A Centennial Celebration of the Brownies` Book, Rudine Sims Bishop
Автор: Rudine Sims Bishop Название: A Centennial Celebration of the Brownies` Book ISBN: 1496841239 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496841230 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 91960.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Contributions by Jani L. Barker, Rudine Sims Bishop, Julia S. Charles-Linen, Paige Gray, Dianne Johnson-Feelings, Jonda C. McNair, Sara C. VanderHaagen, and Michelle Taylor WattsThe Brownies’ Book occupies a special place in the history of African American children’s literature. Informally the children’s counterpart to the NAACP’s The Crisis magazine, it was one of the first periodicals created primarily for Black youth. Several of the objectives the creators delineated in 1919 when announcing the arrival of the publication—"To make them familiar with the history and achievements of the Negro race" and "To make colored children realize that being ‘colored’ is a beautiful, normal thing"—still resonate with contemporary creators, readers, and scholars of African American children’s literature. The meticulously researched essays in A Centennial Celebration of "The Brownies’ Book" get to the heart of The Brownies’ Book "project" using critical approaches both varied and illuminating. Contributors to the volume explore the underappreciated role of Jessie Redmon Fauset in creating The Brownies’ Book and in the cultural life of Black America; describe the young people who immersed themselves in the pages of the periodical; focus on the role of Black heroes and heroines; address The Brownies’ Book in the context of critical literacy theory; and place The Brownies’ Book within the context of Black futurity and justice. Bookending the essays are, reprinted in full, the first and last issues of the magazine. A Centennial Celebration of "The Brownies’ Book" illuminates the many ways in which the magazine—simultaneously beautiful, complicated, problematic, and inspiring—remains worthy of attention well into this century.
Автор: Gale Cengage Learning Название: A Study Guide for Z. Z. Packer`s Brownies ISBN: 1375377655 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781375377652 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 13430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Leeson Miles Название: Iris Murdoch: A Centenary Celebration ISBN: 191297200X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912972005 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 46530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Iris Murdoch is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
This collection brings together friends, colleagues, fellow and past students, and those who worked with her to celebrate Iris Murdoch's life, and mark the centenary of her birth. All contributors reflect on the impact that Murdoch had on their lives as friend, guide, and inspiration. This collection adds substantially to the biographical works already published, and gives a more rounded vision of her both as an intellectual, and a woman who valued her time out of the public eye. Finally, her friend, and fellow author, A. N. Wilson reflects on his own biography of Murdoch, the impact she had on his own life and writing, and why she was, ultimately, only fully knowable to herself.
Included are many previously unpublished unique photographs of Iris relaxing and in the company of her closest friends.
This centenary celebration of Iris Murdoch's life comprises eighteen tributes from various points of view. Whether she is glimpsed in these pages as a friend, a tutor, a godmother or a writer, or seen from the perspective of a child, a publisher, a politician or a portraitist, the picture that emerges remains constant: gracious, tolerant, fun-loving and wise. In its illustration of the depth of her humanity, this unique portrait of Iris Murdoch will enrich her status as one of the twentieth-century's most significant writers and thinkers.
Anne Rowe, Visiting Professor at the University of Chichester and author of Iris Murdoch (Writers and their Work series) co-author of Iris Murdoch: A Literary Life
This is a book of tributes to Iris Murdoch from those who knew her personally. They show her to be the best of friends: modest, imaginative, loyal, very generous, genuinely interested in others and, above all, immensely kind. It is clear from these short essays that Murdoch did not just think about goodness: she tried to live it every day. Iris Murdoch: A Centenary Celebration offers a fresh perspective on a great author and will be welcomed by both scholars and general readers alike.
Avril Horner, Emeritus Professor of English at Kingston University and Co-Editor of Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995
Автор: Bullen Название: Caxton Celebration, 1877 ISBN: 1108073581 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108073585 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 38010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Caxton Celebration of 1877 commemorated the 400th anniversary of William Caxton`s production of the first book printed in England. The catalogue, compiled by the librarian George Bullen (1816?-94), moves from the start of printing in Britain to the most recent technological innovations, including stereotyping, electrotyping and photography.
Автор: Levitt, Marcus C., Название: Russian literary politics and the Pushkin Celebration of 1880 / ISBN: 0801422507 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801422508 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 90370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In an event acknowledged to be a watershed in modern Russian cultural history, the elite of Russian intellectual life gathered in Moscow in 1880 to celebrate the dedication of a monument to the poet Alexander Pushkin, who had died nearly half a century earlier. Private and government forces joined to celebrate a literary figure, in a country in which monuments were usually dedicated to military or political heroes. In this richly detailed narrative history of the Pushkin Celebration and the developments that led up to it, Marcus C. Levitt explores the unique role of literature in nineteenth-century Russian intellectual life and puts Russian literary criticism, and Pushkin's posthumous reputation, into fresh perspective.
Drawing on Soviet archival materials not readily available in the West, Levitt describes the preparations for the monument and the unfolding of the celebration. His sustained discussions of Turgenev's role and of Dostoevsky's famous "Pushkin Speech" shed new light on what was for both a culminating moment in their careers. In Levitt's view, the Pushkin Celebration represented the articulation of liberal, post-Emancipation hopes for an independent Russian intelligentsia and culture. His analysis of the problems faced by Russian liberalism illuminates the failure of concerted efforts to secure freedom of speech in nineteenth-century Russia.
"This book is a clarion call for African American preachers to think more deeply about the aims and ends of their preaching namely to stop putting so much emphasis on celebratory endings to our sermons and focus more on the substantive content in our sermons. Our so-called celebratory preaching, designed to excite the congregation into action through a highly emotional closing of the sermon, has had the opposite effect. Rather than inducing action, it has lulled generations of black congregants to sleep. While we are jumping up and down, shouting, and waving our hands in the air every Sunday during the worship hour, we seem not to notice the growing number of churched and unchurched alike who are becoming powerfully alienated from any form of institutional religion." from the introduction
"Celebration" is a term that has long been used to describe African American preaching, characterized by content that affirms the goodness and powerful intervention of God as well as style that builds from quiet beginnings to an emotionally rich crescendo in conclusion. Cleophus J. LaRue argues that while celebration is one of African American preaching's greatest gifts to the larger church, too many black preachers have become content with the form of celebration volume, vocabulary, pitch, speed, rhythm, and the like to the neglect of its essence the proclamation of the mighty acts of God in the lives of their congregations and communities. This kind of preaching, LaRue contends, fails to address the ongoing problems of the African American community and is powerless to prevent the growing disaffection of black America with the black church. In words both prophetic and practical, LaRue suggests ways to improve black preaching that honor both the form and the power of the African American homiletical practice of celebration. Preachers will learn how to use celebration more selectively and as part of a fully formed preaching practice rather than as a means of distracting the congregation from pressing social and theological questions. The book includes six illustrative sermons from LaRue as well as Paschal Sampson Wilkinson Sr., Brian K. Blount, and Claudette Anderson Copeland."
Автор: Lee Peter H. Название: Celebration of Continuity ISBN: 0674492811 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674492813 Издательство: Harvard University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 59770.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Dina Khapaeva Название: The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture ISBN: 047203894X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780472038947 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 29570.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death. This book links the mounting demand for images of violent death with dramatic changes in death-related social rituals. It offers a conceptual framework that connects observations of fictional worlds with real-world sociocultural practices.
Автор: Suzanne Juhasz, Cristanne Miller Название: Emily Dickinson: A Celebration for Readers ISBN: 1138672106 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138672109 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 36740.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The focus of this title, first published in 1989, begins with Dickinson’s poems themselves and the ways in which we read them. There are three readings for each of the six poems under consideration that are both complementary and provocative. The selected poems show Dickinson speaking of herself in increasingly wider relationships – to love, the outside world, death and eternity – and are grouped together to reveal her overlapping attitudes and feelings. Other topics discussed range from general epistemological and critical considerations to the poet’s self-identification and the process of reading her poetry as a feminist critic. This title will be of interest to students of literature.
