Passing Strange And Wonderful

Author : Yi-fu Tuan
Publisher : Kodansha Globe
ISBN 13 : 9781568360676
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passing Strange and Wonderful written by Yi-fu Tuan and published by Kodansha Globe. This book was released on 1993 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional wisdom suggests that aesthetic experiences - those moments when the senses come to life - are important only after more basic needs have been met. In this inspiring wealth of provocative ideas, Yi-Fu Tuan demonstrates that feeling and beauty are essential parts of life and society. The aesthetic is shown to be not merely one aspect of culture but its central core - both its driving force and its ultimate goal. Beginning with the individual and the physical world, the author's exploration progresses from the simple to the complex. Tuan starts by examining the building blocks of aesthetic experience - sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste - and gradually expands his analysis to include the most elaborate of human constructs, including art, architecture, literature, philosophy, music, and landscape. This leads him to the realm of politics, where he grapples with the fundamental question of the relationship between goodness and beauty, and of how the aesthetic can become a moral force within society. To guide the reader along this journey, the author describes how the aesthetic operates in four widely disparate cultures: Australian aboriginal, Chinese, medieval European, and modern American. Yi-Fu Tuan, one of our most influential and original thinkers, brilliantly conveys the profound fascination of multisensory reality, and in so doing enables us to make connections among even the most diffuse elements of our lives. While Tuan does not ignore human folly, Passing Strange and Wonderful is a celebration of the world around us, our experiences, and our creations.

Author : Stew
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822224006
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passing Strange written by Stew and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stew brings us the story of a young bohemian who charts a course for 'the real' through sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Yi-Fu Tuan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passing Strange and Wonderful written by Yi-Fu Tuan and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ayanna Thompson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195385853
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passing Strange written by Ayanna Thompson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passing Strange offers a trenchant look at the diverse ways Shakespeare relates to race in a variety of cultural producitons in the United States.

Author : Martha A. Sandweiss
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781594202001
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passing Strange written by Martha A. Sandweiss and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Clarence King is a hero of nineteenth-century western history. Brilliant scientist and witty conversationalist, bestselling author and architect of the great surveys that mapped the West after the Civil War, King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent Newport family: for thirteen years he lived a double life--as the celebrated white Clarence King and as a black Pullman porter and steelworker. Unable to marry the black woman he loved, the fair-haired, blue-eyed King passed as a Negro, revealing his secret to his wife Ada only on his deathbed. Historian Martha Sandweiss is the first writer to uncover the life that King tried so hard to conceal. She reveals the complexity of a man who, while publicly espousing a personal dream of a uniquely American amalgam of white and black, hid his love for his wife and their five biracial children"--Publisher description

Author : Ellen Klages
Publisher : Tor.com
ISBN 13 : 0765389517
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passing Strange written by Ellen Klages and published by Tor.com. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the pulps, film noir, and screwball comedy, Passing Strange is a story as unusual and complex as San Francisco itself from World Fantasy Award winning author Ellen Klages, and a finalist for the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novella San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the World’s Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion; the forbidden city of Chinatown, a separate, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer “authentic” experiences, straight from the pages of the pulps; and the twilight world of forbidden love, where outcasts from conventional society can meet. Six women find their lives as tangled with each other’s as they are with the city they call home. They discover love and danger on the borders where magic, science, and art intersect. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Allen Carlson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231138871
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism written by Allen Carlson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism: From Beauty to Duty addresses the complex relationships between aesthetic appreciation and environmental issues and emphasizes the valuable contribution that environmental aesthetics can make to environmentalism. Allen Carlson, a pioneer in environmental aesthetics, and Sheila Lintott, who has published widely in aesthetics, combine important historical essays on the appreciation of nature with the best contemporary research in the field. They begin with the scientific, artistic, and aesthetic foundations of current environmental beliefs and attitudes. Then they offer views on the conceptualization of nature and the various debates on how to properly and respectfully appreciate nature. The book introduces positive aesthetics, the belief that everything in nature is essentially beautiful, even the devastation caused by earthquakes or floods, and the essays in the final section explicitly bring together aesthetics, ethics, and environmentalism to explore the ways in which each might affect the others. Book jacket.

Author : John Bale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135757496
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Running Cultures written by John Bale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bale brings running into the realm of the humanities by drawing on sources from literature, poetry, film and art as well as statistics and training manuals to highlight tensions, ambiguities and complexities lying beneath common notions of the sport.

Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, how First Brought Together with Many Pieces Not Before Published written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought Together with Many Pieces Not Before Published written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: