A Ruth Suckow Omnibus
Ruth Suckow;Ruth Suckow
This collection of ten short stories and one novella reintroduces a superb regional wr...
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A Ruth Suckow Omnibus
1988
This collection of ten short stories and one novella reintroduces a superb regional writer whose fiction, though firmly planted in the soil of the Midwest, stretches in significance to include all human drama. Despite her wide experience, Ruth Suckow became and remained a writer interested in small-town and small-city life. All her fiction contains deep and penetrating insights into the motivations of characters who are upheld by their dreams, memories of small-town childhoods, and the need to make sense of the contrast between past and present, idealism and practicality, conformity and individualism. These expressive, resonant stories will be welcomed by all new readers and by Ruth Suckow fans everywhere.
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A biography of novelist Ruth Suckow is presented. Suckow was born on August 6, 1892 in...
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Notable American Women Writers; 2020, p1167-1168, 2p
A biography of novelist Ruth Suckow is presented. Suckow was born on August 6, 1892 in Hawarden, Iowa and died on January 23, 1960 in Claremont, California. She spent three years at Grinnell College and one year in Boston at the Curry Dramatic School after high school. She received her Bachelor of Arts (AB) in 1917 from the University of Denver. Her achievements are mentioned. Her works include "Country People ," "The Odyssey of a Nice Girl," and "Iowa Interiors."
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SUCKOW, Ruth - COUNTRY People (Book) - ODYSSEY of a Nice Girl, The (Book) - IOWA Interiors (Book) - AMERICAN women novelistsContent provider:
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Who Saved the Parthenon? : A New History of the Acropolis Before, During and After the Greek Revolution
William St Clair;David St Clair;Lucy Barnes;William St Clair;David St Clair...
In this magisterial book, William St Clair unfolds the history of the Parthenon throug...
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Who Saved the Parthenon? : A New History of the Acropolis Before, During and After the Greek Revolution
2022
In this magisterial book, William St Clair unfolds the history of the Parthenon throughout the modern era to the present day, with special emphasis on the period before, during, and after the Greek War of Independence of 1821–32. Focusing particularly on the question of who saved the Parthenon from destruction during this conflict, with the help of documents that shed a new light on this enduring question, he explores the contributions made by the Philhellenes, Ancient Athenians, Ottomans and the Great Powers. Marshalling a vast amount of primary evidence, much of it previously unexamined and published here for the first time, St Clair rigorously explores the multiple ways in which the Parthenon has served both as a cultural icon onto which meanings are projected and as a symbol of particular national, religious and racial identities, as well as how it illuminates larger questions about the uses of built heritage. This book has a companion volume with the classical Parthenon as its main focus, which offers new ways of recovering the monument and its meanings in ancient times. St Clair builds on the success of his classic text, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period, to present this rich and authoritative account of the Parthenon's presentation and reception throughout history. With weighty implications for the present life of the Parthenon, it is itself a monumental contribution to accounts of the Greek Revolution, to classical studies, and to intellectual history.
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DF287.P3Content provider:
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Mid-Century Modern Interiors : The Ideas That Shaped Interior Design in America
Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand;Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand
Mid-Century Modern Interiors explores the history of interior design during arguably i...
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Mid-Century Modern Interiors : The Ideas That Shaped Interior Design in America
2019
Mid-Century Modern Interiors explores the history of interior design during arguably its most iconic and influential period. The 1930s to the 1960s in the United States was a key moment for interior design. It not only saw the emergence of some of interior design's most globally-important designers, it also saw the field of interior design emerge at last as a profession in its own right. Through a series of detailed case studies this book introduces the key practitioners of the period – world-renowned designers including Ray and Charles Eames, Richard Neutra, and George Nelson – and examines how they developed new approaches by applying systematic and rational principles to the creation of interior spaces. It takes us into the mind of the designer to show how they each used interior design to express their varied theoretical interests, and reveals how the principles they developed have become embodied in the way interior design is practiced today. This focus on unearthing the underlying ideas and concepts behind their designs rather than on the finished results creates a richer, more conceptual understanding of this pivotal period in modernist design history.With an extended introduction setting the case studies within the broader context of twentieth-century design and architectural history, this book provides both an introduction and an in-depth analysis for students and scholars of interior design, architecture and design history.
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Interior decoration--United States - Interior decoration--HistoryContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Atlantic Biographies : Individuals and Peoples in the Atlantic World
Jeffrey A. Fortin;Mark Meuwese;Jeffrey A. Fortin;Mark Meuwese
This volume uses a biography-as-history approach to illuminate the interconnectedness ...
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Atlantic Biographies : Individuals and Peoples in the Atlantic World
2013
This volume uses a biography-as-history approach to illuminate the interconnectedness of the peoples of the Americas, West Africa, and Europe. Contributors highlight individuals'and people's experiences made possible by their participation in the creation of an Atlantic world, where conflict, cooperation, neccessity and invention led to new societies and cultures.Composed of chapters that span a broad chronological, topical and thematic range, Atlantic Biographies highlights the uniqueness of the Atlantic as a social, political, economic, and cultural theater bound together to illustrate what the Atlantic meant to those subjects of each chapter. This is a book about people , their resilience, and their resolve to carve a niche or have a broader impact in the ever-changing world around them.
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Atlantic Ocean Region--History - Atlantic Ocean Region--Biography - Biography.--ukslcContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Nuevos retos y perspectivas de la investigación en literatura, lingüística y traducción.
Flores Borjabad, Salud Adelaida;Pérez Cabana, Rosario;Flores Borjabad, Salu...
En este libro se reúnen reflexiones sobre la lengua en torno a las disciplinas de la l...
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Nuevos retos y perspectivas de la investigación en literatura, lingüística y traducción.
2021; Vol. 00001
En este libro se reúnen reflexiones sobre la lengua en torno a las disciplinas de la literatura, la lingüística y la traducción, espacios interconectados que plantean nuevos retos para su investigación, su cultura y su evolución, encuadradas dentro del pensamiento del ser humano. Para ello, se ha dividido el volumen en cuatro secciones con el fin de analizar los diferentes enfoques de análisis desde un punto de vista científico y metodológico.
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Translating and interpreting - LinguisticsContent provider:
eBook Open Access (OA) Collection (EBSCOhost)
Teaching Western American Literature
Brady Harrison;Randi Lynn Tanglen;Brady Harrison;Randi Lynn Tanglen
In this volume experienced and new college- and university-level teachers will find pr...
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Teaching Western American Literature
2020
In this volume experienced and new college- and university-level teachers will find practical, adaptable strategies for designing or updating courses in western American literature and western studies. Teaching Western American Literature features the latest developments in western literary research and cultural studies as well as pedagogical best practices in course development. Contributors provide practical models and suggestions for courses and assignments while presenting concrete strategies for teaching works both inside and outside the canon. In addition, Brady Harrison and Randi Lynn Tanglen have assembled insights from pioneering western studies instructors with workable strategies and practical advice for translating this often complex material for classrooms from freshman writing courses to graduate seminars.Teaching Western American Literature reflects the cutting edge of western American literary study, featuring diverse approaches allied with women's, gender, queer, environmental, disability, and Indigenous studies and providing instructors with entrée into classrooms of leading scholars in the field.
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American literature--Study and teaching - Western stories--Study and teachingContent provider:
eBook Education Collection (EBSCOhost)
Historische Gärten und Klimawandel : Eine Aufgabe für Gartendenkmalpflege, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft
Reinhard F. Hüttl;Karen David;Bernd Uwe Schneider;Reinhard F. Hüttl;Karen D...
Historical gardens listed as cultural monuments are valuable evidence of our civilizat...
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Historische Gärten und Klimawandel : Eine Aufgabe für Gartendenkmalpflege, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft
2019
Historical gardens listed as cultural monuments are valuable evidence of our civilization. How can they be preserved under changing climatic conditions? On the basis of four historical gardens, this project analyzes the natural, cultural and social framework in which the'images'of the garden are inscribed. Yet, what courses of action are possible if plants or trees are no longer adapted to the local conditions? Representatives from the natural and social sciences, the humanities, and historical garden conservation present their first joint solution strategies for the preservation of historical gardens as complete works of art facing climate change.
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Commerce - Geology - Architecture - Arts in generalContent provider:
eBook Open Access (OA) Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Folks
Ruth Suckow;Ruth Suckow
Here is an introspective, poignant portrait of an American family during a time of swe...
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The Folks
1992
Here is an introspective, poignant portrait of an American family during a time of sweeping changes. Now nearly sixty years after it first appeared, Suckow's finest work still displays a thorough realism in its characters'actions and aspirations; the uneasy compromises they are forced to make still ring true. Suckow's talent for retrospective analysis comes to life as she examines her own people —Iowans, descendants of early settlers—through the lives of the Ferguson family, living in the fictional small town of Belmond, Iowa. Using her gift of creating three-dimensional, living characters, Suckow focuses on personal differences within the family and each member's separate struggle to make sense of past and present, to confront a pervasive sense of loss as a way of life disappears.
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Iowa--FictionContent provider:
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Finding a New Midwestern History
Jon K. Lauck;Gleaves Whitney;Joseph Hogan;Jon K. Lauck;Gleaves Whitney;Jose...
In comparison to such regions as the South, the far West, and New England, the Midwest...
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Finding a New Midwestern History
2018
In comparison to such regions as the South, the far West, and New England, the Midwest and its culture have been neglected both by scholars and by the popular press. Historians as well as literary and art critics tend not to examine the Midwest in depth in their academic work. And in the popular imagination, the Midwest has never really ascended to the level of the proud, literary South; the cultured, democratic Northeast; or the hip, innovative West Coast. Finding a New Midwestern History revives and identifies anew the Midwest as a field of study by promoting a diversity of viewpoints and lending legitimacy to a more in-depth, rigorous scholarly assessment of a large region of the United States that has largely been overlooked by scholars. The essays discuss facets of midwestern life worth examining more deeply, including history, religion, geography, art, race, culture, and politics, and are written by well-known scholars in the field such as Michael Allen, Jon Butler, and Nicole Etcheson.
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Fruit Juices : Extraction, Composition, Quality and Analysis
Gaurav Rajauria;Brijesh K. Tiwari;Gaurav Rajauria;Brijesh K. Tiwari
Fruits Juices is the first and only comprehensive resource to look at the full scope o...
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Fruit Juices : Extraction, Composition, Quality and Analysis
2018
Fruits Juices is the first and only comprehensive resource to look at the full scope of fruit juices from a scientific perspective. The book focuses not only on the traditional ways to extract and preserve juices, but also the latest novel processes that can be exploited industrially, how concentrations of key components alter the product, and methods for analysis for both safety and consumer acceptability. Written by a team of global experts, this book provides important insights for professionals in industrial and academic research as well as in production facilities. Presents fruit juice from extraction to shelf-life in a single resource volume Includes quantitative as well as qualitative insights Provides translatable information from one fruit to another
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Grammatical Theory
Müller, Stefan;Müller, Stefan
This book is superseded by the third edition, available at http://langsci-press.org/ca...
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Grammatical Theory
2018
This book is superseded by the third edition, available at http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/255. This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing (Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Construction Grammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar). The key assumptions are explained and it is shown how the respective theory treats arguments and adjuncts, the active/passive alternation, local reorderings, verb placement, and fronting of constituents over long distances. The analyses are explained with German as the object language. The second part of the book compares these approaches with respect to their predictions regarding language acquisition and psycholinguistic plausibility. The nativism hypothesis, which assumes that humans posses genetically determined innate language-specific knowledge, is critically examined and alternative models of language acquisition are discussed. The second part then addresses controversial issues of current theory building such as the question of flat or binary branching structures being more appropriate, the question whether constructions should be treated on the phrasal or the lexical level, and the question whether abstract, non-visible entities should play a role in syntactic analyses. It is shown that the analyses suggested in the respective frameworks are often translatable into each other. The book closes with a chapter showing how properties common to all languages or to certain classes of languages can be captured. The book is a translation of the German book Grammatiktheorie, which was published by Stauffenburg in 2010. The following quotes are taken from reviews: With this critical yet fair reflection on various grammatical theories, Müller fills what was a major gap in the literature. Karen Lehmann, Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft, 2012 Stefan Müller's recent introductory textbook, Grammatiktheorie, is an astonishingly comprehensive and insightful survey for beginning students of the present state of syntactic theory. Wolfgang Sternefeld und Frank Richter, Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2012 This is the kind of work that has been sought after for a while [...] The impartial and objective discussion offered by the author is particularly refreshing. Werner Abraham, Germanistik, 2012 This book is a new edition of http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/25.
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Linguistics - Computational linguistics - Language and languages--Study and teaching - Generative grammar - Government (Grammar) - Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax - Germanic languages--SyntaxContent provider:
eBook Open Access (OA) Collection (EBSCOhost)
Kooperative Informationsinfrastrukturen als Chance und Herausforderung : Festschrift für Thomas Bürger zum 65. Geburtstag
Achim Bonte;Juliane Rehnolt;Achim Bonte;Juliane Rehnolt
Kooperative Informationsinfrastrukturen als Chance und Herausforderung zu diesem Thema...
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Kooperative Informationsinfrastrukturen als Chance und Herausforderung : Festschrift für Thomas Bürger zum 65. Geburtstag
2018
Kooperative Informationsinfrastrukturen als Chance und Herausforderung zu diesem Thema werden die Beiträge für die Festschrift für Thomas Bürger zum 65. Geburtstag zusammengestellt. Mehr als 40 Beiträge von renommierten Fachwissenschaftlern und Bibliothekaren geben einen aktuellen Überblick.
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Open access publishingContent provider:
eBook Open Access (OA) Collection (EBSCOhost)
Topical Essays on the Short Story
Salem Press;Salem Press
Topical Essays on the Short Story is a single-volume reference that contains essays ca...
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Topical Essays on the Short Story
2017
Topical Essays on 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 discuss such topics as fables, science fiction, magical realism, and minimalism.
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Short story--Handbooks, manuals, etc - Fiction--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etcContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
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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Authors--Chronology - Short story--Handbooks, manuals, etc - Fiction--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etcContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Pennsylvania Germans : An Interpretive Encyclopedia
Simon J. Bronner;Joshua R. Brown;Simon J. Bronner;Joshua R. Brown
This comprehensive encyclopedia—the first of its kind—maps out three hundred years of ...
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Pennsylvania Germans : An Interpretive Encyclopedia
2017
This comprehensive encyclopedia—the first of its kind—maps out three hundred years of German history and culture in Pennsylvania and beyond.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLDestined to become the standard reference on Pennsylvania Germans (also known as the “Pennsylvania Dutch”), this book is the first survey of this extensive American group in nearly seventy-five years. Nineteen broad interpretive essays written by a distinguished group of historians, anthropologists, sociologists, linguists, and folklorists tell the rich and nuanced story of Pennsylvania German history and culture. United by a distinct (and distinctly American) language, the Pennsylvania Germans have been slower to assimilate than other ethnic groups. This sweeping volume reveals, though, that the group is much less homogenous and isolated than was previously thought. From architecture, media, and farming techniques to food, folklore, and medicine, the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants display a wide range of cultural variation. In Pennsylvania Germans, editors Simon J. Bronner and Joshua R. Brown broaden the geographical and social coverage of the group, touching both on Pennsylvanian communities and the Pennsylvania German diaspora, including settlements in Canada and Mexico. They also expand historical coverage of the Pennsylvania Germans to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Beautifully illustrated, this volume—while paying tribute to the historical and cultural legacy of the Pennsylvania Germans—is the most comprehensive book on the subject to date.Contributors: R. Troy Boyer, Simon J. Bronner, Joshua R. Brown, Edsel Burdge Jr., William W. Donner, John B. Frantz, Mark Häberlein, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, Donald B. Kraybill, David W. Kriebel, Gabrielle Lanier, Mark L. Louden, Yvonne J. Milspaw, Lisa Minardi, Steven M. Nolt, Candace Perry, Sheila Rohrer, and Diane Wenger
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German Americans--Pennsylvania--EncyclopediasContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa
David Hudson;Marvin Bergman;Loren Horton;David Hudson;Marvin Bergman;Loren ...
Iowa has been blessed with citizens of strong character who have made invaluable contr...
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The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa
2008
Iowa has been blessed with citizens of strong character who have made invaluable contributions to the state and to the nation. In the 1930s alone, such towering figures as John L. Lewis, Henry A. Wallace, and Herbert Hoover hugely influenced the nation's affairs. Iowa's Native Americans, early explorers, inventors, farmers, scholars, baseball players, musicians, artists, writers, politicians, scientists, conservationists, preachers, educators, and activists continue to enrich our lives and inspire our imaginations. Written by an impressive team of more than 150 scholars and writers, the readable narratives include each subject's name, birth and death dates, place of birth, education, and career and contributions. Many of the names will be instantly recognizable to most Iowans; others are largely forgotten but deserve to be remembered. Beyond the distinctive lives and times captured in the individual biographies, readers of the dictionary will gain an appreciation for how the character of the state has been shaped by the character of the individuals who have inhabited it. From Dudley Warren Adams, fruit grower and Grange leader, to the Younker brothers, founders of one of Iowa's most successful department stores, The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa is peopled with the rewarding lives of more than four hundred notable citizens of the Hawkeye State. The histories contained in this essential reference work should be eagerly read by anyone who cares about Iowa and its citizens. Entries include Cap Anson, Bix Beiderbecke, Black Hawk, Amelia Jenks Bloomer, William Carpenter, Philip Greeley Clapp, Gardner Cowles Sr., Samuel Ryan Curtis, Jay Norwood Darling, Grenville Dodge, Julien Dubuque, August S. Duesenberg, Paul Engle, Phyllis L. Propp Fowle, George Gallup, Hamlin Garland, Susan Glaspell, Josiah Grinnell, Charles Hearst, Josephine Herbst, Herbert Hoover, Inkpaduta, Louis Jolliet, MacKinlay Kantor, Keokuk, Aldo Leopold, John L. Lewis, Marquette, Elmer Maytag, Christian Metz, Bertha Shambaugh, Ruth Suckow , Billy Sunday, Henry Wallace, and Grant Wood. Excerpt from the entry on: Gallup, George Horace (November 19, 1901–July 26, 1984)—founder of the American Institute of Public Opinion, better known as the Gallup Poll, whose name was synonymous with public opinion polling around the world—was born in Jefferson, Iowa..... A New Yorker article would later speculate that it was Gallup's background in “utterly normal Iowa” that enabled him to find “nothing odd in the idea that one man might represent, statistically, ten thousand or more of his own kind.”... In 1935 Gallup partnered with Harry Anderson to found the American Institute of Public Opinion, based in Princeton, New Jersey, an opinion polling firm that included a syndicated newspaper column called “America Speaks.” The reputation of the organization was made when Gallup publicly challenged the polling techniques of The Literary Digest, the best-known political straw poll of the day. Calculating that the Digest would wrongly predict that Kansas Republican Alf Landon would win the presidential election, Gallup offered newspapers a money-back guarantee if his prediction that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would win wasn't more accurate. Gallup believed that public opinion polls served an important function in a democracy: “If govern¬ment is supposed to be based on the will of the people , somebody ought to go and find what that will is,” Gallup explained.
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Iowa--Biography--DictionariesContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Cyclopedia of Literary Places
Lenchner, Denise;Salem Press;Stableford, Brian M.;Rasmussen, R. Kent;Shuman...
This brand-new edition analyzes the use of place in over 1,300 literary works.
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Cyclopedia of Literary Places
2016
This brand-new edition analyzes the use of place in over 1,300 literary works.
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Setting (Literature) - Literary landmarks - Literature--EncyclopediasContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers
Heiner F. Klemme;Manfred Kuehn;Heiner F. Klemme;Manfred Kuehn
The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers is a landmark work...
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The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers
2016
The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers is a landmark work. Covering one of the most innovative centuries for philosophical investigation, it features more than 650 entries on the eighteenth-century philosophers, theologians, jurists, physicians, scholars, writers, literary critics and historians whose work has had lasting philosophical significance.Alongside well-known German philosophers of that era-Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel-the Dictionary provides rare insights into the lives and minds of lesser-known individuals who influenced the shape of philosophy. Each entry discusses a particular philosopher's life, contributions to the world of thought, and later influences, focusing not only on their most important published writings, but on relevant minor works as well. Bibliographical references to primary and secondary source material are included at the end of entries to encourage further reading, while extensive cross-referencing allows comparisons to be easily made between different thinkers'ideas and practices. For anyone looking to understand more about the century when enlightenment thinking arrived in Germany and established conceits were challenged, The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers is a valuable, unparalleled resource.
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Philosophy, German--18th century--Dictionaries - Philosophers--Germany--DictionariesContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
No Laughing Matter : Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity
Angela Rosenthal;David Bindman;Adrian W. B. Randolph;Angela Rosenthal;David...
In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, this collection—which gathers scholars in th...
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No Laughing Matter : Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity
2016
In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, this collection—which gathers scholars in the fields of race, ethnicity, and humor—seems especially urgent. Inspired by Denmark's Muhammad cartoons controversy, the contributors inquire into the role that racial and ethnic stereotypes play in visual humor and the thin line that separates broad characterization as a source of humor from its power to shock or exploit. The authors investigate the ways in which humor is used to demean or give identity to racial, national, or ethnic groups and explore how humor works differently in different media, such as cartoons, photographs, film, video, television, and physical performance. This is a timely and necessary study that will appeal to scholars across disciplines.
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Ethnicity in art - Art and society - Wit and humor in art - Race in art - National characteristics in artContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
New Hope
Ruth Suckow;Ruth Suckow
A writer of wide experience, Ruth Suckow nevertheless remained focused on small-town l...
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New Hope
1998
A writer of wide experience, Ruth Suckow nevertheless remained focused on small-town life; one could even call her the Jane Austen of small-town America. Many of her characters were the “sparrows of Iowa,” ordinary folks whom she made extraordinary by writing about them. In her 1942 novel about the little community of New Hope, written during the desperate days of World War II, life is marked by unusual optimism, openness, mutual care, trust, communal spirit, democracy, and above all light. Life in New Hope recaptures a feeling of youth that would seem overly idealistic if it were not for Suckow's unflinching realism. As seen through the eyes of its Edenic main characters—Clarence Miller, son of the town's banker and chief booster, and Delight Greenwood, daughter of the Congregational minister who serves New Hope during the two years of the novel—the town itself is the protagonist. Death, crime, and heartbreak intervene, but a sense of freedom and possibility, “where all were to share equally in the boundlessness of light and hope,” always illuminates the town. This sunlit novel, with its blend of romance and reality, reintroduces a regional writer whom H. L. Mencken called “unquestionably the most remarkable woman …writing stories in the republic.”
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American fictionContent provider:
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Talking American in the Midwest: Linguistic Diversity and Authenticity in the Twentieth-Century United States.
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Journal of American Studies; Feb2022, Vol. 56 Issue 1, p65-86, 22p
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During the early twentieth century – when the United States was receiving an influx of...
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Talking American in the Midwest: Linguistic Diversity and Authenticity in the Twentieth-Century United States.
Journal of American Studies; Feb2022, Vol. 56 Issue 1, p65-86, 22p
During the early twentieth century – when the United States was receiving an influx of non-English-speaking immigrants, and "standardization" was a dominant, yet polarizing, concept – having a single national language that unified Americans became a controversial topic in public discourse. In The Odyssey of a Nice Girl, Ruth Suckow , like many authors at the time, used immigrant language as a foil for midwestern speech to demonstrate its "standard" Americanness. But, as this essay will show, by using other regional American dialects in a similar manner, she questioned how "Americanness" was being understood and recognized during this period in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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MIDWEST (U.S.) - ODYSSEY of Homer - TWENTIETH century - LANGUAGE policy - AMERICANS - STANDARDIZATIONContent provider:
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Not Yet a Placeless Land : Tracking an Evolving American Geography
Zelinsky, Wilbur;Zelinsky, Wilbur
Today it is taken as a given that the United States has undergone a nationwide process...
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Not Yet a Placeless Land : Tracking an Evolving American Geography
2011
Today it is taken as a given that the United States has undergone a nationwide process of homogenization -- that a country once rich in geographic and cultural diversity has subsided into a placeless sameness. The American population, after all, spends much of its time shopping or eating in look-alike chain or franchise operations, driving along featureless highways built to government specifications, sitting in anonymous airports, and sleeping in forgettable motels.In this book, cultural geographer Wilbur Zelinsky challenges that nearly universal view and reaches a paradoxical conclusion: that American land and society are becoming more uniform and more diverse at the same time. After recounting the many ways in which modern technologies, an advanced capitalist market system, and a potent central political establishment have standardized the built landscape of the country's vast territory and its burgeoning population over the past two hundred and fifty years, he also considers the vigor of countervailing forces. In a carefully balanced assessment, he documents steady increases in the role of the unpredictable, in the number and variety of arbitrarily located places and activities, and the persistence of basic cultural diversities. Contrary to popular perceptions, place-to-place differences in spoken language, religion, and political behavior have not diminished or disappeared. In fact, Zelinsky shows, novel cultural regions and specialized cities have been emerging even as a latter-day version of regionalism and examples of neo-localism are taking root in many parts of the United States.
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National characteristics, American - Cultural geography--United States - Human geography--United StatesContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Cyclopedia of Literary Characters
Magill, Frank N.;Magill, Frank N.
This new edition examines more than 29,000 major characters from 3,500 important works...
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Cyclopedia of Literary Characters
2015
This new edition examines more than 29,000 major characters from 3,500 important works of literature. New to this edition are 245 characters published in popular works of fiction from 2000 to 2013.
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Literature--Stories, plots, etc.--Encyclopedias - Literature--Encyclopedias - Characters and characteristics in literature--EncyclopediasContent provider:
eBook High School Collection (EBSCOhost)
Critical Survey of Short Fiction: World Writers
Charles E. May;Charles E. May
Examines writers from a wide range of different countries, including Argentina's Jorge...
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: World Writers
2012
Examines writers from a wide range of different countries , including Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges, China's Ha Jin, India's Salman Rushdie, and Russia's Alexander Puskin. New writers include Japan's Haruki Murakami, and Jamaican Michelle Cliff.
