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Ford Madox Brown
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ISBN: 1526169835 1526142449 9781526142443 9781526142450 1526142457 1526142436 9781526142436 9781526169839 Year: 2022 Publisher: Manchester [UK]

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This original book explores the thinking behind Brown's murals in Manchester Town Hall. It argues that Brown was the most innovative artist in Victorian Britain and that he used this public commission to contest the liberal model of British history favoured by the Manchester Corporation.


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What the thunder said : how the Waste Land made poetry modern
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ISBN: 0691225788 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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"On the 100th anniversary of T.S. Eliot's modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land's creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence. When T.S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put its 34-year-old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. "But," as Jed Rasula writes, "The Waste Land is not only a poem: it names an event, like a tornado or an earthquake. Its publication was a watershed, marking a before and after. It was a poem that unequivocally declared that the ancient art of poetry had become modern." In What the Thunder Said, Rasula tells the story of how The Waste Land changed poetry forever and how this cultural bombshell served as a harbinger of modernist revolution in all the arts, from abstraction in visual art to atonality in music. From its famous opening, "April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land," to its closing Sanskrit mantra, "Shantih shantih shantih," The Waste Land combined singular imagery, experimental technique, and dense allusions, boldly fulfilling Ezra Pound's injunction to "make it new." What the Thunder Said traces the origins, reception, and enduring influence of the poem, from its roots in Wagnerism and French Symbolism to the way its strangely beguiling music continues to inspire readers. Along the way, we learn about Eliot's storied circle, including Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Woolf, and Bertrand Russell, and about poets like Mina Loy and Marianne Moore, whose innovations have proven as consequential as those of the "men of 1914."Filled with fresh insights and unfamiliar anecdotes, What the Thunder Said recovers the explosive force of the twentieth century's most influential poem"--

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Eliot, T. S. --- Waste land (Eliot, T.S.) --- A Season in Hell. --- Aldous Huxley. --- Aphorism. --- Arnaut Daniel. --- Arthur Cravan. --- Arthur Rimbaud. --- Arthur Symons. --- Assonance. --- Blaise Cendrars. --- Caresse Crosby. --- Charles Baudelaire. --- Charles Demuth. --- Charles Olson. --- Charles Reznikoff. --- Conrad Aiken. --- D. H. Lawrence. --- Dada. --- Darius Milhaud. --- De Profundis (letter). --- Demimonde. --- E. M. Forster. --- Erudition. --- Essay. --- Eustace Mullins. --- Existentialism. --- Ezra Pound. --- F. L. Lucas. --- F. S. Flint. --- Floyd Dell. --- Ford Madox Ford. --- Fredric Wertham. --- Gelett Burgess. --- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. --- George Antheil. --- Gerontion. --- Gilbert Murray. --- Guillaume Apollinaire. --- Hart Crane. --- Hector Berlioz. --- Henri Bergson. --- Herbert Spencer. --- Hugh Ross Williamson. --- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. --- Imagism. --- Irving Babbitt. --- James Abbott McNeill Whistler. --- James Huneker. --- Jeremiad. --- John Crowe Ransom. --- John Masefield. --- John Middleton Murry. --- John Peale Bishop. --- Joseph Moncure March. --- Karl Shapiro. --- Kurt Schwitters. --- Kurt Weill. --- Lothario. --- Louis MacNeice. --- Louis Untermeyer. --- Ludwig Tieck. --- Lytton Strachey. --- Malcolm Cowley. --- Manifesto of Futurism. --- Marcel Broodthaers. --- Marcel Duchamp. --- Mario Praz. --- Mythopoeia. --- New Criticism. --- Nian Rebellion. --- Pierre Leroux. --- Poetry. --- Prometheus. --- Randall Jarrell. --- Revolution. --- Revue. --- Richard Aldington. --- Ripostes. --- Robert Bridges. --- Robert Frost. --- Rosicrucianism. --- Rupert Brooke. --- Sherwood Anderson. --- Symbolist Manifesto. --- T. E. Hulme. --- The Birth of Tragedy. --- The Egoist (periodical). --- The Machiavellian Moment. --- Thomas Carlyle. --- Thus Spoke Zarathustra. --- Tristan Tzara. --- V. --- Venusberg (mythology). --- Victor Plarr. --- Vorticism. --- W. B. Yeats. --- W. H. Auden. --- Wallace Stevens. --- Walter Pater. --- William Empson. --- Wyndham Lewis.


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Three Roads Back : How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives
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ISBN: 0691224315 Year: 2023 Publisher: Prince­ton, New Jersey : Prince­ton University Press,

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"This book explores resilience by tracing the linked stories of how Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William James dealt with personal tragedy: for Emerson, the death of his young wife and, eleven years later, his five-year-old son; for Thoreau, the death of his brother; and for James, the death of his beloved cousin Minny. Weaving together biographical detail with quotations from the writers' journals and letters, Richardson shows readers how each of these writers grappled with loss and grief and ultimately achieved a level of resilience. Emerson lost his Unitarian faith but found solace in the study of nature; Thoreau leaned on the natural world's capacity for regeneration, and the comparatively small role played by individual persons; James lit upon a notion of self-governance and emotional malleability that would underwrite much of his work as a psychologist and philosopher. All three, Richardson suggests, emerged from their grief with a new way of seeing, one shaped by a belief in, as Emerson would write, "the deep remedial force that underlies all facts."-- "From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thoughtIn Three Roads Back, Robert Richardson, the author of magisterial biographies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William James, tells the connected stories of how these foundational American writers and thinkers dealt with personal tragedies early in their careers. For Emerson, it was the death of his young wife and, eleven years later, his five-year-old son; for Thoreau, it was the death of his brother; and for James, it was the death of his beloved cousin Minnie Temple. Filled with rich biographical detail and unforgettable passages from the journals and letters of Emerson, Thoreau, and James, these vivid and moving stories of loss and hard-fought resilience show how the writers' responses to these deaths helped spur them on to their greatest work, influencing the birth and course of American literature and philosophy.In reaction to his traumatic loss, Emerson lost his Unitarian faith and found solace in nature. Thoreau, too, leaned on nature and its regenerative power, discovering that "death is the law of new life," an insight that would find expression in Walden. And James, following a period of panic and despair, experienced a redemptive conversion and new ideas that would drive his work as a psychologist and philosopher. As Richardson shows, all three emerged from their grief with a new way of seeing, one shaped by a belief in what Emerson called "the deep remedial force that underlies all facts."An inspiring book about resilience and the new growth and creativity that can stem from devastating loss, Three Roads Back is also an extraordinary account of the hidden wellsprings of American thought"--

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American literature --- Authors, American --- Loss (Psychology) in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Thoreau, Henry David, --- James, William, --- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, --- Family. --- Abridgement. --- Absolute (philosophy). --- Affection. --- Alfred North Whitehead. --- Alice James. --- All things. --- American philosophy. --- Anger. --- Author. --- Beeswax. --- Behavior. --- Biography. --- Career. --- Certainty. --- Christianity. --- Civility. --- Debt. --- Deity. --- Dover Publications. --- Emotion. --- Essay. --- Essays (Montaigne). --- Exemplification. --- Explanation. --- Fiction. --- Friendship. --- Good faith. --- Grammar. --- Grief. --- Harvard Medical School. --- Harvard University Press. --- Henry David Thoreau. --- His Family. --- I Wish (manhwa). --- Idiot. --- John Herschel. --- John Stuart Mill. --- Knave (magazine). --- Language. --- Lecture. --- Literature. --- Lyndall Gordon. --- Majesty. --- Mary Moody Emerson. --- Mary Pipher. --- Mary Somerville. --- Medical school. --- Metaphor. --- Moral absolutism. --- Mutilation. --- My Place (Sally Morgan book). --- Natural philosophy. --- New Thought. --- Non-human. --- Nosebleed. --- Observation. --- Opening sentence. --- Paragraph. --- Pessimism. --- Philosophy. --- Poetry. --- Princeton University Press. --- Prose. --- Psychology. --- Ralph Waldo Emerson. --- Reason. --- Religion. --- Representative Men. --- Reverence (emotion). --- Samuel Taylor Coleridge. --- Sanskrit. --- Self-Reliance. --- Self-hatred. --- Self-knowledge (psychology). --- Short stature. --- Simulacrum. --- Solway Firth. --- Stoicism. --- Subject (philosophy). --- Sympathy. --- Symptom. --- Tetanus. --- The Principles of Psychology. --- The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. --- Their Lives. --- Thomas Carlyle. --- Thought. --- Transcendentalism. --- True History. --- Tuberculosis. --- Unitarianism. --- Universal law. --- Vaccination. --- Vitality. --- Walter Jackson Bate. --- Woodcraft. --- World view. --- Worship. --- Writer. --- Writing.


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Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas
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ISBN: 9781400851775 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Sherpas are portrayed by Westerners as heroic mountain guides, or "tigers of the snow," as Buddhist adepts, and as a people in touch with intimate ways of life that seem no longer available in the Western world. In this book, Vincanne Adams explores how attempts to characterize an "authentic" Sherpa are complicated by Western fascination with Sherpas and by the Sherpas' desires to live up to Western portrayals of them. Noting that diplomatic aides at world summit meetings go by the name "Sherpa," as do a van in the U.K. built for rough terrains and a software product from Silicon Valley, Adams examines the "authenticating" effects of this mobile signifier on a community of Himalayan Sherpas who live at the base of Mount Everest, Nepal, and its "deauthenticating" effects on anthropological representation. This book speaks not only to anthropologists concerned with ethnographic portrayals of Otherness but also to those working in cultural studies who are concerned with ethnographically grounded analyses of representations. Throughout Adams illustrates how one might undertake an ethnography of transnationally produced subjects by using the notion of "virtual" identities. In a manner informed by both Buddhism and shamanism, virtual Sherpas are always both real and distilled reflections of the desires that produce them.

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Sherpa (Nepalese people) --- Ethnology --- Sherpa. --- Nepal --- Nepal. --- Moeurs et coutumes. --- Sherpas --- Bhotia (Tibetan people) --- Cộng hòa dân chủ liên bang Nepal --- Demokratische Bundesrepublik Nepal --- Federacia Demokratia Respubliko Nepalo --- Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal --- Federale Democratische Republiek Nepal --- Federativnai͡a Demokraticheskai͡a Respublika Nepal --- Federatyvna Demokratychna Respublika Nepal --- Kingdom of Nepal --- Kongeriget Nepal --- Nepā --- Nepal Adhirajya --- Nepāla --- Nepālas Federālā Demokrātiskā Republika --- Nepalgo Errepublika Demokratiko Federala --- Nepali Demokraatlik Liitvabariik --- Nepalia --- Nepalin demokraattinen liittotasavalta --- Nepalo --- Nepāru --- Ni-po-erh --- Nibo'er --- Nīpāl --- República Federal Democrática de Nepal --- República Federal Democràtica del Nepal --- République démocratique fédérale du Népal --- Respublika Nepal --- Sambandslýðveldið Nepal --- Sanghiya Loktāntrik Ganatantra Nepāl --- Savezna Demokratska Republika Nepal --- Namche Bazar (Népal) --- Lo Manthang (Népal) --- Mustang (Népal) --- Gyasumdo (Népal) --- Dolpā (Népal) --- Teraï --- Asie du Sud --- Aphorism. --- Attack dog. --- Avalokitesvara. --- Baksheesh. --- Bardo Thodol. --- Bhutan. --- Bodhi. --- Bodhicitta. --- Bodhisattva. --- Buddhahood. --- Buddhism and Hinduism. --- Buddhism. --- Buddhist cosmology. --- Buddhist philosophy. --- Buddhist texts. --- Butter lamp. --- Butter tea. --- Cannibalism. --- Cargo cult. --- Cretinism. --- Criticism of capitalism. --- Crossbreed. --- Dalai Lama. --- Deity. --- Doonesbury. --- Ethnography. --- Exorcism. --- Externality. --- False consciousness. --- Great Goddess. --- Heart Sutra. --- Hermann Broch. --- Heterotopia (space). --- Hillbilly. --- Himalayan Trust. --- Hungry ghost. --- Hypothyroidism. --- Impediment (canon law). --- Impermanence. --- Impossibility. --- Jargon. --- Jean Baudrillard. --- Kalachakra. --- Kathmandu. --- Khumbu. --- Madame Bovary. --- Mahayana. --- Marshall Sahlins. --- Mary Douglas. --- Michael Tobias. --- Mimesis. --- Mohan Lal (Zutshi). --- Monastery. --- Mongols. --- Mountain pass. --- Mountaineering. --- Mudra. --- Nagarjuna. --- Orientalism. --- Ownership (psychology). --- Padmasambhava. --- Perfection of Wisdom. --- Physician. --- Quentin Skinner. --- Racism. --- Religion. --- Rinpoche. --- Sa?sara. --- Severity (video game). --- Shamanism. --- Shangri-La. --- Sherpa people. --- Snow Lion. --- Sonam (actress). --- Spirit King. --- Sutra. --- Tantra. --- Tengboche. --- Thangka. --- The Monastery (TV series). --- Thick description. --- Thomas Carlyle. --- Three Jewels. --- Tibet House. --- Tibetan Buddhism. --- Tibetan culture. --- Tibetan diaspora. --- Tibetan literature. --- Tibetan people. --- Transnationalism. --- Tulku. --- University of Arizona Press. --- Vajradhara. --- Vajrasattva. --- Vajrayana. --- Vihara. --- Vulture Peak. --- Wilderness medicine (practice). --- Yaksha. --- Yogi.

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