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Languages : en
Pages : 64
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The Idler, No. 3, March
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Languages : en
Pages : 64
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The Idler
Author: S. JohnsonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Naval Text-book
Author: Benjamin J. TottenPublisher:
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 962
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Festivalising!
Author: Temple HauptfleischPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042022213
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Throughout the world festivals are growing - in numbers, in size, in significance - and serve as spaces where aesthetic encounters, religious and political celebrations, economic investments and public entertainment can take place. In this sense, festivals are theatrical events. Exploration of the theoretical frames of reference for the discussion about the present festival culture. Survey of 14 festival events throughout the world.
Defending the West
Author: Ibn WarraqPublisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 161592020X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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This is the first systematic critique of Edward Said's influential work, Orientalism, a book that for almost three decades has received wide acclaim, voluminous commentary, and translation into more than fifteen languages. Said's main thesis was that the Western image of the East was heavily biased by colonialist attitudes, racism, and more than two centuries of political exploitation. Although Said's critique was controversial, the impact of his ideas has been a pervasive rethinking of Western perceptions of Eastern cultures, plus a tendency to view all scholarship in Oriental Studies as tainted by considerations of power and prejudice. In this thorough reconsideration of Said's famous work, Ibn Warraq argues that Said's case against the West is seriously flawed. Warraq accuses Said of not only willfully misinterpreting the work of many scholars, but also of systematically misrepresenting Western civilization as a whole. With example after example, he shows that ever since the Greeks Western civilization has always had a strand in its very makeup that has accepted non-Westerners with open arms and has ever been open to foreign ideas. The author also criticizes Said for inadequate methodology, incoherent arguments, and a faulty historical understanding. He points out, not only Said's tendentious interpretations, but historical howlers that would make a sophomore blush. Warraq further looks at the destructive influence of Said's study on the history of Western painting, especially of the 19th century, and shows how, once again, the epigones of Said have succeeded in relegating thousands of first-class paintings to the lofts and storage rooms of major museums. An extended appendix reconsiders the value of 18th- and 19th-century Orientalist scholars and artists, whose work fell into disrepute as a result of Said's work.
Sultan Stork
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Sultan Stork and Other Stories and Sketches. Now First Collected. To which is Added the Bibliography of Thackeray Revised and Considerably Enlarged
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 336
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SULTAN STORK AND OTHER STORIES AND SKETCHES
Author: WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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