The Body Of An American

Author : Dan O'Brien
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781783195909

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The Body of an American by Dan O'Brien Pdf

Mogadishu, 1993. Paul is a Canadian photojournalist who is about to take a picture that will win him the Pulitzer Prize. Princeton, the present day, Dan is an American writer who is struggling to finish his play about ghosts. Both men live worlds apart but a chance encounter over the airwaves sparks an extraordinary friendship that sees them journey from some of the most dangerous places on earth to the depths of the human soul.Flying from Kabul to the Canadian High Arctic, The Body of an American sees two actors jump between more than thirty roles in an exhilarating new form of documentary drama. It urgently places these two men’s battles – both public and private –against a backdrop of some of the world’s most iconic images of war. The Body of an American is the recipient of the 2013 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History. It also received the PEN Center USA Award for Drama and the L. Arnold Weissberger Award, and premiered at Portland Center Stage in 2012, directed by Bill Rauch. The play was the recipient of the McKnight National Residency & Commission from the Playwrights’ Center, as well as a Sundance Institute Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship and a TCG Future Collaborations Grant. For further information and resources on this play, visit the Edward M Kennedy website: http://kennedyprize.columbia.edu/winners/2013/obrien/

Author : Bernd Herzogenrath
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781584659327

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An American Body-politic by Bernd Herzogenrath Pdf

A reflection on the metaphor of the body politic throughout American history

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110720807

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Return of Body of Unknown American who Lost His Life in the World War ..., Hearings ..., Feb 1, 1921 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs Pdf

Author : Thomas McGlamery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781135877330

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Protest and the Body in Melville, Dos Passos, and Hurston by Thomas McGlamery Pdf

This book analyzes the work of Herman Melville, John Dos Passos, and Zora Neale Hurston alongside biographical materials and discourses on the body. Thomas McGlamery views each of these authors' literary output as an effort to "work through" the political meanings associated with the body, examining how they negotiate identities of class, gender, race, sexuality, and age.

Author : Noah Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1464 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : English language
ISBN : HARVARD:HNEZZD

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An American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster Pdf

Author : Richard Godden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192693617

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Fictions of Finance at the End of an American Century by Richard Godden Pdf

Fictions of Finance at the End of an American Century explores how an economy determines the language of those who live among its imperatives—and how it makes available to them the stories that they can and cannot tell, and the manner of their telling. Read closely, fictional narrative may expose the historical structures that determine literary language use, and that of language more generally. The study, the fourth in a quartet of studies addressing the emergence and decline of a Fordist regime of capitalist accumulation, offers an account of 'the sub-semantic whispering' that haunts the literature of the financial turn—which is to say, an account of how the complexities of words and their histories register an expanding industrial economy's organizing contradictions and failures. Reading in the light of deindustrialization and the rise of US finance capital after 1973, it deploys and elaborates on a materialist theory of language that explains how syntactic as well as semantic structures register a financializing economy's core contradictions, those associated particularly with debt, risk, and volatility. The volume listens for the under-heard syntactical breaks that punctuate language under the global hegemony of finance, breaks that express the unuttered in all utterance, taking as its exemplary texts primarily works by Bret Easton Ellis, Jayne Anne Phillips, and David Foster Wallace.

Author : Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009204170

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The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American Literature by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson Pdf

Whether invisible or hyper-visible, adored or reviled, from the inception of American literature the Black body has been rendered in myriad forms. This volume tracks and uncovers the Black body as a persistent presence and absence in American literature. It provides an invaluable guide for teachers and students interested in literary and artistic representations of Blackness and embodiment. The book is divided into three sections that highlight Black embodiment through conceptual flashpoints that emphasize various aspects of human body in its visual and textual manifestations. This Companion engages past and continuing debates about the nature of embodiment by showcasing how writers from multiple eras and communities defined and challenged the limits of what constitutes a body in relation to human and nonhuman environment.

Author : Noah Webster
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382329938

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An American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Noah Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1964 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : English language
ISBN : UIUC:30112056431684

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An American Dictionary of the English Language ... Thoroughly Rev. and Greatly Enlarged and Improved by C.A. Goodrich and Noah Porter ... with an Appendix of Useful Tables ... Also a New Pronouncing Biographical Dictionary by Noah Webster Pdf

Author : Cori Elizabeth Dauber
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Armed Forces and mass media
ISBN : 9781584874133

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YouTube War by Cori Elizabeth Dauber Pdf

"Terrorist attacks today are often media events in a second sense: information and communication technologies have developed to such a point that these groups can film, edit, and upload their own attacks within minutes of staging them, whether the Western media are present or not. In this radically new information environment, the enemy no longer depends on traditional media. This is the "YouTube War." This monograph methodically lays out the nature of this new environment in terms of its implications for a war against media-savvy insurgents, and then considers possible courses of action for the Army and the U.S. military as they seek to respond to an enemy that has proven enormously adaptive to this new environment and the new type of warfare it enables."--P. iii

Author : Travis M. Foster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108841924

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The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body by Travis M. Foster Pdf

This volume offers a rigorous yet accessible overview of the key questions and intersectional approaches pertaining to American literature and the body. The chapters have been written in an accessible style, making them useful for undergraduates as well as for more experienced researchers.

Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788026894933

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An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser Pdf

Ambitious, but ill-educated, naïve, and immature, Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents to help in their street missionary work. As a young adult, Clyde must, to help support his family, take menial jobs as a soda jerk, then a bellhop at a prestigious Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to bouts of social drinking and sex with prostitutes. Enjoying his new lifestyle, Clyde becomes infatuated with manipulative Hortense Briggs, who takes advantage of him. After being in a car accident in which a young girl loses her life, Clyde is forced to run away from the town in search for the new life.

Author : Robert Neilson Stephens
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781465616722

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Philip Winwood: A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence by Robert Neilson Stephens Pdf

'Tis not the practice of writers to choose for biography men who have made no more noise in the world than Captain Winwood has; nor the act of gentlemen, in ordinary cases, to publish such private matters as this recital will present. But I consider, on the one hand, that Winwood's history contains as much of interest, and as good an example of manly virtues, as will be found in the life of many a hero more renowned; and, on the other, that his story has been so partially known, and so distorted, it becomes indeed the duty of a gentleman, when that gentleman was his nearest friend, to put forth that story truly, and so give the lie for ever to the detractors of a brave and kindly man. There was a saying in the American army, proceeding first from Major Harry Lee, of their famous Light Horse, that Captain Winwood was in America, in the smaller way his modesty permitted, what the Chevalier Bayard was in France, and Sir Philip Sidney in England. This has been received more than once (such is the malice of conscious inferiority) with derisive smiles or supercilious sneers; and not only by certain of his own countrymen, but even in my presence, when my friendship for Winwood, though I had been his rival in love and his enemy in war, was not less known than was my quickness to take offence and avenge it. I dealt with one such case, at the hour of dawn, in a glade near the Bowery lane, a little way out of New York. And I might have continued to vindicate my friend's character so: either with pistols, as at Weehawken across the Hudson, soon after the war, I vindicated the motives of us Englishmen of American birth who stood for the king in the war of Independence; or with rapiers, as I defended the name of our admired enemy, Washington, against a certain defamer, one morning in Hyde Park, after I had come to London. But it has occurred to me that I can better serve Winwood's reputation by the spilling of ink with a quill than of blood with a sword or pistol. This consideration, which is far from a desire to compete with the young gentlemen who strive for farthings and fame, in Grub Street, is my apology for profaning with my unskilled hand the implement ennobled by the use of a Johnson and a Goldsmith, a Fielding and an Addison.

Author : Richard Cooper Norris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Obstetrics
ISBN : UOM:39015020621010

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An American Text-book of Obstetrics by Richard Cooper Norris Pdf

Author : Jonathan Auerbach
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520252936

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Body Shots by Jonathan Auerbach Pdf

Auerbach places the body at the center of cinema's first decade of emergence and challenges the idea that for early audiences, the new medium's fascination rested on visual spectacle for its own sake.