The Valley of Shadows

The Valley of Shadows PDF Author: Francis Grierson
Publisher:
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Category : Alton (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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"This book is not a novel, but the recollections of scenes and episodes of my early life in Illinois and Missouri"--Pref.

The Valley of Shadows

The Valley of Shadows PDF Author: Francis Grierson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alton (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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"This book is not a novel, but the recollections of scenes and episodes of my early life in Illinois and Missouri"--Pref.

Psycho-phone Messages

Psycho-phone Messages PDF Author: Francis Grierson
Publisher:
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Category : Spirit writings
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Francis Grierson

Francis Grierson PDF Author: Harold Peter Simonson
Publisher: New York : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Abraham Lincoln; the Practical Mystic

Abraham Lincoln; the Practical Mystic PDF Author: Francis Grierson
Publisher: New York : J. Lane Company ; London : J. Lane
ISBN:
Category : Personality
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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The Celtic Temperament

The Celtic Temperament PDF Author: Francis Grierson
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Film and Reform

Film and Reform PDF Author: Ian Aitken
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317929187
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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Best known for his documentaries such as Drifters, North Sea, and Housing Problems, John Grierson was the most important figure in the British documentary film movement and one of the most influential of British film theorists. This major assessment of Grierson and the documentary film movement examines the intellectual and aesthetic influences on his work, focusing on the material he produced in the inter-war years and comparing the idealistic strain of Grierson’s social commentary with other social reformists such as the Next Five Years Group and writers like Orwell and Priestley. Underlining the link between film and reform, the book clarifies the meaning and significance of Grierson’s ideas and the historical role of the documentary film movement. Originally published in 1990.

Patriotic Gore

Patriotic Gore PDF Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393312560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 852

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Regarded by many critics as Edmund Wilson's greatest book, Patriotic Gore brilliantly portrays the vast political, spiritual, and material crisis of the Civil War as reflected in the lives and writings of some thirty representative Americans.

Nation and Region in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India

Nation and Region in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India PDF Author: Javed Majeed
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0429799349
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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George Abraham Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India is one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. This book is the first detailed examination of the Survey. It shows how the Survey collaborated with Indian activists to consolidate the regional languages in India. By focusing on India as a linguistic region, it was at odds with the colonial state’s conceptualisation of the subcontinent, in which religious and caste differences were key to its understanding of Indian society. A number of the Survey’s narratives are detachable from its rigorous linguistic imperatives, and together with aspects of Grierson’s other texts, these contributed to the way in which Indian nationalists appropriated and reshaped languages, making them religiously charged ideological symbols of particular versions of the subcontinent. Thus, the Survey played an important role in the emergence of religious nationalism and language conflict in the subcontinent in the 20th century. This volume, like its companion volume Colonialism and Knowledge in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India, will be a great resource for scholars and researchers of linguistics, language and literature, history, political studies, cultural studies and South Asian studies.

Colonialism and Knowledge in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India

Colonialism and Knowledge in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India PDF Author: Javed Majeed
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429799373
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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This book is the first detailed examination of George Abraham Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India, one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. It shows that the Survey was characterised by a composite and collaborative mode of producing knowledge, which undermines any clear distinctions between European orientalists and colonised Indians in British India. Its authority lay more in its stress on the provisional nature of its findings, an emphasis on the approximate nature of its results, and a strong sense of its own shortcomings and inadequacies, rather than in any expression of mastery over India’s languages. The book argues that the Survey brings to light a different kind of colonial knowledge, whose relationship to power was much more ambiguous than has hitherto been assumed for colonial projects in modern India. It also highlights the contribution of Indians to the creation of colonial knowledge about South Asia as a linguistic region. Indians were important collaborators and participants in the Survey, and they helped to create the monumental knowledge of India as a linguistic region which is embodied in the Survey. This volume, like its companion volume Nation and Region in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India, will be a great resource for scholars and researchers of linguistics, language and literature, history, political studies, cultural studies and South Asian studies.

The Valley of Shadows

The Valley of Shadows PDF Author: Francis Grierson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252061035
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Debora Greger is a stoic comedian in an age when even wit has its dark undertones. In this her fourth collection she finds Ovid in Provincetown, a right whale in Iowa, and Cleopatra in the afterworld. Nothing resides in its proper place, except the place of exile. "Characteristic wit, irony, and precision." --Publishers Weekly