Shuffle And Breakdown

Author : Andrew Lawson
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587296703

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Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle by Andrew Lawson Pdf

By reconsidering Whitman not as the proletarian voice of American diversity but as a historically specific poet with roots in the antebellum lower middle class, Andrew Lawson in Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle defines the tensions and ambiguities about culture, class, and politics that underlie his poetry.Drawing on a wealth of primary sources from across the range of antebellum print culture, Lawson uses close readings of Leaves of Grass to reveal Whitman as an artisan and an autodidact ambivalently balanced between his sense of the injustice of class privilege and his desire for distinction. Consciously drawing upon the languages of both the elite culture above him and the vernacular culture below him, Whitman constructed a kind of middle linguistic register that attempted to filter these conflicting strata and defuse their tensions: “You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, / You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.” By exploring Whitman's internal struggle with the contradictions and tensions of his class identity, Lawson locates the source of his poetic innovation. By revealing a class-conscious and conflicted Whitman, he realigns our understanding of the poet's political identity and distinctive use of language and thus valuably alters our perspective on his poetry.

Author : Carla Gardina Pestana
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611686920

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Inequality in Early America by Carla Gardina Pestana Pdf

This book was designed as a collaborative effort to satisfy a long-felt need to pull together many important but separate inquiries into the nature and impact of inequality in colonial and revolutionary America. It also honors the scholarship of Gary Nash, who has contributed much of the leading work in this field. The 15 contributors, who constitute a Who's Who of those who have made important discoveries and reinterpretations of this issue, include Mary Beth Norton on women's legal inequality in early America; Neal Salisbury on Puritan missionaries and Native Americans; Laurel Thatcher Ulrich on elite and poor women's work in early Boston; Peter Wood and Philip Morgan on early American slavery; as well as Gary Nash himself writing on Indian/white history. This book is a vital contribution to American self-understanding and to historical analysis.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Colin Byrne
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Think Rock Drums by Anonim Pdf

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466854000

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Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman Pdf

A fully unexpurgated collection that restores the sexual vitality and subversive flair suppressed by Whitman himself in later editions of Leaves of Grass. A century after his death, Whitman is still celebrated as America's greatest poet. In this startling new edition of his work, Whitman biographer Gary Schmidgall presents over 200 poems in their original pristine form, in the chronological order in which they were written, with Whitman's original punctuation. Included in this volume are facsimiles of Whitman's original manuscripts, contemporary - and generally blistering - reviews of Whitman's poetry (not surprisingly Henry James hated it), and early pre-Leaves of Grass poems that return us to the physical Whitman, rejoicing - sometimes graphically - in homoerotic love. Unlike the many other available editions, all drawn from the final authorized or "deathbed" Leaves of Grass, this collection focuses on the exuberant poems Whitman wrote during the creative and sexual prime of his life, roughly between l853 and l860. These poems are faithfully presented as Whitman first gave them to the world - fearless, explicit and uncompromised - before he transformed himself into America's respectable, mainstream Good Gray Poet through 30 years of revision, self-censorship and suppression. Whitman admitted that his later poetry lacked the "ecstasy of statement" of his early verse. Revealing that ecstasy for the first time, this edition makes possible a major reappraisal of our nation first great poet.

Author : William Logan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231546515

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Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods by William Logan Pdf

In Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods, William Logan, the noted and often controversial critic of contemporary poetry, returns to some of the greatest poems in English literature. He reveals what we may not have seen before and what his critical eye can do with what he loves. In essays that pair different poems—“Ozymandias,” “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer,” “In a Station of the Metro,” “The Red Wheelbarrow,” “After great pain, a formal feeling comes,” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” among others—Logan reconciles history and poetry to provide new ways of reading poets ranging from Shakespeare and Shelley to Lowell and Heaney. In these striking essays, Logan presents the poetry of the past through the lens of the past, attempting to bring poems back to the world in which they were made. Logan’s criticism is informed by the material culture of that world, whether postal deliveries in Regency London, the Métro lighting in 1911 Paris, or the wheelbarrows used in 1923. Deeper knowledge of the poet’s daily existence lets us read old poems afresh, providing a new way of understanding poems now encrusted with commentary. Logan shows that criticism cannot just root blindly among the words of the poem but must live partly in a lost world, in the shadow of the poet’s life and the shadow of the age.

Author : Cody Walker
Publisher : Waywiser Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015078779967

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Shuffle and Breakdown by Cody Walker Pdf

Poetry. Cody Walker's SHUFFLE AND BREAKDOWN, his first collection and a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize in 2005 and 2006, is a work of comic brilliance and devastating irony. From Abbott and Costello: The Alzheimer's Years to a series of letters to Whitman from his imagined grandson, this is a wondrous strange book that operates with the precise timing of a great joke, while bracing itself for dissolution and worse. "You'll need your wits about you when you read this astonishing book. Cody Walker keeps working surprises, setting traps, yanking rugs from underfoot--and I must say, I enjoyed myself no end. Escalation, 2007, for instance, sounds as if written by a Mother Goose high on LSD. Walker is unique, no mere trickster but a serious craftsman who blurs the line of demarcation between sober poetry and light verse. Though he sometimes writes in forms usually frivolous--limericks, double dactyls, clerihews--he can do so with dark import. An amazing series of letters from a fictitious grandson of Walt Whitman is alone worth the price of admission."--X. J. Kennedy "In this case, the voice comes from some ways off, at an unexpected angle. Cody Walker's poems are singular, and severally strong. SHUFFLE AND BREAKDOWN is more than an assemblage; it's a collection with a subtending architecture, so that while one is savoring local pleasures--a brash simile, an odd and antic rhyme--one is aware of the book's shapely whole. Like Roethke, who also had a Pacific Northwest background, Walker makes adroit use of fractured nursery rhyme. Like Whitman, with whom he shares a taste for the out-flung, Walker means to be comprehensive. But SHUFFLE AND BREAKDOWN is more than a toting up of its influences. Here's a wry and rueful and utterly appealing new sensibility."--Brad Leithauser

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0520053370

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Pdf

"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter," declares Huck at the start of one of the greatest books in American literature. Filled with all the humor, suspense, and sheer excitement of its predecessor, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the more profound and accomplished creation. The tale of two outcasts' journey down the Mississippi River, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a nostalgic portrayal of a world Twain knew intimately, and the moving story of a boy who must make his own way in an often cruel society that counts it a sin to help a runaway slave.

Author : Richard James Barrent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Football
ISBN : WISC:89010918183

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Effects of an Off-season Conditioning Program on Physical, Physiological, and Performance Characteristics of College Football Players by Richard James Barrent Pdf

Author : Dan Levenson
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781610658652

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Old-Time Festival Tunes For Fiddle & Mandolin by Dan Levenson Pdf

This book and two CD set is intended to be a tune repertoire book. It includes over 100 Old-Time festival favorites. Some are cliche', others unusual, some easy, some difficult. This mandolin book includes two lines of standard notation - basic and advanced - as well as a mandolin tab line that can be interpreted for fiddle also. the basic version should be playable by those with general skills. the advanced version will require more time and finesse as it is more ornamental (often more than just melodic) and may include less than intuitive ways of playing some passages.Download the free mandolin versions of the songs from this book.Download the free fiddle versions of songs from this book.

Author : Robert Steven Levine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052155571X

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The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville by Robert Steven Levine Pdf

Specially commissioned essays provide a critical introduction to one of the most significant writers of nineteenth-century America.

Author : Loren Landow,Chris Jarmon
Publisher : Human Kinetics Publishers
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Football
ISBN : 9781492592624

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All-Pro Performance Training by Loren Landow,Chris Jarmon Pdf

All-Pro Performance Training offers a detailed look at the proper execution for combine staples such as the 40-yard dash and pro agility shuttle, tips for mastering position-specific agility drills, and an inside look into how athletes at the highest level of the sport both train and recover.

Author : National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA)
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781492513544

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Practice Perfect Softball by National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Pdf

Add Practice Perfect Softball to your dugout and begin your journey to a championship season. The National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) has put together an all-star lineup of coaches, including Connie Clark, Jo Evans, Rachel Lawson, Ken Eriksen, Donna Papa, Julie Lenhart, Lonni Alameda, Dot Richardson, and Beverly Smith.

Author : Christopher Bollas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135087302

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Catch Them Before They Fall: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown by Christopher Bollas Pdf

In this exploration of a radical approach to the psychoanalytical treatment of people on the verge of mental breakdown, Christopher Bollas offers a new and courageous clinical paradigm. He suggests that the unconscious purpose of breakdown is to present the self to the other for transformative understanding; to have its core distress met and understood directly. If caught in time, a breakdown can become a breakthrough. It is an event imbued with the most profound personal significance, but it requires deep understanding if its meaning is to be released to its transformative potential. Bollas believes that hospitalization, intensive medication and CBT/DBT all negate this opportunity, and he proposes that many of these patients should instead be offered extended, intensive psychoanalysis. This book will be of interest to clinicians who find that, with patients on the verge of breakdown, conventional psychoanalytical work is insufficient to meet the emerging crisis. However, Bollas’s challenging proposal will provoke many questions and in the final section of the book some of these are raised by Sacha Bollas and presented in a question-and-answer form.

Author : Dan Levenson
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781610658577

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Old-Time Festival Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo by Dan Levenson Pdf

This book and two CD set is intended to be a tune repertoire book. It includes over 100 Old-Time festival favorites. Some are cliche', others unusual, some easy, some difficult. the book contains 2 lines of tablature (one basic and one advanced) as well as standard notation and suggested chords. the basic version should be playable by those with general clawhammer skills. the advanced version will require more time and finesse as it is more ornamental (often more than just melodic) and may include less than intuitive ways of playing some passages.Download free fiddle versions of songs from this book.

Author : Elizabeth L. Wollman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472510488

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A Critical Companion to the American Stage Musical by Elizabeth L. Wollman Pdf

This Critical Companion to the American Stage Musical provides the perfect introductory text for students of theatre, music and cultural studies. It traces the history and development of the industry and art form in America with a particular focus on its artistic and commercial development in New York City from the early 20th century to the present. Emphasis is placed on commercial, artistic and cultural events that influenced the Broadway musical for an ever-renewing, increasingly broad and diverse audience: the Gilded Age, the Great Depression, the World War II era, the British invasion in the 1980s and the media age at the turn of the twenty-first century. Supplementary essays by leading scholars provide detailed focus on the American musical's production and preservation, as well as its influence on daily life on the local, national, and international levels. For students, these essays provide models of varying approaches and interpretation, equipping them with the skills and understanding to develop their own analysis of key productions.