Author: Publisher: Ultramarine Publishing
ISBN: 9780893661755
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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A Checklist of the Publications of Harrison of Paris and Monroe Wheeler
Author: Publisher: Ultramarine Publishing
ISBN: 9780893661755
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Publisher and Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
The World in Depression, 1929-1939
Author: Charles P. KindlebergerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520055926
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
“The World in Depression is the best book on the subject, and the subject, in turn, is the economically decisive decade of the century so far.”—John Kenneth Galbraith
The World in Depression, 1929-1939
Author: Charles Poor KindlebergerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520055919
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
"The World in Depression is the best book on the subject, and the subject, in turn, is the economically decisive decade of the century so far."--John Kenneth Galbraith
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
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Bad Books
Author: Amy S. WyngaardPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611494206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Bad Books reconstructs how the eighteenth-century French author Nicolas-Edme R tif de la Bretonne and his writings were at the forefront of the development of modern conceptions of sexuality and pornography. Although certain details are well known (for example, that R tif's 1769 treatise on prostitution, Le Pornographe, is the work from which the term pornography is derived, or that he was an avid foot and shoe fetishist), much of this story has been obscured and even forgotten including how the author actively worked to define the category of obscenity and the modern pornographic genre, and how he coined the psycho-sexual term "fetish" and played a central role in the formation of theories of sexual fetishism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Thus this book is also about literary history and how it is written: it explores how R tif, perceived as a bad author in both senses of the term, and his contributions were glossed over or condemned, such that the originality of his texts has still not been fully established. Placing R tif's novels and short stories in dialogue with his autobiographical writings as well as with contemporary and modern critical commentaries, the various chapters of the book examine the author's repeated testing of the limits of censorship to define and redefine the boundaries of obscenity; his advancement of the modern form and definition of pornography through a focus on intimacy and (female) pleasure; his detailed narrative explorations of foot and shoe fetishisms that were later appropriated by the sexologists; and his development of theories of eugenics and reproduction in his utopian science fiction. The history of R tif's texts and their reception reveals an evolution in the criteria of what is considered to be "good" or "worthy" literature--a category once defined purely on moral grounds that is increasingly seen in cultural terms. Bad Books corroborates the recent resurgence of interest in the author by showing the import of his texts, which not only designate a number of firsts in the histories of sexuality and pornography, but which also illuminate some of the defining moments in the history of French literary studies.
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Author: Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Includes both books and articles.
Constructing Modernity
Author: Martin HammerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300076882
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Naum Gabo (1890-1977), whose eventful life took him from his native Russia to Berlin, Paris, London, and finally the United States, achieved renown as one of the most inventive and controversial figures in twentieth-century sculpture. This book is the first comprehensive account of Gabo's life, career, and artistic theory and practice. Martin Hammer and Christina Lodder explore in detail the evolution of the artist's work and his aesthetic concerns, creative processes, assimilation of such new materials as plastic, and approach to public sculpture. The authors also examine his response to the scientific and political revolutions of his age and trace the origins and development of Gabo's utopian conviction that Constructivist art was profoundly in tune with modernity, social progress, and advances in science and technology. Drawing on Gabo's extensive and largely unpublished archives of letters, diaries, notebooks, models, and sketchbooks, Hammer and Lodder discuss the sculptor's work in the context of his relations with other avant-garde artists, architects, and critics, including his brother Antoine Pevsner. They also situate his aesthetic theory and practice within the Constructi
Kay Boyle
Author: Kay BoylePublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025209736X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 849
Book Description
One of the Lost Generation modernists who gathered in 1920s Paris, Kay Boyle published more than forty books, including fifteen novels, eleven collections of short fiction, eight volumes of poetry, three children's books, and various essays and translations. Yet her achievement can be even better appreciated through her letters to the literary and cultural titans of her time. Kay Boyle shared the first issue of This Quarter with Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, expressed her struggles with poetry to William Carlos Williams and voiced warm admiration to Katherine Anne Porter, fled WWII France with Max Ernst and Peggy Guggenheim, socialized with the likes of James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, and Samuel Beckett, and went to jail with Joan Baez. The letters in this first-of-its-kind collection, authorized by Boyle herself, bear witness to a transformative era illuminated by genius and darkened by Nazism and the Red Scare. Yet they also serve as milestones on the journey of a woman who possessed a gift for intense and enduring friendship, a passion for social justice, and an artistic brilliance that earned her inclusion among the celebrated figures in her ever-expanding orbit.
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