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Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Washington -- Mirror of America
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Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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The Black Experience in America
Author: James C. Curtis
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292700962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Collection of essays which define the Negro's role in American history from Colonial times to the present
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292700962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Collection of essays which define the Negro's role in American history from Colonial times to the present
Commercial America
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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The Secret Mirror
Author: Larry E. Shiner
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501743341
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Tocqueville opens the Recollections, his deeply ambivalent memoir of the failed 1848 Revolution in France, with an explicit denial of any literary intent or rhetorical appeal. Forced by illness into an unaccustomed state of leisure, Tocqueville claims to record his experiences solely for his own amusement, holding up a "secret mirror" through which he will be able to contemplate the past truthfully. In this innovative study, L. E. Shiner examines the Recollections as a test case of the relation between form and content in historical writing. Drawing on current literary theory and semiotics, Shiner offers a close reading which at once confirms the inevitably literary character of historical writing and demonstrates how rhetorical analysis of Tocqueville's writings deepens our understanding of his political thought. Using the methods of reader-response and rhetorical criticisms, among others, Shiner first analyzes the component genres and narrative structures of the Recollections, the recurring pictorial and thematic codes, and the various voices Tocqueville employs. He then confronts the issue of the truth of Tocqueville's treatment of 1848, in part by comparing it with other key texts on these same events—Marx's The Class Struggles in France and Flaubert's Sentimental Education. Finally, Shiner pursues questions of authorial style, tracing the use of some of the rhetorical devices discussed in the Recollections through Tocqueville's Democracy in America, The Old Regime and the French Revolution, and "A Fortnight in the Wilderness."
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501743341
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Tocqueville opens the Recollections, his deeply ambivalent memoir of the failed 1848 Revolution in France, with an explicit denial of any literary intent or rhetorical appeal. Forced by illness into an unaccustomed state of leisure, Tocqueville claims to record his experiences solely for his own amusement, holding up a "secret mirror" through which he will be able to contemplate the past truthfully. In this innovative study, L. E. Shiner examines the Recollections as a test case of the relation between form and content in historical writing. Drawing on current literary theory and semiotics, Shiner offers a close reading which at once confirms the inevitably literary character of historical writing and demonstrates how rhetorical analysis of Tocqueville's writings deepens our understanding of his political thought. Using the methods of reader-response and rhetorical criticisms, among others, Shiner first analyzes the component genres and narrative structures of the Recollections, the recurring pictorial and thematic codes, and the various voices Tocqueville employs. He then confronts the issue of the truth of Tocqueville's treatment of 1848, in part by comparing it with other key texts on these same events—Marx's The Class Struggles in France and Flaubert's Sentimental Education. Finally, Shiner pursues questions of authorial style, tracing the use of some of the rhetorical devices discussed in the Recollections through Tocqueville's Democracy in America, The Old Regime and the French Revolution, and "A Fortnight in the Wilderness."
America Through Baseball
Author: David Quentin Voigt
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN: 9780882292724
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
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Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN: 9780882292724
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Everything Was Better in America
Author: David Welky
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252092813
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
As a counterpart to research on the 1930s that has focused on liberal and radical writers calling for social revolution, David Welky offers this eloquent study of how mainstream print culture shaped and disseminated a message affirming conservative middle-class values and assuring its readers that holding to these values would get them through hard times. Through analysis of the era's most popular newspaper stories, magazines, and books, Welky examines how voices both outside and within the media debated the purposes of literature and the meaning of cultural literacy in a mass democracy. He presents lively discussions of such topics as the newspaper treatment of the Lindbergh kidnapping, issues of race in coverage of the 1936 Olympic games, domestic dynamics and gender politics in cartoons and magazines, Superman's evolution from a radical outsider to a spokesman for the people, and the popular consumption of such novels as the Ellery Queen mysteries, Gone with the Wind, and The Good Earth. Through these close readings, Welky uncovers the subtle relationship between the messages that mainstream media strategically crafted and those that their target audience wished to hear.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252092813
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
As a counterpart to research on the 1930s that has focused on liberal and radical writers calling for social revolution, David Welky offers this eloquent study of how mainstream print culture shaped and disseminated a message affirming conservative middle-class values and assuring its readers that holding to these values would get them through hard times. Through analysis of the era's most popular newspaper stories, magazines, and books, Welky examines how voices both outside and within the media debated the purposes of literature and the meaning of cultural literacy in a mass democracy. He presents lively discussions of such topics as the newspaper treatment of the Lindbergh kidnapping, issues of race in coverage of the 1936 Olympic games, domestic dynamics and gender politics in cartoons and magazines, Superman's evolution from a radical outsider to a spokesman for the people, and the popular consumption of such novels as the Ellery Queen mysteries, Gone with the Wind, and The Good Earth. Through these close readings, Welky uncovers the subtle relationship between the messages that mainstream media strategically crafted and those that their target audience wished to hear.
Representing America
Author: Rebekah Herrick
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739117279
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
During the 1990s, many members of the House of Representatives could be characterized as citizen legislators - they either voluntarily limited their term in office or they had no prior political experience. Representing America compares the representational styles of these legislators with the professional legislators, who make a career out of being a legislator, elected at the time.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739117279
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
During the 1990s, many members of the House of Representatives could be characterized as citizen legislators - they either voluntarily limited their term in office or they had no prior political experience. Representing America compares the representational styles of these legislators with the professional legislators, who make a career out of being a legislator, elected at the time.
America as I Saw it
Author: Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel)
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary
Author: Edward Henry Knight
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
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Politics and Religious Consciousness in America
Author: George Armstrong Kelly
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351498428
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
This exploration of the tensions of politics and religion in the United States, from its earliest settlement to contemporary times, is the first coherent history of American religious thought and practice within the context of politics. Kelly sets forth a chronology and topology of the patterns of collaboration, competition, and interaction of politics and religion in America.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351498428
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
This exploration of the tensions of politics and religion in the United States, from its earliest settlement to contemporary times, is the first coherent history of American religious thought and practice within the context of politics. Kelly sets forth a chronology and topology of the patterns of collaboration, competition, and interaction of politics and religion in America.