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Book The Art of Renaissance Europe

Download or read book The Art of Renaissance Europe written by Bosiljka Raditsa and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2000 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works in the Museum's collection that embody the Renaissance interest in classical learning, fame, and beautiful objects are illustrated and discussed in this resource and will help educators introduce the richness and diversity of Renaissance art to their students. Primary source texts explore the great cities and powerful personalities of the age. By studying gesture and narrative, students can work as Renaissance artists did when they created paintings and drawings. Learning about perspective, students explore the era's interest in science and mathematics. Through projects based on poetic forms of the time, students write about their responses to art. The activities and lesson plans are designed for a variety of classroom needs and can be adapted to a specific curriculum as well as used for independent study. The resource also includes a bibliography and glossary.

Book Please Understand Me

Download or read book Please Understand Me written by David Keirsey and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Travel Journal Sketchbook

    Book Details:
  • Author : Travel Journal
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-08-12
  • ISBN : 9781089908630
  • Pages : 122 pages

Download or read book Travel Journal Sketchbook written by Travel Journal and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Travel Journal Sketchbook allows you to collect memories of your travels, from weekends away to adventures which have shaped and revolutionised your life The Travel Journal Sketchbook and Wish List sections allow you to collect all your dreams of past and future holidays. In the introductory pages you will find practical suggestions and tools such as a detailed planning of your travels You can record 5 long trips; you can write your travel daily plans and easily organise yourself to checklists, suggestions on places not to be missed and budgets. Use the blank pages to collect photographs, tickets, maps and memories of a trip which has just finished The notebook will become your Travel Journal Sketchbook, to keep the memories of your adventures. Store it on your shelf along with guides and memories from your favourite trips

Book The Profession of Authorship in America  1800 1870

Download or read book The Profession of Authorship in America 1800 1870 written by William Charvat and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on the complex relations between author, publisher and contemporary reading public in 19th-century America; in particular, the emergence of Irving and Cooper as America's first successful literary entrepreneurs, how Poe's and Melville's successes and failures affected their writing, the popularization of poetry in the 1830s and 1840s, the role of the literary magazine in the 1840s and 1850s, and the beginnings of book promotion. It pays particular attention to the way social and economic forces helped to shape literary works.

Book Shakespeare

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harold Bloom
  • Publisher : HarperCollins UK
  • Release : 2008-07
  • ISBN : 0007292848
  • Pages : 774 pages

Download or read book Shakespeare written by Harold Bloom and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of 'The Western Canon', has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeare's genius in a radical and provocative re-reading of the plays.

Book Reading Stephen King

Download or read book Reading Stephen King written by Brenda Miller Power and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays grew out of the "Reading Stephen King Conference" held at the University of Maine in 1996. Stephen King's books have become a lightning rod for the tensions around issues of including "mass market" popular literature in middle and high school English classes and of who chooses what students read. King's fiction is among the most popular of "pop" literature, and among the most controversial. These essays spotlight the ways in which King's work intersects with the themes of the literary canon and its construction and maintenance, censorship in public schools, and the need for adolescent readers to be able to choose books in school reading programs. The essays and their authors are: (1) "Reading Stephen King: An Ethnography of an Event" (Brenda Miller Power); (2) "I Want to Be Typhoid Stevie" (Stephen King); (3) "King and Controversy in Classrooms: A Conversation between Teachers and Students" (Kelly Chandler and others); (4) "Of Cornflakes, Hot Dogs, Cabbages, and King" (Jeffrey D. Wilhelm); (5) "The 'Wanna Read' Workshop: Reading for Love" (Kimberly Hill Campbell); (6) "When 'IT' Comes to the Classroom" (Ruth Shagoury Hubbard); (7) "If Students Own Their Learning, What Do Teachers Do?" (Curt Dudley-Marling); (8) "Disrupting Stephen King: Engaging in Alternative Reading Practices" (James Albright and Roberta F. Hammett); (9) "Because Stories Matter: Authorial Reading and the Threat of Censorship" (Michael W. Smith); (10) "Canon Construction Ahead" (Kelly Chandler); (11) "King in the Classroom" (Michael R. Collings); (12) "King's Works and the At-Risk Student: The Broad-Based Appeal of a Canon Basher" (John Skretta); (13) "Reading the Cool Stuff: Students Respond to 'Pet Sematary'" (Mark A Fabrizi); (14) "When Reading Horror Subliterature Isn't So Horrible" (Janice V. Kristo and Rosemary A. Bamford); (15) "One Book Can Hurt You...But a Thousand Never Will" (Janet S. Allen); (16) "In the Case of King: What May Follow" (Anne E. Pooler and Constance M. Perry); and (17) "Be Prepared: Developing a Censorship Policy for the Electronic Age" (Abigail C. Garthwait). Appended are a joint manifesto by National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and International Reading Association (IRA) concerning intellectual freedom; an excerpt from a teacher's guide to selected horror short stories of Stephen King; and the conference program. Contains a 152-item reference list of literary works.(NKA)

Book The Jonson Allusion book

Download or read book The Jonson Allusion book written by Jesse Franklin Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Turning Key

Download or read book The Turning Key written by Jerome Hamilton Buckley and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of  Punch

Download or read book The History of Punch written by Marion Harry Spielmann and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Jewish Phenomenon

Download or read book The Jewish Phenomenon written by Steve Silbiger and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2000-05-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With truly startling statistics and a wealth of anecdotes, Silbiger reveals the cultural principles that form the bedrock of Jewish success in America.

Book The Shoemaker s Holiday

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Dekker
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 1999-09-11
  • ISBN : 9780719030994
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book The Shoemaker s Holiday written by Thomas Dekker and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday is one of the most popular of Elizabethan plays--entertaining, racy and vivid in its characterization. Revealing a vital portrait of Elizabethan London and the interaction of social classes within the city, its social commentary is on the whole optimistic, though darker tones are discernible. The play has had a lively history of performance on both the professional and amateur stage.

Book Renaissance Fun

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip Steadman
  • Publisher : UCL Press
  • Release : 2021-04-13
  • ISBN : 1787359158
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book Renaissance Fun written by Philip Steadman and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Fun is about the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects; in gardens and fountains; and in the automata and self-playing musical instruments that were installed in garden grottoes. How did the machines behind these shows work? How exactly were chariots filled with singers let down onto the stage? How were flaming dragons made to fly across the sky? How were seas created on stage? How did mechanical birds imitate real birdsong? What was ‘artificial music’, three centuries before Edison and the phonograph? How could pipe organs be driven and made to play themselves by waterpower alone? And who were the architects, engineers, and craftsmen who created these wonders? All these questions are answered. At the end of the book we visit the lost ‘garden of marvels’ at Pratolino with its many grottoes, automata and water jokes; and we attend the performance of Mercury and Mars in Parma in 1628, with its spectacular stage effects and its music by Claudio Monteverdi – one of the places where opera was born. Renaissance Fun is offered as an entertainment in itself. But behind the show is a more serious scholarly argument, centred on the enormous influence of two ancient writers on these subjects, Vitruvius and Hero. Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture were widely studied by Renaissance theatre designers. Hero of Alexandria wrote the Pneumatics, a collection of designs for surprising and entertaining devices that were the models for sixteenth and seventeenth century automata. A second book by Hero On Automata-Making – much less well known, then and now – describes two miniature theatres that presented plays without human intervention. One of these, it is argued, provided the model for the type of proscenium theatre introduced from the mid-sixteenth century, the generic design which is still built today. As the influence of Vitruvius waned, the influence of Hero grew.

Book Banvard  Or  The Adventures of an Artist

Download or read book Banvard Or The Adventures of an Artist written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Trap Door

    Book Details:
  • Author : Reina Gossett
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2017-12-15
  • ISBN : 0262036606
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Trap Door written by Reina Gossett and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays, conversations, and archival investigations explore the paradoxes, limitations, and social ramifications of trans representation within contemporary culture. The increasing representation of trans identity throughout art and popular culture in recent years has been nothing if not paradoxical. Trans visibility is touted as a sign of a liberal society, but it has coincided with a political moment marked both by heightened violence against trans people (especially trans women of color) and by the suppression of trans rights under civil law. Trap Door grapples with these contradictions. The essays, conversations, and dossiers gathered here delve into themes as wide-ranging yet interconnected as beauty, performativity, activism, and police brutality. Collectively, they attest to how trans people are frequently offered “doors”—entrances to visibility and recognition—that are actually “traps,” accommodating trans bodies and communities only insofar as they cooperate with dominant norms. The volume speculates about a third term, perhaps uniquely suited for our time: the trapdoor, neither entrance nor exit, but a secret passageway leading elsewhere. Trap Door begins a conversation that extends through and beyond trans culture, showing how these issues have relevance for anyone invested in the ethics of visual culture. Contributors Lexi Adsit, Sara Ahmed, Nicole Archer, Kai Lumumba Barrow, Johanna Burton, micha cárdenas, Mel Y. Chen, Grace Dunham, Treva Ellison, Sydney Freeland, Che Gossett, Reina Gossett, Stamatina Gregory, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Robert Hamblin, Eva Hayward, Juliana Huxtable, Yve Laris Cohen, Abram J. Lewis, Heather Love, Park McArthur, CeCe McDonald, Toshio Meronek, Fred Moten, Tavia Nyong'o, Morgan M. Page, Roy Pérez, Dean Spade, Eric A. Stanley, Jeannine Tang, Wu Tsang, Jeanne Vaccaro, Chris E. Vargas, Geo Wyeth, Kalaniopua Young, Constantina Zavitsanos

Book SpringBoard

Download or read book SpringBoard written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "SpringBoard is a world-class English Language Arts Program for students in grade 6-12. Written by teachers for teachers. SpringBoard offers proven instructional design to get students ready for the AP, the SAT, and college"--Back cover.

Book Rogue  The Vault Book 2

Download or read book Rogue The Vault Book 2 written by A. J. Betts and published by Pan Australia. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was no going back; there was no choice, anymore. I'd chosen out and this was it: hot-cold, dry-wet, bright-dark and lonely. Hayley has gone rogue. She's left everything she's ever known - her friends, her bees, her whole world - because her curiosity was too big to fit within the walls of her underwater home. But what is this new world she's come to? Has Hayley finally found somewhere she can belong? Or will she have to keep running? The thrilling conclusion to Hive from award-winning, internationally bestselling author A. J. Betts BLOGGER PRAISE FOR ROGUE 'Every now and then a book (or series) comes along that completely surprises you, and the second book in The Vault duology, Rogue, is one of those books.' Noveltea Corner '...A fast paced novel...I found it hard to put down!' Shelle Reads Books 'There are warnings and parallels to our lives now running through Rogue and I think that makes it feel all the more real when you are reading it...the ending makes you smile and your heart hum.' Sarah Says

Book Faithful Transgressions In The American West

Download or read book Faithful Transgressions In The American West written by Laura Bush and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subjects of Laura Bush's book are six Mormon women writers and their published autobiographies. The central issue Bush finds in these works is how their authors have dealt with the authority of Mormon Church leaders.