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Book Discursions on Travel  Art  and Life

Download or read book Discursions on Travel Art and Life written by Osbert Sitwell and published by London : G. Richards. This book was released on 1925 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Discursions on Travel  Art  and Life

Download or read book Discursions on Travel Art and Life written by Osbert Sitwell and published by London : G. Richards. This book was released on 1925 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Defining Travel

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  • Author : Susan L. Roberson
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2007-06
  • ISBN : 1934110531
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book Defining Travel written by Susan L. Roberson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With essays by Gloria Anzaldúa, Jean Baudrillard, William Bevis, Homi Bhabha, Michel Butor, Hélène Cixous, Erik Cohen, Michel de Certeau, Wayne Franklin, Paul Fussell, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Caren Kaplan, Eric Leed, Dean MacCannell, Doreen Massey, Carl Pedersen, Gustavo Pérez-Firmat, Mary Louise Pratt, R. Radhakrishnan, Edward W. Said, and Thayer Scudder Travel, movement, mobility--these are some of the essential activities in human life. Whether we travel to foreign lands or just across the city, we all journey, and from our journeying we shape ourselves, our history, and the stories we tell. In essays written by some of the most respected contemporary scholars, this anthology brings together some of the best informed convictions about travel. Travel, so essential to human life, is a complex matter that encompasses a variety of travel experiences--family vacation, political exile, exploration of distant lands, immigration, mundane shopping trips. Likewise, as the essays in the collection demonstrate, discussion of travel crosses a range of personal and theoretical perspectives--from the postmodern sensibility of Jean Baudrillard to R. Radhakrishnan's explanation to his son of what it means for Indians to live in the United States. As the field of travel itself "travels" across academic and theoretical boundaries, it brings together sociology, anthropology, geography, history, psychology, and literary criticism. Recognizing that multidimensional quality of travel, this book gathers essays that represent various travel experiences and approaches to discussing them. Mapping out definitions of travel, the collection includes essays on tourism and travel writing, on modern globalization and the diaspora, on immigration, migration, and forced relocation. Defining Travel also highlights American experiences of mobility by including essays on Native Americans and early contact with the New World, as well as the massive migration of African Americans to northern cities. Running throughout the essays are sometimes conflicting discussions about what constitutes travel and the homesite, the role of travel, knowledge, and power, especially when travel is accompanied by imperialistic motives. Here readers truly will discover that the essence of human life is wayfaring. Susan L. Roberson, an assistant professor of English at Alabama State University in Montgomery, is the editor of Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation and author of Emerson in His Sermons: A Man-Made Self.

Book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired

Download or read book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired 1881 1900

Download or read book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired 1881 1900 written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Abroad

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  • Author : Paul Fussell
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1982-06-17
  • ISBN : 0199878536
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Abroad written by Paul Fussell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1982-06-17 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.

Book The Concise Cambridge Bibliography of English Literaturee

Download or read book The Concise Cambridge Bibliography of English Literaturee written by George Watson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Adrian Stokes

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  • Author : Stephen Kite
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-12-02
  • ISBN : 135119481X
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Adrian Stokes written by Stephen Kite and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adrian Stokes (1902-72) - aesthete, critic, painter and poet - is among the most original and creative writers on art of the twentieth century. He was the author of over twenty critical books and numerous papers: for example, the remarkable series of books published in the 1930s; The Quattro Cento (1932), Stones of Rimini (1934), and Colour and Form (1937) that embraced Mediterranean culture and modernity. His criticism extends the evocative English aesthetic tradition of Walter Pater and John Ruskin into the present, endowed by a stern sensibility to the consolations offered by art and architecture, and the insights that psychoanalysis affords. Indeed, for Stokes architecture provides the entree into art, and this book is the first study to comprehensively examine Stokess theory of art from a specifically architectonic perspective. The volume explores the crucial experiences through which this architectonic awareness evolved; traces the influence upon Stokes of places, texts and personalities, and examines how his theory of art developed and matured. The argument is supported by appropriate illustrations to confirm the evidence that Stokess claim for architecture as mother of the arts carries the deepest experiential and psychological import."

Book Reference Catalogue of Current Literature

Download or read book Reference Catalogue of Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Travelers to an Antique Land

Download or read book Travelers to an Antique Land written by Robert Eisner and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of scholars, writers, artists, and explorers woven together in a narrative of Greek travel

Book The Many Facades of Edith Sitwell

Download or read book The Many Facades of Edith Sitwell written by Allan Pero and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating book that takes us deep into Edith Sitwell's world of artifice, disguise, high camp, and verbal ingenuity. In these essays, Sitwell emerges as a central figure in an alternative avant-garde in early twentieth-century Britain."--Faye Hammill, author of Sophistication: A Literary and Cultural History Establishing Edith Sitwell at the center of British modernism, this volume showcases her many achievements in poetry, autobiography, novel writing, criticism, art, and performance. Forgoing the gossip about her eccentric appearance and self-fashioned persona that has too often overshadowed serious writing about her work, the contributors explore how Sitwell combined persona and poetry to foster an outpouring of iconoclastic creativity. The Many Facades of Edith Sitwell argues that Sitwell was crucial to the development of a British avant-garde that operated alongside the conventionally accepted transatlantic modernism of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. With Sitwell as an influential literary player and social architect, the British interwar arts scene was not an ascetic escape from personality--as the modernism of Pound and Eliot has often been characterized--but an alternative space of flamboyant, extravagant, and ornate performance. Allan Pero is associate professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. Gyllian Phillips is associate professor of English studies at Nipissing University.

Book The London Mercury

Download or read book The London Mercury written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book London Mercury with which is Incorporated the Bookman

Download or read book London Mercury with which is Incorporated the Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book London Mercury and Bookman

Download or read book London Mercury and Bookman written by Sir John Collings Squire and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Impressions of Southern Italy

Download or read book Impressions of Southern Italy written by Sharon Ouditt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naples was conventionally the southernmost stop of the Grand Tour beyond which, it was assumed, lay violent disorder: earthquakes, malaria, bandits, inhospitable inns, few roads and appalling food. On the other hand, Southern Italy lay at the heart of Magna Graecia, whose legends were hard-wired into the cultural imaginations of the educated. This book studies the British travellers who visited Italy's Southern territories. Spanning the late eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, the author considers what these travellers discovered, not in the form of a survey, but as a series of unfolding impressions disclosing multiple Southern Italies. Of the numerous travellers analysed within this volume, the central figures are Henry Swinburne, Craufurd Tait Ramage and Norman Douglas, whose Old Calabria (1915) remains in print. Their appeal is that they take the region seriously: Southern Italy wasn't simply a testing ground for their superior sensibilities, it was a vibrant curiosity, unknown but within reach. Was the South simply behind on the road to European integration; or was it beyond a fault line, representing a viable alternative to Northern neuroses? The travelogues analysed in this book address a wide variety of themes which continue to shape discussions about European identity today.