W.H. Auden
W.H. Auden

Author: Dr John Haffenden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13: 113472313X

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This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

Composing for the Red Screen
Composing for the Red Screen

Author: Kevin Bartig

Publisher:

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0199967598

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Sound film captivated Sergey Prokofiev during the final two decades of his life: he considered composing for nearly two dozen pictures, eventually undertaking eight of them, all Soviet productions. Drawing on newly available sources, Composing for the Red Screen examines - for the first time - the full extent of this prodigious cinematic career.

Outside the Box
Outside the Box

Author: Maria Meindl

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2011-08-18

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0773586385

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Years later, Maria took on the daunting task of sorting through Mona's mountain of papers to create an archive for the University of Toronto's Fisher Rare Book Library. The chaotic state of the boxes reflected Mona's flamboyant and demanding personality, yet they also drew an important picture of the life of a Canadian freelancer in the twentieth century. Mona had begun publishing poetry and features in newspapers in the 1920s and published three books of poetry in the 1940s. In the 1950s, at a time when many women were retreating from the public sphere, she had a successful radio career. Her later journals and letters recount, in agonizing detail, a downward spiral into self-doubt, poverty, and addiction. Maria soon discovered that the truth of Mona's life was even more fascinating than her stories. Outside the Box brings to life a thinly documented era in Canadian letters through the story of one passionate and conflicted woman. It also charts the journey of an unwilling archivist, coming to terms with family secrets, forgotten history, and the stories that are never told.

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Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published:

Total Pages: 769

ISBN-13: 0674025229

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The Hebrew Orient
The Hebrew Orient

Author: Jessica L. Carr

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2020-12-01

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1438480849

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In the decades before the establishment of the State of Israel, striking images of Palestine circulated widely among Jewish Americans. These images visualized "the Orient" for American viewers, creating the possibility for Jewish Americans to understand themselves through imagining "Oriental" counterparts. In The Hebrew Orient, Jessica L. Carr shows how images of the Holy Land made Jewish Americans feel at home in the United States by imagining "the Orient" as heritage. Carr's analyses of periodicals from Hadassah and the Zionist Organization of America, art calendars from the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, the Jewish Encyclopedia, and the Jewish exhibit at the 1933 World's Fair are richly illustrated. What emerges is a new understanding of the place of Orientalism in American Zionism. Creating a narrative about their origins, Jewish Americans looked east to understand themselves as Westerners.

Black Bottom Stomp
Black Bottom Stomp

Author: David A. Jasen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-11

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1135349355

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Black Bottom Stomp tells the compelling stories of the lives and times of nine seminal figures in American music history, including Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong, and Jelly Roll Morton.