Book Description
Vol. 10 includes "Tables générales des Séries de publications de Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1838-1938."
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Publisher :
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Civilization, Classical
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Vol. 10 includes "Tables générales des Séries de publications de Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1838-1938."
Author : Nils Erik Enkvist
Publisher : Associated Faculty PressInc
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 33,64 MB
Release : 1951
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : 9780804601344
Author : Winifred Morgan
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780874133073
The top hat and stars and stripes that characterize Uncle Sam today were first worn by Yankee actors portraying Brother Jonathan. This book explores the complex emblematic function of the Brother Jonathan figure and its changing meaning through the decades and in a multitude of popular media.
Author : Barry Witham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 1996-02-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521308588
Describes the growth and development of theatre in the United States. Documents and commentary are arranged into chapters on business practice, acting, theatre buildings, drama, design, and audience behavior.
Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521109314
Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.
Author : Nils Erik Enkvist
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 1953
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Michael Pickering
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1351573519
Blackface minstrelsy is associated particularly with popular culture in the United States and Britain, yet despite the continual two-way flow of performers, troupes and companies across the Atlantic, there is little in Britain to match the scholarship of blackface studies in the States. This book concentrates on the distinctively British trajectory of minstrelsy. The historical study and cultural analysis of minstrelsy is important because of the significant role it played in Britain as a form of song, music and theatrical entertainment. Minstrelsy had a marked impact on popular music, dance and other aspects of popular culture, both in Britain and the United States. Its impact in the United States fed into significant song and music genres that were assimilated in Britain, from ragtime and jazz onwards, but prior to these influences, minstrelsy in Britain developed many distinct features and was adapted to operate within various conventions, themes and traditions in British popular culture. Pickering provides a convincing counter-argument to the assumption among writers in the United States that blackface was exclusively American and its British counterpart purely imitative. Minstrelsy was not confined to its value as song, music and dance. Jokes at the expense of black people along with demeaning racial stereotypes were integral to minstrel shows. As a form of popular entertainment, British minstrelsy created a cultural low-Other that offered confirmation of white racial ascendancy and imperial dominion around the world. The book attends closely to how this influence on colonialism and imperialism operated and proved ideologically so effective. At the same time British minstrelsy cannot be reduced to its racist and imperialist connections. Enormously important as those connections are, Pickering demonstrates the complexity of the subject by insisting that the minstrel show and minstrel performers are understood also in terms of their own theatrical dynamics, t
Author : Alfred Habegger
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 1982
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 0231053975
In this study of the 19th-century American novel, the author demonstrates the imaginative continuity between sentimental and realistic fiction and sets out to establish that realism is the central and preeminent literary type in America, a mode grounded in the tradition of women's popular fiction which shaped the nation's reading habits in the mid-19th century. He examines this feminine literature, with its common technique of symbolizing deeper social conflicts through patterns of courtship, marriage, and gender roles. Contends that Howells and James owe much of their fictional domain to the often-disparaged household dramas of these female precursors.
Author : Ralph M. Aderman
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 27,54 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781575910710
In later decades he played a continuing role in the cultural life of the young nation, numbering among his friends and associates a great many other writers, editors, and publishers.".
Author : Roger D. Sell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317565185
Up until the mid-1980s most pragmatic analysis had been done on spoken language use, considerably less on written use, and very little at all on literary activity. This has now radically changed. ‘Pragmatics’ could be informally defined as the study of relationships between language and its users. This volume, first published in 1991, seeks to reposition literary activity at the centre of that study. The internationally renowned contributors draw together two main streams. On the one hand, there are concerns which are close to the syntax and semantics of mainstream linguistics, and on the other, there are concerns ranging towards anthropological linguistics, socio- and psycholinguistics. Literary Pragmatics represents an antidote to the fragmenting specialization so characteristic of the humanities in the twentieth century. This book will be of lasting value to students of linguistics, literature and society. Roger D. Sell discusses the reissue of Literary Pragmatics here: http://www.routledge.com/articles/roger_d._sell_discusses_the_reissue_of_literary_pragmatics/