Author: Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essays
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
"The first volume of Occidental gleanings contains his contributions to the Cincinnati enquirer and the Cincinnati commercial; the second volume includes his articles in the New Orleans item, the New Orleans times-democrat, and three other publications for which he wrote in the eighties."--Introd.
Occidental Gleanings
Author: Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essays
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
"The first volume of Occidental gleanings contains his contributions to the Cincinnati enquirer and the Cincinnati commercial; the second volume includes his articles in the New Orleans item, the New Orleans times-democrat, and three other publications for which he wrote in the eighties."--Introd.
Publisher:
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Category : Essays
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
"The first volume of Occidental gleanings contains his contributions to the Cincinnati enquirer and the Cincinnati commercial; the second volume includes his articles in the New Orleans item, the New Orleans times-democrat, and three other publications for which he wrote in the eighties."--Introd.
Essay and General Literature Index
Author: Minnie Earl Sears
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essays
Languages : en
Pages : 1980
Book Description
Includes "List of books indexed" (published also separately)
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Category : Essays
Languages : en
Pages : 1980
Book Description
Includes "List of books indexed" (published also separately)
Grass Lark
Author: Elizabeth Stevenson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000677117
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
It is remarkable how persistent a "minor" writer may be. He may lack the large vision and universal message of the great writer, but instead possess a clear, true, intense view of particular places, peoples, and situations that renders hi work unique and irreplacable. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) is such a figure in American literature. Best known as a scholar of Japanese culture, Hearn was a remarkable journalist, translator, travel writer, and perhaps second only to Poe in the literature of the macabre and supernatural. Hearn's life, as strange and colorful as his work, is brilliantly recounted in Elizabeth Stevenson's sensitive and sympathetic biography., The range of Hearn's writing is reflected in the peripatetic course of his life. The son of an Irish father and a Greek mother, he was born on the Ionian island of Leucadia, was raised in Dublin, and came to America at the age of nineteen. His early career was spent as a journalist. Without a trace of condescension or pity he entered into the lives of the dock workers of Cincinnati, the Creoles of New Orleans and Martinique, and later the common villagers of Japan, describing how they lived and worked and what they believed., Elizabeth Stevenson's book is as much about the writer as the man. While giving an accurate measure of the scale of Hearn's achievement, she makes a compelling case for its artistry. Her readlng demonstrates that his writings are not mere aids to the understanding of various cultures but ends in themselves. Hearn did not just translate the folklore of other cultures, he recreated it. The Grass Lark will interest literary scholars. American studies specialists, and folklorists.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000677117
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
It is remarkable how persistent a "minor" writer may be. He may lack the large vision and universal message of the great writer, but instead possess a clear, true, intense view of particular places, peoples, and situations that renders hi work unique and irreplacable. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) is such a figure in American literature. Best known as a scholar of Japanese culture, Hearn was a remarkable journalist, translator, travel writer, and perhaps second only to Poe in the literature of the macabre and supernatural. Hearn's life, as strange and colorful as his work, is brilliantly recounted in Elizabeth Stevenson's sensitive and sympathetic biography., The range of Hearn's writing is reflected in the peripatetic course of his life. The son of an Irish father and a Greek mother, he was born on the Ionian island of Leucadia, was raised in Dublin, and came to America at the age of nineteen. His early career was spent as a journalist. Without a trace of condescension or pity he entered into the lives of the dock workers of Cincinnati, the Creoles of New Orleans and Martinique, and later the common villagers of Japan, describing how they lived and worked and what they believed., Elizabeth Stevenson's book is as much about the writer as the man. While giving an accurate measure of the scale of Hearn's achievement, she makes a compelling case for its artistry. Her readlng demonstrates that his writings are not mere aids to the understanding of various cultures but ends in themselves. Hearn did not just translate the folklore of other cultures, he recreated it. The Grass Lark will interest literary scholars. American studies specialists, and folklorists.
The Bookman
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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2236
Book Description
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 22 : Nos. 1-131 (Issued April, 1925 - April, 1926)
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2236
Book Description
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 22 : Nos. 1-131 (Issued April, 1925 - April, 1926)
The Nation
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Lafcadio Hearn's America
Author: Simon J. Bronner
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813189233
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The American essays of renowned writer Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) artistically chronicle the robust urban life of Cincinnati and New Orleans. Hearn is one of the few chroniclers of urban American life in the nineteenth century, and much of this material has not been widely available since the 1950s. Lafcadio Hearn's America collects Hearn's stories of vagabonds, river people, mystics, criminals, and some of the earliest accounts available of black and ethnic urban folklife in America. He was a frequently consulted expert on America during his years in Japan, and these editorials reflect on the problems and possibilities of American life as the country entered its greatest century. Hearn's work, which reflects an America that is less "melting pot" than a varied, spicy, and often exotic gumbo, provide essential background for the study of America's first steps away from its agrarian beginnings.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813189233
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The American essays of renowned writer Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) artistically chronicle the robust urban life of Cincinnati and New Orleans. Hearn is one of the few chroniclers of urban American life in the nineteenth century, and much of this material has not been widely available since the 1950s. Lafcadio Hearn's America collects Hearn's stories of vagabonds, river people, mystics, criminals, and some of the earliest accounts available of black and ethnic urban folklife in America. He was a frequently consulted expert on America during his years in Japan, and these editorials reflect on the problems and possibilities of American life as the country entered its greatest century. Hearn's work, which reflects an America that is less "melting pot" than a varied, spicy, and often exotic gumbo, provide essential background for the study of America's first steps away from its agrarian beginnings.
Luzac's Oriental List and Book Review
Author:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description