Modernity Through Letter Writing

Author : Claudia B. Haake
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496215673

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Modernity through Letter Writing by Claudia B. Haake Pdf

In Modernity through Letter Writing Claudia B. Haake shows how the Cherokees and Senecas envisioned their political modernity in missives they sent to members of the federal government to negotiate their status. They not only used their letters, petitions, and memoranda to reject incorporation into the United States and to express their continuing adherence to their own laws and customs but also to mark areas where they were willing to compromise. As they found themselves increasingly unable to secure opportunities for face-to-face meetings with representatives of the federal government, Cherokees and Senecas relied more heavily on letter writing to conduct diplomatic relations with the U.S. government. The amount of time and energy they expended on the missives demonstrates that authors from both tribes considered letters, memoranda, and petitions to be a crucial political strategy. Instead of merely observing Western written conventions, the Cherokees and Senecas incorporated oral writing and consciously insisted on elements of their own culture they wanted to preserve, seeking to convey to the government a vision of their continued political separateness as well as of their own modernity.

Author : Claudia B. Haake
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496222954

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Modernity through Letter Writing by Claudia B. Haake Pdf

In Modernity through Letter Writing Claudia B. Haake shows how the Cherokees and Senecas envisioned their political modernity in missives they sent to members of the federal government to negotiate their status. They not only used their letters, petitions, and memoranda to reject incorporation into the United States and to express their continuing adherence to their own laws and customs but also to mark areas where they were willing to compromise. As they found themselves increasingly unable to secure opportunities for face-to-face meetings with representatives of the federal government, Cherokees and Senecas relied more heavily on letter writing to conduct diplomatic relations with the U.S. government. The amount of time and energy they expended on the missives demonstrates that authors from both tribes considered letters, memoranda, and petitions to be a crucial political strategy. Instead of merely observing Western written conventions, the Cherokees and Senecas incorporated oral writing and consciously insisted on elements of their own culture they wanted to preserve, seeking to convey to the government a vision of their continued political separateness as well as of their own modernity.

Author : Marina Dossena,Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027256232

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Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe by Marina Dossena,Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti Pdf

In recent years there has been a renewed interest in correspondence both as a literary genre and as cultural practice, and several studies have appeared, mainly spanning the centuries between Early and Late Modern times. However, it is between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that the roots of contemporary usage begin to evolve, thanks to the circulation of new educational materials and more widespread schooling practices. In this volume, chapters representing diverse but complementary methodological approaches discuss linguistic and discursive practices of correspondence in Late Modern Europe, in order to offer material for the comparative, cross-linguistic analyses of patterns occurring in different social contexts. The volume aims to provide a general and solid methodological structure for the study of largely untapped language material from a variety of comparable sources, and is expected to appeal to scholars and students interested in the linguistic history of epistolary writing practices, as well as to all those interested in the more recent history of European languages.

Author : Sebouh David Aslanian
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300271218

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Early Modernity and Mobility by Sebouh David Aslanian Pdf

A history of the continent-spanning Armenian print tradition in the early modern period Early Modernity and Mobility explores the disparate yet connected histories of Armenian printing establishments in early modern Europe and Asia. From 1512, when the first Armenian printed codex appeared in Venice, to the end of the early modern period in 1800, Armenian presses operated in nineteen locations across the Armenian diaspora. Linking far-flung locations in Amsterdam, Livorno, Marseille, Saint Petersburg, and Astrakhan to New Julfa, Madras, and Calcutta, Armenian presses published a thousand editions with more than half a million printed volumes in Armenian script. Drawing on extensive archival research, Sebouh David Aslanian explores why certain books were published at certain times, how books were sold across the diaspora, who read them, and how the printed word helped fashion a new collective identity for early modern Armenians. In examining the Armenian print tradition Aslanian tells a larger story about the making of the diaspora itself. Arguing that “confessionalism” and the hardening of boundaries between the Armenian and Roman churches was the “driving engine” of Armenian book history, Aslanian makes a revisionist contribution to the early modern origins of Armenian nationalism.

Author : Ilya Gerasimov,Ilʹi︠a︡ Gerasimov
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580469050

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Plebeian Modernity by Ilya Gerasimov,Ilʹi︠a︡ Gerasimov Pdf

Deciphers typical social practices as a hidden language of communication in urban plebeian society

Author : William E. French
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780803284166

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The Heart in the Glass Jar by William E. French Pdf

The Heart in the Glass Jar begins with one man's literal heart (that of a prominent statesman in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico) but is truly about the hearts, bodies, legal entanglements, and letters--as both symbols and material objects--of northern Mexicans from the 1860s through the 1930s. William E. French's innovative study of courtship practice and family formation examines love letters of everyday folk within the framework of literacy studies and explores how love letters functioned culturally and legally. French begins by situating love letters in the context of the legal system, which protected the moral order of families and communities and also perpetuated the gender order--the foundation of power structures in Mexican society. He then examines reading and writing practices in the communities that the letters came from: mining camps, villages, small towns, and the "passionate public sphere" that served as the wider social context for the love letters and crimes of passion. Finally, French considers "sentimental anatomy," the eyes, hearts, souls, and wills of novios (men and women in courting relationships), that the letters gave voice to and helped bring into being. In the tradition of Carlo Ginzburg's The Cheese and the Worms and Natalie Zemon Davis's The Return of Martin Guerre, French connects intimate lives to the broader cultural moment, providing a rich and complex cultural history from the intersection of love and law.

Author : Eun Kyung Min
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108421935

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China and the Writing of English Literary Modernity, 1690–1770 by Eun Kyung Min Pdf

Argues that eighteenth-century literature defined itself as 'English' and 'modern' by engaging with debates about Chinese history and culture.

Author : Rachael Scarborough King
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781421425481

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Writing to the World by Rachael Scarborough King Pdf

Ultimately, Writing to the World is a sophisticated look at the intersection of print and the public sphere.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Letter writing
ISBN : NYPL:33433066584040

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Modern Letter Writing by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dean Jay Irvine
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802092717

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Editing Modernity by Dean Jay Irvine Pdf

Based on extensive new archival and literary historical research, Editing Modernity examines these Canadian women writers and editors and their role in the production and dissemination of modernist and leftist little magazines.

Author : Issa J. Boullata,Kamal Abdel-Malek,Wael B. Hallaq
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004117636

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Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature by Issa J. Boullata,Kamal Abdel-Malek,Wael B. Hallaq Pdf

In this collection of essays, various manifestations of traditional as well as modern and postmodern themes and techniques in Arabic literature are explored. For the first time the tripartite concepts of tradition, modernity, and postmodernity in Arabic literary works are analyzed in one volume.

Author : Michael Phillipson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351995894

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Routledge Revivals: In Modernity's Wake (1989) by Michael Phillipson Pdf

First published in 1988, this book attempts to tackle the problem of how to write about art, culture, and the issues of postmodernism in a style appropriate to what is being claimed. The letters are written on art’s behalf to a range of institutions and individuals, and have as their recurring concern the relation between art, culture and representation — both art as representation and how art is represented to, and for, the surrounding culture. They explore the context and viability of art through a range of themes, including writing, the aestheticisation of everyday life, style, design pleasure, fragmentation, hyphenation, technology, and the museum — drawing on materials from the visual arts, music, literature, post-structuralism, contemporary criticism, philosophy, and sociology.

Author : Nergis Erturk,Nergis Ertürk
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199746682

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Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey by Nergis Erturk,Nergis Ertürk Pdf

The 1928 Turkish alphabet reform replacing the Perso-Arabic script with the Latin phonetic alphabet is an emblem of Turkish modernization. Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey traces the history of Turkish alphabet and language reform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, examining its effects on modern Turkish literature. In readings of the novels, essays, and poetry of Ahmed Midhat, Recaizade Mahmud Ekrem, Omer Seyfeddin, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, Peyami Safa, and Nazim Hikmet, Nergis Erturk argues that modern Turkish literature is profoundly self-conscious of dramatic change in its own historical conditions of possibility. Where literary historiography has sometimes idealized the Turkish language reforms as the culmination of a successful project of Westernizing modernization, Erturk suggests a different critical narrative: one of the consolidation of control over communication, forging a unitary nation and language from a pluralistic and multilingual society.

Author : Stefanie Harris
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271047157

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Mediating Modernity by Stefanie Harris Pdf

"An interdisciplinary examination of the responses of literary authors in Germany, from 1895-1930, to the emerging media of image and sound recording"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich,Michael Leroy Oberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119768524

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Native America by Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich,Michael Leroy Oberg Pdf

The latest edition of an accessible and comprehensive survey of Native America In this newly revised third edition of Native America: A History, Michael Leroy Oberg and Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich deliver a thoroughly updated, incisive narrative history of North America’s Indigenous peoples. The authors aim to provide readers with an overview of the principal themes and developments in Native American history, from the first peopling of the continent to the present, by following twelve Native communities whose histories serve as exemplars for the common experiences of North America’s diverse Indigenous nations. This textbook centers the history of Native America and presents it as flowing through channels distinct from those of the United States. This is a history of nations not merely acted upon, but rather of those that have responded to, resisted, ignored, and shaped the efforts of foreign powers to control their story. This new edition has been comprehensively updated in all its chapters and expanded with wider coverage of the most significant recent events and trends in Native America through the first two decades of the twenty-first century. Native America: A History, Third Edition also includes: A survey of pre-Columbian North American traditions and the various ways in which these traditions were deployed to comprehend and respond to the arrival of Europeans. In-depth examinations of how Native nations navigated the challenges of colonialism and fought to survive while marginalized behind the frontiers of European empires and the United States. Nuanced analyses of how Indigenous peoples balanced the economic benefits offered by assimilation with the cultural and political imperatives of maintaining traditions and sovereignty. An accessible presentation of American tribal law and the strategies used by Native nations to establish government-to-government relationships with the United States despite the repeated failures of that state to honor its legal commitments. Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students seeking a broad historical treatment of Indigenous peoples in the United States, Native America: A History, Third Edition will earn a place in the libraries of anyone with an interest in seeking an authoritative and engaging survey of Native American history.