Author: Leland Ossian Howard
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Category : Mosquitoes
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies
Author: Leland Ossian Howard
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Category : Mosquitoes
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Publisher:
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Category : Mosquitoes
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies: Systematic description
Author: Leland Ossian Howard
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Category : Mosquitoes
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Category : Mosquitoes
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Rhapsody in Red
Author: Sheila Melvin
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 0875861806
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Western classical music has become as Chinese as Peking Opera, and it has woven its way into the hearts and lives of ordinary Chinese people. This lucidly written account traces the biographies of the bold visionaries who carried out this musical merger. Rhapsody in Red is a history of classical music in China that revolves around a common theme: how Western classical music entered China, and how it became Chinese. China's oldest orchestra was founded in 1879, two years before the Boston Symphony. Since then, classical music has woven its way into the lives of ordinary Chinese people. Millions of Chinese children take piano and violin lessons every week. Yet, despite the importance of classical music in China - and of Chinese classical musicians and composers to the world - next to nothing has been written on this fascinating subject. The authors capture the events with the voice of an insider and the perspective of a Westerner, presenting new information, original research and insights into a topic that has barely been broached elsewhere. "Every chapter is as exiting as it is revealing. The book is thoroughly researched, with superb bibliography. I am ecstatic; my students will be electrified." - Clive M. Marks, Chairman, The London College of Music, Trestee, Trinity College of Music and The London Philarmonic Orchestra
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 0875861806
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Western classical music has become as Chinese as Peking Opera, and it has woven its way into the hearts and lives of ordinary Chinese people. This lucidly written account traces the biographies of the bold visionaries who carried out this musical merger. Rhapsody in Red is a history of classical music in China that revolves around a common theme: how Western classical music entered China, and how it became Chinese. China's oldest orchestra was founded in 1879, two years before the Boston Symphony. Since then, classical music has woven its way into the lives of ordinary Chinese people. Millions of Chinese children take piano and violin lessons every week. Yet, despite the importance of classical music in China - and of Chinese classical musicians and composers to the world - next to nothing has been written on this fascinating subject. The authors capture the events with the voice of an insider and the perspective of a Westerner, presenting new information, original research and insights into a topic that has barely been broached elsewhere. "Every chapter is as exiting as it is revealing. The book is thoroughly researched, with superb bibliography. I am ecstatic; my students will be electrified." - Clive M. Marks, Chairman, The London College of Music, Trestee, Trinity College of Music and The London Philarmonic Orchestra
Swift as Nemesis
Author: Frank T. Boyle
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804764182
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
With much of the intellectual discourse of the last several decades concerned with reconsiderations of modernity, how do we read the works of Jonathan Swift, who ridiculed the modern even as it was taking shape? The author approaches the question of modernity in Swift by way of a theory of satire from Aristotle via Swift (and Bakhtin) that eschews modern notions that satire is meant to reform and correct. Linking satire to Nemesis, the goddess of righteous vengeance, "Swift as Nemesis" develops new readings of Swift's major satires. From his first published work, Swift associates the modern with the new science and represents modernity as a pernicious strain of narcissism that devalues humanistic discourse. In his early satires, he compiles a profane history of the modern in which the new philosophy is an extension of the methodology of alchemists, the debased Roman Catholic Church, and the various Puritan sects. This history culminates in "A Tale of a Tub" with an assault on the intellectual basis of that most formidable of all modern works, Newton's "Principia." In "Gulliver's Travels," Swift attacks modern culture while aiming at individual readers. Novelistic identification with Gulliver's narcissism (beginning with masturbation and encompassing various scatological observations) implicates readers in the larger cultural critique in which Gulliver, paralleling Narcissus, rejects cultures he encounters until he embraces a cultural image that destroys him. The wider cultural implications of Swift's work are evident in the way he uses travel as a metaphor to link the inhuman consequences of European imperialism with the discoveries of the new science. Finally, Swift's works, like the mirror Nemesis uses to destroy Narcissus, are shown to return the narcissistic projections of critics. Recognizing that Narcissus and Echo have become important to the critique of modernism, the author argues that readers will find it useful now to turn to the contextualizing role of Nemesis. She emerges from Swift's critically irreducible satire with an ironic claim on modernity itself.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804764182
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
With much of the intellectual discourse of the last several decades concerned with reconsiderations of modernity, how do we read the works of Jonathan Swift, who ridiculed the modern even as it was taking shape? The author approaches the question of modernity in Swift by way of a theory of satire from Aristotle via Swift (and Bakhtin) that eschews modern notions that satire is meant to reform and correct. Linking satire to Nemesis, the goddess of righteous vengeance, "Swift as Nemesis" develops new readings of Swift's major satires. From his first published work, Swift associates the modern with the new science and represents modernity as a pernicious strain of narcissism that devalues humanistic discourse. In his early satires, he compiles a profane history of the modern in which the new philosophy is an extension of the methodology of alchemists, the debased Roman Catholic Church, and the various Puritan sects. This history culminates in "A Tale of a Tub" with an assault on the intellectual basis of that most formidable of all modern works, Newton's "Principia." In "Gulliver's Travels," Swift attacks modern culture while aiming at individual readers. Novelistic identification with Gulliver's narcissism (beginning with masturbation and encompassing various scatological observations) implicates readers in the larger cultural critique in which Gulliver, paralleling Narcissus, rejects cultures he encounters until he embraces a cultural image that destroys him. The wider cultural implications of Swift's work are evident in the way he uses travel as a metaphor to link the inhuman consequences of European imperialism with the discoveries of the new science. Finally, Swift's works, like the mirror Nemesis uses to destroy Narcissus, are shown to return the narcissistic projections of critics. Recognizing that Narcissus and Echo have become important to the critique of modernism, the author argues that readers will find it useful now to turn to the contextualizing role of Nemesis. She emerges from Swift's critically irreducible satire with an ironic claim on modernity itself.
Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Drinks of the World
Author: James Mew
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Category : Alcoholic beverages
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Covers the history and origins of all kinds of beverages: from water to cocktails.
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Category : Alcoholic beverages
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Covers the history and origins of all kinds of beverages: from water to cocktails.
The History of the Portuguese, During the Reign of Emmanuel
Author: Jerónimo Osório
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Category : Portugal
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Category : Portugal
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Hakluytus Posthumus
Author: Samuel Purchas
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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A General Collection of Voyages
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Hakluytus Posthumus
Author: Hakluyt Society
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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