Letters Familiar And Formal

Author : Arcangela Tarabotti
Publisher : Acmrs Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780772721327
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters Familiar and Formal written by Arcangela Tarabotti and published by Acmrs Publications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coerced into taking the veil, Venetian writer Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-1652) spent her life protesting the practice of forcing girls into convents. Her fearless defense of women and attacks on patriarchal Venetian society earned her renown and access to the presses. Her publications, however, invited constant controversy. Tarabotti published her Letters Familiar and Formal to protect and enhance her literary reputation while also chronicling contemporary literary society and material existence in an early modern convent. The Letters flaunted Tarabotti's literary accomplishments, humiliated her critics, and advertised her powerful network of allies in Northern Italy and France. The Letters document how Tarabotti established herself as one of the most forceful proponents for women's self-determination in early modern Europe.

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199700451
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schoenberg's Correspondence With Alma Mahler written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh perspective on two well-known personalities, Schoenberg's Correspondence with Alma Mahler documents a modern music friendship beginning in fin-de-siécle Vienna and ending in 1950s Los Angeles. This volume is the first English-language edition of the complete extant correspondence in new English translations from the original German, many from new transcriptions of handwritten originals, and it is the first English-language book of Schoenberg's correspondence with a female associate. These often quite candid letters afford readers a fascinating glimpse into the personalities, ideologies, institutions, protocols, and aesthetics of early twentieth-century European music culture. Critics, conductors, composers, and visual artists are appraised, kindly or venomously; visual artists and writers also appear. Above all, Alma Mahler (1879-1964) and Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) emerge as intriguing, complex individuals who transcend their conventional representations as, respectively, a femme fatale and a musical radical. For Schoenberg, Alma was a sympathetic confidante, a comrade in their shared battle against musical conservatism, yet also a canny negotiator of Vienna's social circles, a skill that brought Schoenberg into contact with important patrons. Not only did he invite Alma to his premieres, lectures, and art exhibitions, but Schoenberg also sent her scores of his music and drafts of his writings. He revealed to her his plans for his innovative new music society, the Society for Private Music Performances, and his development of a new method of composition with twelve tones. The letters remind us of how crucial the social and personal dimensions of music culture were to the early twentieth-century composers and musicians. Gender, ethnicity, and social class conditioned their opportunities in music---and in life---and their shared experience of fleeing fascism to a new country with a different culture and language resonates with our own epoch.

Author : Meredith K. Ray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003813895
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance written by Meredith K. Ray and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • This book offers an engaging, well-researched introduction to the influential female figures who helped lay the foundations of Renaissance culture, making it easy for educators to integrate women’s history into the study of the past and for the general reader to gain a reliable, richly detailed overview. • Each chapter functions as a stand-alone study, combining an engaging narrative biography with an expert grasp of the cultural, political, and artistic context of this historical period to allow students and lecturers to either use parts or the whole of this book to support their studies and teaching. • Taken as a whole, students will be shown that these women were not isolated cases of female exceptionality, but rather a part of a larger and more complex tapestry of Renaissance achievement, one that connects them to one another as well as to the male writers, artists, and leaders whose names many readers will already know. • Interwoven within each chapter are primary sources (letters, poems, sketches) and portraits of each of the women discussed, providing students with a fuller picture of these women.

Author : Thomas Sokoll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780197263488
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essex Pauper Letters, 1731-1837 written by Thomas Sokoll and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The immensely rich archives from the administration of the English poor law before 1834 include letters to the overseers of the poor that came from the poor themselves. As personal testimonies of people claiming relief, which are often written in a stunningly 'private' tone, pauper letters allow deep insights into the living conditions, experiences and attitudes of the labouring poor in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This edition contains some 750 of these letters, all those presently known to survive in the county of Essex. The Introduction demonstrates the immense importance of this neglected source, both for the social historian and for the comparative study of literacy.

Author : K. Gevirtz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137386762
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660–1727 written by K. Gevirtz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea.

Author : Abram Royer Brubacher
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English written by Abram Royer Brubacher and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Abram Royer Brubacher
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
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Download or read book English, Oral and Written written by Abram Royer Brubacher and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Abram Royer Brubacher
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
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Download or read book High School English written by Abram Royer Brubacher and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William M. Tanner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
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Download or read book Composition adn Rhetoric written by William M. Tanner and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbert Charles O'Neill
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
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Download or read book A Guide to the English Language written by Herbert Charles O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: