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Category : Gift books
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Atlantic Souvenir
Author: The Atlantic Souvenir
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382301946
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
The Atlantic Souvenir
Author: The Atlantic Souvenir, for ...
Author: The Atlantic souvenir (a compilation of several of the contributions to the Knickerbocker gallery, a work intended as a tribute to the editor of the Knickerbocker magazine, L.G. Clark).
Author: Knickerbocker galleryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Souvenir
Author: Louise SteinmanPublisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 9781565123106
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
After finding a box containing letters her father had written to her mother during World War II, as well as a Japanese flag bearing a profound inscription, the author embarks on a mission to discover what happened to her father and the men of his Twenty-fifth Infantry, which takes her all the way to Japan to return the flag to its rightful owner, where she forms a bond with the surviving family and ultimately discovers a side of her father she never knew.
Souvenir
Author: Rolf PottsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501329421
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For as long as people have traveled to distant lands, they have brought home objects to certify the journey. More than mere merchandise, these travel souvenirs take on a personal and cultural meaning that goes beyond the object itself. Drawing on several millennia of examples-from the relic-driven quests of early Christians, to the mass-produced tchotchkes that line the shelves of a Disney gift shop-travel writer Rolf Potts delves into a complicated history that explores issues of authenticity, cultural obligation, market forces, human suffering, and self-presentation. Souvenirs are shown for what they really are: not just objects, but personalized forms of folk storytelling that enable people to make sense of the world and their place in it.' Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. Souvenir features illustrations by Cedar Van Tassel
The Development of the American Short Story
Author: Fred Lewis PatteePublisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Souvenirs of the Fur Trade
Author: Mary MalloyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0873658337
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
American mariners made more than 175 voyages to the Northwest Coast during the half-century after 1787. The art and culture of Northwest Coast Indians so intrigued American sailors that the collecting of ethnographic artifacts became an important secondary trade. Malloy has brought details about these early collections together for the first time.
The Sketch, the Tale, and the Beginnings of American Literature
Author: Lydia G. FashPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081394399X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Accounts of the rise of American literature often start in the 1850s with a cluster of "great American novels"—Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Melville’s Moby-Dick and Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. But these great works did not spring fully formed from the heads of their creators. All three relied on conventions of short fiction built up during the "culture of beginnings," the three decades following the War of 1812 when public figures glorified the American past and called for a patriotic national literature. Decentering the novel as the favored form of early nineteenth-century national literature, Lydia Fash repositions the sketch and the tale at the center of accounts of American literary history, revealing how cultural forces shaped short fiction that was subsequently mined for these celebrated midcentury novels and for the first novel published by an African American. In the shorter works of writers such as Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lydia Maria Child, among others, the aesthetic of brevity enabled the beginning idea of a story to take the outsized importance fitted to the culture of beginnings. Fash argues that these short forms, with their ethnic exclusions and narrative innovations, coached readers on how to think about the United States’ past and the nature of narrative time itself. Combining history, print history, and literary criticism, this book treats short fiction as a vital site for debate over what it meant to be American, thereby offering a new account of the birth of a self-consciously national literary tradition.