Americana
Author : Stan. V. Henkels, Jr. (Firm)
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Page : 45 pages
File Size : 37,86 MB
Release : 1932
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Author : Stan. V. Henkels, Jr. (Firm)
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Page : 45 pages
File Size : 37,86 MB
Release : 1932
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Author : Stan. V. Henkels (Firm)
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Page : pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 1932
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Page : 870 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Books
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Presents extended reviews of noteworthy books, short reviews, essays and articles on topics and trends in publishing, literature, culture and the arts. Includes lists of best sellers (hardcover and paperback).
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Page : 826 pages
File Size : 29,42 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Books
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Page : 550 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Books
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Author : Richard Pearce-Moses
Publisher : Society of American Archivists (SAA)
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
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Intended to provide the basic foundation for modern archival practice and theory.
Author : Corcoran Gallery of Art
Publisher : Lucia Marquand
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,66 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Painting
ISBN : 9781555953614
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
Author : C.L.R. James
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0593687337
A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803 “One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition.... Provocative and empowering.” —The New York Times Book Review The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in France and became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint L’Ouverture, who successfully led the Black people of San Domingo against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces—and in the process helped form the first independent post-colonial nation in the Caribbean. With a new introduction (2023) by Professor David Scott.
Author : William Charvat
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780231070775
This study focuses on the complex relations between author, publisher and contemporary reading public in 19th-century America; in particular, the emergence of Irving and Cooper as America's first successful literary entrepreneurs, how Poe's and Melville's successes and failures affected their writing, the popularization of poetry in the 1830s and 1840s, the role of the literary magazine in the 1840s and 1850s, and the beginnings of book promotion. It pays particular attention to the way social and economic forces helped to shape literary works.
Author : Pascale Casanova
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 22,52 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674013452
The "world of letters" has always seemed a matter more of metaphor than of global reality. In this book, Pascale Casanova shows us the state of world literature behind the stylistic refinements--a world of letters relatively independent from economic and political realms, and in which language systems, aesthetic orders, and genres struggle for dominance. Rejecting facile talk of globalization, with its suggestion of a happy literary "melting pot," Casanova exposes an emerging regime of inequality in the world of letters, where minor languages and literatures are subject to the invisible but implacable violence of their dominant counterparts. Inspired by the writings of Fernand Braudel and Pierre Bourdieu, this ambitious book develops the first systematic model for understanding the production, circulation, and valuing of literature worldwide. Casanova proposes a baseline from which we might measure the newness and modernity of the world of letters--the literary equivalent of the meridian at Greenwich. She argues for the importance of literary capital and its role in giving value and legitimacy to nations in their incessant struggle for international power. Within her overarching theory, Casanova locates three main periods in the genesis of world literature--Latin, French, and German--and closely examines three towering figures in the world republic of letters--Kafka, Joyce, and Faulkner. Her work provides a rich and surprising view of the political struggles of our modern world--one framed by sites of publication, circulation, translation, and efforts at literary annexation.