Author: Richard Flower
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Category : Albion (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Letters from Lexington and the Illinois
Letters
Chekhov's Letters
Author: Carol Apollonio
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498570453
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing this substantial—though until now neglected—epistolary corpus. The majority of the essays gathered here represent new contributions by the world's major Chekhov scholars, written especially for this volume, or classics of Russian criticism appearing in English for the first time. The introduction addresses the role of letters in Chekhov's life and characterizes the writer's key epistolary concerns. After a series of essays addressing publication history, translation, and problems of censorship, scholars analyze the letters' generic qualities that draw upon, variously, prose, poetry, and drama. Individual thematic studies focus on the letters as documents reflecting biographical, cultural, and philosophical issues. The book culminates in a collection of short, at times lyrical, essays by eminent scholars and writers addressing a particularly memorable Chekhov letter. Chekhov's Letters appeals to scholars, writers, and theater professionals, as well to a general audience.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498570453
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing this substantial—though until now neglected—epistolary corpus. The majority of the essays gathered here represent new contributions by the world's major Chekhov scholars, written especially for this volume, or classics of Russian criticism appearing in English for the first time. The introduction addresses the role of letters in Chekhov's life and characterizes the writer's key epistolary concerns. After a series of essays addressing publication history, translation, and problems of censorship, scholars analyze the letters' generic qualities that draw upon, variously, prose, poetry, and drama. Individual thematic studies focus on the letters as documents reflecting biographical, cultural, and philosophical issues. The book culminates in a collection of short, at times lyrical, essays by eminent scholars and writers addressing a particularly memorable Chekhov letter. Chekhov's Letters appeals to scholars, writers, and theater professionals, as well to a general audience.
Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912
Author: John Wilson Townsend
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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The Lexington Papers
Author: Robert Sutton Lexington (2d baron)
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Category : Austria
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
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Category : Austria
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Lexington- Papers; Or, Some Account of the Courts of London and Vienna; at the Conclusion of the 17 Th Century. Extracted from the Offical and Priv. Correspondence of Robert Sutton, Lord Lexington. Selected from the Originals at Kelham, and Ed. by H ..... Manners Sutton
Author: Henry-Manners Sutton
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Lexington Papers, Or Some Account of the Courts of London and Vienna, at the Conclusion of the Seventeenth Century
Author: H. Manners Sutton
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Category : Austria
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Category : Austria
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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The Letters of Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer
Author: F. Douglas Scutchfield
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813155657
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
This study affords an entirely new view of the nature of modern popular entertainment. American vaudeville is here regarded as the carefully elaborated ritual serving the different and paradoxical myth of the new urban folk. It demonstrates that the compulsive myth-making faculty in man is not limited to primitive ethnic groups or to serious art, that vaudeville cannot be dismissed as meaningless and irrelevant simply because it fits neither the criteria of formal criticsm or the familiar patterns of anthropological study. Using the methods for criticism developed by Susanne K. Langer and others, the author evaluates American vaudeville as a symbolic manifestation of basic values shared by the American people during the period 1885-1930. By examining vaudeville as folk ritual, the book reveals the unconscious symbolism basic to vaudeville-in its humor, magic, animal acts, music, and playlets, and also in the performers and the managers -- which gave form to the dominant American myth of success. This striking view of the new mass man as a folk and of his mythology rooted in the very empirical science devoted to dispelling myth has implications for the serious study of all forms of mass entertainment in America. The book is illustrated with a number of striking photographs.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813155657
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
This study affords an entirely new view of the nature of modern popular entertainment. American vaudeville is here regarded as the carefully elaborated ritual serving the different and paradoxical myth of the new urban folk. It demonstrates that the compulsive myth-making faculty in man is not limited to primitive ethnic groups or to serious art, that vaudeville cannot be dismissed as meaningless and irrelevant simply because it fits neither the criteria of formal criticsm or the familiar patterns of anthropological study. Using the methods for criticism developed by Susanne K. Langer and others, the author evaluates American vaudeville as a symbolic manifestation of basic values shared by the American people during the period 1885-1930. By examining vaudeville as folk ritual, the book reveals the unconscious symbolism basic to vaudeville-in its humor, magic, animal acts, music, and playlets, and also in the performers and the managers -- which gave form to the dominant American myth of success. This striking view of the new mass man as a folk and of his mythology rooted in the very empirical science devoted to dispelling myth has implications for the serious study of all forms of mass entertainment in America. The book is illustrated with a number of striking photographs.
Reprints of Littell's Political Transactions in and Concerning Kentucky and Letter of George Nicholas to His Friend in Virginia
Author: William Littell
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Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Publisher:
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Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Lexington Papers; Or, Some Account of the Courts of London and Vienna at the Conclusion of the Seventeenth Century. Extracted from the ... Correspondence of R. S. ... Edited, with Notes, by H. M. Sutton
Author: Robert SUTTON (2nd Baron Lexington.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description