Author: Mrs. Humphry Ward
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 155480955X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Marriage à la Mode (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
Author: Mrs. Humphry Ward
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 155480955X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 155480955X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Newcomes (Volume 3 of 4) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427063818
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427063818
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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The Newcomes (Volume 2 of 4) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 142706380X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 142706380X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Behind a Mask A Woman's Power (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427030871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427030871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Melmoth the Wanderer (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition) (Volume 1 of 3)
Author:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427070709
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427070709
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Anarchism and Other Essays
Author: Emma Goldman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Writing War in the Twentieth Century
Author: Margot Norris
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813919928
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The twentieth century will be remembered for great innovation in two particular areas: art and culture, and technological advancement. Much of its prodigious technical inventiveness, however, was pressed into service in the conduct of warfare. Why, asks Margot Norris, did violence and suffering on such an immense scale fail to arouse artistic and cultural expressions powerful enough to prevent the recurrence of these horrors? Why was art not more successful--through its use of dramatic, emotionally charged material, its ability to stir imagination and arouse empathy and outrage--in producing an alternative to the military logic that legitimates war? Military argument in the twentieth century has been fortified by the authority of the rationalism that we attribute to science, Norris argues. Warfare is therefore legitimized by powerful discourses that art's own arsenal of styles and genres has limited power to counter. Art's difficulty in representing the violent death of entire generations or populations has been particularly acute. Choosing works that have become representative of their historically violent moment, Norris explores not only their aesthetic strategies and perspectives but also the nature of the power they wield and the ethical engagements they enable or impede. She begins by mapping the altered ethical terrain of modern technological warfare, with its increasing targeting of civilian populations for destruction. She then proceeds historically with chapters on the trench poetry and modernist poetry of World War I, Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, both the book and the film of Schindler's List, the conflicting historical stories of the Manhattan Project, a comparison of American and Japanese accounts of Hiroshima, Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now, and the effects of press censorship in the Persian Gulf War. By looking at the whole span of the century's writing on war, Norris provides a fascinating critique of art's ethical power and limitations, along with its participation in--as well as protest against--the suffering that human beings have brought upon themselves.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813919928
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The twentieth century will be remembered for great innovation in two particular areas: art and culture, and technological advancement. Much of its prodigious technical inventiveness, however, was pressed into service in the conduct of warfare. Why, asks Margot Norris, did violence and suffering on such an immense scale fail to arouse artistic and cultural expressions powerful enough to prevent the recurrence of these horrors? Why was art not more successful--through its use of dramatic, emotionally charged material, its ability to stir imagination and arouse empathy and outrage--in producing an alternative to the military logic that legitimates war? Military argument in the twentieth century has been fortified by the authority of the rationalism that we attribute to science, Norris argues. Warfare is therefore legitimized by powerful discourses that art's own arsenal of styles and genres has limited power to counter. Art's difficulty in representing the violent death of entire generations or populations has been particularly acute. Choosing works that have become representative of their historically violent moment, Norris explores not only their aesthetic strategies and perspectives but also the nature of the power they wield and the ethical engagements they enable or impede. She begins by mapping the altered ethical terrain of modern technological warfare, with its increasing targeting of civilian populations for destruction. She then proceeds historically with chapters on the trench poetry and modernist poetry of World War I, Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, both the book and the film of Schindler's List, the conflicting historical stories of the Manhattan Project, a comparison of American and Japanese accounts of Hiroshima, Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now, and the effects of press censorship in the Persian Gulf War. By looking at the whole span of the century's writing on war, Norris provides a fascinating critique of art's ethical power and limitations, along with its participation in--as well as protest against--the suffering that human beings have brought upon themselves.
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative
Author: Audrey Fisch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827596
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponents of the genre such as Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, as well as many other, less well known examples. Further essays explore the rediscovery of the slave narrative and its subsequent critical reception, as well as the uses to which the genre is put by modern authors such as Toni Morrison. With its chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion provides both an easy entry point for students new to the subject and comprehensive coverage and original insights for scholars in the field.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827596
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponents of the genre such as Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, as well as many other, less well known examples. Further essays explore the rediscovery of the slave narrative and its subsequent critical reception, as well as the uses to which the genre is put by modern authors such as Toni Morrison. With its chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion provides both an easy entry point for students new to the subject and comprehensive coverage and original insights for scholars in the field.
Lessons from Sarajevo
Author: Jim Hicks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625340009
Category : War and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Case Study: Of Phantom Nations -- 2. Thesis: The Crime of the Scene -- 3. Victims: The Talking Dead -- 4. Observers: The Real War and the Books -- 5. Aggressors: The Beast Is Back -- Conclusion: Bringing the Stories Home -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625340009
Category : War and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Case Study: Of Phantom Nations -- 2. Thesis: The Crime of the Scene -- 3. Victims: The Talking Dead -- 4. Observers: The Real War and the Books -- 5. Aggressors: The Beast Is Back -- Conclusion: Bringing the Stories Home -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Marriage à la Mode (EasyRead Comfort Edition)
Author:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1554809525
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1554809525
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description