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Book Private Lives in the Public Sphere

Download or read book Private Lives in the Public Sphere written by Todd Kontje and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private Lives in the Public Sphere examines the Bildungsroman in the context of the rapid changes that affected the German literary revolution that made up for its belatedness in its rapidity and scope. The nature and quantity of reading material produced, the social status of the writer, and the reading habits of the public changed dramatically within a few decades. At the beginning of the century the new texts that appeared at the annual book fairs were primarily written in Latin and devoted to theology. By the end of the century the number of new publications each year has increased almost exponentially, with the novel leading the way. This new institution of literature constituted an important part of what J&ürgen Habermas has termed the &"public sphere,&" a forum for public debate in which members of the middle class, although still limited in their direct access to political power, could at least begin to articulate their problems and formulate their hopes. The Bildungsroman emerged during this period. This study focuses on moments of literary self-consciousness in the Bildungsroman as reflections on the rapid transformation of the German literary institution. The novels are viewed as examples of what Patricia Waugh has called &"metafiction,&" that is, &"fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artifact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality.&" By concentrating on the interaction between literary form and institutional context in these novels, it becomes possible to mediate between the extremes of those who would view literature as a mere reflection of historical conditions and those who would maintain the purity of the aesthetic object. Literature in this view neither re-creates reality nor does it escape reality; instead, it transforms reality, and the Bildungsroman is the genre that examines this transformation.

Book The Person

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  • Author : Dan P. McAdams
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2008-12-22
  • ISBN : 0470129131
  • Pages : 1244 pages

Download or read book The Person written by Dan P. McAdams and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-12-22 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on cutting-edge scientific research, classic personality theories, and stirring examples from biography and literature, The Person presents a lively and integrative introduction to the science of personality psychology. Author, Dan McAdams, organizes the field according to a broad conceptual perspective that has emerged in personality psychology over the past 10 years. According to this perspective, personality is made up of three levels of psychological individuality - dispositional traits, characteristic adaptations (such as motives and goals), and integrative life stories. Traits, adaptations, and stories comprise the three most recognizable variations on psychological human nature, grounded in the human evolutionary heritage and situated in cultural and historical context. The fifth edition of this beautifully written text expands and updates research on the neuroscience of personality traits and introduces new material on personality disorders, evolution and religion, attachment in adulthood, continuity and change in personality over the life course, and the development of narrative identity.

Book Don   t Move

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  • Author : James S. Murray
  • Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
  • Release : 2020-10-20
  • ISBN : 1982678348
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Don t Move written by James S. Murray and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the authors of the bestselling Awakened trilogy Megan Forrester has barely survived the unthinkable. Six months ago, she witnessed a horrific accident that killed her husband and son, and lives with the guilt of knowing she could have done more to save them. Now, Megan hopes to mend the pieces of her broken spirit by attending a local church group’s annual camping trip. But the church group members—riddled with dark secrets of their own—make a catastrophic navigational mistake, leaving them stranded in an untouched canyon in the West Virginian national forest. Isolated from any chance of help or rescue, Megan and the others quickly realize why this side of the canyon has never been surveyed by humankind: it’s home to a terrifying prehistoric arachnid that patiently stalks its prey through even the slightest movement or vibration in the forest. And it’s desperate for a meal. Grief-stricken and haunted by her tragic loss, Megan now faces her ultimate test of endurance. Can she outwit a bloodthirsty creature hellbent on ensuring that no one gets out alive? When a single wrong turn can mean death, she only has one option: DON’T MOVE.

Book Routes  Interaction and Exchange in the Southern Maya Area

Download or read book Routes Interaction and Exchange in the Southern Maya Area written by Eugenia Robinson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores routes of interaction and exchange in the Southern Maya Area, a zone that had both short- and long-distance trade and whose natural resources were exploited by merchants and rulers, colonists and entrepreneurs during Olmec, Teotihuacan, Maya, Aztec, colonial and modern times. The book presents the research of both archaeologists and art historians to identify routes of interconnection, to demonstrate the strategic importance of settlements and ritual locations, and to assess the significance of modes and mediums of exchange. The contributors employ innovative approaches, making use of state-of-the art technologies to reproduce and analyze the archaeological landscape (e.g. LiDAR, GIS, and least-cost path analysis) and to source and characterize archaeological materials (e.g. neutron activation analysis (NAA), X-ray fluorescence analysis [XRF] and strontium analysis). The book combines these innovative approaches with earlier data sources and past analyses to develop a new, synthetic analysis of interaction. Routes, Interaction and Exchange in the Southern Maya Area will appeal to professional academics, students, and interested lay readers from a broad range of social science fields including anthropology, archaeology, geography, economics, history, and art history and is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate courses in Mesoamerican archaeology.

Book Shock Wave and High Strain Rate Phenomena in Materials

Download or read book Shock Wave and High Strain Rate Phenomena in Materials written by 0 Meyers, and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 1852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings of EXPLOMET 90, the International Conference on the Materials Effects of Shock-Wave and High-Strain-Rate Phenomena, held August 1990, in La Jolla, California, represent a global and up-to-date appraisal of this field. Contributions (more than 100) deal with high-strain-rate deforma

Book    A    General System of Gardening and Botany  Containing a Complete Enumeration and Description of All Plants Hitherto Known     Founded Upon Miller s Gardener s Dictionary  and Arranged According to the Natural System

Download or read book A General System of Gardening and Botany Containing a Complete Enumeration and Description of All Plants Hitherto Known Founded Upon Miller s Gardener s Dictionary and Arranged According to the Natural System written by George Don and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report for 1879 1947

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  • Author : Botanical Society of the British Isles
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1922
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 892 pages

Download or read book Report for 1879 1947 written by Botanical Society of the British Isles and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hitler s Home Front

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  • Author : Jill Stephenson
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2006-12-31
  • ISBN : 9781852854423
  • Pages : 548 pages

Download or read book Hitler s Home Front written by Jill Stephenson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a groundbreaking new study of an overlooked area of Second World War History.

Book The Kyrenia Ship Final Excavation Report  Volume I

Download or read book The Kyrenia Ship Final Excavation Report Volume I written by Susan Womer Katzev and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kyrenia ship, a Greek merchantman built around 315 BC and sunk off the north coast of Cyprus 294-291 BC, was excavated between 1967 and 1972 under the direction of Michael Katzev. The importance of this ship lies in the extraordinary state of preservation of the hull, allowing great insights into ancient shipbuilding, and in the cargo it was carrying. Its hold was full of Rhodian transport amphoras and its cabin pottery was also mostly made on Rhodes, which was probably its home port. Its trade route ran between Rhodes, Cyprus, the Levant, and possibly Egypt. This first of a planned multi-volume publication includes a detailed history of the excavation of the ship, as well as the most important objects for determining the date of its sinking. These include the primary cargo, transport amphorae, with four different types from Rhodes; fewer examples from Samos and the Cyclades (Paros), and possibly northern Greece, Cyprus and the Levant. The Rhodian amphora stamps date the shipwreck to between 294 and 291 BC. The second most-helpful dating material comprises vessels and utensils (cups and saucers, cooking pots and grills, serving bowls and spoons, water jars and pitchers) used by the crew. For most categories, four examples were found, suggesting a crew of four. Scientific analyses show that the majority were again made in Rhodes. Seven bronze coins were recovered, five of which were minted in the name of Alexander the Great and one in the name of Ptolemy I in Cyprus. Together, these objects document not only the date of the sinking but also give evidence of the probable Rhodian home port and trade route of the Kyrenia ship’s final voyage.

Book Romantic Rapports

Download or read book Romantic Rapports written by Larry H. Peer and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays offering fresh glimpses of Romanticism as interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic, illuminating the discursive features and the pan-European nature of the movement.

Book Narrative and Critical History of America  Spanish explorations and settlements in America from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century

Download or read book Narrative and Critical History of America Spanish explorations and settlements in America from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century written by Justin Winsor and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hitler s Followers  RLE Nazi Germany   Holocaust

Download or read book Hitler s Followers RLE Nazi Germany Holocaust written by Detlef Muhlberger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When originally published in 1991, this book was the first systematic, detailed evaluation of the social structure of the Nazi Party in several regions of Germany during its so-called Kampfzeit phase. Based on extensive archival material, much of it left untouched since the end of the war until Detlef Mühlberger uncovered it, the book demonstrates that the Nazi Party and its major auxiliaries, the SA and the SS mobilized support which was remarkably heterogeneous in social terms. The author reveals that in addition to followers from the middle and upper social classes the Nazi Party enjoyed strong support among the lower class and it was indeed, as it claimed to be a people’s party, or Volkspartei.

Book Narrative and Critical History of America  Spanish explorations and settlements in America from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century   c1886

Download or read book Narrative and Critical History of America Spanish explorations and settlements in America from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century c1886 written by Justin Winsor and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memory in German Romanticism

Download or read book Memory in German Romanticism written by Christopher R. Clason and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory in German Romanticism treats memory as a core element in the production and reception of German art and literature of the Romantic era. The contributors explore the artistic expression of memory under the categories of imagination, image, and reception. Romantic literary aesthetics raises the subjective imagination to a level of primary importance for the creation of art. It goes beyond challenging reason and objectivity, two leading intellectual faculties of eighteenth-century Enlightenment, and instead elevates subjective invention to form and sustain memory and imagination. Indeed, memory and imagination, both cognitive functions, seek to assemble the elements of one’s own experience, either directed toward the past (memory) or toward the future (imagination), coherently into a narrative. And like memories, images hold the potential to elicit charged emotional responses; those responses live on through time, becoming part of the spatial and temporal reception of the artist and their work. While imagination generates and images trigger and capture memories, reception creates a temporal-spatial context for art, organizing it and rendering it "memorable," both for good and for bad. Thus, through the categories of imagination, image, and reception, this volume explores the phenomenon of German Romantic memory from different perspectives and in new contexts.

Book Biennial Report

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  • Author : California. Department of Industrial Relations. Division of Labor Statistics and Law Enforcement
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1890
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 852 pages

Download or read book Biennial Report written by California. Department of Industrial Relations. Division of Labor Statistics and Law Enforcement and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Treatise on Wood Engraving  Historical and Practical

Download or read book A Treatise on Wood Engraving Historical and Practical written by and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British Critic

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1804
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1486 pages

Download or read book The British Critic written by and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 1486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: