Download or read book Greed Is Good and Other Fables written by Tony Osborne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book spans three centuries of popular entertainment and everyday culture, showcasing both mainstream and submerged channels and voices to examine how once reviled business values gained supremacy and poisoned the American spirit. The office in popular culture is often depicted as a topsy-turvy parallel universe where psychological disorders are legitimized as "managerial styles" and comically depraved bosses torment those who do the actual work. During the 1950s, the Beats chose denim and the open road over gray flannel suits and office jobs, but today their grandchildren—Generation Y—aggressively covet desk jobs. "Greed Is Good" and Other Fables: Office Life in Popular Culture examines how office life is both extolled and lampooned in popular culture. The book tracks how business values ascended to cultural dominance in the United States today, revealing our incessant struggle between financial and spiritual goals in the pursuit of "freedom" and the fulfillment of the American dream. By drawing upon sources as varied as books, newspapers, magazines, television shows, movies, blogs, message boards, documentaries, public speeches, corporate training films, and employee newsletters, the author provides compelling insights into the range of competing values and ideals interwoven throughout office life.
Download or read book The Essential Short Stories written by Willa Cather and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willa Cather surely belongs to America's most famous authors of the early 20th century. Most of her stories are set in the Great Plains, especially in Nebraska, where she was born and where she lived. This volume is a carefully selected compilation of more than 25 of her most exciting and successful short stories.
Download or read book Uncle Valentine and Other Stories written by Willa Cather and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seven stories in this volume were written during the ascending and perhaps most triumphant years of Willa Cather's career, the period during which she published nine books, including My Ántonia, A Lost Lady, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. For the most part ironic in tone, these stories are, as Bernice Slote observes, bound by the geometrics of urban life—streets and offices, workers and firms, the business world of New York and Pittsburgh, the cities which by 1929 Willa Cather had known well for over thirty years." In her introduction, Slote discusses their biographical elements, connections with earlier and later work, and the intricate patterns that lie below the lucid, shimmering surface of Willa Cather's prose.
Download or read book Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine written by Josiah Gilbert Holland and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Twenty first Century Leadership Can Learn from Nineteenth Century American Literature written by Christine A. Eastman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Twenty-First-Leadership Can Learn from Nineteenth-Century American Literature aims to narrow the gap between leadership theory and practice, offering an account of how leaders in organizations can improve their practice by drawing on the literary imagination. Eastman analyses how business students can use literary fiction to find solutions to workplace problems, how they can engage with fictional writers' ideas about work, morality, and the self, and how they can articulate their own ideas about fostering a deeper connection between leaders and their teams in the workplace. The book contributes to leadership studies by setting out the case for using literary fictional texts to explore leadership scenarios. It has several purposes. The first is to provide educators with ideas on how to use fiction with students following a business curriculum. The second is to encourage industry to help their employees to become better able to analyse and synthesize complex and possibly conflicting ideas as well as how to articulate these ideas with clarity. A third purpose is to demonstrate how university and industry can work together. The work presents an alternative orientation for leaders predicated on the conviction that reading fiction will support students in becoming better at thinking about working relationships and at understanding other people, and it provides the underpinnings of a unifying theoretical framework for learning through fiction in a professional context and aims to demonstrate that reading about how fictional characters respond to the challenges of life supports students to formulate their own innovative leadership thinking.
Download or read book A Collection of Stories Reviews and Essays written by Willa Cather and published by E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books. This book was released on 2024-09-26 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete collection available of Willa Cather's remarkable short fiction, Collected Stories and Reviews and Essays brings together all the stories published in this one book form during her lifetime along with two additional volumes compiled after her death. STORIES Part I Peter On the Divide Eric Hermannson's Soul The Sentimentality of William Tavener The Namesake The Enchanted Bluff The Joy of Nelly Deane The Bohemian Girl Consequences The Bookkeeper's Wife Ardessa Her Boss REVIEWS AND ESSAYS Part II Mark Twain William Dean Howells Edgar Allan Poe Walt Whitman Henry James Harold Frederic Kate Chopin Stephen Crane Frank Norris When I Knew Stephen Crane On the Art of Fiction
Download or read book Cather Among the Moderns written by Janis P. Stout and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful study by a preeminent scholar that situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism Willa Cather is often pegged as a regionalist, a feminine and domestic writer, or a social realist. In Cather Among the Moderns, Janis P. Stout firmly situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism, something other scholars have hinted at but rarely affirmed. Stout presents Cather on a large, dramatic stage among a sizable cast of characters and against a brightly lit social and historical backdrop, invoking numerous figures and instances from the broad movement in the arts and culture that we call modernism. Early on, Stout addresses the matter of gender. The term “cross-dresser” has often been applied to Cather, but Stout sees Cather’s identity as fractured or ambiguous, a reading that links her firmly to early twentieth-century modernity. Later chapters take up topics of significance both to Cather and to twentieth-century American modernists, including shifting gender roles, World War I’s devastation of social and artistic norms, and strains in racial relations. She explores Cather’s links to a small group of modernists who, after the war, embraced life in New Mexico, a destination of choice for many artists, and which led to two of Cather’s most fully realized modernist novels, The Professor’s House and Death Comes for the Archbishop. The last chapter addresses Cather’s place within modernism. Stout first places her in relation to Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot with their shared ties to tradition even while making, sometimes startling, innovations in literary form, then showing parallels with William Faulkner with respect to economic disparity and social injustice.
Download or read book The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK 50 Classic Short Works written by Willa Cather and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willa Sibert Cather (1873– 1947) was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918). Through the 1910s and 1920s, Cather was firmly established as a major American writer. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. This volume collects 50 of her classic short works, published between 1892 and 1920. Here are: LOU, THE PROPHET PETER A TALE OF THE WHITE PYRAMID A SON OF THE CELESTIAL THE ELOPEMENT OF ALLEN POOLE THE CLEMENCY OF THE COURT “THE FEAR THAT WALKS BY NOONDAY” ON THE DIVIDE A NIGHT AT GREENWAY COURT THE PRINCESS BALADINA -- HER ADVENTURE TOMMY, THE UNSENTIMENTAL THE COUNT OF CROW'S NEST WEE WINKIE'S WANDERINGS THE BURGLAR'S CHRISTMAS THE STRATEGY OF THE WEREWOLF DOG A RESURRECTION THE PRODIGIES NANETTE: AN ASIDE THE WAY OF THE WORLD THE WEST BOUND TRAIN ERIC HERMANNSON'S SOUL THE DANCE AT CHEVALIER’S THE SENTIMENTALITY OF WILLIAM TAVENER A SINGER'S ROMANCE THE CONVERSION OF SUM LOO JACK-A-BOY EL DORADO: A KANSAS RECESSIONAL THE PROFESSOR’S COMMENCEMENT THE TREASURE OF FAR ISLAND A DEATH IN THE DESERT A WAGNER MATINEE THE SCULPTOR'S FUNERAL PAUL'S CASE THE NAMESAKE THE PROFILE THE WILLING MUSE ELEANOR'S HOUSE ON THE GULLS' ROAD THE ENCHANTED BLUFF THE JOY OF NELLY DEANE BEHIND THE SINGER TOWER THE BOHEMIAN GIRL CONSEQUENCES THE BOOKKEEPER'S WIFE THE DIAMOND MINE A GOLD SLIPPER ARDESSA SCANDAL HER BOSS COMING, EDEN BOWER! If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!
Download or read book On Company Time written by Donal Harris and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American novelists and poets who came of age in the early twentieth century were taught to avoid journalism "like wet sox and gin before breakfast." It dulled creativity, rewarded sensationalist content, and stole time from "serious" writing. Yet Willa Cather, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, James Agee, T. S. Eliot, and Ernest Hemingway all worked in the editorial offices of groundbreaking popular magazines and helped to invent the house styles that defined McClure's, The Crisis, Time, Life, Esquire, and others. On Company Time tells the story of American modernism from inside the offices and on the pages of the most successful and stylish magazines of the twentieth century. Working across the borders of media history, the sociology of literature, print culture, and literary studies, Donal Harris draws out the profound institutional, economic, and aesthetic affiliations between modernism and American magazine culture. Starting in the 1890s, a growing number of writers found steady paychecks and regular publishing opportunities as editors and reporters at big magazines. Often privileging innovative style over late-breaking content, these magazines prized novelists and poets for their innovation and attention to literary craft. In recounting this history, On Company Time challenges the narrative of decline that often accompanies modernism's incorporation into midcentury middlebrow culture. Its integrated account of literary and journalistic form shows American modernism evolving within as opposed to against mass print culture. Harris's work also provides an understanding of modernism that extends beyond narratives centered on little magazines and other "institutions of modernism" that served narrow audiences. And for the writers, the "double life" of working for these magazines shaped modernism's literary form and created new models of authorship.
Download or read book The Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Women Modern Work written by Francesca Sawaya and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on literary authors, social reformers, journalists, and anthropologists, Francesca Sawaya demonstrates how women intellectuals in early twentieth-century America combined and criticized ideas from both the Victorian "cult of domesticity" and the modern "culture of professionalism" to shape new kinds of writing and new kinds of work for themselves. Sawaya challenges our long-standing histories of modern professional work by elucidating the multiple ways domestic discourse framed professional culture. Modernist views of professionalism typically told a racialized story of a historical break between the primitive, feminine, and domestic work of the Victorian past and the modern, masculine, professional expertise of the present. Modern Women, Modern Work historicizes this discourse about the primitive labor of women and racial others and demonstrates how it has been adopted uncritically in contemporary accounts of professionalism, modernism, and modernity. Seeking to recuperate black and white women's contestations of the modern professions, Sawaya pairs selected novels with a broad range of nonfiction writings to show how differing narratives about the transition to modernity authorized women's professionalism in a variety of fields. Among the figures considered are Jane Addams, Ruth Benedict, Willa Cather, Pauline Hopkins, Zora Neale Hurston, Sarah Orne Jewett, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, and Ida Tarbell. In mapping out the constraints women faced in their writings and their work, and in tracing the slippery compromises they embraced and the brilliant adaptations they made, Modern Women, Modern Work boldly reenvisions the history of modern professionalism in the United States.
Download or read book New York Stories written by Bob Blaisdell and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of classic short fiction presents stories inspired by life in the great metropolis. Contributors include O. Henry, Melville, Cather, Wharton, Wodehouse, Langston Hughes, Junot Díaz, and others.
Download or read book The Essential Willa Cather Collection written by Willa Cather and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 2060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Willa Cather: Alexander's Bridge and The Barrel Organ A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays My Antonia One of Ours O Pioneers! Song of the Lark The Troll Garden and Selected Stories Youth and the Bright Medusa
Download or read book Cather Studies Volume 13 written by Cather Studies and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willa Cather wrote about the places she knew, including Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, and Virginia. Often forgotten among these essential locations has been Pittsburgh. During the ten years Pittsburgh was her home (1896-1906), Cather worked as an editor, journalist, teacher, and freelance writer. She mixed with all sorts of people and formed friendships both ephemeral and lasting. She published extensively--and not just profiles and reviews but also a collection of poetry, April Twilights, and more than thirty short stories, including several collected in The Troll Garden that are now considered masterpieces: "A Death in the Desert," "The Sculptor's Funeral," "A Wagner Matinee," and "Paul's Case." During extended working vacations through 1916, she finished four novels in Pittsburgh. Cather Studies, Volume 13 explores the myriad ways that these crucial years in Pittsburgh shaped Cather's writing career and the artistic, professional, and personal connections she made there. With contributions from fourteen well-known Cather scholars, this collection of essays recognizes the importance Pittsburgh played in Cather's life and work and deepens our appreciation of how her art examines and elucidates the human experience.
Download or read book Cather Studies written by Cather Studies and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of Cather Studies demonstrates the range of topics and approaches in contemporary discussions of Willa Cather?s work for the informed reader or the specialized student.This volume includes major essays on Cather's response to the cultural pessimism of Oswald Spengler, her affinities to Alphonse Daudet, and aspects of her art in My Antonia, The Professor's House, and Shadows on the Rock.
Download or read book A Collection of Stories Reviews and Essays Classics written by Willa Cather and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immerse yourself in the timeless works of Willa Cather with "A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays: Classics" by the renowned American author. This comprehensive volume brings together a diverse selection of Cather's most beloved stories, insightful reviews, and thought-provoking essays, offering readers a unique opportunity to explore the breadth and depth of her literary talent. Set against the backdrop of the American Midwest and the vast expanse of the Great Plains, Cather's stories capture the essence of life on the frontier, from the struggles of early settlers to the beauty of the natural landscape. Through vivid descriptions and richly drawn characters, she paints a vivid portrait of a bygone era, inviting readers to experience the joys and sorrows of ordinary people living extraordinary lives. Themes of love, loss, and the search for meaning permeate the narrative, inviting readers to reflect on the human condition and the universal truths that unite us all. From the quiet introspection of her essays to the emotional depth of her short stories, Cather's writing resonates with a timeless wisdom and a profound understanding of the human heart. With its blend of lyrical prose, evocative imagery, and keen insight into the human experience, "A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays: Classics" is a treasure trove of literary gems that will delight and inspire readers of all ages. Whether you're a longtime fan of Cather's work or discovering her writing for the first time, this collection offers something for everyone, with its timeless tales and enduring wisdom. Since its publication, "A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays: Classics" has earned widespread acclaim for its literary merit and cultural significance. Cather's ability to capture the essence of the American experience has made her one of the most celebrated authors of the 20th century, and this collection showcases some of her finest work. Prepare to be captivated by the timeless beauty of Willa Cather's writing with "A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays: Classics." Whether you're seeking a quiet escape into the past or a thought-provoking exploration of the human condition, this collection offers something for everyone, with its richly textured prose, memorable characters, and profound insights into the human spirit. Don't miss your chance to experience the magic of Cather's writing—pick up your copy today and embark on a journey through the heart and soul of one of America's greatest literary treasures.
Download or read book Scribner s Monthly an Illustrated Magazine for the People written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
