Metropolitan Tragedy

Author : Marissa Greenberg
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442648805
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metropolitan Tragedy written by Marissa Greenberg and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking new ground in the study of tragedy, early modern theatre, and literary London, Metropolitan Tragedy demonstrates that early modern tragedy emerged from the juncture of radical changes in London's urban fabric and the city's judicial procedures. Marissa Greenberg argues that plays by Shakespeare, Milton, Massinger, and others rework classical conventions to represent the city as a locus of suffering and loss while they reflect on actual sources of injustice in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London: structural upheaval, imperial ambition, and political tyranny. Drawing on a rich archive of printed and manuscript sources, including numerous images of England's capital, Greenberg reveals the competing ideas about the metropolis that mediated responses to theatrical tragedy. The first study of early modern tragedy as an urban genre, Metropolitan Tragedy advances our understanding of the intersections between genre and history.

Author : Anna Clark
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1250125154
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poisoned City written by Anna Clark and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city’s water supply to a source that corroded Flint’s aging lead pipes. Complaints about the foul-smelling water were dismissed: the residents of Flint, mostly poor and African American, were not seen as credible, even in matters of their own lives. It took eighteen months of activism by city residents and a band of dogged outsiders to force the state to admit that the water was poisonous. By that time, twelve people had died and Flint’s children had suffered irreparable harm. The long battle for accountability and a humane response to this man-made disaster has only just begun. In the first full account of this American tragedy, Anna Clark's The Poisoned City recounts the gripping story of Flint’s poisoned water through the people who caused it, suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any American city, all made precarious by the neglect of infrastructure and the erosion of democratic decision making. Places like Flint are set up to fail—and for the people who live and work in them, the consequences can be fatal.

Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026894936
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An American Tragedy written by Theodore Dreiser and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-06-17 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambitious, but ill-educated, naïve, and immature, Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents to help in their street missionary work. As a young adult, Clyde must, to help support his family, take menial jobs as a soda jerk, then a bellhop at a prestigious Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to bouts of social drinking and sex with prostitutes. Enjoying his new lifestyle, Clyde becomes infatuated with manipulative Hortense Briggs, who takes advantage of him. After being in a car accident in which a young girl loses her life, Clyde is forced to run away from the town in search for the new life.

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Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 596 pages
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Author : Joseph P. Ward
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804729178
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metropolitan Communities written by Joseph P. Ward and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interpretation of the cultural consequences of social, economic, religious, and political change in early modern London challenges many long-held assumptions of historians and literary critics.

Author : Donald N. Rothblatt
Publisher : Institute of Governmental Studies Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metropolitan Governance Revisited written by Donald N. Rothblatt and published by Institute of Governmental Studies Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Author : Karolina Golimowska
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476624542
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Post-9/11 City in Novels written by Karolina Golimowska and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-9/11 fiction reflects how the September 11, 2001, attacks have influenced our concept of public space, from urban behavior patterns to architecture and urban movement. It also suggests a need for remapping the real and imagined spaces where we live and work. Through close readings of novels from both sides of the Atlantic, this analysis of the literary 21st century metropolis explores the fictional post-9/11 city as a global space not defined or contained by its physical limits.

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Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metropolitan Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: