Time Machine: The Story of H .G . Wells .
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Time Machine: The Story of H .G . Wells .
Time Machine: The Story of H.G. Wells. 2000, Vol. 1 Issue 1, p8-30. 30p. 5 Black and White Photographs.
This chapter discusses the childhood and education of controversial author Herbert George Wells . The author grew up in an educational system where corporal punishment was the norm, with a teacher named Mr. Mortley. As an adult Wells had trouble remembering what he had learned in Mortley's classroom. What he didn't learn at school, Wells picked up from the Bromley Literary Institute. His father, Joseph, and mother, Sarah, tried to make a living by selling china, glassware, and later, cricket supplies. Well's small backyard looked out into a neighborhood of hardship and hard work.
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The consummate dabbler.
Swaim, Barton
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The consummate dabbler.
New Criterion. Jun2011, Vol. 29 Issue 10, p9-13. 5p.
The article focuses on the life and works of Hubert George Wells , one of the controversial narrative writers rivaled by novelists Henry James, and challenged by Michael Sherborne. Wells , was born in 1866 through an evangelist and a successful shoekeeper, Sarah and Joseph Wells . Wells has been known for his first writing, a satirical story "The Desert Daisy." Moreover, Well's early fiction was criticized by Sherborne as inferior and pessimistic.
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May Sinclair's and H . G . Wells 's Involvement in the Suffrage Movement.
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Journal of History, Culture & Art Research / Tarih Kültür ve Sanat Arastirmalari Dergisi. Jun2015, Vol. 4 Issue 2, p56-70. 15p.
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Pudelko, Brygida
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Journal of History, Culture & Art Research / Tarih Kültür ve Sanat Arastirmalari Dergisi. Jun2015, Vol. 4 Issue 2, p56-70. 15p.
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Reconstructing Klein.
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University of Chicago Law Review. Dec2023, Vol. 90 Issue 8, p2101-2172. 72p.
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Hershkoff, Helen;Smith Jr., Fred
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Reconstructing Klein.
University of Chicago Law Review. Dec2023, Vol. 90 Issue 8, p2101-2172. 72p.
This Article interrogates the conventional understanding of United States v. Klein, a Reconstruction Era decision that concerned Congress's effort to remove appellate jurisdiction from the Supreme Court in a lawsuit seeking compensation for abandoned property confiscated by the United States during the Civil War. Scholars often celebrate the decision for protecting judicial independence; so, too, they applaud the decision for shielding property rights against arbitrary legislative action and for preserving executive clemency from legislative encroachment. Absent from all contemporary accounts of Klein is its racialized context: The decision allowed an unelected judiciary to disable Congress from blocking the president's promiscuous use of the pardon power to obstruct policies aimed at racial equality. These policies included land distribution to emancipated slaves--the proverbial "forty acres and a mule." Klein, we show, was one of a number of Supreme Court decisions that helped to restore a white supremacist, aristocratic power base in the South. In particular, the decision is a coda to a tragic story in which property, central to the political reconstruction of the South on a multiracial basis, was returned to former enslavers and those who did commerce with them. This Article makes three contributions. First, it augments the traditional narrative about Klein by highlighting the land dreams of Black freedom seekers and the Union's broken commitments to Blacks about land acquisition and the promise of full citizenship, rather than exclusively focusing on the compensation claims of Confederate rebels and their allies. Second, it explores the erasure of racial politics from scholarly discussion of Klein, and the ways in which a purportedly neutral jurisdictional rule achieved extreme racialized effects. We argue that the Court's assertion of interpretive supremacy was partner to partisan efforts to defeat Reconstruction that worked to maintain Black people in a subordinate class subject to legalized violence and economic exploitation. In particular, we bring the decision into dialogue with Reconstruction Era constitutional decisions, and examine how the Court's reasoning and its implicit valorization of a "Lost Cause" ideology set the foundation for a hollowed-out construction of the Fourteenth Amendment that equates Black citizenship with emancipation only, without regard to the material conditions that make freedom and equality possible. Finally, we raise questions whether acknowledging Klein's racialized context might motivate reassessing as well as reorienting the notion of jurisdictional neutrality and jurisdictional doctrines involving federalism, separation of powers, and federal judicial power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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ACTIONS & defenses (Law) - LAW reports, digests, etc. - UNITED States. Supreme Court - JUDICIAL independence - PROPERTY rightsContent provider:
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INVESTIGATION OF APOCALYPTIC FEATURES IN THE WAR OF THE WORLDS BY WELLS .
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Journal of Cultural Studies / Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi; ara2023, Issue 19, p248-261, 14p
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GÜROVA, Ercan
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Journal of Cultural Studies / Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi; ara2023, Issue 19, p248-261, 14p
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INVESTIGATION OF APOCALYPTIC FEATURES IN THE WAR OF THE WORLDS BY WELLS .
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Science Fiction Short Story Writers
Salem Press;Salem Press
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Science Fiction Short Story Writers
2017
Science Fiction Short Story Writers is a single-volume reference that was carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in Science Fiction Short Story Writeres discuss such influential authors as Robert Heinlen, Orson Scott Card, H . G . Wells , and Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Suva Stories : A History of the Capital of Fiji
Nicholas Halter;Nicholas Halter
Suva Stories explores a fascinating tapestry of histories in one of the Pacific's olde...
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Suva Stories : A History of the Capital of Fiji
2022
Suva Stories explores a fascinating tapestry of histories in one of the Pacific's oldest and most culturally diverse urban centres, the capital of Fiji. Charting the trajectory of Suva from indigenous village to colonial hub to contemporary Pacific metropolis, it draws on a rich colonial archive and moving personal memoirs that bear witness to their time. The diverse contributions in this volume form a complex mosaic of urban lives and histories that contribute fresh insights into historical and ongoing debates about race, place and belonging. Suva Stories is a valuable companion to those seeking to engage with the city's pasts and present, and will prompt new conversations about history and memory in Fiji.
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Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) : Private and Criminal Law Aspects
Maciej Domański;Bogusław Lackoroński;Maciej Domański;Bogusław Lackoroński
This book examines the implications of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights o...
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Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) : Private and Criminal Law Aspects
2023
This book examines the implications of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), its resulting standard of protection for persons with disabilities and the way it is understood and implemented in its diverse signatory states. Its overarching theme is to assess the impact of CRPD Article 12 on the private law concept of legal capacity and its limitations, the significance of which carries over into the realm of penal law regulations. Its impact is analysed primarily from the legal point of view, but with due regard for its psychological and psychiatric ramifications. Recognising the importance of these disciplines is important when implementing CRPD Article 12 into domestic law, as they contribute to the determinants in creating a qualificatory legal framework for all, persons with disabilities in particular, to exercise their rights to legal capacity without let or hindrance. As active legal capacity is a notion rooted in and coming from private law, this forms the main research perspective. The first section discusses the foundational concepts constituting the CRPD Article 12 standard from domestic private law and international law perspectives. The work shows that the concepts adopted in private law interact with the protection of persons with disabilities as victims provided for in criminal law. In addition, where relevant, authors also look at public law institutions that are connected with the private law solutions. The volume will be an essential reference for academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of private law, criminal law, mental health law, human rights, discrimination law as well as psychology and psychiatry.
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Patterns of Plunder: Corruption and the Failure of the Indian Reservation System, 1851–1887.
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Western Historical Quarterly. Spring2024, Vol. 55 Issue 1, p21-38. 18p.
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Hall, Ryan
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Western Historical Quarterly. Spring2024, Vol. 55 Issue 1, p21-38. 18p.
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Reading the Short Story : A Student's Guide to Selected British, Irish and American Works
Anna Wing-bo Tso;Scarlett Lee;Anna Wing-bo Tso;Scarlett Lee
Beginning with a brief history and evolution of the short story genre, alongside an ov...
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Reading the Short Story : A Student's Guide to Selected British, Irish and American Works
2019
Beginning with a brief history and evolution of the short story genre, alongside an overview of the key short story writers, and an explanatory chapter of literary criticism, this book aims to give readers insight into the works by canonical British, Irish, and American authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, and more. Applying close reading skills and critical literary approaches to twelve selected short stories in English, this work conducts comparative analyses to reveal the interrelationships between the texts, the authors, the readers, and the sociocultural contexts. Developed and tested in literature classes at university over several semesters, this book addresses key issues, topics and trends in the short story genre.
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Short stories, American--History and criticism - Short stories, Irish--History and criticism - Short stories, English--History and criticismContent provider:
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Archive of Jewish History : Volume 12
Oleg Budnitskii;Oleg Budnitskii
Volume 12 of the Archive opens with a study by Yefim Melamed (Kyiv) about the history ...
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Archive of Jewish History : Volume 12
2022; Vol. 00012
Volume 12 of the Archive opens with a study by Yefim Melamed (Kyiv) about the history of Stalin's security services overseeing Jewish writers in the late 1930s and early 1950s resulted in repressions and the killing of many of them. The appendix to his article presents a unique material: the reports of a secret agent who reported on the activities of the'brothers in writing.'Grigory Kan (Moscow) contributes to the study of the interminable topic: the Jews and the Russian revolution. His research is dedicated to Aaron Zundelevich (1852–1923), a prominent figure in the narodnik's movement, a member of the Executive Committee of the “People's Will.”Roberta de Giorgi (Udine, Italy) focuses in her research on the history of translations and publicationa of Leo Tolstoy's Three Tales, the proceeds of which the author, at the request of Sholem Aleichem, donated to the Jews who suffered from the pogrom in Chisinau. The story turned out to be extremely confusing and fascinating and adds new touches to the biographies of L. N. Tolstoy and Sholem Aleichem, as well as to the history of literary life and publishing at the beginning of the 20th century.In her article, Maria Gulakova (St. Petersburg) publishes a letter from ethnographer and public figure Moses Krol (1862–1942) to Chaim Zhitlovsky. Information contained in a letter from Krol (then an émigré in Paris), dated March 26, 1936, sheds light on a little-known attempt to organize the resettlement of European Jews in the 1930s to Ecuador. Gulakova's research is based on materials collected from various archives in Moscow, Kyiv, New York, Jerusalem and Leeds.
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The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde : An Annotated Selection
Oscar Wilde;Nicholas Frankel;Oscar Wilde;Nicholas Frankel
An innovative new edition of nine classic short stories from one of the greatest write...
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The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde : An Annotated Selection
2020
An innovative new edition of nine classic short stories from one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era.“I cannot think other than in stories ,” Oscar Wilde once confessed to his friend André Gide. In this new selection of his short fiction, Wilde's gifts as a storyteller are on full display, accompanied by informative facing-page annotations from Wilde biographer and scholar Nicholas Frankel. A wide-ranging introduction brings readers into the world from which the author drew inspiration.Each story in the collection brims with Wilde's trademark wit, style, and sharp social criticism. Many are reputed to have been written for children, although Wilde insisted this was not true and that his stories would appeal to all “those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy.” “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime” stands alongside Wilde's comic masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest, while other stories —including “The Happy Prince,” the tale of a young ruler who had never known sorrow, and “The Nightingale and the Rose,” the story of a nightingale who sacrifices herself for true love—embrace the theme of tragic, forbidden love and are driven by an undercurrent of seriousness, even despair, at the repressive social and sexual values of Wilde's day. Like his later writings, Wilde's stories are a sweeping indictment of the society that would imprison him for his homosexuality in 1895, five years before his death at the age of forty-six.Published here in the form in which Victorian readers first encountered them, Wilde's short stories contain much that appeals to modern readers of vastly different ages and temperaments. They are the perfect distillation of one of the Victorian era's most remarkable writers.
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Chapter 22: The twentieth-century novel.
Blamires, Harry
Chapter 22 of the book "A Short History of English Literature" is presented. In it the...
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Chapter 22: The twentieth-century novel.
Short History of English Literature. 1984, p383-423. 41p.
Chapter 22 of the book "A Short History of English Literature" is presented. In it the author presents an overview of the various writers of English literature who flourished during the 20th century, focusing on the fictional works of Joseph Conrad and H . G . Wells . Other contemporaries explored include G . K. Chesterton, Hugh Walpole, and Virginia Woolf.
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20th century English literature - Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 - Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 - Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 - Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 - Walpole, Hugh, Sir, 1884-1941 - Fiction - Literary criticismContent provider:
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Southern History in Periodicals, 2023: A Selected Bibliography.
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Journal of Southern History. May2024, Vol. 90 Issue 2, p325-390. 66p.
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Journal of Southern History. May2024, Vol. 90 Issue 2, p325-390. 66p.
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At the Edges of Sleep : Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators
Jean Ma;Jean Ma
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At the Edges of Sleep : Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators
2022
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Many recent works of contemporary art, performance, and film turn a spotlight on sleep, wresting it from the hidden, private spaces to which it is commonly relegated. At the Edges of Sleep considers sleep in film and moving image art as both a subject matter to explore onscreen and a state to induce in the audience. Far from negating action or meaning, sleep extends into new territories as it designates ways of existing in the world, in relation to people, places, and the past. Defined positively, sleep also expands our understanding of reception beyond the binary of concentration and distraction. These possibilities converge in the work of Thai filmmaker and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who has explored the subject of sleep systematically throughout his career. In examining Apichatpong's work, Jean Ma brings together an array of interlocutors—from Freud to Proust, George Méliès to Tsai Ming-liang, Weegee to Warhol—to rethink moving images through the lens of sleep. Ma exposes an affinity between cinema, spectatorship, and sleep that dates to the earliest years of filmmaking, and sheds light upon the shifting cultural valences of sleep in the present moment.
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Motion picture audiences - Art and motion pictures - Dreams in motion pictures - Sleep--Psychological aspectsContent provider:
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A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean : A Collection of Stories Curated by Leïla Sebbar
Lia Brozgal;Lia Brozgal
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A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean : A Collection of Stories Curated by Leïla Sebbar
2023; Vol. 00002
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean brings together the fascinating personal stories of Jewish writers, scholars, and intellectuals who came of age in lands where Islam was the dominant religion and everyday life was infused with the politics of the French imperial project. Prompted by novelist Leïla Sebbar to reflect on their childhoods, these writers offer literary portraits that gesture to a universal condition while also shedding light on the exceptional nature of certain experiences. The childhoods captured here are undeniably Jewish, but they are also Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Egyptian, Lebanese, and Turkish; each essay thus testifies to the multicultural, multilingual, and multi-faith community into which its author was born. The present translation makes this unique collection available to an English-speaking public for the first time. The original version, published in French in 2012, was awarded the Prix Haïm Zafrani, a prize given by the Elie Wiesel Institute of Jewish Studies to a literary project that valorizes Jewish civilization in the Muslim world.
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Jewish children--Islamic countries--Biography - Jews--Islamic countries--Biography - Jewish children--Mediterranean Region--Biography - Jews--Mediterranean Region--Biography - Jews--20th century--BiographyContent provider:
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The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English
Paul Delaney;Adrian Hunter;Paul Delaney;Adrian Hunter
This collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story sin...
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The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English
2019
This collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century.
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History of the Short Story
Salem Press;Salem Press
History of the Short Story is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully...
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History of the Short Story
2017
History of the Short Story is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume include Short Fiction in Antiquity, The Twenty-first Century, Time Line, and Chronological List of Writers.
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Uncovering Pacific Pasts : Histories of Archaeology in Oceania
Hilary Howes;Tristen Jones;Matthew Spriggs;Hilary Howes;Tristen Jones;Matth...
Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories...
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Uncovering Pacific Pasts : Histories of Archaeology in Oceania
2022
Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories of exchange, acquisition, display and interpretation. This book is a collection of essays highlighting some of the collections, and their object biographies, that were displayed in the Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (UPP) exhibition. The exhibition, which opened on 1 March 2020, sought to bring together both notable and relatively unknown Pacific material culture and archival collections from around the globe, displaying them simultaneously in their home institutions and linked online at www.uncoveringpacificpasts.org. Thirty‑eight collecting institutions participated in UPP, including major collecting institutions in the United Kingdom, continental Europe and the Americas, as well as collecting institutions from across the Pacific.
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Archaeology--Oceania--HistoryContent provider:
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Women and Migration(s) II
Kalia Brooks;Cheryl Finley;Ellyn Toscano;Deborah Willis;Kalia Brooks;Cheryl...
Women and Migration(s) II draws together contributions from scholars and artists showc...
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Women and Migration(s) II
2022
Women and Migration(s) II draws together contributions from scholars and artists showcasing the breadth of intersectional experiences of migration, from diaspora to internal displacement. Building on conversations initiated in Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History, this edited volume features a range of written styles, from memoir to artists'statements to journalistic and critical essays. The collection shows how women's experiences of migration have been articulated through art, film, poetry and even food. This varied approach aims to aid understanding of the lived experiences of home, loss, family, belonging, isolation, borders and identity—issues salient both in experiences of migration and in the epochal times in which we find ourselves today. These are stories of trauma and fear, but also stories of the strength, perseverance, hope and even joy of women surviving their own moments of disorientation, disenfranchisement and dislocation. This collection engages with current issues in an effort to deepen understanding, encourage ongoing reflection and build a more just future. It will appeal to artists and scholars of the humanities, social sciences, and public policy, as well as general readers with an interest in women's experiences of migration.
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Emigration and immigration in art - Displacement (Psychology) in literature - Displacement (Psychology) in art - Women immigrants--History - Women immigrants in literature - Emigration and immigration in literatureContent provider:
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Dogs, Past and Present : An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Ivana Fiore;Francesca Lugli;Ivana Fiore;Francesca Lugli
Dogs, Past and Present: An Interdisciplinary Perspective gathers contributions from sc...
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Dogs, Past and Present : An Interdisciplinary Perspective
2023
Dogs, Past and Present: An Interdisciplinary Perspective gathers contributions from scholars from a variety of disciplines to provide a comprehensive assessment of the importance of dogs through history. Over the last decades, countless studies have examined the lives of dogs and their current place in our societies as well as their crucial part in human life and history. Data and hypotheses have progressively increased, sometimes controversially, in each field of investigation. The domestication of dogs and its success during prehistory is a fascinating theme that scholars of various disciplines are involved with. However, there has not been a real exchange between those approaches and it is extremely complex to reach a complete view of the thousands of texts which are published every year. By contrast, this volume is entirely dedicated to dogs and it is focused on the necessity of an ‘interdisciplinary perspective'to fully understand the fundamental role that dogs have played in our past. When, where, how and why were dogs domesticated? What is their story ? What was their role in the history of humankind? What is their role in traditional and non-traditional societies today? The book originated from the conference ‘Dogs, Past and Present – an Interdisciplinary Perspective'held at CNR (National Scientific Council) and at Sapienza University in Rome (14–17 November 2018), promoted by the Italian Association for Ethnoarchaeology and organised by the editors.
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Animal remains (Archaeology) - Human-animal relationships--History - Dogs--HistoryContent provider:
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Onomastics of the “Chanson De Roland” : Or: Why Gaston Paris and Joseph Bédier Were Both Right
Gustav A. Beckmann;Gustav A. Beckmann
This ambitious study of all proper names in the Chanson de Roland is based for the fir...
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Onomastics of the “Chanson De Roland” : Or: Why Gaston Paris and Joseph Bédier Were Both Right
2023
This ambitious study of all proper names in the Chanson de Roland is based for the first time on a systematic survey of the whole geographical and historical literature from antiquity to after 1100 for the Geographica, and on working through (almost) the entire documentary tradition of France and its neighbouring regions from 778 to the early 12th century for the personal names. The overall result is clear: the surviving song is more tightly and profoundly structured, even in smaller scenes, than generally assumed, it is also richer in depicting reality, and it has a very long prehistory, which can be traced in outline, albeit with decreasing certainty, (almost) back to the Frankish defeat of 778. Here are some individual results: for the first time, a detailed (and ultimately simple!) explanation not only of the ‘pagan'catalogue of peoples, but also of the overarching structure of Baligant's empire, the organisation of North Africa, the corpus of the Twelve Anti-Pairs as well as the ‘pagan'gods are given, and individual names such as Bramimunde and Jurfaret, toponyms such as Marbrise and Marbrose are explained. From Roland's Spanish conquests (v. 196–200), the course of the elapsed set anz toz pleins is reconstructed. Even the names of the weapons prove to be a small structured group, in that they are very discreetly adapted to their respective ‘pagan'or Christian owner. On the Christian side, the small list of relics in Roland's sword is also carefully devised, not least in what is left out: a relic of the Lord; this is reserved for Charlemagne's Joiuse. The author explains for example, why from the archangel triad only Michael and Gabriel descend to the dying Roland, whereas ‘the'angel Cherubin descends in Rafael's place. Munjoie requires extensive discussion, because here a (hitherto insufficiently recorded) toponym has been secondarily charged by the poet with traditional theological associations. The term Ter(e) major is attested for the first time in reality, namely in the late 11th century in Norman usage. For the core of France, the fourth cornerstone – along with Besançon, Wissant and Mont-Saint-Michel – is Xanten, and its centre is Aachen. The poet's artful equilibration of Charles's ten eschieles and their leaders is traced. The'Capetian barrier'emerges as a basic fact of epic geography. Approximatively, the last quarter of the study is devoted to the prehistory of the song, going backwards in time: still quite clearly visible is an Angevin Song of Roland from around 1050, in which Marsilĭe, Olivier, Roland, Ganelon, Turpin and Naimes already have roles similar to those in the preserved Song. Behind it, between about 970 and shortly after 1000, is the Girart de Vienne from the Middle Rhône, already recognised by Aebischer, with the newly invented Olivier contra Roland. Finally, in faint outlines, an oldest attainable, also Middle Rhône adaptation of the Roland material from shortly after 870 emerges. For the Chanson de Roland, Gaston Paris and Joseph Bédier were thus each right on the main point that was close to their hearts: the surviving song has both the thoroughly sophisticated structure of great art that Bédier recognised in it, and the imposingly long prehistory that Paris conjectured.
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'The Amazing Iroquois' and the Invention of the Empire State
John C. Winters;John C. Winters
In America's collective unconscious, the Haudenosaunee, known to many as the Iroquois,...
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'The Amazing Iroquois' and the Invention of the Empire State
2023
In America's collective unconscious, the Haudenosaunee, known to many as the Iroquois, are viewed as an indelible part of New York's modern and democratic culture. From the Iroquois confederacy serving as a model for the US Constitution, to the connections between the matrilineal Iroquois and the woman suffrage movement, to the living legacy of the famous'Sky Walkers,'the steelworkers who built the Empire State Building and the George Washington Bridge, the Iroquois are viewed as an exceptional people who helped make the state's history unique and forward-looking. John C. Winters contends that this vision was not manufactured by Anglo-Americans but was created and spread by an influential, multi-generational Seneca-Iroquois family. From the American Revolution to the Cold War, Red Jacket, Ely S. Parker, Harriet Maxwell Converse (adopted), and Arthur C. Parker used the tools of a colonial culture to shape aspects of contemporary New York culture in their own peoples'image. The result was the creation of'The Amazing Iroquois,'an historical memory that entangled indigenous self-definition, colonial expectations about racial stereotypes and Native American politics, and the personalities of the people who cultivated and popularized that memory. Through the imperial politics of the eighteenth century to pioneering museum exhibitions of the twentieth, these four Seneca celebrities packaged and delivered Iroquoian stories to the broader public in defiance of the contemporary racial stereotypes and settler colonial politics that sought to bury them. Owing to their skill, fame, and the timely intervention of Iroquois leadership, this remarkable family showcases the lasting effects of indigenous agents who fashioned a popular and long-lasting historical memory that made the Iroquois an obvious and foundational part of New Yorkers'conception of their own exceptional state history and self-identity.
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Peace--Medals - Iroquois Indians--Government relations - Iroquois Indians--Influence - Iroquois Indians--History - Collective memory--New York (State)Content provider:
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War Short Story Writers
Salem Press;Salem Press
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War Short Story Writers
2017
War Short Story Writers is a single-volume reference that was carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in War Short Story Writers discuss such influential authors as Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Tim O'Brien and Christa Wolf.
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A New and Critical Edition of George Osborn's The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868-1872) : With the Addition of Notes, Annotations, Biographical and Background Information
Wesley, John;Rogal, Samuel J.;Osborn, G.;Wesley, Charles;Wesley, John;Rogal...
These fresh volumes complemented by thousands of the current editor's detailed histori...
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A New and Critical Edition of George Osborn's The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868-1872) : With the Addition of Notes, Annotations, Biographical and Background Information
2013; Vol. 00001
These fresh volumes complemented by thousands of the current editor's detailed historical, biographical, linguistic, and critical notations, will provide researchers with the necessary background information (substantially neglected by George Osborn) to allow for thorough critical examinations, discussions and analyses of the Wesleys as poets.
