She Wore Mourning
Author : P.D. Workman
Publisher : pd workman
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 19,16 MB
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1988390753
Author : P.D. Workman
Publisher : pd workman
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 19,16 MB
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1988390753
Author : Jane Fishburne Collier
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0691215863
In the 1980s, Jane Collier revisited a village in Andalusia, where she and others had conducted fieldwork twenty years earlier, to investigate changes in family relationships and to explore the larger question of the development of a "modern subjectivity" among the people. Whereas the villagers she met in the sixties stressed the importance of meeting social obligations, the people she interviewed more recently emphasized the need to think for oneself: status concerns in choosing a spouse had apparently been replaced by romantic love, patriarchal authority by partnership marriages, parental demands for obedience by hopes of earning children's affection, mourners' respect for the dead by personal expressions of grief. In each of these areas, the author detected a modern concern for "producing oneself," which emerged with changes in how villagers experienced social inequality. Collier notes that when inheritance appeared to determine social status, villagers protected family reputations and properties by demonstrating concern for "what others might say." Once villagers began participating in the national job market, where individual achievement appeared to determine a worker's income, they focused on realizing their inner abilities and productive capacities. Sensitivity to one's feelings, thoughts, and aptitudes, along with "rational" assessments of the costs and benefits entailed in "choosing" how to use them, testified to a person's unceasing efforts to realize inner potentials. The author also traces shifts in the meaning of "tradition," suggesting that although "modern" people cannot "be" traditional, they must have traditions in order to produce themselves.
Author : Karen Owens
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 17,88 MB
Release : 2013-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1476612161
In 1848, an 18-year-old boy assumed the throne of Austria, one of the most powerful countries in Europe. He would be its last significant emperor, the only monarch to serve two countries, and the last cogent head of the prestigious Habsburg dynasty. Emperor Franz Joseph's reign was marked by revolutions, often fueled by rising liberalism and nationalism, and wars orchestrated by conquering architects such as Napoleon, Metternich, and Bismarck. This book gives attention to these political and cultural events, but it is moreover a biography of Emperor Franz Joseph and his enigmatic wife, Empress Elisabeth.
Author : John Forster
Publisher :
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 18,38 MB
Release : 1873
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0691169829
The fourth volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novel This is the fourth and penultimate volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P’ing Mei is an anonymous sixteenth-century work that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch’ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. The novel, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a landmark in the development of the narrative art form—not only from a specifically Chinese perspective but in a world-historical context. This complete and annotated translation aims to faithfully represent and elucidate all the rhetorical features of the original in its most authentic form and thereby enable the Western reader to appreciate this Chinese masterpiece at its true worth.
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Page : 420 pages
File Size : 32,49 MB
Release : 1894
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Author : Temple Bailey
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Fiction
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Author : Katherine Ashenburg
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 33,49 MB
Release : 2004-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0865477051
When her daughter's fiancé died suddenly, Katherine Ashenburg was surprised to see how her daughter intuitively re-created the traditional rituals of mourning, even those of which she was ignorant. Intrigued, Ashenburg began to explore the rich and endlessly inventive choreographies different cultures and times have devised to mark a universal and deeply felt plight. Contemporary North American culture favors a mourning that is private and virtually invisible. But, as Ashenburg reveals, the grieving customs of the past were so integrated into daily life that ultimately they gave rise to public parks and ready-to-wear clothing. Our keepsakes, prescribed bereavement garb, resting places, mourning etiquette; and ways of commiserating from wakes to Internet support groups remain clues to our most elemental beliefs, and our most effective means of restoring selves, and communities, unraveled by loss.
Author : Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,43 MB
Release : 1900
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Author : Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 24,43 MB
Release : 1900
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