Author: Walt Whitman Publisher: University of Iowa Press ISBN: 1587299232 Format: PDF, Kindle Pages : 214 Category : History Languages : en Size: 38.60 MB View: 3996
by Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Democratic Vistas books, "Written in the aftermath of the American Civil War during the ferment of national Reconstruction, Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas remains one of the most penetrating analyses of democracy ever written. Now available for the first time in a facsimile of the original 1870-1871 edition, with an introduction and annotations by noted Whitman scholar Ed Folsom that illuminate the essay's historical and cultural contexts, this searing analysis of American culture offers readers today the opportunity to argue with Whitman over the nature of democracy and the future of the nation." --Book Jacket.
by Tom Lutz, Cosmopolitan Vistas Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Cosmopolitan Vistas books, In a major statement on the relation of art and politics in America, Tom Lutz identifies a consistent ethos at the heart of American literary culture for the past 150 years. Through readings of Sherwood Anderson, Willa Cather, Hamlin Garland, Ellen Glasgow, Sarah Orne Jewett, Sinclair Lewis, Edgar Lee Masters, Claude McKay, Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, and others, Lutz identifies what he calls literary cosmopolitanism: an ethos of representational inclusiveness, of the widest possible affiliation, and at the same time one of aesthetic discrimination, and therefore exclusivity. At the same time that it embraces the entire world, in Lutz's view, literary cosmopolitanism necessitates an evaluative stance, and it is this doubleness, this combination of egalitarianism and elitism, that animates American literature since the Civil War. The nineteenth century's realists and sentimentalists, the writers of the Harlem Renaissance and of the Southern Renaissance, the firebrands who brought in the new canon and the traditionalists who struggled to save the old all ascribe, Lutz argues, to the same cosmopolitan values, however much they disagree on what these values demand of those who hold them.
Author: David Marc Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812202716 Format: PDF Pages : 272 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Size: 29.60 MB View: 3864
by David Marc, Demographic Vistas Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Demographic Vistas books, In Demographic Vistas, David Marc shows how we can take television seriously within the humanist tradition while enjoying it on its own terms. To deal with the barrage of messages from television's chaotic history, Marc adapts tools of theatrical and literary criticism to focus on key personalities and genres in ways that reward serious students and casual viewers alike. This updated edition includes a new foreword by Horace Newcomb and a new introduction by the author that discusses the ways in which the nature of television criticism has changed since the book's original publication in 1984. A new final chapter explores the paradox of the diminishing importance of over-the-air broadcasting during the period of television's greatest expansion, which has been brought about by complex technologies such as cable, videocassette recorders, and online services.
Author: John A. Corder Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 9780788133855 Format: PDF, Kindle Pages : 70 Category : Air power Languages : en Size: 19.13 MB View: 6667
by John A. Corder, New World Vistas Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download New World Vistas books, A forecast of the role and technological needs of the U.S. Air Force in the post-Cold War era.
by Craig Crossen, Sky Vistas Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Sky Vistas books, Praise for Craig Crossen and Gerald Rhemann's, Sky Vistas Astronomy "This is a practical and stunningly beautiful guide whose core is a descriptive tour of the best celestial sights: open and globular clusters, nebulae, galaxies, and large areas of sky. The photos in black and white and color, are magnificent. The text goes beyond ordinary descriptions to tell the reader something about each object’s nature." Sky & Telescope "Packed with information that I have encountered nowhere else in amateur-astronomy literature. Sky Vistas also includes 48 full-page color astrophotos by Gerald Rhemann, most of which are magnificent."