The Astonished Muse

Author : Reuel Denney
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412835978
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Astonished Muse written by Reuel Denney and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic in communications is also a path-breaking study of American popular culture, combining the thoughtful sympathy of Gilbert Seldes with the critical sensitivity for form of H.L. Mencken. Denney accomplishes this by introducing new approaches to understanding products of popular culture with-out either moralizing over the profit motives of the producers or sermonizing about the base motives of consumers seeking mere entertainment. His forty-page introduction to this new edition is a major statement reexamining the themes in the original 1957 volume. The Astonished Muse analyzes a wide and varied sample of both the active and the passive leisure activities of Americans, ranging from television and science fiction to organized football and skyscraper design. On its initial appearance the book was praised as a work that combines a searching formal analysis of the popular arts with a close historical grasp of their genres and a sociological sense of their audiences. Its themes of critical competence and performance anticipate current concerns with reader-centered and linguistic approaches to popular literature. In an economic-historical sense, this book presages the rise of popular arts and media as rivals in scale to manufacturing industries in the United States. In a political sense, it affirms audience selectivity. Above all it takes a quiet stand against attempts to devalue, decry, and censor the popular arts under banners of morality, childhood inno-cence, puritanical religion, and other limits to free expression.

Author : Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Astonished Muse written by Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Randle W. Nelsen
Publisher : Between the Lines
ISBN 13 : 1926662091
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fun & Games & Higher Education written by Randle W. Nelsen and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fun & Games & Higher Education ranges from Wayne's World to hot-rodding, from automobility to the popular phenomenon know as the tailgate party, from German sociologist George Simmel to Canadian Media Guru Marshall McLuhan—all in the interests in exploring North American obsession with play, and particularly the intersection between education, work, and leisure.

Author : Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527514900
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Aesthetics written by Jonathan L. Friedmann and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains six chapters covering key areas of musical aesthetics, including aesthetics of emotions; aesthetics of listening; aesthetics of performance; aesthetics of composition; aesthetics of nature; and aesthetics of commerce. Each chapter adopts an experiential approach to aesthetics, in which perceptual and intuitive musical responses – real-time experiences – are valued as a source of truth. Unlike intellectual aesthetics, which values conscious associations and meticulous artistic appraisals, experiential aesthetics looks primarily at everyday subconscious appreciations. The explorations here draw from the social sciences, hard sciences, philosophy, literature, theology, musicology, humanities, and other fields that directly or indirectly contribute to an understanding of our attraction to music. Presenting user-friendly distillations of numerous theories, concepts, and functions, this book will be of interest to both lay readers and expert practitioners.

Author : John Hollander
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231108974
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Work of Poetry written by John Hollander and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. occupation of Japan transformed a brutal war charged with overt racism into an amicable peace in which the issue of race seemed to have disappeared. During the Occupation, the problem of racial relations between Americans and Japanese was suppressed and the mutual racism transformed into something of a taboo so that the two former enemies could collaborate in creating democracy in postwar Japan. In the 1980s, however, when Japan increased its investment in the American market, the world witnessed a revival of the rhetoric of U.S.-Japanese racial confrontation. Koshiro argues that this perceived economic aggression awoke the dormant racism that lay beneath the deceptively smooth cooperation between the two cultures. This pathbreaking study is the first to explore the issue of racism in U.S.-Japanese relations. With access to unexplored sources in both Japanese and English, Koshiro is able to create a truly international and cross-cultural study of history and international relations.

Author : Jimmy Fazzino
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
ISBN 13 : 1611689473
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Beats written by Jimmy Fazzino and published by Dartmouth College Press. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book explores Beat Generation writing from a transnational perspective, using the concept of worlding to place Beat literature in conversation with a far-reaching network of cultural and political formations. Countering the charge that the Beats abroad were at best na•ve tourists seeking exoticism for exoticism's sake, World Beats finds that these writers propelled a highly politicized agenda that sought to use the tools of the earlier avant-garde to undermine Cold War and postcolonial ideologies and offer a new vision of engaged literature. With fresh interpretations of central Beat authors Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs - as well as usually marginalized writers like Philip Lamantia, Ted Joans, and Brion Gysin - World Beats moves beyond national, continental, or hemispheric frames to show that embedded within Beat writing is an essential universality that brought America to the world and the world to American literature. This book presents an original treatment that will attract a broad spectrum of scholars.

Author : Steven J. Overman
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 0881462268
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Sport written by Steven J. Overman and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Overman explores the concordant values of the Protestant ethic, capitalism, and sport by applying German scholar Max Weber's seminal thesis. Weber demonstrated a relationship between the Protestant ethic and a form of economic behavior he labeled the ôcalling of capitalism.ö

Author : Peter Morris
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803207360
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Level Playing Fields written by Peter Morris and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben-Zion Gold's memoir brings to life the world of a million Jews in pre-World War II Poland who were later destroyed by the Nazis. Warmly recalling the relationships, rituals, observances, and celebrations, Gold evokes the sense of family and faith that helped him through the catastrophe that followed.

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Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 : 9780390349477
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suggestions for Instructors to Accompany Film Scripts One and Film Scripts Two written by and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. A. Yoder
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520338537
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emerson and the Orphic Poet in America written by R. A. Yoder and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.