Letters Of The Century

Author : Lisa Grunwald,Stephen J. Adler
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780385315937

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Letters of the Century by Lisa Grunwald,Stephen J. Adler Pdf

"Immediate and evocative, letters witness and fasten history, catching events as they happen," write Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler in their introduction to this remarkable book. In more than 400 letters from both famous figures and ordinary citizens, Letters of the Century encapsulates the people and places, events and trends that shaped our nation during the last 100 years. Here is Mark Twain's hilarious letter of complaint to the head of Western Union, an ecstatic letter from a young Charlie Chaplin upon receiving his first movie contract, Einstein's letter to Franklin Roosevelt warning about atomic warfare, Mark Rudd's "generation gap" letter to the president of Columbia University during the student riots of the 60s, and a letter from young Bill Gates imploring hobbyists not to share software so that innovators can make some money... In these pages, our century's most celebrated figures become everyday people and everyday people become part of history. Here is a veteran's wrenching letter left at the Vietnam Wall, a poignant correspondence between two women trying to become mothers, a heart-breaking letter from an AIDS sufferer telling his parents how he wants to be buried, an indignant e-mail from a PC user to his on-line server... "Letters," write Grunwald and Adler, "give history a voice." Arranged chronologically by decade, illustrated with over 100 photographs, Letters of the Century creates an extraordinary chronicle of our history, through the voices of the men and women who have lived its greatest moments.

Author : Michael Warner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0674044886

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The Letters of the Republic by Michael Warner Pdf

The subject of Michael Warner's book is the rise of a nation. America, he shows, became a nation by developing a new kind of reading public, where one becomes a citizen by taking one's place as writer or reader. At heart, the United States is a republic of letters, and its birth can be dated from changes in the culture of printing in the early eighteenth century. The new and widespread use of print media transformed the relations between people and power in a way that set in motion the republican structure of government we have inherited. Examining books, pamphlets, and circulars, he merges theory and concrete analysis to provide a multilayered view of American cultural development.

Author : Elizabeth Filippouli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780755626861

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From Women to the World by Elizabeth Filippouli Pdf

An Independent Book of the Month Featured in Vogue Arabia Featured by Vanity Fair Acclaimed writer Elif Shafak writes a letter to Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand after the Christchurch attack. Actress Yasmine AlMassri pens a poem about war for her mother. Activist and TV presenter June Sarpong addresses designer Diane Von Furstenberg. These are a few of the moving and insightful letters that make up From Women to the World, a book by journalist, author and executive Elizabeth Filippouli, which brings together letters from a global group of accomplished women - politicians, royalty, actors, writers, activists and more – every one addressed to a woman who means something to each of them. The results are extraordinary, heartfelt letters to historical figures, mentors, family members or inspiring ordinary people. Each is based on these women's personal histories and experiences, drawing attention to social issues such as homelessness, war, LGBT activism, mental health care or the plight of international refugees. From Women to the World is more than a simple collection of letters - it is a book that shows a new model of leadership based on emotional intelligence and demonstrates how we have the wisdom to inspire, motivate and reinvent our world.

Author : James Willis Westlake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Letter writing
ISBN : STANFORD:36105049230233

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How to Write Letters by James Willis Westlake Pdf

Author : Susan Dalton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773571525

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Engendering the Republic of Letters by Susan Dalton Pdf

Being women provided them with a particular perspective, expressed first-hand through their letters. Dalton shows how Lespinasse, Roland, Renier Michiel, and Mosconi grappled with differences of ideology, social status, and community, often through networks that mixed personal and professional relations, thus calling into question the actual separation between public and private spheres. Building on the work of Dena Goodman and Daniel Gordon, Dalton shows how a variety of conflicts were expressed in everyday life and sheds new light on Venice as an important eighteenth-century cultural centre.

Author : E. Randolph Richards
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830827889

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Paul and First-Century Letter Writing by E. Randolph Richards Pdf

Informed by the historical evidence and with a sharp eye for telltale clues in the Apostle Paul's letters, E. Randolph Richards takes us into his world and places us on the scene with Paul the letter writer offering a glimpse that overthrows our preconceptions and offers a new perspective on how this important portion of Christian Scripture came to be.

Author : Jack Kapica
Publisher : Lester & Orpen Dennys
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Globe and mail
ISBN : 0886191793

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Shocked and Appalled : a Century of Letters to The Globe and Mail by Jack Kapica Pdf

Author : James Lockhart,Enrique Otte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1976-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521099900

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Letters and People of the Spanish Indies by James Lockhart,Enrique Otte Pdf

This volume presents a selection of translated public and private letters, written by Spanish officials, merchants, and ordinary settlers, aiming to illuminate the panorama of sixteenth-century Spanish American settler society and its genres of correspondence. Letters written by Native Americans, a few of whom at this time were beginning to practice European-style letter-writing, are also included. It is hoped that readers will feel the colorful humanity of the letter-writers, and also see the wide array of social types and functions during this era in the United States' Southwest.

Author : Richard H. Brodhead
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0226075265

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Cultures of Letters by Richard H. Brodhead Pdf

Richard H. Brodhead uses a great variety of historical sources, many of them considered here for the first time, to reconstruct the institutionalized literary worlds that coexisted in nineteenth-century America: the middle-class domestic culture of letters, the culture of mass-produced cheap reading, the militantly hierarchical high culture of the post-Civil War decades, and the literary culture of post-emancipation black education. Moving across a range of writers familiar and unfamiliar, and relating groups of writers often considered in artificial isolation, Brodhead describes how these socially structured worlds of writing shaped the terms of literary practice for the authors who inhabited them.

Author : James Owen,Times Books
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780008280222

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The Times Great Letters: A century of notable correspondence by James Owen,Times Books Pdf

The Times has the most famous letters page of any newspaper. This delightful selection of over 300 items of correspondence over the last century shows precisely why.

Author : Paul White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0814257011

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Renaissance Postscripts by Paul White Pdf

Ovid's Heroides, a collection consisting mainly of poetic love letters sent by mythological heroines to their absent lovers, held a particular fascination for Renaissance readers. To understand their responses to these letters, we must ask exactly how and in what contexts those readers first encountered them: were they read in Latin or in the vernacular; as source texts for the learning of grammar and history or as love poetry; as epistolary and rhetorical models or as moral examples? Renaissance Postscripts: Responding to Ovid's Heroides in Sixteenth-Century France by Paul White offers an account of the wide variety of responses to the Heroides within the realm of humanist education, in the works of both Latin commentators and French translators, and as an example of a particular mode of imitation. The author examines how humanists shaped the discourse of Ovid's heroines and heroes to pedagogical ends and analyses even the woodcuts that illustrated various editions. This study traces comparative readings of French translations through a period noted for important shifts in attitudes to the text and to poetic translation in general and offers an important history of the "reply epistle"--a mode of imitation attempted both in Latin and the vernacular. Renaissance Postscripts shows that while the Heroides was a versatile text that could serve a wide range of pedagogical and literary purposes, it was also a text that resisted the attempts of its interpreters to have the final word.

Author : Charles McGrath
Publisher : Three Rivers Press (CA)
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : PSU:000049496932

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Books of the Century by Charles McGrath Pdf

A treasure-house of literary entertainment, featuring a century's worth of the best reviews, essays, and interviews ever published in "The New York Times Book Review. With more than 250 selections, Books of the Century -- now updated for this paperback edition -- sheds light on some of our greatest writers and how their books were received when first reviewed in "The New York Times Book Review, America's most widely read journal of the literary arts. Arranged chronologically, here are reviews of Franz Kafka's "The Trial, Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl, E. M. Forster's "A Passage to India, and Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls. Also selected from the Book Review's pages are letters to the editor from Jack London and Joseph Conrad, interviews with Emile Zola and Vladimir Nabokov, essays by Saul Bellow and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and the "Oops!" feature, which humbly presents reviews of classics such as Catch-22 and The Catcher in the Rye that the Book Review initially panned. A time line runs throughout, highlighting the century's literary landmarks. Bringing together classic reviews and writings, "The New York Times Book Review has created a resource to be read and cherished for years to come.

Author : Norman Davis,Richard Beadle,Colin Richmond
Publisher : Early English Text Society
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0197224210

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Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century by Norman Davis,Richard Beadle,Colin Richmond Pdf

The Paston family papers provide an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England, and richly illustrate the resources of the language at an important period. This is a reissue, with corrections, of the volume originally published by the Clarendon Press in 1971.

Author : Sarah Pearsall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191559792

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Atlantic Families by Sarah Pearsall Pdf

The Atlantic represented a world of opportunity in the eighteenth century, but it represented division also, separating families across its coasts. Whether due to economic shifts, changing political landscapes, imperial ambitions, or even simply personal tragedy, many families found themselves fractured and disoriented by the growth and later fissure of a larger Atlantic world. Such dislocation posed considerable challenges to all individuals who viewed orderly family relations as both a general and a personal ideal. The more fortunate individuals who thus found themselves 'all at sea' were able to use family letters, with attendant emphases on familiarity, sensibility, and credit, in order to remain connected in times and places of considerable disconnection. Portraying the family as a unified, affectionate, and happy entity in such letters provided a means of surmounting concerns about societies fractured by physical distance, global wars, and increasing social stratification. It could also provide social and economic leverage to individual men and women in certain circumstances. Sarah Pearsall explores the lives and letters of these families, revealing the sometimes shocking stories of those divided by sea. Ranging across the Anglophone Atlantic, including mainland American colonies and states, Britain, and the British Caribbean, Pearsall argues that it was this expanding Atlantic world, much more than the American Revolution, that reshaped contemporary ideals about families, as much as families themselves reshaped the transatlantic world.

Author : Constant Mews
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0312216041

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The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard by Constant Mews Pdf

In this book, Constant Mews and Neville Chiavaroli examine a medieval text long neglected by most scholars. The Lost Letters of Heloise and Abelard looks at the earlier correspondence between these two famous individuals, revealing the emotions and intimate exchanges that occurred between them. The perspectives presented here are very different from the view related by Abelard in his "History of my Calamities," an account which provoked a much more famous exchange of letters between Heloise and Abelard after they had both entered religious life. Offering a full translation of the love letters along with a copy of the actual Latin text, Mews and Chiavaroli provide an in-depth analysis of the debate concerning the authenticity of the letters and look at the way in which the relationship between Heloise and Abelard has been perceived over the centuries.