Bending the Frame

Автор: Stephen Bending
Название: A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Enlightenment
ISBN: 135000992X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350009929
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: The Enlightenment raised fundamental questions about what it meant to be human in a truly global world. At the heart of debates about nature, culture and history, the garden offered itself as a practical demonstration, a living experiment, and a site of debate and discourse. The design, planting, experience and representation of contemporary gardens in Europe, China and North America reveal intense contributions to debates on aesthetics, both personal and national politics, and on the shaping of nature. A Cultural History of Gardens in the Age of Enlightenment presents an overview of the period with essays on issues of design, types of gardens, planting, use and reception, issues of meaning, verbal and visual representation of gardens, and the relationship of gardens to the larger landscape.

Автор: Stone Samantha
Название: Bending Nature: A New Kind of Vampire Novel
ISBN: 069260278X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692602782
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 1893.00 р.
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Автор: Regalado Aldo J.
Название: Bending Steel: Modernity and the American Superhero
ISBN: 1628462213 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781628462210
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound . . . It's Superman!"" Bending Steel examines the historical origins and cultural significance of Superman and his fellow American crusaders. Cultural historian Aldo J. Regalado asserts that the superhero seems a direct response to modernity, often fighting the interrelated processes of industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and capitalism that transformed the United States from the early nineteenth century to the present. Reeling from these exciting but rapid and destabilizing forces, Americans turned to heroic fiction as a means of explaining national and personal identities to themselves and to the world. In so doing, they created characters and stories that sometimes affirmed, but other times subverted conventional notions of race, class, gender, and nationalism.The cultural conversation articulated through the nation's early heroic fiction eventually led to a new heroic type--the brightly clad, super-powered, pro-social action heroes that first appeared in American comic books starting in the late 1930s. Although indelibly shaped by the Great Depression and World War II sensibilities of the second-generation immigrants most responsible for their creation, comic book superheroes remain a mainstay of American popular culture.Tracing superhero fiction all the way back to the nineteenth century, Regalado firmly bases his analysis of dime novels, pulp fiction, and comics in historical, biographical, and reader response sources. He explores the roles played by creators, producers, and consumers in crafting superhero fiction, ultimately concluding that these narratives are essential for understanding vital trajectories in American culture.

Автор: Fine Woodworking Editors
Название: Bending Wood
ISBN: 0918804299 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780918804297
Издательство: GMC
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Описание: Whether making a delicate violin, a pair of skis or a graceful armchair, you`ll need to bend wood. This text presents the basic methods and trade secrets from the experts.