Art in America and Elsewhere
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Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Art |
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Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Scott Mandelker |
Publisher | : Citadel Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
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Scott Mandelker interviewed twenty-five Americans who claim extraterrestrial (E.T.) identity, a he made some astounding discoveries. Focusing on personal stories, Mandelker describes how childhood experiences, emotional traumas, and paranormal events led each subject from a life of confusion to one of clarity and self-validation. It is not easy to believe that you are an E.T., but once Mandeker's subjects were sure, all embraced their new identity with renewed sense of purpose Whether or not you accept it ad truth, "From Elsewhere" presents a compelling and credible examination of an unforgettable group of individuals who are firm in their beliefs and ardent in their desire to affect our lives for the better.
Author | : Erik Dussere |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199969914 |
This study conceives the literary and cinematic category of 'noir' as a way of understanding the defining conflict between authenticity and consumer culture in post-World War II America. It analyses works of fiction and film in order to argue that both contribute to a 'noir tradition' that is initiated around the end of World War II and continues to develop and evolve in the present.
Author | : Erik Dussere |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
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Author | : Dalton Conley |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2010-04-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 140007679X |
Over the past three decades, our daily lives have changed slowly but dramatically. Boundaries between leisure and work, public space and private space, and home and office have blurred and become permeable. In Elsewhere, U.S.A., acclaimed sociologist Dalton Conley connects our day-to-day experiences with occasionally overlooked sociological changes, from women’s increasing participation in the labor force to rising economic inequality among successful professionals. In doing so, he provides us with an X-ray view of our new social reality.
Author | : David Trend |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2016-04-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317225422 |
Americans think of their country as a welcoming place where everyone has equal opportunity. Yet historical baggage and anxious times can restrain these possibilities. Newcomers often find that civic belonging comes with strings attached––riddled with limitations or legally punitive rites of passage. For those already here, new challenges to civic belonging emerge on the basis of belief, behavior, or heritage. This book uses the term "elsewhere" in describing conditions that exile so many citizens to "some other place" through prejudice, competition, or discordant belief. Yet, in another way, "elsewhere" evokes an undefined "not yet" ripe with potential. In the face of America’s daunting challenges, can "elsewhere" point to optimism, hope, and common purpose? Through 12 detailed chapters, the book applies critical theory in the humanities and social sciences to examine recurring crises of social inclusion in the U.S. After two centuries of incremental "progress" in securing human dignity, today the U.S. finds itself torn by new conflicts over reproductive rights, immigration, health care, religious extremism, sexual orientation, mental illness, and fear of terrorists. Is there a way of explaining this recurring tendency of Americans to turn against each other? Elsewhere in America engages these questions, charting the ever-changing faces of difference (manifest in contested landscapes of sex and race to such areas as disability and mental health), their spectral and intersectional character (recent discourses on performativity, normativity, and queer theory), and the grounds on which categories are manifest in ideation and movement politics (metapolitics, cosmopolitanism, dismodernism).
Author | : Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2017-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0700624783 |
As important cultural icons of the early nineteenth-century United States, adventurers energized the mythologies of the West and contributed to the justifications of territorial conquest. They told stories of exhilarating perils, boundless landscapes, and erotic encounters that elevated their chauvinism, avarice, and violence into forms of nobility. As self-proclaimed avatars of American exceptionalism, Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. suggests in The American Elsewhere, adventurers transformed westward expansion into a project of romantic nationalism. A study of US expansionism from 1815–1848, The American Elsewhere delves into the “adventurelogues” of the era to reveal the emotional world of men who sought escape from the anonymity of the urban East and pressures of the Market Revolution. As volunteers, trappers, traders, or curiosity seekers, they stepped into “elsewheres,” distant and dangerous. With their words and art, they entered these unfamiliar realms that had fostered caution and apprehension, and they reimagined them as regions that awakened romantic and reckless optimism. In doing so, Bryan shows, adventurers created the figure of the remarkable American male that generated a wide appeal and encouraged a personal investment in nationhood among their audiences. Bryan provides a thorough reading of a wide variety of sources—including correspondence, travel accounts, fiction, poetry, artwork, and material culture—and finds that adventurers told stories and shaped images that beguiled a generation of Americans into believing in their own exceptionality and in their destiny to conquer the continent.
Author | : Robert Jackson Bennett |
Publisher | : Orbit |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-02-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780316200202 |
Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home in Wink, New Mexico. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different ... From one of our most talented and original new literary voices comes the next great American supernatural novel: a work that explores the dark dimensions of the hometowns and the neighbors we thought we knew.
Author | : Richard Poirier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Frank J. Lechner |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2017-01-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137587172 |
This book examines what makes the United States an exceptional society, what impact it has had abroad, and why these issues have mattered to Americans. With historical and comparative evidence, Frank J. Lechner describes the distinctive path of American institutions and tracks changes in the country’s national identity in order to assess claims about America’s ‘exceptional’ qualities. The book analyzes several focal points of exceptionalist thinking about America, including the importance of US Constitution and the American sense of mission, and explores several aspects of America’s distinctive global impact; for example, in economics and film. In addition to discussing the distinctive global impact of the US, this first volume delves into religion, law, and sports.