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Author | : Monica Cure |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2018-12-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1452957746 |
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The first full-length study of a once revolutionary visual and linguistic medium Literature has “died” many times—this book tells the story of its death by postcard. Picturing the Postcard looks to this unlikely source to shed light on our collective, modern-day obsession with new media. The postcard, almost unimaginably now, produced at the end of the nineteenth century the same anxieties and hopes that many people think are unique to twenty-first-century social media such as Facebook or Twitter. It promised a newly connected social world accessible to all and threatened the breakdown of authentic social relations and even of language. Arguing that “new media” is as much a discursive object as a material one, and that it is always in dialogue with the media that came before it, Monica Cure reconstructs the postcard’s history through journals, legal documents, and sources from popular culture, analyzing the postcard’s representation in fiction by well-known writers such as E. M. Forster and Edith Wharton and by more obscure writers like Anne Sedgwick and Herbert Flowerdew. Writers deployed uproar over the new medium of the postcard by Anglo-American cultural critics to mirror anxieties about the changing nature of the literary marketplace, which included the new role of women in public life, the appeal of celebrity and the loss of privacy, an increasing dependence on new technologies, and the rise of mass media. Literature kept open the postcard’s possibilities and in the process reimagined what literature could be.
Author | : James W. Ogland |
Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 0873514025 |
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A pictorial history through postcards of the lake from the 1860s to the beginning of the 20th century.
Author | : Robert Bogdan |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2006-09-21 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9780815608516 |
Download Real Photo Postcard Guide Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Real Photo Postcard Guide is an informative, comprehensive, and practical treatment of this wildly popular American phenomenon that dominated the United States photographic market during the first third of the twentieth century. Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh draw on extensive research and observation to address all aspects of the photo postcard from its history, origin, and cultural significance to practical matters like dating, purchasing, condition, and preservation. Illustrated with over 350 exceptional photo postcards taken from archives and private collections across the country, the scope of the Real Photo Postcard Guide spans technical considerations of production, characteristics of superior images, collecting categories, and methods of research for dating photo postcards and investigating their photographers. In a broader sense, the authors show how "real photo postcards" document the social history of America. From family outings and workplace awards to lynchings and natural disasters, every image captures a moment of American cultural history from the society that generated them. Bogdan and Weseloh’s book provides an admirable integration of informative text and compelling photographic illustrations. Collectors, archivists, photographers, photo historians, social scientists, and anyone interested in the visual documentation of America will find the Real Photo Postcard Guide indispensable.
Author | : Mo Willems |
Publisher | : Hyperion |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2005-08-23 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Leonardo is a terrible monster so he decides to be a best friend.
Author | : Eric Carle |
Publisher | : Puffin |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2015-08-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780141360256 |
Download Eric Carle: 100 Postcards Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A delightful collection of 100 postcards featuring the beautiful and iconic artwork of Eric Carle, creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Showcasing brand new artwork, alongside classic images, this exquisite box is a celebration of Carle's extraordinary children's book illustration talent. Send the gorgeous postcards to family and friends, or cherish the collection yourself.
Author | : John A. Jakle |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2012-09-28 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 0252036824 |
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At the outset of the twentieth century the debut of the American picture postcard incited widespread enthusiasm for collecting and sending postcard art that lasted decades. In Picturing Illinois, John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle examine a diverse set of 200 vintage Illinois picture postcards revealing what locals considered captivating, compelling, and commemorable. They also interpret how individual messages impart the sender's personal perception of local geography and scenery. Jakle and Sculle follow the dialogue between urban Chicago and rural downstate, elucidating the postcard's significance in popular culture and the unique ways in which Illinoisans pictured their world.
Author | : Richard Carline |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Postcards |
ISBN | : 9780913782040 |
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Author | : Frank Staff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 95 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Postcards |
ISBN | : |
Download The Picture Postcard & Its Origins Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Mary M. Flekke |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738541839 |
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Lakeland celebrates the history of one of central Florida's most scenic cities. The small town that encompasses dozens of lakes was perfectly named in 1883, and grew to include an eclectic mix of downtown buildings, elegant hotels, roadways, handsome parks, and picturesque neighborhoods. By mid-century, Lakeland had grown to support small industries, churches, several schools, an airport, and two small colleges, one of which features the largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture.
Author | : Liliana Corobca |
Publisher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2022-11-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1644211513 |
Download The Censor's Notebook Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A fascinating narrative of life in communist Romania, and a thought-provoking meditation on the nature of literature and censorship. Winner of the 2023 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize A Censor’s Notebook is a window into the intimate workings of censorship under communism, steeped in mystery and secrets and lies, confirming the power of literature to capture personal and political truths. The novel begins with a seemingly non-fiction frame story—an exchange of letters between the author and Emilia Codrescu, the female chief of the Secret Documents Office in Romania’s feared State Directorate of Media and Printing, the government branch responsible for censorship. Codrescu had been responsible for the burning and shredding of the censors’ notebooks and the state secrets in them, but prior to fleeing the country in 1974 she had stolen one of these notebooks. Now, forty years later, she makes the notebook available to Liliana, the character of the author, for the newly instituted Museum of Communism. The work of a censor—a job about which it is forbidden to talk—is revealed in this notebook, which discloses the structures of this mysterious institution and describes how these professional readers and ideological error hunters are burdened with hundreds of manuscripts, strict deadlines, and threatening penalties. The censors lose their identity, and are often frazzled by neuroses and other illnesses.