Reading 1922

Reading 1922
Author: Michael North
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2001-12-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0190288094

This engaging study returns to a truly remarkable year, the year in which both Ulysses and The Waste Land were published, in which The Great Gatsby was set, and during which the Fascisti took over in Italy, the Irish Free State was born, the Harlem Renaissance reached its peak, Charlie Chaplin's popularity crested, and King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered. In short, the year which not only in hindsight became the primal scene of literary modernism but which served as the cradle for a host of major political and aesthetic transformations resonating around the globe. In his previous study, the acclaimed Dialect of Modernism (OUP, 1994), Michael North looked at the racial and linguistic struggles over the English language which gave birth to the many strains of modernism. Here, he expands his vision to encompass the global stage, and tells the story of how books changed the future of the world as we know it in one unforgettable year.

A Talent for Living

A Talent for Living
Author: Barbara L. Bellows
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2006-06-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0807157341

Bellows has produced the first biography of this very private woman and emotionally complex writer, whose life story is also the history of a place and time - Charleston in the first half of the twentieth century.".

Silent Reading

Silent Reading
Author: Maryland. State Department of Education
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1926
Genre: Reading (Elementary)
ISBN:

Poor's

Poor's
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1862
Release: 1925
Genre: Public utilities
ISBN:

Other Things

Other Things
Author: Bill Brown
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2016-01-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 022628316X

From the pencil to the puppet to the drone—the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? Other Things explores this question by considering a wide assortment of objects—from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers to skyscrapers—that have fascinated a range of writers and artists, including Virginia Woolf, Man Ray, Spike Lee, and Don DeLillo. The book ranges across the literary, visual, and plastic arts to depict the curious lives of things. Beginning with Achilles’s Shield, then tracking the object/thing distinction as it appears in the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Lacan, Bill Brown ultimately focuses on the thingness disclosed by specific literary and artistic works. Combining history and literature, criticism and theory, Other Things provides a new way of understanding the inanimate object world and the place of the human within it, encouraging us to think anew about what we mean by materiality itself.