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Book Legacies and Ambiguities

Download or read book Legacies and Ambiguities written by Ernestine Schlant and published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press. This book was released on 1991-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary legacies of World War II have been mixed and varied, especially in West Germany and Japan, where the burden of defeat has been expressed by novelists and intellectuals in strikingly different ways. Reflecting the cultural differences between the two nations, and the experiences of occupation and democratization that occurred after the war, the postwar literatures of Germany and Japan intimately reveal the hopes and aspirations, the dreams and the nightmares, of two peoples confronting the harsh realities of war. Using a comparative approach, Ambiguous Legacies explores the conditions and values under which the postwar literatures of West Germany and Japan were created. Specifically, the book assesses the meaning of the German and Japanese literary responses to the World War II: the tendencies of denial or silence by German writers, the fatalism and passivity of Japanese novels, and the importance of the past in defining the recent "New subjectivism" among German writers and the outpourings of the "Introverted Generation" by Japanese novelists. Ernestine Schlant's introduction sets the context for the individual chapters and offers guideposts for further comparative scholarship. The book also includes a useful annotated bibliography and suggestions for further reading. The contributors are: Arnulf Baring, Carol Gluck, Walter Hinderer, Iremela Hijiya Kirschnereit, Peter Demetz, Marlene J. Mayo, J. Victor Koschmann, Judith Ryan, Van C. Gessel, Dagmar Barnouw, Kato Schuichi, Oda Makoto, and Peter Schneider.

Book The Ambiguous Legacy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael J. Hogan
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1999-11-13
  • ISBN : 9780521779777
  • Pages : 554 pages

Download or read book The Ambiguous Legacy written by Michael J. Hogan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-13 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection assesses the record of American foreign policy in the twentieth century.

Book The Ambiguous Legacy of Socialist Modernist Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe

Download or read book The Ambiguous Legacy of Socialist Modernist Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe written by Mariusz E. Sokołowicz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the unique socialist-modernist architecture built in the twentieth century in Central and Eastern Europe as a source of heritage and of existing and potential value for the present and future generations. Due to the historical context in which it was created, such architecture remains ambiguous. On the one hand, the wider public associates it with the legacy of the unpleasant period of the real socialist economic regime. Yet, on the other hand, it is also a manifestation of social modernization and the promotion of a significant proportion of the population. This book focuses particularly on concrete heritage, a legacy of modernist architecture in Central and Eastern Europe, and it was this material that enabled their rebuilding after World War II and modernization during the following decades. The authors search for the value of modernist architecture and using case studies from Poland, Bulgaria, Northern Macedonia, Lithuania and Slovenia verify to what extent this heritage is embedded in the local socio-economic milieu and becomes a basis for creating new values. They argue that the challenge is to change the ways we think about heritage, from looking at it from the point of view of a single monument to thinking in terms of a place with its own character and identity that builds its relation to history and its embeddedness in the local space. Furthermore, they propose that the preservation of existing concrete structures and adapting them to modern needs is of great importance for sustainability. With increasing awareness of the issue of preserving post-war architectural heritage and the strategies of dissonant heritage management, this multidisciplinary study will be of interest to architecture historians, conservators, heritage economists, urban planners and architects.

Book The Code of the State of Georgia

Download or read book The Code of the State of Georgia written by Georgia and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Supplement to The Code of the State of Georgia

Download or read book Supplement to The Code of the State of Georgia written by Georgia and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transforming Free Speech

Download or read book Transforming Free Speech written by Mark A. Graber and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary civil libertarians claim that their works preserve a worthy American tradition of defending free-speech rights dating back to the framing of the First Amendment. Transforming Free Speech challenges the worthiness, and indeed the very existence of one uninterrupted libertarian tradition. Mark A. Graber asserts that in the past, broader political visions inspired libertarian interpretations of the First Amendment. In reexamining the philosophical and jurisprudential foundations of the defense of expression rights from the Civil War to the present, he exposes the monolithic free-speech tradition as a myth. Instead of one conception of the system of free expression, two emerge: the conservative libertarian tradition that dominated discourse from the Civil War until World War I, and the civil libertarian tradition that dominates later twentieth-century argument. The essence of the current perception of the American free-speech tradition derives from the writings of Zechariah Chafee, Jr. (1885-1957), the progressive jurist most responsible for the modern interpretation of the First Amendment. His interpretation, however, deliberately obscured earlier libertarian arguments linking liberty of speech with liberty of property. Moreover, Chafee stunted the development of a more radical interpretation of expression rights that would give citizens the resources and independence necessary for the effective exercise of free speech. Instead, Chafee maintained that the right to political and social commentary could be protected independent of material inequalities that might restrict access to the marketplace of ideas. His influence enfeebled expression rights in a world where their exercise depends increasingly on economic power. Untangling the libertarian legacy, Graber points out the disjunction in the libertarian tradition to show that free-speech rights, having once been transformed, can be transformed again. Well-conceived and original in perspective, Transforming Free Speech will interest political theorists, students of government, and anyone interested in the origins of the free-speech tradition in the United States.

Book Marx and the Marxists

Download or read book Marx and the Marxists written by Sidney Hook and published by Martino Fine Books. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 Reprint of 1955 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In this work Sidney Hook, a distinguished scholar, examines the chief issues which have divided Marxists from non-Marxists, and Marxists from each other. This volume of exposition, comment and readings is offered as an introduction to the study of Marxism in conflicting theory and practice. A valuable collection of original source readings are provided, including "The Communist Manifesto," "Historical Materialism," "The Fetishism of Commodities," "Religion and Economics," and much more by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Kautsky, Trotsky and Luxemburg.

Book 1921 Annotations to Corpus Juris

Download or read book 1921 Annotations to Corpus Juris written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ruling Case Law

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  • Author : William Mark McKinney
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1328 pages

Download or read book Ruling Case Law written by William Mark McKinney and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Code of Georgia

Download or read book The Code of Georgia written by Georgia and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 1532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Law Times Reports

Download or read book The Law Times Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ruling Case Law

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  • Author : William Mark McKinney
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1931
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1536 pages

Download or read book Ruling Case Law written by William Mark McKinney and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 1536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ambiguous Legacy

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  • Author : James Weinstein
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Ambiguous Legacy written by James Weinstein and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alexander the Great and Hern  n Cort  s

Download or read book Alexander the Great and Hern n Cort s written by Justin D. Lyons and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biographical pairing of Alexander the Great and Hernán Cortés reflects both upon the character and the leadership abilities of the two famous conquerors. The book joins historical narrative with source analysis and consideration of moral themes revealing underappreciated ...

Book Ambiguous Transitions

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  • Author : Jill Massino
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2019-07-30
  • ISBN : 1785335995
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book Ambiguous Transitions written by Jill Massino and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on youth, family, work, and consumption, Ambiguous Transitions analyzes the interplay between gender and citizenship postwar Romania. By juxtaposing official sources with oral histories and socialist policies with everyday practices, Jill Massino illuminates the gendered dimensions of socialist modernization and its complex effects on women’s roles, relationships, and identities. Analyzing women as subjects and agents, the book examines how they negotiated the challenges that arose as Romanian society modernized, even as it clung to traditional ideas about gender. Massino concludes by exploring the ambiguities of postsocialism, highlighting how the legacies of the past have shaped politics and women’s lived experiences since 1989.

Book Reports of Cases Adjudged and Determined in the Court of Chancery of the State of New York  Edwards  Chancery  v  1 4  Hoffman s Chancery

Download or read book Reports of Cases Adjudged and Determined in the Court of Chancery of the State of New York Edwards Chancery v 1 4 Hoffman s Chancery written by New York (State). Court of Chancery and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: