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Singular Pasts

Author : Enzo Traverso
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231555318
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Singular Pasts written by Enzo Traverso and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, history is increasingly written in the first person. A growing number of historical works include an autobiographical dimension, as if writing about the past required exploring the inner life of the author. Neither traditional history nor autobiography, this hybrid genre calls the norms of the historical profession into question. In search of new and creative paths, it transgresses a cardinal rule of the discipline: third-person narration, long considered necessary to the objective analysis of the past. Singular Pasts offers a critical account of the emergence of authorial subjectivity in historical writing, scrutinizing both its achievements and its shortcomings. Enzo Traverso considers a group of contemporary historians, including Ivan Jablonka, Sergio Luzzatto, and Mark Mazower, who reveal their emotional ties to their subjects and give their writing a literary flavor. He identifies a parallel trend in literature, in which authors such as W. G. Sebald, Patrick Modiano, Javier Cercas, and Daniel Mendelsohn write their works as investigations based on archival sources. Traverso argues that first-person history mirrors contemporary ways of thinking: such writing is presentist and apolitical, perceiving and representing the past through an individual lens. Probing the limits of subjective historiography, he emphasizes that it is collective action that produces social change: “we” instead of “I.” In an epilogue, Traverso considers the first-person writing of Saidiya Hartman as a counterexample. A wide-ranging and illuminating critique of a key trend in humanistic inquiry, Singular Pasts reconsiders the notion of historical truth in a neoliberal age.

Singular Sensation

Author : Michael Riedel
Publisher : Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501166638
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Singular Sensation written by Michael Riedel and published by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of a transformative decade on Broadway, featuring gripping behind-the-scenes accounts of shows such as Rent, Angels in America, Chicago, The Lion King, and The Producers—shows that changed the history of the American theater. The 1990s was a decade of profound change on Broadway. At the dawn of the nineties, the British invasion of Broadway was in full swing, as musical spectacles like Les Miserables, Cats, and The Phantom of the Opera dominated the box office. But Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard soon spelled the end of this era and ushered in a new wave of American musicals, beginning with the ascendance of an unlikely show by a struggling writer who reimagined Puccini’s opera La Bohème as the smash Broadway show Rent. American musical comedy made its grand return, culminating in The Producers, while plays, always an endangered species on Broadway, staged a powerful comeback with Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. A different breed of producers rose up to challenge the grip theater owners had long held on Broadway, and corporations began to see how much money could be made from live theater. And just as Broadway had clawed its way back into the mainstream of American popular culture, the September 11 attacks struck fear into the heart of Americans who thought Times Square might be the next target. But Broadway was back in business just two days later, buoyed by talented theater people intent on bringing New Yorkers together and supporting the economics of an injured city. Michael Riedel presents the drama behind every mega-hit or shocking flop, bringing readers into high-stakes premieres, fraught rehearsals, tough contract negotiations, intense Tony Award battles, and more. From the bitter feuds to the surprising collaborations, all the intrigue of a revolutionary era in the Theater District is packed into Singular Sensation. Broadway has triumphs and disasters, but the show always goes on.

Doing History

Author : Mark Donnelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415565766
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Doing History written by Mark Donnelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "History as an academic discipline has dramatically changed over the last few decades and has become much more exciting and varied as a result of ideas from other disciplines, the influence of postmodernism and historians' incorporation of their own theoretical reflections into their work. The way history is studied at university level can vary greatly from history at school or as represented in the media and Doing History bridges that gap. Aimed at students of history in their final year of secondary education or beginning degrees, this is the ideal introduction to studying history as an academic subject at university. "Doing History" presents the ideas and debates that shape how we "do" history today, covering arguments about nature of historical knowledge and the function of historical writing, whether we can really ever know what happened in the past, what sources historians depend on, and whether the historians' version of history has more value than popular histories. This practical and accessible introduction to the discipline introduces students to these key discussions, familiarises them with the important terms and issues, equips them with the necessary vocabulary and encourages them to think about, and engage with, these questions. Clearly structured and accessibly written, it is an essential volume for all students embarking on the study of history"--

The Singular Beast

Author : Claudine Fabre-Vassas
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231103671
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Singular Beast written by Claudine Fabre-Vassas and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original account of the significance of the pig and its relationship to Jews in European Christian culture encompasses a vast array of folklore, history and ritual. Practices related to the breeding, slaughter and consumption of the pig have inspired both religious and secular taboos and rituals, laid out by the author in fascinating detail. She demonstrates clearly the power which a symbol may hold to mould an ethnic identity, and the book stands both as s study of the role of the pig, and as an analysis of the creation of anti-Semitic myths.

The English Language; Its Grammar, History and Literature

Author : John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Language; Its Grammar, History and Literature written by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Singular Continuities

Author : George K. Behlmer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804734899
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Singular Continuities written by George K. Behlmer and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the appropriation of the past in modern British culture. The twelve essays argue that to distinguish between "the new" and "the traditional" today often draws a false dichotomy. It argues that Britishness, in fact, has been the product of continuous creation throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

A History of English Rhythms

Author : Edwin Guest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book A History of English Rhythms written by Edwin Guest and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plural Identities--singular Narratives

Author : Máiréad Nic Craith
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571817723
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Plural Identities--singular Narratives written by Máiréad Nic Craith and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northern Ireland is frequently characterised in terms of a two traditions paradigm, representing the conflict as being between two discrete cultures. Demonstrating the reductionist nature of this argument, this book highlights the complexity of reality.

Being Singular Plural

Author : Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804739757
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Being Singular Plural written by Jean-Luc Nancy and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, rethinks community and the very idea of the social. Nancy's fundamental argument is that being is always "being with," that "I" is not prior to "we," that existence is essentially co-existence.

English Grammar, Past and Present, in Three Parts ...

Author : John Collinson Nesfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book English Grammar, Past and Present, in Three Parts ... written by John Collinson Nesfield and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plan that has been followed in preparing this book is to carry the student's mind gradually forward from the more easy to the less easy, from the better known to the unknown. The present book is an adaptation of a manual prepared by the same author in India, where English is studied with extraordinary keenness, in an attempt to find the best means of teaching it. It is best to assume that the average student does not know very much to start with, and that every student must be well versed in the principles of modern English, before he can be qualified to begin the much more difficult task of tracing these to their sources. -- from the preface.

English Grammar Past and Present in Three Parts

Author : J. C. Nesfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Grammar Past and Present in Three Parts written by J. C. Nesfield and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Leisure Hour

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India: Inquiry whether the Hindus are of trans-Himalayan origin, and akin to the western branches of the Indo-European race. 3d ed. 1874

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Author : John Muir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Toward a Social History of American English

Author : Joey L. Dillard
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311088500X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Toward a Social History of American English written by Joey L. Dillard and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India

Author : John Muir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India written by John Muir and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Origin and History of the English Language, and of the Early Literature it Embodies

Author : George Perkins Marsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Origin and History of the English Language, and of the Early Literature it Embodies written by George Perkins Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, Their Religion and Institutions: Inquiry whether the Hindus are of Trans-Himalayan origin, and akin to the western branches of the Indo-European race. 2d ed., rev. 1871

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Total Pages : 552 pages
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