The Mental Life of Modernism: Why Poetry, Painting, and Music Changed at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Hardcover - Samuel Jay Keyser

An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one.At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and paint...

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Publisher: Edward Everett RootCollection: Studies in Irish Literature, Cinema and CulturePublication date: 2019Dimensions: 159 x 235 x 23Cover type...

Reducere. Winner, 2018 U.S. History PROSE Award The incredible stories of how trans men assimilated into mainstream communities in the late 1800s In 1883, Fr...

Elena Fratto examines the relationship between literature and medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. She traces how writers including Dosto...

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A major new account of poetry in the twentieth century.

On August 21, 1978, a year before his seventieth birthday, Samuel Steward (1909-93) sat down at his typewriter in Berkeley, California, and began t...

Sarbatoriti aniversarea a 50 de ani a celui mai iubit film de familie din toate timpurile! Comoara cinematografica produsa de Rodgers&Hammerstein s...

Heffernan uses modernist and post-modernist novels as evidence of the diminished faith in the existence of an inherently meaningful end.

Reducere. Penguin's landmark poetry anthology Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, introduces readers to the most ...

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Reducere. Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Richard (Professor of musicology, Professor of musicology, University of California, Berkeley) Tar...

Reducere. The first comprehensive anthology of modern Italian poetry, in a beautiful bilingual editionMore than a century has passed since F. T. Marinetti's ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 175 x 246 x 28Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Olivi...

"What an achievement, these sixty years of poetry In whatever terms we Americans regard the rest of our recent history, the score of things done we...

Revisits the theme of alienation in modernist literature, finding an alternative aesthetic centered on the experience of double exile. Explores exa...

Provides a prehistory to the underlying question of the relationship between data, life, and narrative. Rodrigues contextualizes the application of...

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This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

Reducere. English speakers have 12 centuries of Christian poetry to draw upon. The examples in this anthology come from all Christian sources including Angli...

The Turn of the Screw - Henry James

The emergence of photography and film in the twentieth century helped to establish a dominant culture of images. This extended treatment of the poe...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Annabella PitkinIllustration(s): 7 halftonesNumber of pages: 288Collection: Buddhism and Moder...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Annabella PitkinIllustration(s): 7 halftonesNumber of pages: 280Collection: Buddhism and Moder...

Reducere. The original (1985) edition of this work attempted to cover the main lines of development of phonological theory from the end of the 19th century t...

When an inexperienced governess goes to work at Bly, a country house in Essex to look after a young boy Miles and his sister Flora, all manner of s...

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Micaela BaranelloIllustration(s): 39 music examples, 6 b-w photographs, 1 tableNumber of pages:...

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With Artist as Author, Christa Noel Robbins provides the first extended study of authorship in mid-20th century abstract painting in the US. Taking...

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