Garrets And Pretenders

Author : Albert Parry
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781596050907

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Garretts & Pretenders by Albert Parry Pdf

Published in 1933, the first edition of this classic narrative chronicled the lives of America's bohemians, from Edgar Allen Poe in the early 1800s to Walt Whitman and Ambrose Bierce. The book caused a sensation when it was released in March 1933, with reviews and excerpts printed in magazines such as Esquire, American Mercury, and other popular titles of the time. Complete with a comprehensive index, the book was a major historical source for many years. This updated edition, first published in 1960, includes a meticulous and well-researched account of the Beat Generation, from Jack Kerouac to Allen Ginsberg, and their literary achievements. Not merely a sentimental collection of tales of days gone by, this is a fascinating study of vibrant and eccentric times. Complete with cartoons, illustrations, and photographs, this is an accurate depiction of the lives and manners of America's bohemians. AUTHOR BIO: Albert Parry was the author of the landmark 1933 book Tattoo, Secrets of a Strange Art as Practised by the Natives of the United States, and was an early contributor to the "reefer madness" craze with his article "The Menace of Marihuana" in the December 1935 issue of American Mercury.

Author : Albert Parry
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486290461

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Garrets and Pretenders by Albert Parry Pdf

Fascinating study recaptures the vibrantly eccentric lifestyles of American hipsters and outsider artists. Accurate, well-illustrated narrative profiles the lives and manners of nonconformists from the early 19th century through the Beat Generation.

Author : Roy Morris
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 019514709X

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The Better Angel by Roy Morris Pdf

The first full account of Whitman's Civil War years sheds new light on the man, his poetry, and the treatment of the war's sick and wounded.

Author : Shawn Chandler Bingham,Lindsey A. Freeman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469631684

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The Bohemian South by Shawn Chandler Bingham,Lindsey A. Freeman Pdf

From the southern influence on nineteenth-century New York to the musical legacy of late-twentieth-century Athens, Georgia, to the cutting-edge cuisines of twenty-first-century Asheville, North Carolina, the bohemian South has long contested traditional views of the region. Yet, even as the fruits of this creative South have famously been celebrated, exported, and expropriated, the region long was labeled a cultural backwater. This timely and illuminating collection uses bohemia as a novel lens for reconsidering more traditional views of the South. Exploring wide-ranging locales, such as Athens, Austin, Black Mountain College, Knoxville, Memphis, New Orleans, and North Carolina's Research Triangle, each essay challenges popular interpretations of the South, while highlighting important bohemian sub- and countercultures. The Bohemian South provides an important perspective in the New South as an epicenter for progress, innovation, and experimentation. Contributors include Scott Barretta, Shawn Chandler Bingham, Jaime Cantrell, Jon Horne Carter, Alex Sayf Cummings, Lindsey A. Freeman, Grace E. Hale, Joanna Levin, Joshua Long, Daniel S. Margolies, Chris Offutt, Zandria F. Robinson, Allen Shelton, Daniel Cross Turner, Zackary Vernon, and Edward Whitley.

Author : Albert Parry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:492252939

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Garrets and Pretenders, a History of Bohemianism in America by Albert Parry Pdf

Author : Cesar Grana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351502382

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On Bohemia by Cesar Grana Pdf

Bohemia has been variously defined as a mythical country, a state of mind, a tavern by the wayside on the road of life. The editors of this volume prefer a leaner definition: an attitude of dissent from the prevailing values of middle-class society, one dependent on the existence of caf life. But whatever definition is preferred, this rich and long overdue collective portrait of Bohemian life in a large variety of settings is certain to engage and even entrance readers of all types: from the student of culture to social researchers and literary figures n search of their ancestral roots. The work is international in scope and social scientific in conception. But because of the special nature of the Bohemian fascination, the volume is also graced by an unusually larger number of exquisite literary essays. Hence, one will find in this anthology writings by Malcolm Cowely, Norman Podhoretz, Norman Mailer, Theophile Gautier, Honore de Balzac, Mary Austin, Stefan Zweig, Nadine Gordimer, and Ernest Hemingway. Social scientists are well represented by Cesar Grana, Ephraim Mizruchi, W.I. Thomas, Florian Znaniecki, Harvey Zorbaugh, John R. Howard, and G. William Domhoff, among others.The volume is sectioned into major themes in the history of Bohemia: social and literary origins, testimony by the participants, analysis by critics of and crusaders for the bohemian life, the ideological characteristics of the bohemians, and the long term prospect as well as retrospect for bohemenianism as a system, culture and ideology. The editors have provided a framework for examining some fundamental themes in social structure and social deviance: What are the levels of toleration within a society? Do artists deserve and receive special treatment by the powers that be? And what are the connections between bohemian life-styles and political protest movements?This is an anthology and not a treatise, so the reader is free to pick and choose not only wha

Author : Albert Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:833682344

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Garrets and Pretenders by Albert Moore Pdf

Author : Megan E. Geigner,Stuart J. Hecht,Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810143838

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Makeshift Chicago Stages by Megan E. Geigner,Stuart J. Hecht,Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud Pdf

Since Chicago’s founding, theater has blossomed in the city’s makeshift spaces, from taverns to parks, living rooms to storefronts. Makeshift Chicago Stages brings together leading historians to share the history of theater and performance in the Second City. The essays collected here theorize a regional theater history and aesthetic that are inherently improvisational, rough-and-tumble, and marginal, reflecting the realities of a hypersegregated city and its neighborhoods. Space and place have contributed to Chicago’s reputation for gritty, ensemble-led work, part of a makeshift ethos that exposes the policies of the city and the transgressive possibilities of performance. This book examines the rise and proliferation of Chicago’s performance spaces, which have rooted the city’s dynamic, thriving theater community. Chapters cover well‐known, groundbreaking, and understudied theatrical sites, ensembles, and artists, including the 1893 Columbian Exposition Midway Plaisance, the 57th Street Artist Colony, the Fine Arts Building, the Goodman Theatre, the Federal Theatre Project, the Kingston Mines and Body Politic Theaters, ImprovOlympics (later iO), Teatro Vista, Theaster Gates, and the Chicago Home Theater Festival. By putting space at the center of the city’s theater history, the authors in Makeshift Chicago Stages spotlight the roles of neighborhoods, racial dynamics, atypical venues, and borders as integral to understanding the work and aesthetics of Chicago’s artists, ensembles, and repertoires, which have influenced theater practices worldwide. Featuring rich archival work and oral histories, this anthology will prove a valuable resource for theater historians, as well as anyone interested in Chicago’s cultural heritage.

Author : Jed Rasula
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199396290

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History of a Shiver by Jed Rasula Pdf

A sweeping cultural history that draws on music, literature, painting, and film, 'History of a Shiver' uncovers how art pioneered in the 19th century provided the foundation for modernist aesthetics.

Author : David Weir
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780791479179

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Decadent Culture in the United States by David Weir Pdf

Decadent Culture in the United States traces the development of the decadent movement in America from its beginnings in the 1890s to its brief revival in the 1920s. During the fin de siècle, many Americans felt the nation had entered a period of decline since the frontier had ended and the country's "manifest destiny" seemed to be fulfilled. Decadence—the cultural response to national decline and individual degeneracy so familiar in nineteenth-century Europe—was thus taken up by groups of artists and writers in major American cities such as New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. Noting that the capitalist, commercial context of America provided possibilities for the entrance of decadence into popular culture to a degree that simply did not occur in Europe, David Weir argues that American-style decadence was driven by a dual impulse: away from popular culture for ideological reasons, yet toward popular culture for economic reasons. By going against the grain of dominant social and cultural trends, American writers produced a native variant of Continental Decadence that eventually dissipated "upward" into the rising leisure class and "downward" into popular, commercial culture.

Author : Rodney D. Olsen
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1992-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814761786

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Dancing in Chains by Rodney D. Olsen Pdf

Dante's Convivio, written 1304-07, is the first major prose document in the Italian language. This new translation is based on the recent Italian critical edition of Maria Simonelli and includes as well the text of the three Italian canzoni. Using approaches from cultural and social history, traces the psychological, social, intellectual, and moral development of the 19th century American novelist, and examines the middle-class values and behavior that shaped him, and which he portrayed with such discomfort in his mature work. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Gerald W. McFarland
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1558495029

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Inside Greenwich Village by Gerald W. McFarland Pdf

A vibrant portrait of a celebrated urban enclave at the turn of the twentieth century.

Author : Joanna Levin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804772549

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Bohemia in America, 1858–1920 by Joanna Levin Pdf

Bohemia in America, 1858–1920 explores the construction and emergence of "Bohemia" in American literature and culture. Simultaneously a literary trope, a cultural nexus, and a socio-economic landscape, la vie bohème traveled to the United States from the Parisian Latin Quarter in the 1850s. At first the province of small artistic coteries, Bohemia soon inspired a popular vogue, embodied in restaurants, clubs, neighborhoods, novels, poems, and dramatic performances across the country. Levin's study follows la vie bohème from its earliest expressions in the U.S. until its explosion in Greenwich Village in the 1910s. Although Bohemia was everywhere in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American culture, it has received relatively little scholarly attention. Bohemia in America, 1858–1920 fills this critical void, discovering and exploring the many textual and geographic spaces in which Bohemia was conjured. Joanna Levin not only provides access to a neglected cultural phenomenon but also to a new and compelling way of charting the development of American literature and culture.

Author : Paul Dawson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415332214

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Creative Writing and the New Humanities by Paul Dawson Pdf

This polemic account provides a fresh perspective on the importance of Creative Writing to the emergence of the 'new humanities' and makes a major contribution to current debates about the role of the writer as public intellectual.

Author : Colin Campbell
Publisher : WritersPrintShop
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1904623336

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The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism by Colin Campbell Pdf

The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism was first published by Basil Blackwell of Oxford in 1987. A paperback edition appeared two years later, while in the following five years it was reprinted four times. However although the intervening years have seen the appearance of Italian, Portuguese, Slovenian and Chinese editions, no copies have been available in English since 1998. This Alcuin Academic edition has therefore been published in order to fill this gap, and more specifically to meet the needs of those academics and students who have contacted me over the past six or seven years in search of an English-language version of the book. Naturally I have considered writing a revised edition (which indeed some critics, as well as a few friends, have suggested is long overdue). -- Amazon.com.