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Book Considering Genius

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  • Author : Stanley Crouch
  • Publisher : Civitas Books
  • Release : 2009-04-27
  • ISBN : 0786733756
  • Pages : 415 pages

Download or read book Considering Genius written by Stanley Crouch and published by Civitas Books. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley Crouch-MacArthur "Genius" Award recipient, co-founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center, National Book Award nominee, and perennial bull in the china shop of black intelligentsia-has been writing about jazz and jazz artists for more than thirty years. His reputation for controversy is exceeded only by a universal respect for his intellect and passion. As Gary Giddons notes: "Stanley may be the only jazz writer out there with the kind of rhinoceros hide necessary to provoke and outrage and then withstand the fulminations that come back." In Considering Genius, Crouch collects some of his best loved, most influential, and most controversial pieces (published in Jazz Times, The New Yorker, the Village Voice, and elsewhere), together with two new essays. The pieces range from the introspective "Jazz Criticism and Its Effect on the Art Form" to a rollicking debate with Amiri Baraka, to vivid, intimate portraits of the legendary performers Crouch has known.

Book Michael Jackson  Exceptional Artist or Genius  Points to consider

Download or read book Michael Jackson Exceptional Artist or Genius Points to consider written by Frank Vidiella and published by FV Éditions. This book was released on 2011 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing the career of Michael Jackson, Franck Vidiella questions the sensitive nature of the term "Genius." Based upon a study that confirms that the great geniuses are, nearly in their totality, creative, brilliant, obstinate and multifaceted, each one of the issues are analyzed by studying the career of the Star of Pop, in such a way that they offer elements to answer the following question: Was Michael Jackson an exceptional artist or an absolute Genius? The answer, as you will be able to see, allows a passionate debate.

Book Genius Envy

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  • Author : Adrianna M. Paliyenko
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2017-01-03
  • ISBN : 0271079193
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Genius Envy written by Adrianna M. Paliyenko and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Genius Envy, Adrianna M. Paliyenko uncovers a forgotten history: the multiplicity and diversity of nineteenth-century French women’s poetic voices. Conservative critics of the time attributed the phenomenon of genius to masculinity and dismissed the work of female authors as “feminine literature.” Despite the efforts of leading thinkers, critics, and literary historians to erase women from the pages of literary history, Paliyenko shows how these female poets invigorated the debate about the origins of genius and garnered considerable recognition in their time for their creativity and bold aesthetic ideas. This fresh account of French women poets’ contributions to literature probes the history of their critical reception. The result is an encounter with the texts of celebrated writers such as Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Anaïs Ségalas, Malvina Blanchecotte, Louisa Siefert, and Louise Ackermann. Glimpses at the different stages of each poet’s career show that these women explicitly challenged the notion of genius as gender specific, thus advocating for their rightful place in the canon. A prodigious contribution to studies of nineteenth-century French poetry, Paliyenko’s book reexamines the reception of poetry by women within and beyond its original context. This balanced and comprehensive treatment of their work uncovers the multiple ways in which women poets sought to define their place in history.

Book An Essay on Capacity and Genius

Download or read book An Essay on Capacity and Genius written by William Andrew Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An essay on capacity and genius  to prove that there is no original mental superiority between the most illiterate and the most learned of mankind     Also  an enquiry into the nature of ghosts  and other appearancea supposed to be supernatural   By W  A  Mitchell

Download or read book An essay on capacity and genius to prove that there is no original mental superiority between the most illiterate and the most learned of mankind Also an enquiry into the nature of ghosts and other appearancea supposed to be supernatural By W A Mitchell written by William Andrew Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Religious Genius

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  • Author : Alon Goshen-Gottstein
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2017-06-29
  • ISBN : 3319555146
  • Pages : 195 pages

Download or read book Religious Genius written by Alon Goshen-Gottstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets forth a new area in the study of extraordinary individuals in religious traditions. It develops the category of “Religious Genius” as an alternative to existing categories, primarily “saint.” It constructs a model by which to appreciate these individuals, suggesting key characteristics such as love, humility, and self-surrender. Religious geniuses transform their traditions and their legacies endure through these very transformations. They also inspire changes across religious boundaries and traditions. The study of religious geniuses in various faith traditions therefore advances interfaith engagement today. The book complements existing, primarily historical, studies of saints by offering a phenomenological approach that seeks to touch the subjectivity of these individuals, and how they have affected the unfolding of their religious traditions.

Book Forum and Column Review

Download or read book Forum and Column Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Forum

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  • Author : Lorettus Sutton Metcalf
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1923
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book The Forum written by Lorettus Sutton Metcalf and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current political, social, scientific, education, and literary news written about by many famous authors and reform movements.

Book Official Report     Annual Convention

Download or read book Official Report Annual Convention written by Illinois Music Teachers' Association and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Alienist and Neurologist

Download or read book The Alienist and Neurologist written by Charles Hamilton Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Applied Sociology

Download or read book Applied Sociology written by Lester Frank Ward and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work and its predecessor, Pure Sociology, constitute together a system of sociology, and these, with Dynamic Sociology, The Psychic Factors of Civilization, and the Outlines of Sociology, make up a more comprehensive system of social philosophy. Should any reader acquaint himself with the whole, he will find it not only consistent with itself, but progressive in the sense that each successive volume carries the subject a step farther with a minimum of repetition or duplicate treatment. The central thought is that of a true science of society, capable, in the measure that it approaches completeness, of being turned to the profit of mankind. If there is one respect in which it differs more than in others from rival systems of philosophy it is in its practical character of never losing sight of the end or purpose, nor of the possibilities of conscious effort. It is a reaction against the philosophy of despair that has come to dominate even the most enlightened scientific thought. It aims to point out a remedy for the general paralysis that is creeping over the world, and which a too narrow conception of the law of cosmic evolution serves rather to increase than to diminish. It proclaims the efficacy of effort, provided it is guided by intelligence. It would remove the embargo laid upon human activity by a false interpretation of scientific determinism, and, without having recourse to the equally false conception of a power to will, it insists upon the power to act. - Preface.

Book Genius on Television

Download or read book Genius on Television written by Ashley Lynn Carlson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it's Sherlock Holmes solving crimes or Sheldon and Leonard geeking out over sci-fi, geniuses are central figures on many of television's most popular series. They are often enigmatic, displaying superhuman intellect while struggling with mundane aspects of daily life. This collection of new essays explores why TV geniuses fascinate us and how they shape our perceptions of what it means to be highly intelligent. Examining series like Criminal Minds, The Big Bang Theory, Bones, Elementary, Fringe, House, The Mentalist, Monk, Sherlock, Leverage and others, scholars from a variety of disciplines discuss how television both reflects and informs our cultural understanding of genius.

Book Asian Review

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1897
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 510 pages

Download or read book Asian Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Asiatic Review

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1897
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 962 pages

Download or read book Asiatic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.

Book The Asiatic Quarterly Review

Download or read book The Asiatic Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record

Download or read book The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning Apr. 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.

Book Faulkner s Geographies

Download or read book Faulkner s Geographies written by Jay Watson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent spatial turn in social theory and cultural studies opens up exciting new possibilities for the study of William Faulkner's literature. The fictional domains of Yoknapatawpha County and Jefferson, Mississippi, are not simply imagined communities but imaginative geographies of remarkable complexity and detail, as evidenced by the maps Faulkner created of his “apocryphal” county. Exploring the diverse functions of space in Faulkner's artistic vision, the eleven essays in Faulkner's Geographies delve deep into Yoknapatawpha but also reach beyond it to uncover unsuspected connections and flows linking local, regional, national, hemispheric, and global geographies in Faulkner's writings. Individual contributions examine the influence of the plantation as a land-use regime on Faulkner's imagination of north Mississippi's geography; the emergence of “micro-Souths” as a product of modern migratory patterns in the urban North of Faulkner's fiction; the enlistment of the author's work in the geopolitics of the cultural Cold War during the 1950s; the historical and literary affiliations between Faulkner's Deep South and Greater Mexico; the local and idiosyncratic as alternatives to region and nation; the unique intersection of regional and metropolitan geographies that Faulkner encountered as a novice writer immersed in the literary culture of New Orleans; the uses of feminist geography to trace the interplay of gender, space, and movement; and the circulation of Caribbean and “Black South” spaces and itineraries through Faulkner's masterpiece, Absalom, Absalom! By bringing new attention to the function of space, place, mapping, and movement in his literature, Faulkner's Geographies seeks to redraw the very boundaries of Faulkner studies.