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The Epic of America

The Epic of America

There is a tradition of one-volume narrative histories of the United States in which the political military diplomatic social and economic strands are skillfully interwoven. Rather than add to these volumes The Epic of America paints a sweeping picture of the diverse past that has created America's national story. In this important narrative James Truslow Adams reviews how the ordinary American has matured over time in outlook character and opinion. Adams grew increasingly conscious of how different an American is now from the man or woman of any other advanced nation. He is equally interested in the whole of American history how it began and what it represented in the first half of the twentieth century. Adams traces the historical origins of the American concept of bigger and better attitudes toward business the American Dream and other characteristics generally considered typically American. Ever since America became an independent nation each generation has seen an uprising of its citizens to save the American Dream from forces seeking to overwhelm and dispel it. Possibly the greatest of these struggles is still ahead not a struggle of revolutionists against established order but of the ordinary person who seeks to hold fast to the rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This classic book is valuable for a new age and as important for this new century as it was when originally written.

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A History of Western Literature From Medieval Epic to Modern Poetry

A History of Western Literature From Medieval Epic to Modern Poetry

This book begins in a narrow territory strictly Western and extends with the passage of time to include the poetry plays novels and works of speculation of the great authors of the past and present from Russia to Mexico. His objective is to tell the whole story of Western writing in languages other than English from the twelfth-century Chanson de Roland to Evtushenko's poetry of the 1960's. Cohen not only presents a factual account of historical growth. The book reflects the author's own judgments and valuations arrived at in the course of almost forty years' reading in the main European languages. A work of original criticism A History of Western Literature immediately became a standard reference when first published. In this new edition the author has included revisions covering the most important recent writers and their work. | A History of Western Literature From Medieval Epic to Modern Poetry

GBP 130.00
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Robert Pollok’s The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age The Rise and Fall of a Christian Epic

Robert Pollok’s The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age The Rise and Fall of a Christian Epic

This book explores the contexts and reception history of Robert Pollok’s religious epic The Course of Time (1827) one of the best- selling long poems of the nineteenth century which has been almost entirely forgotten today. Widely read in the United States and across the British Empire the poem’s combination of evangelical Calvinism High Romanticism and native Scottishness proved irresistible to many readers. This monograph traces the poem’s origins as a defense of Biblical authority divine providence and religious orthodoxy (against figures like Byron and Joseph Priestley) and explores the reasons for The Course of Time’s enormous decades- long popularity and later precipitous decline. A close reading of the poem and an examination of its reception history offers readers important insights into the dynamic relationship between religion and wider culture in the nineteenth century the uses of literature as a vehicle for theological argument and theodicy and the important but often overlooked role that religion played in literary— and particularly Scottish— Romanticism. This work will appeal to scholars of religious history literary history Evangelicalism Romanticism Scottish literature and nineteenth- century culture. | Robert Pollok’s The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age The Rise and Fall of a Christian Epic

GBP 140.00
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Lives Across Time/Growing Up Paths to Emotional Health and Emotional Illness from Birth to 30 in 76 People

Lives Across Time/Growing Up Paths to Emotional Health and Emotional Illness from Birth to 30 in 76 People

Follow seventy-six children from birth to thirty to learn about their various developmental life paths and their influences. Children traverse continuous or discontinuous courses. This book describes their life stories which may transform and enrich the reader's life. In working with these people the authors heard something basic: stories people | Lives Across Time/Growing Up Paths to Emotional Health and Emotional Illness from Birth to 30 in 76 People

GBP 130.00
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The Multivalence of an Epic Retelling the Rāmāyaṇa in South India and Southeast Asia

The Multivalence of an Epic Retelling the Rāmāyaṇa in South India and Southeast Asia

This volume examines The Rāmāyaṇa traditions of South India and Southeast Asia. Bringing together 19 well-known scholars in Rāmāyaṇa studies from Cambodia Canada France India Indonesia Malaysia Singapore Thailand UK and USA this thought-provoking and elegantly illustrated volume engages with the inherent plurality diversity and adaptability of the Rāmāyaṇa in changing socio-political religious and cultural contexts. The journey and localization of the Rāmāyaṇa is explored in its manifold expressions – from classical to folk from temples and palaces to theatres and by-lanes in cities and villages and from ancient to modern times. Regional Rāmāyaṇas from different parts of South India and Southeast Asia are placed in deliberate juxtaposition to enable a historically informed discussion of their connected pasts across land and seas. The three parts of this volume organized as visual literary and performance cultures discuss the sculpted painted inscribed written recited and performed Rāmāyaṇas. A related emphasis is on the way boundaries of medium and genre have been crossed in the visual literary and performed representations of the Rāmāyaṇa. | The Multivalence of an Epic Retelling the Rāmāyaṇa in South India and Southeast Asia

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Nostalgias for Homer in Greek Literature of the Roman Empire

Nostalgias for Homer in Greek Literature of the Roman Empire

This volume investigates how versions of Trojan War narratives written in Greek in the first through fifth centuries C. E. created nostalgias for audiences. In ancient education the Iliad and the Odyssey were used as models through which students learned Greek language and literature. This combined with the ruling elite’s financial encouragement of re-creations of the Greek literature of the past created a culture of nostalgia. This book explores the different responses to this climate particularly in the case of the third-century C. E. poet Quintus of Smyrna’s epic Posthomerica. Positioning itself as a sequel to the Iliad and a prequel to the Odyssey the Posthomerica is unique in its middle-of-the-road response to nostalgia for Homer’s epics. This book contrasts Quintus’ poem with other responses to nostalgia for Homeric narratives in Greek literature of the Roman Empire. Some authors contradict pivotal events of the Iliad and Odyssey such as the first-century orator Dio Chrysostom’s Trojan Speech which claims that the Trojan hero Hector did not in fact die contrary to the Iliad’s account. Others re-created Homeric narratives but did not contradict them improvising some elements and adding others. Quintus strikes a compromise in his epic re-imagining Homeric narrative by introducing new characters and scenarios while at the same time retaining the Iliad and Odyssey’s aesthetics. Nostalgias for Homer in Greek Literature of the Roman Empire is of interest to students and scholars working on Homeric reception and the Greek literature of the Roman Empire as well as those interested in classical literature and reception more broadly.

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Literature and Power A Critical Investigation of Literary Legitimacy

Literature and Power A Critical Investigation of Literary Legitimacy

With reference to the theoretical framework of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu this book offers a critical investigation into such epic issues as the end of art and the inherent laws of literature’s evolution while conflating the two into one major argumentation. The book proceeds from Hegel’s claim of “the end of art” to tackle the universal yet essential problem of literature: its legitimacy in a sociological sense. It invests Bourdieu’s sociological terms – power capital habitus field and so forth-into the study of literature and art while taking on other theoretical enquiries particularly the Marxist exploration into ideology as well as aspects of economics and communication studies. This book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of the sociology of literature cultural studies and those with specific interests in Chinese literature literary and art theory. | Literature and Power A Critical Investigation of Literary Legitimacy

GBP 120.00
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The Monarch and the (Non)-Human in Literature and Cinema Western and Global Perspectives

The Monarch and the (Non)-Human in Literature and Cinema Western and Global Perspectives

This collection studies the representations of the character of the monarch in literature and cinema. Being a person an institution a character archetype and a narrative role the characters of the monarch and other royal or regal characters oscillate between humanity and the non-human. As such they are hybrid forms of existence and subjectivity. The authors of this collection explore this hybridity across large spectra of genres historical periods and cultural contexts. Some of the most prolific and widely read scholars analyze the archetype of the monarch on the page the stage and the screen. They cover large swathes of intersecting creative and interpretive territories including ancient epic and religious poetry Arthurian legends British Renaissance and modern drama British horror films and Hollywood crime and sports films. This collection also features interviews with six prominent comic book writers and artists who discuss the influence of classical royal archetypes on their works. | The Monarch and the (Non)-Human in Literature and Cinema Western and Global Perspectives

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Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism

Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism

Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism identifies the early reception of Paradise Lost as a site of contest over the place of literature in political and religious controversy. Milton’s earliest readers and critics (Dryden Addison Dennis Hume and Bentley) confronted a poem and author at odds with the prevailing culture and the revanchist conservatism of the restored monarchy. Grappling with the epic required navigating Milton’s reputation as a “fanatick” who had called in print for Charles I’s execution inveighed openly against monarchy on the eve of Charles II’s return and held heretical views on the trinity baptism and divorce. Harper argues that foundational figures in English literary criticism rose to this challenge by innovating new ways of reading: producing creative (and subversive) rewritings of Paradise Lost articulating new theories of the sublime explaining the poem in the first substantial body of annotations for an English vernacular text and by pioneering early forms of textual criticism and editing.

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Sex Class and Culture

Sex Class and Culture

First published in 1986 Sex Class and Culture is a collection of Marxist feminist essays that develops an original critical theory and applies it to literature the visual arts and mass media. Lillian Robinson was the first American critic to suggest the essential connections among sex class and race as forces that shape works of art and the critical response to them. In applying her theory to particular texts she considers topics from the Renaissance epic to the Regency romance from Jane Austen to contemporary feminist poets and from factory workers’ memoirs to TV images of career women and housewives. The essays are insightful because Robinson clearly knows this wide assortment of texts cares about their significance and writes about them with wit. They are irreverent because she asserts the feminist critic’s permanent responsibility to ask So What? and they are controversial because she constantly addresses that question to our most powerful and respectable institutions – social and literary. This book will be of interest to students of literature history gender studies and sexuality studies.

GBP 105.00
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Museum Exhibitions and Suspense The Use of Screenwriting Techniques in Curatorial Practice

Museum Exhibitions and Suspense The Use of Screenwriting Techniques in Curatorial Practice

Museum Exhibitions and Suspense takes insights from screenwriting to revolutionise our understanding of exhibition curating. Despite all genuine efforts to reach broader audiences museums persistently fear riskingtheir credibility by becoming ‘too popular’. Thus the enormous potential to learn from other storytelling forms more experienced in the field of entertainment remains essentially unexploited. Museum Exhibitions and Suspense unlocks this creative potential. A comparative in-depth analysis of three classical Hollywood films and three cultural historical exhibitions demonstrates how dramatic suspense techniques can be applied to exhibitions. These techniques must be adapted to the typical epic character of the exhibition medium. By differentiating between mild and wild suspense the book provides a new understanding of the nature of suspense itself. Museum Exhibitions and Suspense addresses academics and students in the fields of museum studies gallery studies and heritage studies interested in how exhibitions function and in how to achieve dramaturgical effects like suspense. It also appeals to scholars and students within film studies who want to gain a deeper understanding of suspense. It provides an important resource for curators and other museum practitioners and scriptwriters who intend to create stories with a wide audience appeal. | Museum Exhibitions and Suspense The Use of Screenwriting Techniques in Curatorial Practice

GBP 120.00
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Milton: Paradise Lost

Milton: Paradise Lost

Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the great works of literature of any time and in any language. Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition it is a work epic both in scale and notoriously in ambition. For nearly 350 years it has held generation upon generation of scholars students and readers in rapt attention and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture. First published in 1968 with John Carey's Complete Shorter Poems Alastair Fowler's Paradise Lost is widely acknowledged to be the most authoritative edition of this compelling work. An unprecedented amount of detailed annotation accompanies the full text of the first (1667) edition providing a wealth of contextual information to enrich and enhance the reader's experience. Notes on composition and context are combined with a clear explication of the multitude allusions Milton called to the poem's aid. The notes also summarise and illuminate the vast body of critical attention the poem has attracted synthesizing the ancient and the modern to provide a comprehensive account both of the poem's development and its reception. Meanwhile Alastair Fowler's invigorating introduction surveys the whole poem and looks in detail at such matters as Milton's theology metrical structure and most valuably his complex and imaginary astronomy. The result is an enduring landmark in the field of Milton scholarship and an invaluable guide for readers of all levels. | Milton: Paradise Lost

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Frederick Douglass A Biography

Frederick Douglass A Biography

This biography written by Booker T. Washington one of most important post-Civil War African-American thinkers is an account of the life and career of Frederick Douglass. The biographical account is set within a nation struggling to solve one of the most excruciating social problems that any modern people facedslavery. This volume encompasses the experiences of Frederick Douglass as a slave and then as a public man through the anti-slavery movement the Civil War and the period of reconstruction. Douglass's fame as a speaker was secure. His position as the champion of an oppressed race was in his own generation as picturesque as it was unique. From the blight of slavery Douglass emerged passed through and triumphed over the lingering prejudice that he encountered as a freeman. Like the author of his biography Douglass seized his place in history. His life is an epic one that finds few to equal it in the realms of either romance or reality. Douglass was a role model to the author and his early narrative was a guide to black and white people alike. Among the subjects covered are the Genesis of the Anti-Slavery Agitation the Fugitive Slave Law the Underground Railway the American Colonization Society the Conflict in Kansas for Free Soil the John Brown Raid the Civil War the Enlistment of Colored Troops and Reconstruction. | Frederick Douglass A Biography

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The “Socialist Transformation” of Memory Reversing Chinese History through “Pernicious-Vestiges” Media Discourse

The “Socialist Transformation” of Memory Reversing Chinese History through “Pernicious-Vestiges” Media Discourse

Through discourse analysis and a historical comparison of “Pernicious-Vestiges” narratives in the news text of People’s Daily this book is devoted to revealing primary metaphors of “Pernicious-Vestiges” and political functions in China. “Pernicious-Vestiges” (Yí Dú 遗毒) is one of the most frequently used words in contemporary Chinese historical narration as well as a constantly changing rhetorical direction in New China’s media discourse whose function is to remold memory. Over the past 76 years the “Pernicious-Vestiges” narrative continuously constructed by People’s Daily the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party have reflected the views of China’s political elite and represented the ruling party’s evaluation and reevaluation of historical events. The findings of this book challenge the myth that memory is naturally superior to forgetting reflect on the ethics of memory in “Pernicious-Vestiges” narratives and the erasure of their own justice and suggest that the critical space compressed by “Pernicious-Vestiges” narratives should be returned to restore the order of memory and historical reflection. This book will be an excellent read for students and scholars of Chinese studies media studies and those who are interested in political communication and collective memory in general. | The “Socialist Transformation” of Memory Reversing Chinese History through “Pernicious-Vestiges” Media Discourse

GBP 130.00
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The Ethical Planning Practitioner

The Ethical Planning Practitioner

If a local college gives a city planner tickets to a sold-out football game is it wrong to take them — even if the planner pays? Should a planning consultant bid on a project that has a clearly unrealistic timeframe? Can a planning director moonlight for another agency? For practicing planners potential ethics violations abound and the eye of public scrutiny never blinks. Planners need a guide and now they have it: the first guidebook based on the current revision of the AICP (American Institute of Certified Planners) Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. The Ethical Planning Practitioner presents 76 scenarios all real-life dilemmas based on the code’s rules of conduct. Each scenario comes with tools to help planners explore the answers on their own in a training session or in a classroom. When you buy the guide through APA you get something more: a recording author Jerry Weitz FAICP made with former AICP President Dwight Merriam FAICP. Together they review three short videos talk about the ethical situations they represent and suggest the actions planners could take. The recording comes with a PowerPoint presentation that makes it a powerful teaching aid. This vital handbook looks at everyday ethics the way planners need to see them in black white and shades of gray — but most of all clearly. The Ethical Practicing Planner will not only instruct but inspire planners to strengthen the public’s trust.

GBP 145.00
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