Author: Edward Godfrey CoxPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel: The old world
Author: Edward Godfrey CoxPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel
Author: Edward G. CoxHistorical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Passage
Author: Alan DayPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 081086519X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
The Northwest Passage was repeatedly sought for over four centuries. From the first attempt in the late 15th century to Roald Amundsen's famous voyage of 1903-1906 where the feat was first accomplished to expeditions in the late 1940s by the Mounties to discover an even more northern route, author Alan Day covers all aspects of the ongoing quest that excited the imagination of the world. This compendium of explorers, navigators, and expeditions tackles this broad topic with a convenient, but extensive cross-referenced dictionary. A chronology traces the long succession of treks to find the passage, the introduction helps explain what motivated them, and the bibliography provides a means for those wishing to discover more information on this exciting subject.
The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature
Author: Frederick Wilse BatesonPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel
Author: Edward Godfrey CoxEnlightenment Orpheus
Author: Vanessa AgnewPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198044356
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Enlightenment saw a critical engagement with the ancient idea that music carries certain powers - it heals and pacifies, civilizes and educates. Yet this interest in musical utility seems to conflict with larger notions of aesthetic autonomy that emerged at the same time. In Enlightenment Orpheus, Vanessa Agnew examines this apparent conflict, and provocatively questions the notion of an aesthetic-philosophical break between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Agnew persuasively connects the English traveler and music scholar Charles Burney with the ancient myth of Orpheus. She uses Burney as a guide through wide-ranging discussions of eighteenth-century musical travel, views on music's curative powers, interest in non-European music, and concerns about cultural identity. Arguing that what people said about music was central to some of the great Enlightenment debates surrounding such issues as human agency, cultural difference, and national identity, Agnew adds a new dimension to postcolonial studies, which has typically emphasized the literary and visual at the expense of the aural. She also demonstrates that these discussions must be viewed in context at the era's broad and well-entrenched transnational network, and emphasizes the importance of travel literature in generating knowledge at the time. A new and radically interdisciplinary approach to the question of the power of music - its aesthetic and historical interpretations and political uses - Enlightenment Orpheus will appeal to students and scholars in historical musicology, ethnomusicology, German studies, eighteenth-century history, and comparative studies.
Geographical Literature, a Brief Annotated Guide
Author: Irene P. NorellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences
Author: John D. McDonaldPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000031543
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 5538
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, comprising of seven volumes, now in its fourth edition, compiles the contributions of major researchers and practitioners and explores the cultural institutions of more than 30 countries. This major reference presents over 550 entries extensively reviewed for accuracy in seven print volumes or online. The new fourth edition, which includes 55 new entires and 60 revised entries, continues to reflect the growing convergence among the disciplines that influence information and the cultural record, with coverage of the latest topics as well as classic articles of historical and theoretical importance.
The Reader's Adviser
Author: A Concise Bibliography for Students of English
Author: Arthur Garfield KennedyPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description