The Word On The Streets

Author : Brooks E. Hefner
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813940427

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The Word on the Streets by Brooks E. Hefner Pdf

From the hard-boiled detective stories of Dashiell Hammett to the novels of Claude McKay, The Word on the Streets examines a group of writers whose experimentation with the vernacular argues for a rethinking of American modernism—one that cuts across traditional boundaries of class, race, and ethnicity. The dawn of the modernist era witnessed a transformation of popular writing that demonstrated an experimental practice rooted in the language of the streets. Emerging alongside more recognized strands of literary modernism, the vernacular modernism these writers exhibited lays bare the aesthetic experiments inherent in American working-class and ethnic language, forging an alternative pathway for American modernist practice. Brooks Hefner shows how writers across a variety of popular genres—from Gertrude Stein and William Faulkner to humorist Anita Loos and ethnic memoirist Anzia Yezierska—employed street slang to mount their own critique of genteel realism and its classist emphasis on dialect hierarchies, the result of which was a form of American experimental writing that resonated powerfully across the American cultural landscape of the 1910s and 1920s.

Author : Rob Lacey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310922682

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The Word on the Street by Rob Lacey Pdf

For those who have never read the Bible, and for those who've read it "too much" comes a fresh, urban paraphrased version, straight from the streets of the United Kingdom.

Author : Tanya Bretherton
Publisher : Hachette Australia
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780733642401

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The Killing Streets by Tanya Bretherton Pdf

**WINNER OF THE 2020 DANGER PRIZE** From the acclaimed author of THE SUITCASE BABY and THE SUICIDE BRIDE, the fascinating story of a series of horrific murders that began in 1930s Sydney - and a killer who remained at large for over two decades. In December 1932, as the Depression tightened its grip, the body of a woman was found in Queens Park, Sydney. It was a popular park. There were houses in plain view. Yet this woman had been violently murdered without anyone noticing. Other equally brutal and shocking murders of women in public places were to follow. Australia's first serial killer was at large. Police failed to notice the similarities between the victims until the death of one young woman - an aspiring Olympic swimmer - made the whole city take notice. On scant evidence, the unassuming Eric Craig was arrested. But the killings didn't stop... A compelling story of a city crippled by fear and what happens when victims are blamed and suspects are presumed guilty, The Killing Streets investigates how a murderer could remain free to kill again. **Includes a BONUS extract from Tanya Bretherton's compelling new book THE HUSBAND POISONER**

Author : U.S. Department of Transportation,Federal Highway Administration
Publisher : Colchis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways by U.S. Department of Transportation,Federal Highway Administration Pdf

The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, or MUTCD, defines the standards used by road managers nationwide to install and maintain traffic control devices on all streets and highways. The Manual is important as it provides national traffic control standards for all public roads, and includes traffic signals, signs, roadway stencils, pedestrian crossings, and bicycle and pedestrian treatments. The Highway Design Handbook for Older Drivers and Pedestrians, being updated this year, is provided leading research information which may, as verified and tested, become standards in the MUTCD in future years. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica}

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044109461335

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Author : Roberto Aspholm
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231547437

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Views from the Streets by Roberto Aspholm Pdf

Chicago has long served as a symbol of urban pathology in the public imagination. The city’s staggering levels of violence and entrenched gang culture occupy a central place in the national discourse, yet remain poorly understood and are often stereotyped. Views from the Streets explains the dramatic transformation of black street gangs on Chicago’s South Side during the early twenty-first century, shedding new light on why gang violence persists and what might be done to address it. Drawing on years of community work and in-depth interviews with gang members, Roberto R. Aspholm describes in vivid detail the internal rebellions that shattered the city’s infamous corporate-style African American street gangs. He explores how, in the wake of these uprisings, young gang members have radically refashioned gang culture and organization on Chicago’s South Side, rejecting traditional hierarchies and ideologies and instead embracing a fierce ethos of personal autonomy that has made contemporary gang violence increasingly spontaneous and unregulated. In calling attention to the historical context of these issues and to the elements of resistance embedded in Chicago’s contemporary gang culture, Aspholm challenges conventional views of gang members as inherently pathological. He critically analyzes highly touted “universal” violence prevention strategies, depicting street-level realities to illuminate why they have ultimately failed to reduce levels of bloodshed. An unprecedented analysis of the nature and meaning of gang violence, Views from the Streets proposes an alternative framework for addressing the seemingly intractable issues of inequality, despair, and violence in Chicago.

Author : Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009276740

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Streets in Motion by Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay Pdf

The book studies the social production of motion in a capitalist urban context. In the city of capital, motion refers to a fetish. The bourgeois order posits motion as a metaphor for energy, positivity, and progress – a norm – and obstruction (motion's dialectical opposite) as delinquency. The book uncovers the social tectonics of spatial mobilization and thus demystifies motion. Who and what set spaces on the move? How did various classes of city dwellers activate, experience, and negotiate it? Streets in Motion develops an approach to urban history by theorizing and historicizing the 'street' as an apparatus of city-making and subject formation. It works at two registers – a local history of Calcutta in colonial and post-colonial periods, and a theorizing of the logistical and political-cultural centrality of the street within this rubric. It is argued that the street is politics in as much as politics is the production of space.

Author : Les Isaac,Rosalind Davies
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781444750119

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Faith on the Streets: Christians in action through the Street Pastors movement by Les Isaac,Rosalind Davies Pdf

Street Pastors is an international organisation bringing about change, town by town, to the face of the UK... and more and more countries around the world. Since 2003, Street Pastors have been a fixture of the night-time high street: friendly faces and a reassuring presence, defusing tension and helping people get home safely. These are the Street Pastors: caring; listening; helping. And this is the church in action - taking its faith on the streets.

Author : J. Nathan Corbitt,Vivian Nix-Early
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441215352

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Taking It to the Streets by J. Nathan Corbitt,Vivian Nix-Early Pdf

A quiet yet powerful revolution is going on. All over this country and across the world creativity-in the form of visual arts, music, dance, drama, and technology-is providing an emotionally expressive vehicle for communicating truth, developing character, and crossing cultural boundaries to build the kingdom of God. J. Nathan Corbitt and Vivian Nix-Early visited numerous artists, faith communities, and arts organizations to discover and document how the arts are being used to transform people and communities, especially in urban settings. The result is this extensive handbook that combines real-life stories with tested methodologies to create a new paradigm for the role of the arts in Christian ministry and mission. Taking It to the Streets provides church and mission leaders, youth ministers, and students with a historical perspective and theology for understanding the transforming power of the arts, a vocabulary for discussing them outside the sanctuary, and creative methods for bringing faith to action in the streets of society.

Author : United States. National Advisory Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Traffic signs and signals
ISBN : MINN:30000011623794

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Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways by United States. National Advisory Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices Pdf

Author : Kelly Gentile
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506901121

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Hear the Streets Cry by Kelly Gentile Pdf

Hear the Streets Cry has been described "like dynamite". It will pull your heart strings and challenge your faith. A fresh revelation on evangelism, Hear the Streets Cry recounts the author's true-life experiences – both sweet and shocking - while walking in obedience to God. This book represents 40 years of life.

Author : Riitta Laitinen,Thomas Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047425984

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Cultural History of Early Modern European Streets by Riitta Laitinen,Thomas Cohen Pdf

Six essays explore the evolving cultural and material life of the early modern European street, a contested place of shaded meanings where public met private space, and state and society vied for control of urban form.

Author : Henry D. Barton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1052 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:35112102875780

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The Law Journal Reports by Henry D. Barton Pdf

Author : Arjun Ghosh
Publisher : Jana Natya Manch
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Community development
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Theatre of the Streets by Arjun Ghosh Pdf

Author : Tony Fletcher
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393334838

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All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-77 by Tony Fletcher Pdf

From the acclaimed biographer of Keith Moon comes a vibrant picture of mid-20th-century New York and the ways in which its indigenous art, theater, literature, and political movements converge to create an original American sound.