Author: Rose ArnyPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 996
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Forthcoming Books
Author: Rose ArnyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Library of the City of Detroit
Author: Henry M. CrittendenPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385559979
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Children's Books in Print
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2006
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Catalogue of the Public Library of the City of Detroit
Author: Detroit Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The Senses of Humor
Author: Daniel WickbergPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801454387
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Why do modern Americans believe in something called a sense of humor, and how did they come to that belief? Daniel Wickberg traces the relatively short cultural history of the concept to its British origins as a way to explore new conceptions of the self and social order in modern America. More than simply the history of an idea, Wickberg's study provides new insights into a peculiarly modern cultural sensibility. The expression "sense of humor" was first coined in the 1840s, and the idea that such a sense was a personality trait to be valued developed only in the 1870s. What is the relationship between medieval humoral medicine and this distinctively modern idea of the sense of humor? What has it meant in the past 125 years to declare that someone lacks a sense of humor? Why do modern Americans say it is a good thing not to take oneself seriously? How is the joke, as a twentieth-century quasi-literary form, different from the traditional folktale? Wickberg addresses these questions among others and in the process uses the history of ideas to throw new light on the way contemporary Americans think and speak about humor and laughter. The context of Wickberg's analysis is Anglo-American; the specifically British meanings of humor and laughter from the sixteenth century forward provide the framework for understanding American cultural values in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The genealogy of the sense of humor is, like the study of keywords, an avenue into a significant aspect of the cultural history of modernity. Drawing on a wide range of sources and disciplinary perspectives, Wickberg's analysis challenges many of the prevailing views of modern American culture and suggests a new model for cultural historians.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Vol. 3 of 4 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Thomas CarlylePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334504235
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Excerpt from Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Vol. 3 of 4 Tm: healthy know not of their health, but only the sick this is the Physician's Aphorism; and applicable in a far wider senw than he gives it. We may say, it holds no less in moral. Intellectual, political, poetical, than in merely cor [anal therapeutics; that wherever, or in what shape so rter. Powers of the sort which can be named vital are at turk. Herein lies the test of their working right or working wrong. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Books in Print
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2432
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The Literary World
Author: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Vol. 2 of 4
Author: Thomas CarlylePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780364967669
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Excerpt from Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Vol. 2 of 4: Collected and Republished Friedrich von Hardenberg, better known in Literature by the pseudonym Novalis, ' was born on the 2nd of May 1772, at a country residence of his family in the Grafschaft of Mansfeld, in Saxony. His father, who had been a soldier in youth, and still retained a liking for that profession, was at this time Director Of the Saxon Salt-works; an Office of some considerable trust and dignity. Tieck says, he was a vigor ous, unweariedly active man, of open, resolute character, a true German. His religious feelings made him a member Of the Hermhut Communion yet his disposition continued gay, frank, rugged and downright.' The mother also was distin guished for her worth; 'a pattern of noble piety and Christian mildness'; virtues which her subsequent life gave Opportunity enough for exercising. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Anti-enlightenment Tradition
Author: Zeev SternhellPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300135548
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
In this masterful work of historical scholarship, Zeev Sternhell, an internationally renowned Israeli political scientist and historian, presents a controversial new view of the fall of democracy and the rise of radical nationalism in the twentieth century. Sternhell locates their origins in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Anti-Enlightenment, far earlier than most historians. The thinkers belonging to the Anti-Enlightenment (a movement originally identified by Friederich Nietzsche) represent a perspective that is antirational and that rejects the principles of natural law and the rights of man. Sternhell asserts that the Anti-Enlightenment was a development separate from the Enlightenment and sees the two traditions as evolving parallel to one another over time. He contends that J. G. Herder and Edmund Burke are among the real founders of the Anti-Enlightenment and shows how that school undermined the very foundations of modern liberalism, finally contributing to the development of fascism that culminated in the European catastrophes of the twentieth century.