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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : American essays
ISBN : OCLC:1147992956
Author : Ian Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : American essays
ISBN : 0880642513
This collection of the best essays written in the English language during the past one hundred years includes many that have become landmarks defining their time: Norman Mailer's The White Negro, Tom Wolfe's These Radical Chic Evenings, James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son, and Gore Vidal's The Holy Family. Others are in a lighter vein, like James Thurber's lampoon of Salvador Dali's Secret Life or Max Beerbohm's reflections on Laughter. There are Philip Roth on baseball and A. P. Herbert on bathrooms; Mary McCarthy's My Confession, on her Communist sympathies; and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Crack-up. Each reader will have his or her own favorites: Eudora Welty capturing the precise moment at which she grew up, or Arthur Koestler debunking the effects of magic mushrooms. And each essay has stood the test of time, like Hannah Arendt's The Concentration Camps, Edmund Wilson's now classic The Wound and the Bow, and Paul Fussell on World War II.
Author : Ian Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : English essays
ISBN : 0140255214
Whether highly personal, polemical, philosophical or playful, the essays in this fascinating collection capture their times with wit, urgency, erudition and insight. Decade by decade, the greatest British and American writers span the twentieth century, including Orwell's 'England Your England', Nancy Mitford on the upper classes, Fitzgerald's 'Crack Up', James Baldwin's harrowing 'Notes of a Native Son', Martin Amis on US politics, Tom Wolfe on 'radical chic' and Julian Barnes on the Thatcher years.
Author : Michael T. Gilmore
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : MINN:31951000562409Y
Author : Berthold Hoeckner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135577735
Apparitions takes a new look at the critical legacy of one of the 20th century's most important and influential thinkers about music, Theodor W. Adorno. Bringing together an international group of scholars, the book offers new historical and critical insights into Adorno's theories of music and how these theories, in turn, have affected the study of contemporary art music, popular music, and jazz.
Author : Pauline Fairclough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317005797
When considering the role music played in the major totalitarian regimes of the century it is music's usefulness as propaganda that leaps first to mind. But as a number of the chapters in this volume demonstrate, there is a complex relationship both between art music and politicised mass culture, and between entertainment and propaganda. Nationality, self/other, power and ideology are the dominant themes of this book, whilst key topics include: music in totalitarian regimes; music as propaganda; music and national identity; émigré communities and composers; music's role in shaping identities of 'self' and 'other' and music as both resistance to and instrument of oppression. Taking the contributions together it becomes clear that shared experiences such as war, dictatorship, colonialism, exile and emigration produced different, yet clearly inter-related musical consequences.
Author : Terence Hawkes
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015001807885
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Author : Michael Adas,American Historical Association
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439902714
Probing the paradoxes of "the long twentieth century"--Unprecedented human opportunity and deprivation to the rise of the United States as a hegemon
Author : Harold Dwight Lasswell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1969-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226723990
Harold Lasswell is one of America's most distinguished political scientists, a man whose work has had enormous impact both in the United States and abroad upon not only his own field but also those of sociology, psychology and psychiatry, economics, law, anthropology, and communications. This collection of essays is the first full-scale effort to deal with the voluminous writings of Lasswell and explore his at once charming and baffling personality which is perhaps inseparable from the inventiveness, unconventionality, and unusual scope of his work. The authors of these essays, many of whom are former students or collaborators, view their subject from a variety of perspectives. What emerges is a full assessment of Lasswell's many-faceted contribution to the social scholarship of his time.
Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Criticism
ISBN : UCAL:B4948676
Here, in more than forty essays, are Woolf's thoughts on her contemporaries in the art of fiction; reviewing and criticism; and one of her favorite themes, female novelists. Among the writers reviewed are Dorothy Richardson, E. M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, and Theodore Dreiser. Preface by Jean Guiguet.
Author : Charles Parsons
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674419490
In these selected essays, Charles Parsons surveys the contributions of philosophers and mathematicians who shaped the philosophy of mathematics over the past century: Brouwer, Hilbert, Bernays, Weyl, Gödel, Russell, Quine, Putnam, Wang, and Tait.
Author : Jay Gellens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0133031721
Author : Bruce J. Schulman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199323968
The twentieth century has been popularly seen as "the American Century," a long period in which the United States had amassed the economic resources, the political and military strength, and the moral prestige to assume global leadership. By century's end, the trajectory of American politics, the sense of ever waxing federal power, and the nation's place in the world seemed less assured. Americans of many stripes came to contest the standard narratives of nation building and international hegemony charted by generations of historians. In this volume, a group of distinguished U.S. historians confronts the teleological view of the inexorable transformation of the United States into a modern nation. The contributors analyze a host of ways in which local places were drawn into a wider polity and culture, while at the same time revealing how national and international structures and ideas created new kinds of local movements and local energies. Rather than seeing the century as a series of conflicts between liberalism and conservatism, they illustrate the ways in which each of these political forces shaped its efforts over the other's cumulative achievements, accommodating to shifts in government, social mores, and popular culture. They demonstrate that international connections have transformed domestic life in myriad ways and, in turn, that the American presence in the world has been shaped by its distinctive domestic political culture. Finally, they break down boundaries between the public and private sectors, showcasing the government's role in private life and how private organizations influenced national politics. Revisiting and revising many of the chestnuts of American political history, this volume challenges received wisdom about the twentieth-century American experience.
Author : Richard Kostelanetz,Joseph Darby,Matthew Santa
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011410144
A collection of essays on 20th-century classical music, primarily written by the composers and performers who made the music. Designed as introduction to 20th-century music, the editors draw on original writings from Charles Ives to Phillip Glass.
Author : W. E. B. Du Bois
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780823254569
Early essays from the sociologist, displaying the beginnings of his views on politics, society, and Black Americans’ status in the United States. This volume assembles essential essays?some published only posthumously, others obscure, another only recently translated?by W. E. B. Du Bois from 1894 to early 1906. They show the first formulations of some of his most famous ideas, namely, “the veil,” “double-consciousness,” and the “problem of the color line.” Moreover, the deep historical sense of the formation of the modern world that informs Du Bois’s thought and gave rise to his understanding of “the problem of the color line” is on display here. Indeed, the essays constitute an essential companion to Du Bois’s 1903 masterpiece The Souls of Black Folk. The collection is based on two editorial principles: presenting the essays in their entirety and in strict chronological order. Copious annotation affords both student and mature scholar an unprecedented grasp of the range and depth of Du Bois’s everyday intellectual and scholarly reference. These essays commence at the moment of Du Bois’s return to the United States from two years of graduate-level study in Europe at the University of Berlin. At their center is the moment of Du Bois’s first full, self-reflexive formulation of a sense of vocation: as a student and scholar in the pursuit of the human sciences (in their still-nascent disciplinary organization?that is, the institutionalization of a generalized “sociology” or general “ethnology”), as they could be brought to bear on the study of the situation of the so-called Negro question in the United States in all of its multiply refracting dimensions. They close with Du Bois’s realization that the commitments orienting his work and intellectual practice demanded that he move beyond the institutional frames for the practice of the human sciences. The ideas developed in these early essays remained the fundamental matrix for the ongoing development of Du Bois’s thought. The essays gathered here will therefore serve as the essential reference for those seeking to understand the most profound registers of this major American thinker. “A seminal contribution to the history of modern thought. Compiled and edited by the world’s preeminent scholar of early Du Boisian thought, these texts represent his most generative period, when Du Bois engaged every discipline, helped construct modern social science, employed critical inquiry as a weapon of antiracism and political liberation, and always set his sites on the entire world. We know this not by the essays alone, but by Nahum Dimitri Chandler’s brilliant, original, and quite riveting introduction. If you are coming to Du Bois for the first time of the 500th time, this book is a must-read.” —Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination