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Author : Joy Giguere
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781621900399
Her articles have appeared in the Journal of the Civil War Era and Markers: The Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies.
Author : Robert H. Cataliotti
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0815323301
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Zoltan Kovecses
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781770484283
This book is a cultural-historical (rather than purely linguistic) introduction to American English. The first part consists of a general account of variation in American English. It offers concise but comprehensive coverage of such topics as the history of American English; regional, social and ethnic variation; variation in style (including slang); and British and American differences. The second part of the book puts forward an account of how American English has developed into a dominant variety of the English language. It focuses on the ways in which intellectual traditions such as puritanism and republicanism, in shaping the American world view, have also contributed to the distinctiveness of American English.
Author : Deborah Whitehead
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253018243
“Continues and adds to a rich conversation among American philosophers concerning the origins of pragmatism and its possibilities for the future.” —William Gavin, University of Southern Maine William James, Pragmatism, and American Culture focuses on the work of William James and the relationship between the development of pragmatism and its historical, cultural, and political roots in nineteenth-century America. Deborah Whitehead reads pragmatism through the intersecting themes of narrative, gender, nation, politics, and religion. As she considers how pragmatism helps to explain the United States to itself, Whitehead articulates a contemporary pragmatism and shows how it has become a powerful and influential discourse in American intellectual and popular culture.
Author : Maurice Wohlgelernter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000677430
History, Religion, and American Democracy provides a fundamental review of four major themes: naturalism and supernaturalism in an American context; issues in the history of Judaism; American social philosophy; and the teaching and learning of democratic ideals in a pluralistic postmodern environment. This book provides a naturalistic context for the deep analysis of religious, theological, as well as social and political themes.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Frédéric Louis Ritter
Publisher : New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Music
ISBN : WISC:89000820480
Author : Charles F. McGovern
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807876640
At the turn of the twentieth century, an emerging consumer culture in the United States promoted constant spending to meet material needs and develop social identity and self-cultivation. In Sold American, Charles F. McGovern examines the key players active in shaping this cultural evolution: advertisers and consumer advocates. McGovern argues that even though these two professional groups invented radically different models for proper spending, both groups propagated mass consumption as a specifically American social practice and an important element of nationality and citizenship. Advertisers, McGovern shows, used nationalist ideals, icons, and political language to define consumption as the foundation of the pursuit of happiness. Consumer advocates, on the other hand, viewed the market with a republican-inspired skepticism and fought commercial incursions on consumer independence. The result, says McGovern, was a redefinition of the citizen as consumer. The articulation of an "American Way of Life" in the Depression and World War II ratified consumer abundance as the basis of a distinct American culture and history.
Author : Joost Krijnen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004316072
This book is concerned with the “impious” Holocaust fictions of four contemporary Jewish American novelists. It argues that their work should not be seen as insensitive, but rather as explorations of various forms of renewal.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Music
ISBN : NYPL:33433082187638
Author : William Smythe Babcock Mathews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Music
ISBN : WISC:89005109715
Author : Merle Eugene Curti
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412837103
Hailed as a pioneer achievement upon its original publi-cation and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1944, The Growth of American Thought has won appreciative reviews and earned the highest regard among historians of the national experience. With his elaboration of the complex interrelationships between the growth of American thought and the whole American social milieu, Curti creates not only an intellectual history, but a social history of American thought.
Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher : Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780394400754
A modified, one-volume edition of Mencken's classic analysis of American English
Author : Miriam G. Reumann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520930049
When Alfred Kinsey's massive studies Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female appeared in 1948 and 1953, their detailed data spurred an unprecedented public discussion of the nation's sexual practices and ideologies. As they debated what behaviors were normal or average, abnormal or deviant, Cold War Americans also celebrated and scrutinized the state of their nation, relating apparent changes in sexuality to shifts in its political structure, economy, and people. American Sexual Character employs the studies and the myriad responses they evoked to examine national debates about sexuality, gender, and Americanness after World War II. Focusing on the mutual construction of postwar ideas about national identity and sexual life, this wide-ranging, shrewd, and lively analysis explores the many uses to which these sex surveys were put at a time of extreme anxiety about sexual behavior and its effects on the nation. Looking at real and perceived changes in masculinity, female sexuality, marriage, and homosexuality, Miriam G. Reumann develops the notion of "American sexual character," sexual patterns and attitudes that were understood to be uniquely American and to reflect contemporary transformations in politics, social life, gender roles, and culture. She considers how apparent shifts in sexual behavior shaped the nation's workplaces, homes, and families, and how these might be linked to racial and class differences.
Author : Thomas Leitch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781628923728
From William Dickson's Rip Van Winkle films (1896) to Baz Luhrmann's big-budget production of The Great Gatsby (2013) and beyond, cinematic adaptations of American literature participate in a rich and fascinating history. Unlike previous studies of American literature and film, which emphasize particular authors like Edith Wharton and Nathaniel Hawthorne, particular texts like Moby-Dick, particular literary periods like the American Renaissance, or particular genres like the novel, this volume considers the multiple functions of filmed American literature as a cinematic genre in its own right-one that reflects the specific political and aesthetic priorities of different national and historical cinemas even as it plays a decisive role in defining American literature for a global audience.