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Book Criminal Ingenuity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ellen Levy
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2011-05-13
  • ISBN : 0199746354
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Criminal Ingenuity written by Ellen Levy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-13 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminal Ingenuity offers both a history and a theory of the conflicted relation between poetry and painting in high and mid-century modernism, focusing on figures like T.S. Eliot, Clement Greenberg, Marianne Moore, John Ashbery and Joseph Cornell.

Book Criminal Ingenuity

Download or read book Criminal Ingenuity written by Ellen Levy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-13 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poetry was declining/ Painting advancing/ we were complaining/ it was '50," recalled poet Frank O'Hara in 1957. Criminal Ingenuity traces a series of linked moments in the history of this transfer of cultural power from the sphere of the word to that of the image. Ellen Levy explores the New York literary and art worlds in the years that bracket O'Hara's lament through close readings of the works and careers of poets Marianne Moore and John Ashbery and assemblage artist Joseph Cornell. In the course of these readings, Levy discusses such topics as the American debates around surrealism, the function of the "token woman" in artistic canons, and the role of the New York City Ballet in the development of mid-century modernism, and situates her central figures in relation to such colleagues and contemporaries as O'Hara, T. S. Eliot, Clement Greenberg, Walter Benjamin, and Lincoln Kirstein. Moore, Cornell, and Ashbery are connected by acquaintance and affinity-and above all, by the possession of what Moore calls "criminal ingenuity," a talent for situating themselves on the fault lines that fissure the realms of art, sexuality, and politics. As we consider their lives and works, Levy shows, the seemingly specialized question of the source and meaning of the struggle for power between art forms inexorably opens out to broader questions about social and artistic institutions and forces: the academy and the museum, professionalism and the market, and that institution of institutions, marriage.

Book Criminal Investigation

Download or read book Criminal Investigation written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Outlook and Independent

Download or read book Outlook and Independent written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Outlook

Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Constructing a Nervous System

Download or read book Constructing a Nervous System written by Margo Jefferson and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From "one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and feminism (Cathy Park Hong, New York Times bestselling author of Minor Feelings) comes a memoir "as electric as the title suggests" (Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom). The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and memoirist Margo Jefferson has lived in the thrall of a cast of others—her parents and maternal grandmother, jazz luminaries, writers, artists, athletes, and stars. These are the figures who thrill and trouble her, and who have made up her sense of self as a person and as a writer. In her much-anticipated follow-up to Negroland, Jefferson brings these figures to life in a memoir of stunning originality, a performance of the elements that comprise and occupy the mind of one of our foremost critics. In Constructing a Nervous System, Jefferson shatters her self into pieces and recombines them into a new and vital apparatus on the page, fusing the criticism that she is known for, fragments of the family members she grieves for, and signal moments from her life, as well as the words of those who have peopled her past and accompanied her in her solitude, dramatized here like never before. Bing Crosby and Ike Turner are among the author’s alter egos. The sounds of a jazz LP emerge as the intimate and instructive sounds of a parent’s voice. W. E. B. Du Bois and George Eliot meet illicitly. The muscles and movements of a ballerina are spliced with those of an Olympic runner, becoming a template for what a black female body can be. The result is a wildly innovative work of depth and stirring beauty. It is defined by fractures and dissonance, longing and ecstasy, and a persistent searching. Jefferson interrogates her own self as well as the act of writing memoir, and probes the fissures at the center of American cultural life.

Book The Little Magazine Others and the Renovation of Modern American Poetry

Download or read book The Little Magazine Others and the Renovation of Modern American Poetry written by Suzanne Wintsch Churchill and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Others, an important and neglected little magazine, finally receives the attention it deserves in Churchill's superbly crafted study. In Churchill's discussions of Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams, among others, Others serves as a framework for reassessing the scope and significance of modernist formalism. This book is an important contribution to the fields of American poetry and poetics, gender studies, queer theory, and cultural studies.

Book The Wallflower Avant Garde

Download or read book The Wallflower Avant Garde written by Brian Glavey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wallflower Avant-Garde highlights a strain of formalism visible in both modernist literature and contemporary queer studies, drawing attention to an aesthetic that is as quiet and quirky as it is queer. In studies of Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Richard Bruce Nugent, Frank O'Hara, and John Ashbery, Brian Glavey argues for a recalibrated understanding of the relation between sexuality and the aesthetic, revealing a non-oppositional avant-gardism that opts out of some of the binaristic imperatives that have structured recent debates in queer theory. Refusing to decide between positive and negative affects or to side with either utopian or antisocial ambitions, The Wallflower Avant-Garde explores models of reading and writing about art that remain flexible enough to dig deep even as they gloss the surface. At the heart of this argument is a revaluation of modernist ekphrasis, a mode understood as literature's imitation or description of the visual arts. From the well-wrought urns of the New Critics onward, ekphrasis has figured prominently in the legacy of modernist literary criticism, but a tendency to read its complicated modes of relationality in terms of either autonomy or antagonism has obscured the forms of creative failure and imitation embodied in the desire to confuse poetry for pottery. Attending to mimetic and descriptive strategies without dismissing the aspirations for wholeness and closure that often animate them allows for the recognition that queerness and modernism are intertwined in unexpected and unpredictable ways, revealing new insights into the varieties of abstraction, preterition, and spatial form that stand behind modernism's investment in the aesthetic.

Book We Feel Just Like You Do

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dr. Sahadeva Das
  • Publisher : Golden Age Media
  • Release : 2018-01-01
  • ISBN : 8190976079
  • Pages : 145 pages

Download or read book We Feel Just Like You Do written by Dr. Sahadeva Das and published by Golden Age Media . This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How egocentric of humans to think we are the only beings who can think, feel bond with others, etc. As the “dominating” species, we have a responsibility to care for and protect the entire planet, including the other animals. Those who describe animals as not having any thoughts or feelings come closer to the description they’re trying to describe. It's enormously puzzling that extreme suffering only gets widely questioned if it is the suffering of members of the human species. It is extraordinary how many people just accept the appalling treatment of such a vast number of animals. Animals have souls and we have a duty to respect them! Anything less is to deny one’s humanity and one’s own soul! Numerous stories outlined in this book prove this point, beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Book Reform of the Federal Criminal Laws

Download or read book Reform of the Federal Criminal Laws written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 2014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Why Crime Does Not Pay

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  • Author : Mrs. Sophie Van Elkan Lyons Burke
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2019-11-22
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Why Crime Does Not Pay written by Mrs. Sophie Van Elkan Lyons Burke and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why Crime Does Not Pay" by Mrs. Sophie Van Elkan Lyons Burke. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Book Binary Bullets

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  • Author : Fritz Allhoff
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 0190221089
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Binary Bullets written by Fritz Allhoff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume explores a wide array of ethical issues surrounding the advent of cyberwarfare. The moral complexities presented by cyberwar are many and they challenge our traditional understandings of just war theory and the ethics of war. This volume directly addresses the pressing need for serious scholarly analysis of this new form of warfare.

Book Mavericks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aritha Van Herk
  • Publisher : Penguin Canada
  • Release : 2010-01-12
  • ISBN : 0143176951
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book Mavericks written by Aritha Van Herk and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth title in our provincial histories series, Mavericks is an idiosyncratic and episodic history of what is arguably Canada's most unconventional province. From mapmakers to ranchers, Stampede Wrestling to Stockwell Day, acclaimed writer Aritha van Herk brings the drama and combative beauty of this irascible province to stunning life. van Herk's portrait of her home province embraces all its extremes, from deadly and spectacular weather to dinosaur graveyards, and from oil gushers and geysers to barnstorming social reformers and political haymakers. Bronc-riders of boom and bust, Alberta's people are a beguiling mixture of opinionated extremists, hardy pioneers and gentle sinners. Alberta is a province that most Canadians simply don't understand, the province most Canadians love to hate. It is regarded as a land of reckless, redneck and ignorant individualists. But it is also the province where the Famous Five fought the landmark Person's Case, giving Canadian women the same status as men in the eyes of the law, a province that truly believes in free speech. Albertans tolerate in their midst people whose extreme views on any manner of subjects would make them outcasts elsewhere. And Albertans practice the creed of western neighbourliness, giving assiduously to charity and always lending a hand where help is needed. They are a tough, tender bunch, squinting into the wind of determined difference. If you're an Albertan, you'll recognize yourself and your home in this book. If you're not an Albertan, this book will be an education for you. Mavericks will open your eyes to the real Alberta, as she was and is.

Book The Science of Proof

    Book Details:
  • Author : E. Claire Cage
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2022-09
  • ISBN : 1009198335
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book The Science of Proof written by E. Claire Cage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful analysis of the rise of forensic medicine in modern France and doctors' authority in the legal arena.

Book A World of Opportunities

Download or read book A World of Opportunities written by M. Grapendaal and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-02-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the policies of the Dutch toward illicit drug use and the effect these policies have had on heroin addicts and drug-related crime.

Book On Poisons in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and Medicine

Download or read book On Poisons in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and Medicine written by Alfred Swaine Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Texas Rangers in Transition

Download or read book The Texas Rangers in Transition written by Charles H. Harris and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official Texas Ranger Bicentennial™ Publication Newly rich in oil money, and all the trouble it could buy, Texas in the years following World War I underwent momentous changes—and those changes propelled the transformation of the state’s storied Rangers. Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler explore this important but relatively neglected period in the Texas Rangers’ history in this book, a sequel to their award-winning The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910–1920. In a Texas awash in booze and oil in the Prohibition years, the Rangers found themselves riding herd on gamblers and bootleggers, but also tasked with everything from catching murderers to preventing circus performances on Sunday. The Texas Rangers in Transition takes up the Rangers’ story at a time of political turmoil, as the largely rural state was rapidly becoming urban. At the same time, law enforcement was facing an epidemic of bank robberies, an increase in organized crime, the growth of the Ku Klux Klan, Prohibition enforcement—new challenges that the Rangers met by transitioning from gunfighters to criminal investigators. Steeped in tradition, reluctant to change, the agency was reduced to its nadir in the depths of the Depression, the victim of slashed appropriations, an antagonistic governor, and mediocre personnel. Harris and Sadler document the further and final change that followed when, in 1935, the Texas Rangers were moved from the governor’s control to the newly created Department of Public Safety. This proved a watershed in the Rangers’ history, marking their transformation into a modern law enforcement agency, the elite investigative force that they remain to this day.