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Author | : Anthony Grafton |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780674032576 |
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Italian cinemas after the war were filled by audiences who had come to watch domestically-produced films of passion and pathos. These highly emotional and consciously theatrical melodramas posed moral questions with stylish flair, redefining popular ways of feeling about romance, family, gender, class, Catholicism, Italy, and feeling itself. The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama argues for the centrality of melodrama to Italian culture. It uncovers a wealth of films rarely discussed before including family melodramas, the crime stories of neorealismo popolare and opera films, and provides interpretive frameworks that position them in wider debates on aesthetics and society. The book also considers the well-established topics of realism and arthouse auteurism, and re-thinks film history by investigating the presence of melodrama in neorealism and post-war modernism. It places film within its broader cultural context to trace the connections of canonical melodramatists like Visconti and Matarazzo to traditions of opera, the musical theatre of the sceneggiata, visual arts, and magazines. In so doing it seeks to capture the artistry and emotional experiences found within a truly popular form.
Author | : Joseph Campbell |
Publisher | : New World Library |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781577314066 |
Download Mythic Worlds, Modern Words Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The mythographer who has command of scholarly literature, the analytic ability and the lucid prose and the staying power.
Author | : Phil Cousineau |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2010-03-15 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1573445509 |
Download Wordcatcher Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Who knew that the great country of Canada is named for a mistake? How about "bedswerver," the best Elizabethan insult to hurl at a cheating boyfriend? By exploring the delightful back stories of the 250 words in Wordcatcher, readers are lured by language and entangled in etymologies. Author Phil Cousineau takes us on a tour into the obscure territory of word origins with great erudition and endearing curiosity. The English poet W. H. Auden was once asked to teach a poetry class, and when 200 students applied to study with him, he only had room for 20 of them. When asked how he chose his students, he said he picked the ones who actually loved words. So too, with this book — it takes a special wordcatcher to create a treasure chest of remarkable words and their origins, and any word lover will relish the stories that Cousineau has discovered.
Author | : Anthony Grafton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Europe |
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Author | : Akhil Reed Amar |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 2021-05-04 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0465096360 |
Download The Words That Made Us Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A history of the American Constitution's formative decades from a preeminent legal scholar When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate argument over the nature of government. But ratification hardly ended the conversation. For the next half century, ordinary Americans and statesmen alike continued to wrestle with weighty questions in the halls of government and in the pages of newspapers. Should the nation's borders be expanded? Should America allow slavery to spread westward? What rights should Indian nations hold? What was the proper role of the judicial branch? In The Words that Made Us, Akhil Reed Amar unites history and law in a vivid narrative of the biggest constitutional questions early Americans confronted, and he expertly assesses the answers they offered. His account of the document's origins and consolidation is a guide for anyone seeking to properly understand America's Constitution today.
Author | : Sarah Ogilvie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107021839 |
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Demonstrates that the Oxford English Dictionary is an international product in both its content and its making.
Author | : Mitchell Symons |
Publisher | : Zest Books ™ |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2019-08-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1541582128 |
Download The Weird World of Words Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Did you know that ‘Almost’ is the longest word in the English language with all of its letters in alphabetical order ? Or that ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word you can type solely with your left hand? Or that fireflies aren’t actually flies, they’re beetles? From information about words and their uses, to useful lists of things you never knew had names, palindromes, famous lines from literature and film, bizarre test answers and more, The Weird World of Words is bursting with truly oddball facts about words and language—and will have you hooked from the very first page.
Author | : Pascal Monmoine |
Publisher | : PM Traders, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2015-04-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780991506200 |
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Original inspirational Quotes, Poetry and Photography by Pascal Monmoine
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Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN | : |
Download The World Book Encyclopedia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
Author | : LornaMarie |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 2018-06-11 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1387697994 |
Download The Power of Words A Compendium of Great Speeches from World Leaders Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is a treasure in the hands of anyone required to use oratory skill in their role. It is known in most countries of the world that lawyers are good orators, perhaps due to the nature of their profession, Barristers are known to address the court. Some of our world leaders past and present are great orators; it is, however, important to note that while not all of them were lawyers, they have delivered remarkable and memorable speeches to their respective nations. One of the qualities of a good leader is the ability to address the nation with good oratory skills. This book therefore explores the power and effect that words have on all of us.