Edward Lear—the father of nonsense—wrote some of the best-loved poems in English. He was also admired as a naturalist, landscape painter, travel writer, and composer. Awkward but funny, absurdly ...sympathetic, Lear invented himself as a Victorian character. Sara Lodge offers a moving account of one of the era’s most influential creative figures.
Our Fritz Frank Lorenz Muller, Muller
2011, 2011-10-10, 20110101
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In the first comprehensive life of Frederick III, Müller reconstructs how the beloved persona of "Our Fritz" was created and used for various political purposes before and after the emperor's tragic ...death from throat cancer. Frederick III served as a canvas onto which different political forces projected their hopes and fears for Germany's future.
The Salome Ensembleprobes the entangled lives, works, and passions of a political activist, a novelist, a screenwriter, and a movie actress who collaborated in 1920s New York City. Together they ...created the shape-shifting, genre-crossing Salome of the Tenements, first a popular novel and then a Hollywood movie. The title character was a combination Cinderella and Salome like the women who conceived her. Rose Pastor Stokes was the role model. Anzia Yezierska wrote the novel. Sonya Levien wrote the screenplay. Jetta Goudal played her on the silver screen.Ginsberg considers the women individually and collectively, exploring how they shaped and reflected their cultural landscape. These European Jewish immigrants pursued their own versions of the American dream, escaped the squalor of sweatshops, knew romance and heartache, and achieved prominence in politics, fashion, journalism, literature, and film.
Winner of the 2013 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize presented by the American Studies AssociationThe act of eating is both erotic and violent, as one wholly consumes the object being eaten. ...At the same time, eating performs a kind of vulnerability to the world, revealing a fundamental interdependence between the eater and that which exists outside her body.Racial Indigestion explores the links between food, visual and literary culture in the nineteenth-century United States to reveal how eating produces political subjects by justifying the social discourses that create bodily meaning.Combing through a visually stunning and rare archive of children's literature, architectural history, domestic manuals, dietetic tracts, novels and advertising,Racial Indigestiontells the story of the consolidation of nationalist mythologies of whiteness via the erotic politics of consumption. Less a history of commodities than a history of eating itself, the book seeks to understand how eating became a political act, linked to appetite, vice, virtue, race and class inequality and, finally, the queer pleasures and pitfalls of a burgeoning commodity culture. In so doing,Racial Indigestionsheds light on contemporary foodie culture's vexed relationship to nativism, nationalism and race privilege.
The Air-Conditioning Controlling System Managing both Power Consumption and Comfortableness has been developed. It chooses the best control schedule which is expected to consume the lowest energy in ...an acceptable level of comfortableness by a heat load simulation. It also can perceive an amount of energy reduction in a certain period of time under demand response situation.
Revisiting the 1888 Centennial Drought Ritman, Mathilde E. H.; Ashcroft, Linden C.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria,
2020, Letnik:
132, Številka:
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Droughts are a key feature of Australia’s climate and can lead to water shortages, crop failure and economic instability. Historical droughts are an important source of information to better ...understand recent droughts and how they might be managed. However, the majority of studies into Australian drought only consider dry periods in the 20th and 21st centuries. Here, a newly developed gridded rainfall dataset from the Bureau of Meteorology and a network of historical rainfall stations are used to re-examine the short but sharp Centennial Drought of 1888. The Centennial Drought is explored on a monthly scale, highlighting key periods of rainfall deficiency, and identifying the impacts of relevant atmospheric circulation patterns. The most significant rainfall declines occur in autumn and spring and are likely to be the result of an El Niño event, a positive Sub-Tropical Ridge intensity anomaly, and seasonal fluctuations of the Southern Annular Mode. Comparing the Centennial Drought to other short droughts of 1914–15, 1982–83 and 2017~ indicates that the magnitude of the rainfall deficiencies and widespread spatial extent are comparable, placing the Centennial Drought alongside some of the most severe short droughts in Australia’s colonial climate history.
American Civil-War era art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William J. Stillman classified styles and defined art in terms that have become fundamental to our modern periodization of ...the art of the nineteenth century. In Critical Shift, Karen Georgi re-reads many of their well-known texts, finding certain key discrepancies between their words and our historiography, pointing to unrecognized narrative desires. The book also studies ruptures and revolutionary breaks between “old” and “new” art, as well as the issue of the morality of “true” art. Georgi asserts that these concepts and their sometimes-loaded expression were part of larger rhetorical structures that gainsay the uses to which the key terms have been put in modern historiography. It has been more than fifty years since a book has been devoted to analyzing the careers of these three critics; and never before has their role in the historiography and periodization of American art been analyzed. The conclusions drawn from this close re-reading of well-known texts are significant for more than just our understanding of nineteenth century criticism. They challenge the fundamental nature of “historical context” in American art history.
حاول معظم النقاد من جميع أنحاء العالم التركيز على نوع جديد من الأدب من أنواع الأدب يسمى بأدب الأطفال. هذا النوع يحتوي على نفس خصائص أدب البالغين، لكنه يعتمد على أفكار والتصورات والخبرات متنوعة والتي ...يمكن اعتبارها وسيلة مناسبة لتطوير القدرات العقلية للأطفال بالإضافة إلى مساعدتهم على أن يكونوا مفكرين فعالين يؤدون أدوارا إيجابية في الحياة. تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى مناقشة أهمية أدب الأطفال، ليس لقيمته الأدبية فقط، وإنما أيضا لقدرته على تطوير وتغيير سلوكيات ومواقف الأطفال بشكل إيجابي من خلال الدروس الأخلاقية التي يتضمنها هذا النوع من الأدب.
Assassination in Vichy Brunelle, Gayle K; Finley-Croswhite, S. Annette
Assassination in Vichy,
2020., 20200925, 2020, 2020-10-01, 2020-09-25
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"During the night of July 25, 1941, assassins planted a time bomb in the bed of former French Interior Minister Marx Dormoy. The explosion of the bomb on the morning of July 26 launched a two-year ...investigation that traced Dormoy's murder to the highest echelons of the Vichy regime. Dormoy, who had led a 1937 investigation into the "Cagoule," a violent ultra-right-wing terrorist organization, was the victim of a captivating revenge plot. Based on the meticulous examination of thousands of documents, Assassination in Vichy tells the story of Dormoy's murder and of the investigation, led by courageous Police Superintendent Charles Chenevier, who persisted despite opposition from both Vichy and collaborationists in Paris. A book about France's deep political divisions, wartime choices, and post-war memory, Assassination in Vichy explores the impact of fascist extremism on France's history and explains why after the war none of Dormoy's assassins were punished for his murder. At the heart of this book lies the investigation of a true crime that was sensational in its day but overshadowed by the war. It is a microhistory that also tells a larger and more significant story about the development of far-right political movements, domestic terrorism, and the importance of courage."--
In the early 1920s literature was still seen as the most prominent manifestation of Slovak life. As such it was also recognized by Martin Rázus (1888 – 1937), who is in terms of literary history a ...writer with the status of a representative of the so-called transition generation, whose work maintains the continuity between the pre-war and the post-war situations. As of the year 1923 he used to write editorials for the Národnie noviny, in many of which he expressed his opinions on contemporary literature. The recurrent theme of his reflections was the notion of „national character“, which was developed within his own philosophical concept of Slovak nationalism. The notion in question was, however, strongly rejected by the following young generation, who saw it as an anachronism. In the situation of seeking new forms of poetics and movements Rázus revived the earlier concept of national literature defined by S. H. Vajanský (1847 – 1916), within the framework of which a poet or a writer played the role of a national revivalist, and represented the conscience and memory of the nation. Rázus was convinced that a writer had to bear responsibility for a collective, i.e. a nation. In his articles written between 1925 and 1930 he closely interconnected the issue of literature and the contemporary political and economic problems placing emphasis on the tradition, national autonomy and particularity.
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