Western Humanities

Author : Roy T. Matthews
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 : 9780072556315
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Readings in the Western Humanities written by Roy T. Matthews and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chronologically organized introduction to the Western humanities (art, music, history, literature, and drama) establishes the historical context of each era before the arts are discussed. Hundreds of illustrations appear throughout the text, "Personal Perspectives" boxes bring to life the events of the day, and brief sections at the end of each chapter describe the cultural legacy of the era discussed. Volume II ofThe Western Humanitiescovers the period from the Renaissance through the present.

Author : Emmanuel X. Belena
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781465240323
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectures in Western Humanities written by Emmanuel X. Belena and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roy T. Matthews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781559349673
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Western Humanities written by Roy T. Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roy Matthews
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
ISBN 13 : 9780073376622
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Western Humanities, Complete written by Roy Matthews and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages. This book was released on 2010-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronologically organized, The Western Humanities presents the cultural achievements of western civilization--art and architecture, music, history, literature, philosophy, theater, film and the other arts--within their historical context. By examining the historical and material conditions that influenced the form and content of the arts and humanities, the authors provide students with a clear framework, a deeper understanding of the meaning of cultural works, and a broader basis for analyzing and appreciating the cultural achievements of the West. Hundreds of illustrations bring the arts and humanities to life, while extensive pedagogy consistently asks students to think about, interpret, and apply the information throughout the text and at the end of each chapter.

Author : Joshua Kira
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781792469381
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Humanities and Christian Thought written by Joshua Kira and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introduction to the philosophy, visual arts, music, and theatre of Western civilization from Ancient Greece to our own times.

Author : Julie Wildhaber
Publisher : WCB/McGraw-Hill
ISBN 13 : 9781559341998
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Readings in the Western Humanities written by Julie Wildhaber and published by WCB/McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1992 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sara L. Spurgeon
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603445927
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploding the Western written by Sara L. Spurgeon and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The frontier and Western expansionism are so quintessentially a part of American history that the literature of the West and Southwest is in some senses the least regional and the most national literature of all. The frontier--the place where cultures meet and rewrite themselves upon each other's texts--continues to energize writers whose fiction evokes, destroys, and rebuilds the myth in ways that attract popular audiences and critics alike. Sara L. Spurgeon focuses on three writers whose works not only exemplify the kind of engagement with the theme of the frontier that modern authors make, but also show the range of cultural voices that are present in Southwestern literature: Cormac McCarthy, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ana Castillo. Her central purposes are to consider how the differing versions of the Western "mythic" tales are being recast in a globalized world and to examine the ways in which they challenge and accommodate increasingly fluid and even dangerous racial, cultural, and international borders. In Spurgeon's analysis, the spaces in which the works of these three writers collide offer some sharply differentiated visions but also create new and unsuspected forms, providing the most startling insights. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes tragic, the new myths are the expressions of the larger culture from which they spring, both a projection onto a troubled and troubling past and an insistent, prophetic vision of a shared future

Author : Perry M. Rogers
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780130480538
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Human Spirit written by Perry M. Rogers and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the period from 1600 to the Post-Modern Era, this book is part of an innovative two-volume primary source anthology that presents some of the greatest ideas and creative expressions of humanity. The anthology features an exceptionally diverse and unique variety of selections reflecting artistic, musical, literary, political, social, religious, intellectual, and scientific issues that encompass the study of Humanities. Chronological in format--with individual units focused on time periods, specific events, and historical questions, it is internally organized around five major themes--The Institution and the Individual; Social and Spiritual Values; Revolution and Transition; The Varieties of Truth; and Women in History and the Humanities. Each piece of literature, poetry or art, each diary entry, philosophical excerpt, or religious proviso is juxtaposed against the tapestry of history so that it can be viewed within the context of its time. Throughout, readers are confronted with basic questions regarding historical development, human nature, moral action, and practical necessity. KEY TOPICS: Major period covered include: The Baroque Age (1600-1715). Enlightenment and Revolution (1715-1800). The Birth of the Modern: Nationalism and Romanticism (1750- 1830). Changing Dimensions: Social Conflict and Realism (1830-1870). The Belle Epoque (1870-1914). "The Abyss Also Looks Into You" The West in Crisis (1914-1945). The Individual Apart: The Abstract World and the Post-Modern Era. Includes excerpts from drama and literature, short stories, speeches, letters, diary accounts, poems, newspaper articles, philosophical tracts, propaganda flyers, and works of art and architecture. Includes not only the traditional primary documents essential to the study of the Humanities, but also the more unusual which are not found in similar texts. MARKET: For anyone interested in the great ideas and artistic expressions of humanity.

Author : Bruce S. Thornton
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497651603
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bonfire of the Humanities written by Bruce S. Thornton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With humor, lucidity, and unflinching rigor, the acclaimed authors of Who Killed Homer? and Plagues of the Mind unsparingly document the degeneration of a central, if beleaguered, discipline—classics—and reveal the root causes of its decline. Hanson, Heath, and Thornton point to academics themselves—their careerist ambitions, incessant self-promotion, and overspecialized scholarship, among other things—as the progenitors of the crisis, and call for a return to “academic populism,” an approach characterized by accessible, unspecialized writing, selfless commitment to students and teaching, and respect for the legacy of freedom and democracy that the ancients bequeathed to the West.

Author : Brett D. Hirsch
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1909254258
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Humanities Pedagogy written by Brett D. Hirsch and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The essays in this collection offer a timely intervention in digital humanities scholarship, bringing together established and emerging scholars from a variety of humanities disciplines across the world. The first section offers views on the practical realities of teaching digital humanities at undergraduate and graduate levels, presenting case studies and snapshots of the authors' experiences alongside models for future courses and reflections on pedagogical successes and failures. The next section proposes strategies for teaching foundational digital humanities methods across a variety of scholarly disciplines, and the book concludes with wider debates about the place of digital humanities in the academy, from the field's cultural assumptions and social obligations to its political visions." (4e de couverture).