Worlds Made By Words

Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674032576
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worlds Made by Words written by Anthony Grafton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian cinemas after the war were filled by audiences who had come to watch domestically-produced films of passion and pathos. These highly emotional and consciously theatrical melodramas posed moral questions with stylish flair, redefining popular ways of feeling about romance, family, gender, class, Catholicism, Italy, and feeling itself. The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama argues for the centrality of melodrama to Italian culture. It uncovers a wealth of films rarely discussed before including family melodramas, the crime stories of neorealismo popolare and opera films, and provides interpretive frameworks that position them in wider debates on aesthetics and society. The book also considers the well-established topics of realism and arthouse auteurism, and re-thinks film history by investigating the presence of melodrama in neorealism and post-war modernism. It places film within its broader cultural context to trace the connections of canonical melodramatists like Visconti and Matarazzo to traditions of opera, the musical theatre of the sceneggiata, visual arts, and magazines. In so doing it seeks to capture the artistry and emotional experiences found within a truly popular form.

Author : Phil Cousineau
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1573445509
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wordcatcher written by Phil Cousineau and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who knew that the great country of Canada is named for a mistake? How about "bedswerver," the best Elizabethan insult to hurl at a cheating boyfriend? By exploring the delightful back stories of the 250 words in Wordcatcher, readers are lured by language and entangled in etymologies. Author Phil Cousineau takes us on a tour into the obscure territory of word origins with great erudition and endearing curiosity. The English poet W. H. Auden was once asked to teach a poetry class, and when 200 students applied to study with him, he only had room for 20 of them. When asked how he chose his students, he said he picked the ones who actually loved words. So too, with this book — it takes a special wordcatcher to create a treasure chest of remarkable words and their origins, and any word lover will relish the stories that Cousineau has discovered.

Author : Sarah Ogilvie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107021839
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words of the World written by Sarah Ogilvie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates that the Oxford English Dictionary is an international product in both its content and its making.

Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worlds Made by Words written by Anthony Grafton and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Akhil Reed Amar
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465096360
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Words That Made Us written by Akhil Reed Amar and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the American Constitution's formative decades from a preeminent legal scholar When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate argument over the nature of government. But ratification hardly ended the conversation. For the next half century, ordinary Americans and statesmen alike continued to wrestle with weighty questions in the halls of government and in the pages of newspapers. Should the nation's borders be expanded? Should America allow slavery to spread westward? What rights should Indian nations hold? What was the proper role of the judicial branch? In The Words that Made Us, Akhil Reed Amar unites history and law in a vivid narrative of the biggest constitutional questions early Americans confronted, and he expertly assesses the answers they offered. His account of the document's origins and consolidation is a guide for anyone seeking to properly understand America's Constitution today.

Author : Mitchell Symons
Publisher : Zest Books ™
ISBN 13 : 1541582128
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Weird World of Words written by Mitchell Symons and published by Zest Books ™. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that ‘Almost’ is the longest word in the English language with all of its letters in alphabetical order ? Or that ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word you can type solely with your left hand? Or that fireflies aren’t actually flies, they’re beetles? From information about words and their uses, to useful lists of things you never knew had names, palindromes, famous lines from literature and film, bizarre test answers and more, The Weird World of Words is bursting with truly oddball facts about words and language—and will have you hooked from the very first page.

Author : John Man
Publisher : New York : Wiley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gutenberg written by John Man and published by New York : Wiley. This book was released on 2002-04-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gutenberg, simply put, helped found the Modern Age.".

Author : Pascal Monmoine
Publisher : PM Traders, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780991506200
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choose Your Words, Choose Your World written by Pascal Monmoine and published by PM Traders, Incorporated. This book was released on 2015-04-11 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original inspirational Quotes, Poetry and Photography by Pascal Monmoine

Author : Zur Shalev
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004209387
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Words and Worlds written by Zur Shalev and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the scholarly genre of 'geographia sacra' in early modern Europe, tracing its contours, the outlooks and concerns of its practitioners, as well as the intersections of religion and geography in an age that saw dramatic revolutions in both fields.

Author : LornaMarie
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387697994
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Words A Compendium of Great Speeches from World Leaders written by LornaMarie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a treasure in the hands of anyone required to use oratory skill in their role. It is known in most countries of the world that lawyers are good orators, perhaps due to the nature of their profession, Barristers are known to address the court. Some of our world leaders past and present are great orators; it is, however, important to note that while not all of them were lawyers, they have delivered remarkable and memorable speeches to their respective nations. One of the qualities of a good leader is the ability to address the nation with good oratory skills. This book therefore explores the power and effect that words have on all of us.