Commonplaces

Author : David M. Hummon
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438407262
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commonplaces written by David M. Hummon and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1990-07-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book interprets popular American belief and sentiment about cities, suburbs, and small towns in terms of community ideologies. Based on in-depth interviews with residents of American communities, it shows how people construct a sense of identity based on their communities, and how they perceive and explain community problems (e.g., why cities have more crime than their suburban and rural counterparts) in terms of this identity. Hummon reveals the changing role of place imagery in contemporary society and offers an interpretation of American culture by treating commonplaces of community belief in an uncommon way—as facets of competing community ideologies. He argues that by adopting such ideologies, people are able to "make sense" of reality and their place in the everyday world.

Author : Ann Moss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Printed Commonplace-books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought written by Ann Moss and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The commonplace-book mapped and resourced Renaissance culture's moral thinking, its accepted strategies of argumentation, its rhetoric, and its deployment of knowledge. In this ground-breaking study Ann Moss investigates the commonplace-book's medieval antecedents, its methodology and use as promulgated by its humanist advocates, its varieties as exemplified in its printed manifestations, and the reasons for its gradual decline in the seventeenth century.

Author : Leon Bloy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781951319908
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exegesis of Commonplaces written by Leon Bloy and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Léon Bloy's Exégèse des lieux communs-first published in 1902-appears here in English for the first time through Wiseblood Books. Among the novels, essays, biographies, and journals composed by Bloy, there is one work whose only appropriate classification was given directly in its title: Exegesis of Commonplaces-a peculiar foray into a genre normally reserved for theologians. And yet, as Albert Béguin notes in his sublime Léon Bloy: A Study in Impatience, Bloy's entire output may be seen as a labor of exegesis: "...it became Bloy's aim to make his mind as transparent as possible to the light of grace and to penetrate further and further into the mysteries hidden beneath the surface of history and the state of mankind." In the present volume, this "light of grace" is refracted upon the infallibly trite and rigorously unexamined language of the bourgeoisie. Banalities such as "Business is business," "You can't have everything," "I'll believe it when I see it," "Money can't buy happiness," etc., are treated with the gravity of sacred incantation and provide the framework for Bloy's dissections. As a matter of structure, Exegesis recalls Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas or Bierce's Devil's Dictionary, but whereas the latter are largely satirical (and cynical) attacks on an emerging class of acquisitive conformists, Bloy's project excavates the spiritual content of what might otherwise be dismissed as mere vapidities. Though he despises the bourgeoisie for its greed and vanity, for its hypocrisies and cruelties, Bloy nevertheless recognizes that "the most inane representatives of the bourgeoisie are themselves fearsome prophets," and that, "in the form of Commonplaces, they continually and unwittingly advance truly impressive claims, the implications of which, to them, remain unknown." Those implications, the supernatural blood invigorating an otherwise superficial and often incoherent idiom, are Bloy's true subject, and it is the purpose of his Exegesis to distill their essence.

Author : Denise Tillery
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351691538
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commonplaces of Scientific Evidence in Environmental Discourses written by Denise Tillery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the uses of scientific evidence within three types of environmental discourses: popular nonfiction books about the environment; traditional and social media texts created by a grassroots environmental group; and a set of data displays that make arguments about global warming in a variety of media and contexts. It traces the operations of eight commonplaces about science and shows how they recur throughout these contexts, starting with Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and ending with contemporary blogs and social media. The commonplaces are shown to embed ideological assumptions and simultaneously challenge those assumptions. In addition, the book addresses the potential dangers involved in relying too heavily on aspects of these commonplaces, and how they can undermine the goals of some of the writers who use them.

Author : Michael John Heath
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600031202
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crusading Commonplaces written by Michael John Heath and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1986 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacques Ellul
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606089757
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Critique of the New Commonplaces written by Jacques Ellul and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacques Ellul--much less solemn in mood than usual--here cracks open political and sociological commonplaces, destructively and wittily demonstrating how our unthinking acceptance of them encourages hypocrisy, smugness, and mental inertia. Among the stereotypes of thought and speech thus exploded are such phrases as "You can't act without getting your hands dirty," "Work is freedom," "We must follow the current of history," and "Women find their freedom (dignity) in work." A certain number of these old saws preside over our daily life. They permit us to understand one another and to swim in the ordinary current of society. They are accepted as so certain that we almost never question them. They serve at once as sufficient explanations for everything and as "clinchers" in too many arguments. Ellul explores the ways in which such clichs mislead us and prevent us from having independent thoughts--and in fact keep us from facing the problems to which they are theoretically addressed. They are the "new commonplaces." Just as the nineteenth century brought forth many such commonplaces (they are enshrined in Leon Bloy's Exgse and Flaubert's Dictionnaire des ides reues), so our century has been busy creating its own. What Ellul has done is to stand still long enough to look at them carefully, attack them with cool reason, and leave them nakedly exposed. In this remarkable document, Ellul's caustic fearlessness is at the service of truths that often are cruel, but always are lucid and impassioned. He represents the voice of intelligence, and while doing so is often hilarious and always therapeutic about matters of first importance.

Author : Lisa Hoeffner
Publisher : Sem
ISBN 13 : 9781260094053
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common Places written by Lisa Hoeffner and published by Sem. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dell Upton
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820307503
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common Places written by Dell Upton and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring America's material culture, Common Places reveals the history, culture, and social and class relationships that are the backdrop of the everyday structures and environments of ordinary people. Examining America's houses and cityscapes, its rural outbuildings and landscapes from perspectives including cultural geography, decorative arts, architectural history, and folklore, these articles reflect the variety and vibrancy of the growing field of vernacular architecture. In essays that focus on buildings and spaces unique to the U.S. landscape, Clay Lancaster, Edward T. Price, John Michael Vlach, and Warren E. Roberts reconstruct the social and cultural contexts of the modern bungalow, the small-town courthouse square, the shotgun house of the South, and the log buildings of the Midwest. Surveying the buildings of America's settlement, scholars including Henry Glassie, Norman Morrison Isham, Edward A. Chappell, and Theodore H. M. Prudon trace European ethnic influences in the folk structures of Delaware and the houses of Rhode Island, in Virginia's Renish homes, and in the Dutch barn widely repeated in rural America. Ethnic, regional, and class differences have flavored the nation's vernacular architecture. Fraser D. Neiman reveals overt changes in houses and outbuildings indicative of the growing social separation and increasingly rigid relations between seventeenth-century Virginia planters and their servants. Fred B. Kniffen and Fred W. Peterson show how, following the westward expansion of the nineteenth century, the structures of the eastern elite were repeated and often rejected by frontier builders. Moving into the twentieth century, James Borchert tracks the transformation of the alley from an urban home for Washington's blacks in the first half of the century to its new status in the gentrified neighborhoods of the last decade, while Barbara Rubin's discussion of the evolution of the commercial strip counterpoints the goals of city planners and more spontaneous forms of urban expression. The illustrations that accompany each article present the artifacts of America's material past. Photographs of individual buildings, historic maps of the nation's agricultural expanse, and descriptions of the household furnishings of the Victorian middle class, the urban immigrant population, and the rural farmer's homestead complete the volume, rooting vernacular architecture to the American people, their lives, and their everyday creations.

Author : Seanna Sumalee Oakley
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401206953
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common Places written by Seanna Sumalee Oakley and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- OUT OF THE ABYSS: COMMONPLACES OF REPETITION AND REDEMPTION -- GLISSANT'S COMMON PLACES -- WALCOTT'S ALLEGORY OF HISTORY -- A BACKWARD FAITH IN WALCOTT'S “THE SCHOONER FLIGHT” -- CLAUDIA RANKINE: JANE EYRE'S BLUES AT THE END OF THE ALPHABET -- DEAR DIARY: AMANIFESTO - WEREWERE LIKING'S ELLE SERA DE JASPE ET DE CORAIL -- RITUALIZING UTOPIA IN ELLE SERA DE JASPE ET DE CORAIL -- MASKS OF AFFLICTION IN FRANKÉTIENNE'S HAITI -- FRANKÉTIENNE'S LOGORRHEA: AN EXCESS OF SEEMING -- “THE HORIZON DEVOURS MY VOICE”: NOTES ON TRANSLATION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

Author : E. M. Forster
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804714228
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commonplace Book written by E. M. Forster and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stanford University Press classic.