Studies in the History of the English Language VIII: Boundaries and Boundary-Crossings in the History of English, Megan Hartman, Peter Grund
Автор: Kornhauser Elizabeth Mankin, Barringer Tim Название: Thomas Cole`s Journey: Atlantic Crossings ISBN: 1588396401 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781588396402 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 52800.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: A major reexamination of the father of the Hudson River School in relation to his European roots and travels
Thomas Cole (1801-1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an international figure, born in England, and in dialogue with the major landscape painters of the age, including J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. Cole traveled in Europe from 1829 to 1832. Thomas Cole's Journey reexamines his seminal works of 1832-36--notably The Oxbow and Course of Empire--as a culminating response to his experiences of British art and society and of Italian landscape painting. These, combined with Cole's passion for the American wilderness and his horror of the industrial revolution in Britain, led him to create works that offer a distinctive, even dissident, response to the economic and political rise of the United States and the ecological changes then underway. This groundbreaking book also discusses Cole's influence on later artists, from Frederic Edwin Church to Ed Ruscha.
Автор: Dallmayr, Fred R. Название: Border crossings ISBN: 0739100432 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739100431 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 39430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Comparative political theory is aty best an embryonic and marginalised endeavour. Only rarely are practitioners of political thought willing to transgress the canon in the direction of genuine comparative investigation. This work presents an effort to remedy this situation.
In the 1930s and 1940s, rural reformers in the United States and Mexico waged unprecedented campaigns to remake their countrysides in the name of agrarian justice and agricultural productivity. Agrarian Crossings tells the story of how these campaigns were conducted in dialogue with one another as reformers in each nation came to exchange models, plans, and strategies with their equivalents across the border.
Dismantling the artificial boundaries that can divide American and Latin American history, Tore Olsson shows how the agrarian histories of both regions share far more than we realize. He traces the connections between the US South and the plantation zones of Mexico, places that suffered parallel problems of environmental decline, rural poverty, and gross inequities in land tenure. Bringing this tumultuous era vividly to life, he describes how Roosevelt's New Deal drew on Mexican revolutionary agrarianism to shape its program for the rural South. Olsson also looks at how the US South served as the domestic laboratory for the Rockefeller Foundation's "green revolution" in Mexico--which would become the most important Third World development campaign of the twentieth century--and how the Mexican government attempted to replicate the hydraulic development of the Tennessee Valley Authority after World War II.
Rather than a comparative history, Agrarian Crossings is an innovative history of comparisons and the ways they affected policy, moved people, and reshaped the landscape.
Название: Asian City Crossings ISBN: 0367515598 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367515591 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 39800.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book combines essays by scholars of Asian studies, theatre studies, ethnomusicology and human geography with reflective accounts by Hong Kong and Singapore-based performing arts practitioners to highlight the diversity, vibrancy and complexity of creative projects that destabilise notions of identity, belonging, and nationhood.
Автор: Jeji H. K. Название: Crossings ISBN: 0991396804 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780991396801 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 13780.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Roop is torn between pleasing his hard-working immigrant parents and living the less traditional life of a typical Canadian college student.
Already avoiding a marriage his mother is trying to arrange for him to a perfectly lovely Indian girl named Neetu, Roop learns that an old friend of his father's has arrived in the country with his daughter, who recently enrolled at his school.
Roop is intrigued. If he must agree to an arranged marriage to keep the peace, might the newcomer be a better match for him than his mother's initial choice, whom he barely knows? How can he meet and get to know her without Neetu's family finding out? Perhaps a new friend he meets on campus, Preet, can help him untangle his complicated personal life.
Find out what happens when the different cultures and generations collide. Written as an entertaining and insightful stage play about a family of South Asian immigrants, Crossings takes you on a heartfelt journey through the tenuous world of cultural heritage and brings the nuances of each societal group to life in a uniquely personal way.
Автор: Ketchum Jack Название: The Crossings ISBN: 1941408885 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781941408889 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 11490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Snyder Christina Название: Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson ISBN: 0199399069 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199399062 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 24280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: With deep research and lively prose, prize-winning historian Christina Snyder reinterprets the history of Jacksonian era America through an experimental educational community called Great Crossings, a place where Indians, settlers, and slaves were transformed and tried to secure their place in a changing world.
Автор: Mueller-vollmer, Kurt Название: Transatlantic crossings and transformations ISBN: 3631651066 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631651063 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 103140.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This volume attempts for the first time a comprehensive view of the momentous process of German-American cultural transfer during the 18th and 19th centuries, which played an important part in the formation of an American national and cultural identity, a process to which the New England Transcendentalists contributed some of the decisive ingredients, but which has largely escaped the attention of German and American scholarship. In each chapter a specific problem is treated systematically from a clearly defined perspective, deficiencies of existing translation theories are exposed, so that in the concluding chapters 13 and 14 (with an unpublished memorandum by Alexander von Humboldt) a cohesive view of the entire process emerges. A comprehensive bibliography will facilitate further scholarly pursuits.
Автор: Cecilia Rosa Acquarone Название: Barriers, Borders and Crossings in British Postcolonial Fiction ISBN: 1443846708 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781443846707 Издательство: Cambridge Scholars Цена: 38010.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: “Dr Cecilia Acquarone’s perceptive analysis of liminality in British postcolonial fiction from a gender perspective constitutes an innovative, thought-provoking and crystal-clear study of female ‘versus’ male responses to the challenges of postmodernity as exemplified by significant British postcolonial writers. The book can be justly praised for the lucid use of theoretical language and the exploration of modern and postmodern ideology in an unobstrusive form, pinpointing the most significant phenomena related to the topic in question. Dr Acquarone locates the relevance of barriers, borders and crossings with gender on the agenda within the realm of tragedy and comedy, providing a sensible and sensitive humanistic approach to the works of some of the most outstanding authors of British postcolonial fiction. In sum, Cecilia Acquarone’s book is undoubtedly an invaluable contribution to the field of British postcolonial studies.”—Dr Antonio Ballesteros-Gonzalez, Spanish Open University“Cecilia Acquarone’s Barriers, Borders and Crossing in British Postcolonial Fiction: A Gender Perspective is a particularly interesting contribution to the field of postcolonial criticism due to its perceptive intertwining of a sound theoretical background and a sensitive close reading of representative novels by major writers of contemporary multicultural Britain. … In a clear prose, she sheds light on highly complex philosophical and sociological issues, expounding on what the feminine and the masculine perspective can contribute to the hard task of peaceful coexistence in contemporary British multicultural society.”—?ngeles de la Concha, Catedr?tica de Filolog?a Inglesa, Universidad Nacional de Educaci?n a Distancia“Barriers, Borders and Crossing in British Postcolonial Fiction: A Gender Perspective provides an original attempt to map an increasingly visible body of writing in the UK in recent years. In her analysis of key novels by black and Asian British writers … the author highlights an opposition between the predominantly tragic vision of life of the male authors and the fundamentally comic vision of life found in the women writers. … The author offers a provocative reading of recent black and Asian British fiction as postmodernist works in which the writers respond differently to contemporary conditions. The volume is a significant contribution to the field of postcolonial studies and diaspora studies, and its use of the comedy-tragedy paradigm to understand recent fiction enriches more common approaches to the two major ways of experiencing and discussing diaspora.”—Dr Sof?a Mu?oz-Valdivieso, Associate Professor, University of Malaga
Автор: Alexandra Campana Название: Violent Waters: Literary Border Crossings in a Global Age ISBN: 3110673568 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110673562 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 107790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The experience of witnessing and undertaking border crossings has become a pillar of the contemporary human condition. In order to respond to our global, multidimensional social reality, writers need to generate innovative forms of narration that expand the confines of literary tradition. This study discusses four types of border crossing (migration, intercultural dialogue, multicultural identities, military invasion) and presents literary aesthetics that unfold in Algeria, China, France, Germany, Romania, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, the UK, and the USA. These analyses move from the fall of the Iron Curtain to the rise of the internet, and from the turn of the millennium to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Positioned in the field of comparative literature, this book draws upon an extensive background of theoretical thought (e.g. Adorno/Horkheimer, Arendt, Dawkins, Fanon, Freud, Kristeva, Zizek) and reaches into other academic disciplines (such as religious studies). Border crossings thus serve as both theme and methodology, which not only leads to a new definition of post-modern writing, but also underlines literature's relevance in a global society driven by public discourse.
Автор: Alexandra Campana Название: Violent Waters: Literary Border Crossings in a Global Age ISBN: 3110678632 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110678635 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 107790.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: The experience of witnessing and undertaking border crossings has become a pillar of the contemporary human condition. In order to respond to our global, multidimensional social reality, writers need to generate innovative forms of narration that expand the confines of literary tradition. This study discusses four types of border crossing (migration, intercultural dialogue, multicultural identities, military invasion) and presents literary aesthetics that unfold in Algeria, China, France, Germany, Romania, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, the UK, and the USA. These analyses move from the fall of the Iron Curtain to the rise of the internet, and from the turn of the millennium to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Positioned in the field of comparative literature, this book draws upon an extensive background of theoretical thought (e.g. Adorno/Horkheimer, Arendt, Dawkins, Fanon, Freud, Kristeva, Zizek) and reaches into other academic disciplines (such as religious studies). Border crossings thus serve as both theme and methodology, which not only leads to a new definition of post-modern writing, but also underlines literature's relevance in a global society driven by public discourse.
Название: Crossings to Adulthood: How Diverse Young Americans Understand and Navigate Their Lives ISBN: 9004446974 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004446977 Издательство: Brill Рейтинг: Цена: 53130.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Crossings to Adulthood: How Diverse Young Americans Understand and Navigate Their Lives assembles chapters written by members and affiliates of the Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood on pressing issues facing young, coming-of-age Americans in an increasingly diverse, globalizing world. Based on over 400 interviews with young adults from different racial, class and regional backgrounds, the chapters provide an in-depth look at how young Americans understand their lives and the challenges, risks, and opportunities they experience as they move into adulthood during changing and uncertain times. Chapters focus on how these young adults understand markers of adulthood such as leaving home, launching careers, and forming relationships, as well as issues particularly salient to them including politics, diversity, identity, and acculturation.
Contributors are: Pamela Aronson, Arturo Baiocchi, Erika Busse, Patrick J. Carr, Laura Fischer, Constance A. Flanagan, Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., Douglas Hartmann, Maria Kefalas, Vivian Louie, Charlie V. Morgan, Jeylan Mortimer, Laura Napolitano, Lisa Anh Nguyen, Wayne Osgood, Ruben G. Rumbaut, Sarah Shannon, Teresa Toguchi Swartz, and Christopher Uggen.
Crossings to Adulthood: How Diverse Young Americans Understand and Navigate Their Lives is now available in paperback for individual customers.
Казахстан, 010000 г. Астана, проспект Туран 43/5, НП2 (офис 2) ТОО "Логобук" Тел:+7 707 857-29-98 ,+7(7172) 65-23-70 www.logobook.kz
