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Book Emigrants and Exiles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kerby A. Miller
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 9780195051872
  • Pages : 704 pages

Download or read book Emigrants and Exiles written by Kerby A. Miller and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the reasons for the large Irish emigration, and examines the problems they faced adjusting to new lives in the United States.

Book Varieties of Exile

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  • Author : Mavis Gallant
  • Publisher : New York Review of Books
  • Release : 2003-11-30
  • ISBN : 9781590170601
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Varieties of Exile written by Mavis Gallant and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2003-11-30 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the international story, the fine-grained evocation of the quandaries of people who must make their way in the world without any place to call their own. The irreducible complexity of the very idea of home is especially at issue in the stories Gallant has written about Montreal, where she was born, although she has lived in Paris for more than half a century. Varieties of Exile, Russell Banks's extensive new selection from Gallant's work, demonstrates anew the remarkable reach of this writer's singular art. Among its contents are three previously uncollected stories, as well as the celebrated semi-autobiographical sequence about Linnet Muir—stories that are wise, funny, and full of insight into the perils and promise of growing up and breaking loose.

Book Collected Papers on Alexander the Great

Download or read book Collected Papers on Alexander the Great written by Ernst Badian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Ernst Badian (1925-2011) was one of the most influential Alexander historians of the twentieth century. His first articles on the subject appeared in 1958, and he continued for a full fifty years to reshape scholarly perception of the reign of Alexander the Great. A steady output of articles was reinforced by lectures and reviews in his own formidable style. Badian's earliest work transformed understanding of aspects of the Roman Republic, and he continued to work on that area throughout his career; but his series of studies of Alexander the Great (which he deliberately never summed up in a synoptic work) demolished the hero of his predecessors such as Droysen and Tarn, whom he regarded as starry-eyed hero-worshippers, and created an Alexander on the model of a twentieth-century tyrant. The Alexander who was a ruthless killer of his rivals and those who disagreed with him, a mass-murderer in his conquests, and perhaps even an incompetent imperialist, has superseded the Alexander whose mission it was to bring Greek civilization to the ends of the earth. These essays and articles provide a new layer in the interpretation of a figure who has not ceased to fascinate since his death in 323 BC. Many of these articles were published in out-of-the-way journals and conference volumes, and are brought together here for the first time in a collection which will provide student and scholar with a view of the full range of Badian's work on Alexander. Certain ephemeral pieces and all reviews except one have been excluded, by the wish of the author. The twenty-seven articles included were all revised by the author before his death, but there has been no other editorial intervention. The volume also includes a portrait, and an introduction by Eugene Borza surveying Badian's career and contribution. No one who works on Alexander the Great can afford to be without this book.

Book Exiles

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Joyce
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2020-12-10
  • ISBN : 0192520415
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Exiles written by James Joyce and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'That is my fear. That I stand between her and any moments of life that should be hers...' Set against the backdrop of the Home Rule Crisis of 1912, Exiles is James Joyce's only surviving play. It tells the story of writer Richard Rowan and his common-law wife Bertha, characters drawn from Joyce's own life with Nora Barnacle. After a decade of absence from Dublin, Richard and Bertha have returned home from Rome, still unmarried, with their young son Archie. Richard hopes that he will be greeted as a returning genius and rewarded with a comfortable university position. But this aspiration ends up taking a back seat to the erotic crisis that is unleashed by the couple's return to the place where they first met, and their encounters with two old flames and friends. In this play, Joyce revisits his own agonizing feelings of jealousy that were precipitated by similar trips home to Dublin. In the introduction and notes, Keri Walsh provides a comprehensive look issues of gender, sexuality, and performance as well as considering the nationalist and sectarian contexts of Dublin in 1912, the year of the play's setting.

Book Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States

Download or read book Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Exile of St  Helena

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  • Author : Philippe Gonnard
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1909
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book The Exile of St Helena written by Philippe Gonnard and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Charles Brockden Brown s Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic

Download or read book Charles Brockden Brown s Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic written by Peter Kafer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2004-04-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How could a glorious age of American history also give rise to the darkest of literary traditions, one that would inspire Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, and many other best-selling American writers?"

Book Our Paper

Download or read book Our Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Immigration and Exile Foreign Language Press in the UK and in the US

Download or read book Immigration and Exile Foreign Language Press in the UK and in the US written by Stéphanie Prévost and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both Britain and the United States have had a long history of harbouring foreign political exiles, who often set up periodicals which significantly contributed to community-building and political debates. However, this varied and complex journalism has received little attention to date, particularly regarding the languages in which it was produced. This wide-ranging edited volume brings together for the first time interdisciplinary case studies of the exile foreign-language press (in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Flemish, Polish, among other languages) across Britain and the US, establishing a useful comparative framework to explore how periodicals tackled key political, linguistic and literary issues from the 19th century to the present day. Building on the existing literature on the exile foreign-language press in the United States and developing the study of this phenomenon in the British context, Immigration and Exile Foreign-Language Press in the UK and in the US offers fresh perspectives into how these marginalised periodicals influenced the political, economic and social contexts that brought them into existence. This is a major contribution to the burgeoning field of transnational periodicals and will be of interest to anyone studying the history of the Anglo-American press, the history of immigration and cultural history.

Book The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine

Download or read book The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Lands of Exile

Download or read book From Lands of Exile written by Pierre Loti and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American state papers

Download or read book American state papers written by USA and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American State Papers

Download or read book American State Papers written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: class I. Foreign relations. 6 v. 1st Cong.-20th Cong., 1st sess., April 30, 1789-May 24, 1828.--class II. Indian affairs. 2 v. 1st Cong.-19th Cong., May 25, 1789-March 1, 1827.--class III. Finance. 5 v. 1st Cong.-20th Cong., 1st sess., April 11, 1789-May 16, 1828.--class IV. Commerce and navigation. 2 v. 1st Cong.-17th Cong., April 13, 1789-Feb. 25, 1823.--Class V. Military affairs. 7 v. 1st Cong.-25th Cong., 2d sess., Aug. 10, 1789-March 1, 1838.--class VI. Naval affairs. 4 v. 3d Cong.-24th Cong., 1st sess., Jan 20, 1794-June 15, 1836.--class VII. Postoffice department. 1 v. 1st Cong., 2d sess.-22d Cong., Jan. 22, 1790-Feb. 21, 1833.--class VIII. Public lands. 8 v. 1st Cong.-24th Cong., July 1, 1790-Feb. 28, 1837.--class IX. Claims. 1 v. 1st Cong., 2d sess.-17th Cong., Feb. 5, 1790-March 3, 1823.--class X. Miscellaneous. 2 v. 1st Cong.-17th Cong., April 17, 1789-March 3, 1823.

Book German Speaking Exiles in Great Britain

Download or read book German Speaking Exiles in Great Britain written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Granite Monthly

Download or read book The Granite Monthly written by Henry Harrison Metcalf and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains articles on the White Mountains and a map.

Book The Exile

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Ames
  • Publisher : Grove Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780802136527
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book The Exile written by Mark Ames and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "eXile" is the controversial tabloid founded by Ames and Taibbi that "Rolling Stone" has called "cruel, caustic, and funny" and "a must-read." In the tradition of gonzo journalists like Hunter S. Thompson, the authors cover everything from decadent club scenes to the nation's collapsing political and economic systems--no one is spared. Illustrations.

Book Weimar in Exile

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  • Author : Jean-Michel Palmier
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Release : 2017-01-31
  • ISBN : 1784786462
  • Pages : 864 pages

Download or read book Weimar in Exile written by Jean-Michel Palmier and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magisterial history of the artists and writers who left Weimar when the Nazis came to power In 1933 thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, militants and other opponents of the Nazi regime fled Germany. They were, in the words of Heinrich Mann, “the best of Germany,” refusing to remain citizens in this new state that legalized terror and brutality. Exiled across the world, they continued the fight against Nazism in prose, poetry, painting, architecture, film and theater. Weimar in Exile follows these lives, from the rise of national socialism to their return to a ruined homeland, retracing their stories, struggles, setbacks and rare victories. The dignity in exile of Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Döblin, Hanns Eisler, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Anna Seghers, Ernst Toller, Stefan Zweig and many others provides a counterpoint to the story of Germany under the Nazis.