Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106007883652
Form and Meaning
Anonim
Form And Meaning In The History Of The Book
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Form and Meaning in the History of the Book
Nicolas Barker
Author : Nicolas Barker
Publisher : London : British Library
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Design
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111927393
Form and Meaning in the History of the Book by Nicolas Barker Pdf
Nicolas Barker, OBE FBA, has made many contributions to the study of the book. In celebration of his 70th birthday, the British Library has published a selection of his essays that show the range of his interests in a number of related fields: books and texts; books and people; typography and early printing; the history of the book; bookselling; and forgery. None of these essays has previously been reprinted and collectively they offer a series of authoritative insights into various aspects of the book as physical and cultural artefact. The collection is prefaced by an introduction by Alan Bell, former Librarian of the London Library.
From Form to Meaning
David Fleming
Author : David Fleming
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780822977810
From Form to Meaning by David Fleming Pdf
In the spring of 1968, the English faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) voted to remedialize the first semester of its required freshman composition course, English 101. The following year, it eliminated outright the second semester course, English 102. For the next quarter-century, UW had no real campus-wide writing requirement, putting it out of step with its peer institutions and preventing it from fully joining the “composition revolution” of the 1970s. In From Form to Meaning, David Fleming chronicles these events, situating them against the backdrop of late 1960s student radicalism and within the wider changes taking place in U.S. higher education at the time. Fleming begins with the founding of UW in 1848. He examines the rhetorical education provided in the university’s first half-century, the birth of a required, two semester composition course in 1898, faculty experimentation with that course in the 1920s and 1930s, and the rise of a massive “current-traditional” writing program, staffed primarily by graduate teaching assistants (TAs), after World War II. He then reveals how, starting around 1965, tensions between faculty and TAs concerning English 101-102 began to mount. By 1969, as the TAs were trying to take over the committee that supervised the course, the English faculty simply abandoned its long-standing commitment to freshman writing. In telling the story of composition’s demise at UW, Fleming shows how contributing factors—the growing reliance on TAs; the questioning of traditional curricula by young instructors and their students; the disinterest of faculty in teaching and administering general education courses—were part of a larger shift affecting universities nationally. He also connects the events of this period to the long, embattled history of freshman composition in the United States. And he offers his own thoughts on the qualities of the course that have allowed it to survive and regenerate for over 125 years.
The Writing of History
Robert H. Canary,Henry Kozicki
Author : Robert H. Canary,Henry Kozicki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951001924059D
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Form and Function
Tim Benton,Open University
Author : Tim Benton,Open University
Publisher : London : Crosby Lockwood Staples
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031794170
Form and Function by Tim Benton,Open University Pdf
Provides the evidence for an understanding of the intellectual climate from which the architecture and design of today have spring with writings of such infludential authors as Louis Sullivan, Adolf Loos, Henry Van de Velde, Hermann Muthesius, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Bruno Taut and Frank Lloyd Wright.
The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories
Alessandro Portelli
Author : Alessandro Portelli
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438416334
The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories by Alessandro Portelli Pdf
Portelli offers a new and challenging approach to oral history, with an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective. Examining cultural conflict and communication between social groups and classes in industrial societies, he identifies the way individuals strive to create memories in order to make sense of their lives, and evaluates the impact of the fieldwork experience on the consciousness of the researcher. By recovering the value of the story-telling experience, Portelli's work makes delightful reading for the specialist and non-specialist alike.
Meaning and Representation in History
Jörn Rüsen
Author : Jörn Rüsen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0857455559
Meaning and Representation in History by Jörn Rüsen Pdf
History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, symbolically as an interpretation that gives meaning to these events through varying cultural orientations, charging it with norms and values, hopes and fears. And it is memory that links the present to the past and therefore has to be seen as the most fundamental procedure of the human mind that constitutes history: memory and historical thinking are the door of the human mind to experience. At the same time, it transforms the past into a meaningful and sense bearing part of the present and beyond. It is these complex interrelationships that are the focus of the contributors to this volume, among them such distinguished scholars as Paul Ricoeur, Johan Galtung, Eberhard Lämmert, and James E. Young. Full of profound insights into human society pat and present it is a book that not only historians but also philosophers and social scientists should engage with.
Form and Meaning in Fiction
Norman Friedman
Author : Norman Friedman
Publisher : Athens : University of Georgia Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0820303577
Form and Meaning in Fiction by Norman Friedman Pdf
Realism, Form, and Representation in the Edwardian Novel
Charlotte Jones
Author : Charlotte Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192599810
Realism, Form, and Representation in the Edwardian Novel by Charlotte Jones Pdf
The real represents to my perception the things that we cannot possibly not know, sooner or later, in one way or another', wrote Henry James in 1907. This description, riven with double negatives, hesitation, and uncertainty, encapsulates the epistemological difficulties of realism, for underlying its narrative and descriptive apparatus as an aesthetic mode lies a philosophical quandary. What grounds the 'real' of the realist novel? What kind of perception is required to validate the experience of reality? How does the realist novel represent the difficulty of knowing? What comes to the fore in James's account, as in so many, is how the forms of realism are constituted by a relation to unknowing, absence, and ineffability. Realism, Form, and Representation in the Edwardian Novel recovers a neglected literary history centred on the intricate relationship between fictional representation and philosophical commitment. It asks how—or if—we can conceptualize realist novels when the objects of their representational intentions are realities that might exist beyond what is empirically verifiable by sense data or analytically verifiable by logic, and are thus irreducible to conceptual schemes or linguistic practices—a formulation Charlotte Jones refers to as 'synthetic realism'. In new readings of Edwardian novels including Conrad's Nostromo and The Secret Agent, Wells's Tono-Bungay, and Ford's The Good Soldier, this volume revises and reconsiders key elements of realist novel theory—metaphor and metonymy; character interiority; the insignificant detail; omniscient narration and free indirect discourse; causal linearity—to uncover the representational strategies by which realist writers grapple with the recalcitrance of reality as a referential anchor, and seek to give form to the force, opacity, and uncertain scope of realities that may lie beyond the material. In restoring a metaphysical dimension to the realist novel's imaginary, Realism, Form, and Representation in the Edwardian Novel offers a new conceptualization of realism both within early twentieth-century literary culture and as a transhistorical mode of representation.
American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853
Meredith L. McGill
Author : Meredith L. McGill
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812209747
American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 by Meredith L. McGill Pdf
The antebellum period has long been identified with the belated emergence of a truly national literature. And yet, as Meredith L. McGill argues, a mass market for books in this period was built and sustained through what we would call rampant literary piracy: a national literature developed not despite but because of the systematic copying of foreign works. Restoring a political dimension to accounts of the economic grounds of antebellum literature, McGill unfolds the legal arguments and political struggles that produced an American "culture of reprinting" and held it in place for two crucial decades. In this culture of reprinting, the circulation of print outstripped authorial and editorial control. McGill examines the workings of literary culture within this market, shifting her gaze from first and authorized editions to reprints and piracies, from the form of the book to the intersection of book and periodical publishing, and from a national literature to an internally divided and transatlantic literary marketplace. Through readings of the work of Dickens, Poe, and Hawthorne, McGill seeks both to analyze how changes in the conditions of publication influenced literary form and to measure what was lost as literary markets became centralized and literary culture became stratified in the early 1850s. American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 delineates a distinctive literary culture that was regional in articulation and transnational in scope, while questioning the grounds of the startlingly recent but nonetheless powerful equation of the national interest with the extension of authors' rights.
The Content of the Form
Hayden White
Author : Hayden White
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801896149
The Content of the Form by Hayden White Pdf
Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning—its production, distribution, and consumption—in different historical epochs. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the kind that a narrative imagination gives to it. The secret of the process by which consciousness invests history with meaning resides in "the content of the form," in the way our narrative capacities transform the present into a fulfillment of a past from which we would wish to have descended.
Consuming History
Jerome de Groot
Author : Jerome de Groot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134148936
Consuming History by Jerome de Groot Pdf
Non-academic history – ‘public history’ – is a complex, dynamic entity which impacts on the popular understanding of the past at all levels. In Consuming History, Jerome de Groot examines how society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation. This book analyzes a wide range of cultural entities – from computer games to daytime television, from blockbuster fictional narratives such as Da Vinci Code to DNA genealogical tools – to analyze how history works in contemporary popular culture. Jerome de Groot probes how museums have responded to the heritage debate and the way in which new technologies have brought about a shift in access to history, from online game playing to internet genealogy. He discusses the often conflicted relationship between ‘public’ and academic history, and raises important questions about the theory and practice of history as a discipline. Whilst mainly focussing on the UK, the book also compares the experiences of the USA, France and Germany. Consuming History is an important and engaging analysis of the social consumption of history and offers an essential path through the debates for readers interested in history, cultural studies and the media.
The Meaning of History, and Other Historical Pieces
Frederic Harrison
Author : Frederic Harrison
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1330047184
The Meaning of History, and Other Historical Pieces by Frederic Harrison Pdf
Excerpt from The Meaning of History, and Other Historical Pieces This volume contains a collection of essays designed to stimulate the systematic study of general history. They are (with two exceptions) the permanent and condensed form of historical lectures given in a series of courses at various places of education. The writer has been constantly occupied with the teaching of history since 1862; and the first two chapters of this book were the introduction to a course of lectures given in that year to a London audience. They were printed at the time, but the issue has been long exhausted. The third chapter (which is in effect a Choice of Books of History) and also the fifth chapter (a synthetic survey of the Thirteenth Century) were inaugural lectures given in the New Schools at Oxford to the summer vacation students. The other chapters are based on lectures given by the writer at various times at Newton Hall, Toynbee Hall, the London Institution, and other literary and scientific institutions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
An Ancient Israelite Historian
Isaac Kalimi
Author : Isaac Kalimi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004358768
An Ancient Israelite Historian by Isaac Kalimi Pdf
“Kalimi, one of the esteemed specialists of the Chronicler’s work... has provided us an intriguing historical and theological study about the Chronicler’s work that will surely provoke further discussion.” — Stefan Beyerle, In: Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period 37 (2006). “Among Biblical scholars of Jewish background, Kalimi shows an outstanding ability to see and draw relationships between original passages and sources as well as ancient and modern commentaries.... Kalimi accomplished what he promised in the title of the book: to demonstrate that the Chronicler is “an ancient Israelite historian.'" - Chen Yiyi, In: Journal of Ancient Civilizations 24 (2009). “The book is another important contribution to the study of Chronicles by an eminent expert on that field, and as such is indispensable on every scholar’s desk, not only in the field of Chronicles but also for everyone with an interest in biblical historiography in general.” – M. Marciak, In: The Polish Journal of Biblical Research 8 (2009). “Professor Kalimi is to be congratulated for these two works, which are perhaps the finest analysis of Chronicles in the recent decades. Tons of ink has been spent on discussions that have gone above basic questions that the author has analyzed point by point, and no doubt studies in the future have come in the work of Kalimi a base and inescapable benchmark for discussions.” – J.M. Tebes, In: Antiguo Oriente 8 (2010).
George A. Kubler and the Shape of Art History
Thomas F. Reese
Author : Thomas F. Reese
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606068342
George A. Kubler and the Shape of Art History by Thomas F. Reese Pdf
An illuminating intellectual biography of a pioneering and singular figure in American art history. Art historian George A. Kubler (1912–1996) was a foundational scholar of ancient American art and archaeology as well as Spanish and Portuguese architecture. During over five decades at Yale University, he published seventeen books that included innovative monographs, major works of synthesis, and an influential theoretical treatise. In this biography, Thomas F. Reese analyzes the early formation, broad career, and writings of Kubler, casting nuanced light on the origins and development of his thinking. Notable in Reese’s discussion and contextualization of Kubler’s writings is a revealing history and analysis of his Shape of Time—a book so influential to students, scholars, artists, and curious readers in multiple disciplines that it has been continuously in print since 1962. Reese reveals how pivotal its ideas were in Kubler’s own thinking: rather than focusing on problems of form as an ordering principle, he increasingly came to sequence works by how they communicate meaning. The author demonstrates how Kubler, who professed to have little interest in theory, devoted himself to the craft of art history, discovering and charting the rules that guided the propagation of structure and significance through time.