Author:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
History of the Bosjesmans, Or Bush People
Author:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Bosjesmans Or Bush People
Author: J. S. Tyler
Publisher: Pretoria : State Library
ISBN:
Category : San (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher: Pretoria : State Library
ISBN:
Category : San (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Patent Office: Authors
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Images and Empires
Author: Paul S. Landau
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520229495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and culture. It assembles a wide-ranging collection of essays dealing with specific visual forms, including monuments cinema, cartoons, domestic and professional photography, body art, world fairs, and museum exhibits.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520229495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and culture. It assembles a wide-ranging collection of essays dealing with specific visual forms, including monuments cinema, cartoons, domestic and professional photography, body art, world fairs, and museum exhibits.
Catalogue
Author: Maggs Bros
Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Dickens and the Virtual City
Author: Estelle Murail
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319350862
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This book explores the aesthetic practices used by Dickens to make the space which we have come to know as the Dickensian City. It concentrates on three very precise techniques for the production of social space (counter-mapping, overlaying and troping). The chapters show the scapes and writings which influenced him and the way he transformed them, packaged them and passed them on for future use. The city is shown to be an imagined or virtual world but with a serious aim for a serious game: Dickens sets up a workshop for the simulation of real societies and cities. This urban building with is transferable to other literatures and medial forms. The book offers vital understanding of how writing and image work in particular ways to recreate and re-enchant society and the built environment. It will be of interest to scholars of literature, media, film, urban studies, politics and economics.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319350862
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This book explores the aesthetic practices used by Dickens to make the space which we have come to know as the Dickensian City. It concentrates on three very precise techniques for the production of social space (counter-mapping, overlaying and troping). The chapters show the scapes and writings which influenced him and the way he transformed them, packaged them and passed them on for future use. The city is shown to be an imagined or virtual world but with a serious aim for a serious game: Dickens sets up a workshop for the simulation of real societies and cities. This urban building with is transferable to other literatures and medial forms. The book offers vital understanding of how writing and image work in particular ways to recreate and re-enchant society and the built environment. It will be of interest to scholars of literature, media, film, urban studies, politics and economics.
Current List of Medical Literature
Author:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Early African Entertainments Abroad
Author: Bernth Lindfors
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299301648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
By exploring the representations of Africans in circuses, plays, and exhibits in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain and America, Bernth Lindfors reveals how these performances served to reinforce American and European prejudices.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299301648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
By exploring the representations of Africans in circuses, plays, and exhibits in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain and America, Bernth Lindfors reveals how these performances served to reinforce American and European prejudices.
Ira Aldridge: The vagabond years, 1833-1852
Author: Bernth Lindfors
Publisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 1580463940
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Volume 2 of the first available biography of this great African-American classical actor, covering his emergence as a professional actor in Britain during the years 1833-1852. Ira Aldridge: The Vagabond Years, 1833-1852 deals in depth with the later experiences of one of the modern world's first black classical actors as he toured throughout the United Kingdom impressing audiences with his virtuosity and versatility as an interpreter not only of tragic and comic black roles but also eventually as an actor of classic white Shakespearean parts -- Shylock, Macbeth, Richard III, even Iago. Aldridge was very popular in Ireland and remained there for six years, performing in venues large and small. He traveled often in his own carriage with assistants who supported him in scenes, enabling famous plays to be staged anywhere, even in villages that did not have a proper theater. He also performed periodically in large cities with professional acting companies, and returned to the London stage in 1848, after leaving it fifteen years earlier. During these years he expandedhis repertoire, refined his skills, and gained a reputation as one of Britain's most talented thespians. In dealing with Aldridge's emergence as a professional actor in the United Kingdom, Lindfors here records in detail theups and downs of his itinerant existence in a world where no theatergoer had ever seen anyone like him on stage before. Aldridge was genuinely a unique phenomenon in Britain at a pivotal point in history. Bernth Lindfors is Professor Emeritus of English and African Literatures, University of Texas at Austin, and editor of Ira Aldridge: The African Roscius (University of Rochester Press, 2007).
Publisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 1580463940
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Volume 2 of the first available biography of this great African-American classical actor, covering his emergence as a professional actor in Britain during the years 1833-1852. Ira Aldridge: The Vagabond Years, 1833-1852 deals in depth with the later experiences of one of the modern world's first black classical actors as he toured throughout the United Kingdom impressing audiences with his virtuosity and versatility as an interpreter not only of tragic and comic black roles but also eventually as an actor of classic white Shakespearean parts -- Shylock, Macbeth, Richard III, even Iago. Aldridge was very popular in Ireland and remained there for six years, performing in venues large and small. He traveled often in his own carriage with assistants who supported him in scenes, enabling famous plays to be staged anywhere, even in villages that did not have a proper theater. He also performed periodically in large cities with professional acting companies, and returned to the London stage in 1848, after leaving it fifteen years earlier. During these years he expandedhis repertoire, refined his skills, and gained a reputation as one of Britain's most talented thespians. In dealing with Aldridge's emergence as a professional actor in the United Kingdom, Lindfors here records in detail theups and downs of his itinerant existence in a world where no theatergoer had ever seen anyone like him on stage before. Aldridge was genuinely a unique phenomenon in Britain at a pivotal point in history. Bernth Lindfors is Professor Emeritus of English and African Literatures, University of Texas at Austin, and editor of Ira Aldridge: The African Roscius (University of Rochester Press, 2007).
The Novel and the Menagerie
Author: Kurt Koenigsberger
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814210570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
"The first comprehensive account of the relation of collections of imperial beasts to narrative practices in England, The Novel and the Menagerie explores an array of imaginative responses to the empire as a dominant, shaping factor in English daily life. Kurt Koenigsberger argues that domestic English novels and collections of zoological exotica (especially zoos, circuses, traveling menageries, and colonial and imperial exhibitions) share important aesthetic strategies and cultural logics: novels about English daily life and displays featuring collections of exotic animals both strive to relate Englishness to a larger empire conceived as an integrated whole." "Koenigsberger's investigations range from readings of novels by authors such as Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter to analyses of ballads, handbills, broadsides, and memoirs of showmen. Attending closely to the collective English practices of imagining and delineating the empire as a whole, The Novel and the Menagerie works at the juncture of literary criticism, colonial discourse studies, and cultural analysis to historicize the notion of totality in the theory and practice of the English novel. In exploring the shapes of the novel in England and of the English institutions that collected exotic animals, it offers fresh readings of familiar literary texts and opens up new ways of understanding the character of imperial Englishness across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814210570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
"The first comprehensive account of the relation of collections of imperial beasts to narrative practices in England, The Novel and the Menagerie explores an array of imaginative responses to the empire as a dominant, shaping factor in English daily life. Kurt Koenigsberger argues that domestic English novels and collections of zoological exotica (especially zoos, circuses, traveling menageries, and colonial and imperial exhibitions) share important aesthetic strategies and cultural logics: novels about English daily life and displays featuring collections of exotic animals both strive to relate Englishness to a larger empire conceived as an integrated whole." "Koenigsberger's investigations range from readings of novels by authors such as Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter to analyses of ballads, handbills, broadsides, and memoirs of showmen. Attending closely to the collective English practices of imagining and delineating the empire as a whole, The Novel and the Menagerie works at the juncture of literary criticism, colonial discourse studies, and cultural analysis to historicize the notion of totality in the theory and practice of the English novel. In exploring the shapes of the novel in England and of the English institutions that collected exotic animals, it offers fresh readings of familiar literary texts and opens up new ways of understanding the character of imperial Englishness across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."--BOOK JACKET.