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Pub. Date
2018.
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1 online resource.
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"From the dime novels of the Civil War era to the pulp magazines of the early 20th century to modern paperbacks, lurid fiction has provided escapism. Covering the history of pulp literature from 1850 through 1960, the author describes how sensational tales filled a public need and flowered during the evolving social conditions of the Industrial Revolution"--
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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1 online resource (xiv, 277 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), music
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In 'Kunqu', Joseph S.C. Lam offers a holistic and interdisciplinary view on kunqu, a 600-year-old genre of Chinese opera that is being fashionably performed inside and outside of China. He explains how and why the genre charms and signifies Chinese culture, history, and personhood.
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History of jazz (1968) volume 2
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Includes sections on Jimmie Lunceford, Count Basie, Earl Hines, Chick Webb, McKinneys̕ Cotton Pickers, Claude Hopkins, Fletcher Henderson, Cab Calloway, Andy Kirk, Don Redman, Benny Carter, Mills Blue Rhythm Band, Lionel Hampton, Cootie Williams/Erskine Hawkins, Horace Henderson, Edgar Hayes, Harlem Bands, Tiny Bradshaw, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Bunny Berigan, Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, Red Norvo, Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Charlie Christian,...
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The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation, and narrative drive, it represents the kind of masterful cultural history for which David Reynolds is known. Here the major works of Emerson, Thoreau,...
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Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 online resource (414 p.).
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This scholarly work provides a detailed historical commentary on the Chronica urbis Romae, a Latin text likely written in 334 AD and included in the Chronographus anni CCCLIIII. The commentary, authored by Günther Pfund, aims to examine the reliability of data concerning the mythical origins of Rome, its republican heroes, and the reigns and deaths of 58 Roman emperors, concluding with Emperor Licinius. The text is analyzed for its factual accuracy...
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American studies (Munich Germany) volume 267
Pub. Date
2016
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1 online resource (239)
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Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (238 pages)
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In the Parallel Lives Plutarch does not absolve his readers of the need for moral reflection by offering any sort of hard and fast rules for their moral judgement. Rather, he uses strategies to elicit readers' active engagement with the act of judging. This book, drawing on the insights of recent narrative theories, especially narratology and reader-response criticism, examines Plutarch's narrative techniques in the Parallel Lives of drawing his readers...
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[2021]
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1 online resource (xxvii, 319 pages)
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"The American History Musical in Context: From the American Revolution to the 21st Century gives students a fresh look at history-based musicals, helping readers to understand the American story through one of the country's most celebrated art forms: the musical"--
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Pub. Date
©1995
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1 online resource (x, 164 pages)
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In spite of its richness and long history, Slovak literature is one of the least-known Slavic literatures in the English-speaking world. Few translations of Slovak works exist and until now there has been no systematic English-language history of the field. A History of Slovak Literature provides an excellent introduction to this important but overlooked body of writing.
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2008
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1 online resource (xii, 369 pages) : illustrations
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In this book leading literary scholars, cultural critics, and historians of ideas and visual media, currently engaged both with early modern and contemporary conceptions of biography, reflect on the problems of writing lives from the various perspectives of their own research and in the form of case studies informed by new questions. - ;Biography appears to thrive as never before; and there clearly remains a broad readership for literary biography....
Pub. Date
2024
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1 online resource
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Although hip hop is now a well-established global music genre and cultural form, its history and current impact have not yet been sufficiently studied. The interdisciplinary contributions to this volume address hip hop's historical and regional struggles for representation of race, gender, generation, place, and language, as well as the tension between authenticity and commercialization. Contributors offer approaches to historicizing hip-hop culture,...
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What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface -- a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character - and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you. In this practical and amusing guide to literature, Thomas C. Foster...
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©2004
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1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : illustrations
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"Although numerous academic resources examine the music and musicians of the Civil War era, the research is spread across a variety of disciplines and is found in a wide array of scholarly journals, books, and papers. It is difficult to assimilate this diverse body of research, and few sources are dedicated solely to a rigorous and comprehensive investigation of the music and the musicians of this era. This anthology, which grew out of the first two...





