The Window on the Arts, Literature, and Society
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 320
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Reading to Make a Difference
Author: Lester L. Laminack
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780325098708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Reading to Make a Difference shows teachers how to move beyond including diverse literature in their classroom to become caring citizens and agents of change. With examples from many classrooms across grade levels, Lester and Katie engage students in critical conversations around topics that arise in literature and in life. They share concrete steps for how teachers can support students to take action and make a difference in their classroom, school or community"--
The Arts, Literature, and Society
Author: Arthur Marwick
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780415014458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the complex and problematic relationships between cultural products - from Shakespeare to visual art, the novel, film and modern drama - and the societies which produce them. The contributors are all specialist authors in this increasingly important field of study.
Mimesis
Author: Gunter Gebauer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780520084599
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A fundamental historical account of the much-cited but little-studied concept of mimesis, and an essential starting point for all future discussions of this crucial critical concept."—Hayden White
The Jane Austen Society
Author: Natalie Jenner
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2020-05-26
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 1250248728
DOWNLOAD EBOOK* INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * "This novel delivers sweet, smart escapism." —People "Fans of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will adore The Jane Austen Society... A charming and memorable debut, which reminds us of the universal language of literature and the power of books to unite and heal." —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable. One hundred and fifty years ago, Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen, one of England's finest novelists. Now it's home to a few distant relatives and their diminishing estate. With the last bit of Austen's legacy threatened, a group of disparate individuals come together to preserve both Jane Austen's home and her legacy. These people—a laborer, a young widow, the local doctor, and a movie star, among others—could not be more different and yet they are united in their love for the works and words of Austen. As each of them endures their own quiet struggle with loss and trauma, some from the recent war, others from more distant tragedies, they rally together to create the Jane Austen Society. A powerful and moving novel that explores the tragedies and triumphs of life, both large and small, and the universal humanity in us all, Natalie Jenner's The Jane Austen Society is destined to resonate with readers for years to come.
Parallel Modernism
Author: Chinghsin Wu
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2019-11-12
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0520299825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis significant historical study recasts modern art in Japan as a “parallel modernism” that was visually similar to Euroamerican modernism, but developed according to its own internal logic. Using the art and thought of prominent Japanese modern artist Koga Harue (1895–1933) as a lens to understand this process, Chinghsin Wu explores how watercolor, cubism, expressionism, and surrealism emerged and developed in Japan in ways that paralleled similar trends in the west, but also rejected and diverged from them. In this first English-language book on Koga Harue, Wu provides close readings of virtually all of the artist’s major works and provides unprecedented access to the critical writing about modernism in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s through primary source documentation, including translations of period art criticism, artist statements, letters, and journals.
Why I Write
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: Renard Press Ltd
Published: 2021-01-01
Total Pages: 15
ISBN-13: 1913724263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
World Outside the Window
Author: Kenneth Rexroth
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780811210256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book talks about Kenneth's twenty-seven essays written over a period of time of more than forty years. It remains the sanest guide to the cultural upheaval in American society since World War II.
Literature and the Visual Arts in Contemporary Society
Author: Suzanne Ferguson
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 346
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Author: James Huneker
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-18
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPainted Veils is a book by James Huneker. It depicts a contemplation on sexuality, love, mortality and several dangerous frivolities amongst artsy New Yorkers, considered a shocking book in its time.
