Worlds Made by Words
Worlds Made by Words

Author: Anthony Grafton

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9780674032576

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Italian cinemas after the war were filled by audiences who had come to watch domestically-produced films of passion and pathos. These highly emotional and consciously theatrical melodramas posed moral questions with stylish flair, redefining popular ways of feeling about romance, family, gender, class, Catholicism, Italy, and feeling itself. The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama argues for the centrality of melodrama to Italian culture. It uncovers a wealth of films rarely discussed before including family melodramas, the crime stories of neorealismo popolare and opera films, and provides interpretive frameworks that position them in wider debates on aesthetics and society. The book also considers the well-established topics of realism and arthouse auteurism, and re-thinks film history by investigating the presence of melodrama in neorealism and post-war modernism. It places film within its broader cultural context to trace the connections of canonical melodramatists like Visconti and Matarazzo to traditions of opera, the musical theatre of the sceneggiata, visual arts, and magazines. In so doing it seeks to capture the artistry and emotional experiences found within a truly popular form.

The Republic of Imagination
The Republic of Imagination

Author: Azar Nafisi

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-10-21

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0698170334

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A New York Times bestseller The author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with the next chapter of her life in books—a passionate and deeply moving hymn to America Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her multimillion-copy bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics of English and American literature to her eager students in Iran. In this electrifying follow-up, she argues that fiction is just as threatened—and just as invaluable—in America today. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination. Nafisi invites committed readers everywhere to join her as citizens of what she calls the Republic of Imagination, a country with no borders and few restrictions, where the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.

The Republic of Liberia
The Republic of Liberia

Author: Ahtia Solutions

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-04-18

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781545098509

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Subscribing to the tenet that democracies are sustained by citizens who have the requisite knowledge, skills and dispositions, AHTIA Solutions, Inc has worked on a little book that will empower Liberians to be adequately informed about the documents upon which our country rests. The book contains what we call the "Foundational Words of our Nation." Those foundational words include the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence; two important patriotic songs: The National Anthem and the Lone Star Forever; the Pledge of Allegiance, and an introduction to each section in order to put those transcriptions in context. At the end of the book are 25 multiple choice questions on the Constitution and a brief on Liberia, Africa's oldest republic.

Words Onscreen
Words Onscreen

Author: Naomi S. Baron

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0199315760

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In Words Onscreen, Naomi Baron offers a fascinating and timely look at how technology affects the way we read.

A Glossary of Political Terms of the People's Republic of China
A Glossary of Political Terms of the People's Republic of China

Author: Gucheng Li

Publisher: Chinese University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13: 9789622016156

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"A glossary of political terms of the People's Republic of China is a collection of 560 important and frequently-used Chinese political terms and phrases that appeared between 1949 and 1990. Each entry begins with an explanation of the term and its origin, a description of how and under what circumstances the term was used, and a discussion of the changes of meaning over the years, as well as the political and social significance of the words."--Jacket.

The Words That Made Us
The Words That Made Us

Author: Akhil Reed Amar

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2021-05-04

Total Pages: 816

ISBN-13: 0465096360

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A history of the American Constitution's formative decades from a preeminent legal scholar When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate argument over the nature of government. But ratification hardly ended the conversation. For the next half century, ordinary Americans and statesmen alike continued to wrestle with weighty questions in the halls of government and in the pages of newspapers. Should the nation's borders be expanded? Should America allow slavery to spread westward? What rights should Indian nations hold? What was the proper role of the judicial branch? In The Words that Made Us, Akhil Reed Amar unites history and law in a vivid narrative of the biggest constitutional questions early Americans confronted, and he expertly assesses the answers they offered. His account of the document's origins and consolidation is a guide for anyone seeking to properly understand America's Constitution today.

Who Killed Homer?
Who Killed Homer?

Author: Victor Davis Hanson

Publisher: Encounter Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1893554260

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With advice and informative readings of the great Greek texts, this title shows how we might save classics and the Greeks. It is suitable for those who agree that knowledge of classics acquaints us with the beauty and perils of our own culture.

Test your English Vocabulary in Use Upper-Intermediate
Test your English Vocabulary in Use Upper-Intermediate

Author: Michael McCarthy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-08-09

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780521665681

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Varied vocabulary tests with answers; new to the popular English Vocabulary in Use series. Varied vocabulary tests with answers; new to the popular English Vocabulary in Use series.