Paris Under the Commune; Or, the Red Rebellion of 1871 ... Illustrated., Brockett Linus Pierpont
Автор: Pierpont James Lord Название: Jingle Bells ISBN: 1406362093 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781406362091 Издательство: Walker Books Рейтинг: Цена: 1055.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Sing along with this musical edition of the favourite Christmas song, "Jingle Bells"!
The modern nation-state of Turkey was established in 1923, but when and how did its citizens begin to identify themselves as Turks? Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkey's founding president, is almost universally credited with creating a Turkish national identity through his revolutionary program to "secularize" the former heartland of the Ottoman Empire. Yet, despite Turkey's status as the lone secular state in the Muslim Middle East, religion remains a powerful force in Turkish society, and the country today is governed by a democratically elected political party with a distinctly religious (Islamist) orientation.
In this history, Gavin D. Brockett takes a fresh look at the formation of Turkish national identity, focusing on the relationship between Islam and nationalism and the process through which a "religious national identity" emerged. Challenging the orthodoxy that Atatürk and the political elite imposed a sense of national identity from the top down, Brockett examines the social and political debates in provincial newspapers from around the country. He shows that the unprecedented expansion of print media in Turkey between 1945 and 1954, which followed the end of strict, single-party authoritarian government, created a forum in which ordinary people could inject popular religious identities into the new Turkish nationalism. Brockett makes a convincing case that it was this fruitful negotiation between secular nationalism and Islam—rather than the imposition of secularism alone—that created the modern Turkish national identity.
Автор: Pierpont Claudia Roth Название: Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books ISBN: 0374534934 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374534936 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Цена: 1839.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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A critical evaluation of Philip Roth--the first of its kind--that takes on the man, the myth, and the work
Philip Roth is one of the most renowned writers of our time. From his debut, "Goodbye, Columbus," which won the National Book Award in 1960, and the explosion of "Portnoy's Complaint "in 1969 to his haunting reimagining of Anne Frank's story in "The Ghost Writer "ten years later and the series of masterworks starting in the mid-eighties--"The Counterlife," "Patrimony," "Operation Shylock," "Sabbath's Theater," "American Pastoral," "The Human""Stain"--Roth has produced some of the great American literature of the modern era. And yet there has been no major critical work about him until now. Here, at last, is the story of Roth's creative life. "Roth Unbound "is not a biography--though it contains a wealth of previously undisclosed biographical details and unpublished material--but something ultimately more rewarding: the exploration of a great writer through his art. Claudia Roth Pierpont, a staff writer for "The New Yorker," has known Roth for nearly a decade.""Her carefully researched and gracefully written account""is filled with remarks from Roth himself, ""drawn from their ongoing conversations. Here are""insights and anecdotes that will change the way""many readers perceive this most controversial and""galvanizing writer: a young and unhappily married""Roth struggling to write; a wildly successful Roth, ""after the uproar over "Portnoy," working to help writers""from Eastern Europe and to get their books known""in the West; Roth responding to the early, Jewish--and the later, feminist--attacks on his work. Here""are Roth's family, his inspirations, his critics, the""full range of his fiction, and his friendships with such figures as Saul Bellow and John Updike. Here""is Roth at work and at play. "Roth Unbound" is a major achievement--a highly readable story that helps us make sense of one of the most vital literary careers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
The stories of America's most extraordinary strivers and their failures and triumphs
Ranging from the shattered gentility of Edith Wharton's heroines to racial confrontation in the songs of Nina Simone, American Rhapsody presents a kaleidoscopic story of the creation of a culture. Here is a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who have helped to shape the country in the modern age. Claudia Roth Pierpont expertly mixes biography and criticism, history and reportage, to bring these portraits to life and link them in surprising ways. It isn't far from Wharton's brave new women to F. Scott Fitzgerald's giddy flappers, and on to the big-screen command of Katharine Hepburn and the dangerous dames of Dashiell Hammett's hard-boiled world. The improvisatory jazziness of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue has its counterpart in the great jazz baby of the New York skyline, the Chrysler Building. Questions of an American acting style are traced from Orson Welles to Marlon Brando, while the new American painting emerges in the gallery of Peggy Guggenheim. And we trace the arc of racial progress from Bert Williams's blackface performances to James Baldwin's warning of the fire next time, however slow and bitter and anguished this progress may be. American Rhapsody offers a history of twentieth-century American invention and genius. It is about the joy and profit of being a heterogeneous people, and the immense difficulty of this human experiment.
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