Portrait of a Town

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Category : Portage (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Arctic Village

Arctic Village PDF Author: Robert Marshall
Publisher: Classic Reprint Series
ISBN: 9780912006512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399

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This classic is an original work of literature by one of America's foremost conservationists and is an account of the people of the north, both Native and white, who give Alaska its special human flavor. First published over fifty years ago, the book is still a favorite among old-time Alaskans and, over the years, has prompted numerous readers to pack up and move to Alaska. The richness of statistical coverage in this book, and Marshall's careful descriptions of the characters he met, provide readers with a window to the world of 1930 and a nearly complete record of the Koyukuk civilization as he saw it. Readers learn what the people of Wiseman thought about sex, religion, politics, and the myriad of ways they found to cope with and enjoy life in a wilderness community.

The English Cyclopædia

The English Cyclopædia PDF Author:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature

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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 640

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Portrait Stories

Portrait Stories PDF Author: Michal Peled Ginsburg
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823262618
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Portrait Stories argues that it is the ways they problematize the relation between subjectivity and representation. Through close readings of short stories and novellas by Poe, James, Hoffmann, Gautier, Nerval, Balzac, Kleist, Hardy, Wilde, Storm, Sand, and Gogol, the author shows how the subjectivities of sitter, painter, and viewer are produced in relation to representations shaped by particular interests and power relations, often determined by gender as well as by class. She focuses on the power that can accrue to the painter from the act of representation (often at the expense of the portrait’s subject), while also exploring how and why this act may threaten the portrait painter’s sense of self. Analyzing the viewer’s relation to the portrait, she demonstrates how portrait stories problematize the very act of seeing and with it the way subjectivity is constructed in the field of vision.

Biography

Biography PDF Author: Charles Knight
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 534

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The Chronicle of the London Missionary Society

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Category : Missions, British
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Portrait of India

Portrait of India PDF Author: Ved Mehta
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241505011
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 622

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Returning to 1960s' India after decades beyond its borders, Ved Mehta explores his native country with two sets of eyes: those of the man educated in the West, and those of the child raised under the Raj. Travelling from the Himalayas in the east to Kerala in the west, Ved Mehta's observations and insights into India and some of its most interesting figures - including Indira Gandhi, Jaya Prakash Narayan and Satyajit Ray - create one of the twentieth century's most thought-provoking travel memoirs.

The English Cyclopedia

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Languages : en
Pages : 534

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The Living Age

The Living Age PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 866

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The English Cyclopædia

The English Cyclopædia PDF Author: Charles Knight
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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