville Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Elocutionary Manual written by Alexander Melville Bell and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Look Away!

Author : Jon Smith
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822333166
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book Look Away! written by Jon Smith and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-21 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVExamines what happens to our paradigms of the American south if we understand the "south" hemispherically, to include Latin America and the Caribbean./div

Periagoge - Theory of Singularity and Philosophy as an Exercise of Transformation

Author : Guido Cusinato
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004520201
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Periagoge - Theory of Singularity and Philosophy as an Exercise of Transformation written by Guido Cusinato and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book returns to the question at the center of our existence, a question that the narcissistic culture in which we are immersed systematically tends to remove: “Why?” The underlying thesis is that the answer must not be sought in success or social recognition, but in a “fragment of truth”, hidden somewhere inside each of us, which reveals itself only if we detach ourselves from our ego and its certainties. It is not, therefore, a matter of finding yet another philosophical theory of the meaning of existence, but rather of shedding light on the conditions under which such meaning can emerge. The author shows us that the ultimate source of our existential orientation lies in the affective sphere, and that the current crisis of orientation is derived from the atrophy of the process of affective maturation on a large scale, and from a lack of knowledge and experience about which techniques are best to reactivate it. We are like glowworms that had once unlearned how to illuminate and have since begun to hover around the magic lantern of the ascetic ideal, already criticized by Nietzsche, and then around neon advertising signs. We are glowworms that have forgotten that we have within our own affective structure a precious source of orientation. The basic thesis is that this source of orientation can be reactivated through the care of desire and practices of emotional sharing.

Princeton Alumni Weekly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Princeton Alumni Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How the Other Half Looks

Author : Sara Blair
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691172226
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book How the Other Half Looks written by Sara Blair and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How New York’s Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing America New York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the "other half," was also a crucible for experimentation in photography, film, literature, and visual technologies. This book takes an unprecedented look at the practices of observation that emerged from this critical site of encounter, showing how they have informed literary and everyday narratives of America, its citizens, and its possible futures. Taking readers from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Sara Blair traces the career of the Lower East Side as a place where image-makers, writers, and social reformers tested new techniques for apprehending America—and their subjects looked back, confronting the means used to represent them. This dynamic shaped the birth of American photojournalism, the writings of Stephen Crane and Abraham Cahan, and the forms of early cinema. During the 1930s, the emptying ghetto opened contested views of the modern city, animating the work of such writers and photographers as Henry Roth, Walker Evans, and Ben Shahn. After World War II, the Lower East Side became a key resource for imagining poetic revolution, as in the work of Allen Ginsberg and LeRoi Jones, and exploring dystopian futures, from Cold War atomic strikes to the death of print culture and the threat of climate change. How the Other Half Looks reveals how the Lower East Side has inspired new ways of looking—and looking back—that have shaped literary and popular expression as well as American modernity.

Last Places

Author : Lawrence Millman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618082483
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Last Places written by Lawrence Millman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of northern exploration and adventure, LAST PLACES is Lawrence Millman's marvelously told account of his journey along the ancient Viking sea routes that extend from Norway to Newfoundland. Traveling through landscapes of transcendent desolation, Millman wandered by way of the Shetland Islands, the Faeroes, Iceland, Greenland, and Labrador. His way was marked by surprising human encounters--with a convicted murderer in Reykjavik, an Inuit hermit in Greenland, an Icelandic guide who leads him to a place called Hell, and a Newfoundlander who warns him about the local variant of the Abominable Snowman. By turns earthy and lyrical, LAST PLACES is an ebullient celebration of the exotic North.

Biblical Commentary on the Books of Samuel

Author : Carl Friedrich Keil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biblical Commentary on the Books of Samuel written by Carl Friedrich Keil and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

South Pole Station

Author : Ashley Shelby
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1250112826
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book South Pole Station written by Ashley Shelby and published by Picador. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks do you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver? These are the questions that decide who has what it takes to live at South Pole Station, a place with an average temperature of -54°F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling has just answered five hundred of them. Her results indicate she is strange enough for Polar life. Cooper's not sure if this is an achievement, but she knows she has nothing to lose. Unmoored by a recent family tragedy, she's adrift at thirty and--despite her early promise as a painter--on the verge of sinking her career. So she accepts her place in the National Science Foundation's Artists & Writers Program and flees to Antarctica--where she encounters a group of misfits motivated by desires as ambiguous as her own.A winning comedy of errors set in the world's harshest place, Ashley Shelby's South Pole Station is a wry and witty debut novel about the courage it takes to come together, even as everything around you falls apart.* For readers of dysfunctional family dramas such as Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's The Nest (but in Antarctica, with beards)

Gerald Murnane

Author : Professor Anthony Uhlmann FAHA
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743326947
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Gerald Murnane written by Professor Anthony Uhlmann FAHA and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald Murnane is one of Australia’s most important contemporary authors, but for years was neglected by critics. In 2018 the New York Times described him as “the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of” and tipped him as a future Nobel Prize winner. Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One coincides with a renewed interest in his work. It includes an important new essay by Murnane himself, alongside chapters by established and emerging literary critics from Australia and internationally. Together they provide a stimulating reassessment of Murnane’s diverse body of work.

The New Century Dictionary of the English Language

Author : Hulbert G. Emery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The New Century Dictionary of the English Language written by Hulbert G. Emery and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thesaurus of Traditional English Metaphors

Author : P.R. Wilkinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134474148
Total Pages : 2991 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Thesaurus of Traditional English Metaphors written by P.R. Wilkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 2991 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating collection of traditional metaphors and figures of speech, groups expressions according to theme. The second edition includes over 1,500 new entries, more information on first known usages, a new introduction and two expanded indexes. It will appeal to those interested in cultural history and the English language.

The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition

Author : Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143107488
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition written by Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in English, a catalog of the world through fourteenth-century Arab eyes—a kind of Schott’s Miscellany for the Islamic Golden Age An astonishing record of the knowledge of a civilization, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition catalogs everything known to exist from the perspective of a fourteenth-century Egyptian scholar and litterateur. More than 9,000 pages and thirty volumes—here abridged to one volume, and translated into English for the first time—it contains entries on everything from medieval moon-worshipping cults, sexual aphrodisiacs, and the substance of clouds, to how to get the smell of alcohol off one’s breath, the deliciousness of cheese made from buffalo milk, and the nesting habits of flamingos. Similar works by Western authors, including Pliny’s Natural History and Diderot’s Encyclopédie, have been available in English for centuries. This groundbreaking translation of a remarkable Arabic text—expertly abridged and annotated—offers a look at the world through the highly literary and impressively knowledgeable societies of the classical Islamic world. Meticulously arranged and delightfully eclectic, it is a compendium to be treasured—a true monument of erudition. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Ancient Supplication

Author : Fred Naiden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198040466
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Supplication written by Fred Naiden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length treatment of supplication, an important social practice in ancient Mediterranean civilizations. Despite the importance of supplication, it has received little attention, and no previous study has explored so many aspects of the practice. Naiden investigates the varied gestures made by the supplicants, the types of requests they make, the arguments used in defense of their requests, and the role of the supplicandus, who evaluates and decides whether to fulfill the requests. Varied and abundant sources invite comparison between the societies of Greece and Rome and also among literary genres. Additionally, Naiden formulates an analysis of the ritual in its legal and political contexts. In constructing this rich and thorough study, Naiden considered over 800 acts of supplication from Greek, Hebrew, and Roman literature, art, and scientific sources. 30 illustrations and a map of the relevant locations accompany the text.