The Letters of Thomas Gray
Author: Thomas Gray
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 366
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Author: Thomas Gray
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 366
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Albert Hauck
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 538
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 536
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: F. Douglas Scutchfield
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-11-12
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 0813155657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study affords an entirely new view of the nature of modern popular entertainment. American vaudeville is here regarded as the carefully elaborated ritual serving the different and paradoxical myth of the new urban folk. It demonstrates that the compulsive myth-making faculty in man is not limited to primitive ethnic groups or to serious art, that vaudeville cannot be dismissed as meaningless and irrelevant simply because it fits neither the criteria of formal criticsm or the familiar patterns of anthropological study. Using the methods for criticism developed by Susanne K. Langer and others, the author evaluates American vaudeville as a symbolic manifestation of basic values shared by the American people during the period 1885-1930. By examining vaudeville as folk ritual, the book reveals the unconscious symbolism basic to vaudeville-in its humor, magic, animal acts, music, and playlets, and also in the performers and the managers -- which gave form to the dominant American myth of success. This striking view of the new mass man as a folk and of his mythology rooted in the very empirical science devoted to dispelling myth has implications for the serious study of all forms of mass entertainment in America. The book is illustrated with a number of striking photographs.
Author: Isaac Williams (Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.)
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Published: 1875
Total Pages: 600
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 362
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Fothergill
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Published: 1803
Total Pages: 214
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Fothergill
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Published: 1803
Total Pages: 214
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 1242
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Author: A. N. Wilson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780393323405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a documented portrait of the well-known author.