Fabulous Vernacular - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fabulous Vernacular write by Victoria Kirkham. This book was released on 2001. Fabulous Vernacular available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exploration of Boccaccio's Filocolo--its cultural and historical context--and a defense against modern criticism
The Europa Directory of Literary Awards and Prizes
The Europa Directory of Literary Awards and Prizes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Europa Directory of Literary Awards and Prizes write by Susan Leckey. This book was released on 2015-12-22. The Europa Directory of Literary Awards and Prizes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A complete guide to the major awards and prizes of the literary world. * An invaluable source of information on awards and prizes world-wide * Covers over 1,000 awards and prizes * Comprehensive background information on each award * Extensive contact details. Contents * Includes internationally awarded prizes along with prestigious national awards * Subject areas covered include adult and children's fiction, non-fiction, poetry, lifetime's achievement, translation and drama * Information is provided on the history of each award, its purpose, what is awarded, how often the prize is awarded, eligibility and restrictions, the awarding organization and the most recent recipients * Full contact details of the awarding organization are provided, including main contact name, postal address, e-mail and Internet address, telephone and fax numbers * Fully indexed by keyword, awarding organization and award by subject.
Boccaccio and the Book
Boccaccio and the Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Boccaccio and the Book write by Rhiannon Daniels. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Boccaccio and the Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As a new digital era increasingly impacts on the 'age of print', we are ever more conscious of the way in which information is packaged and received. The influence of the material form on the reading process was no less important during the gradual shift from manuscript to early print culture. Focusing on the physical structure and presentation of manuscripts and printed books containing texts by one of the most influential authors of the medieval period, Rhiannon Daniels traces the evolving social, cultural, and economic profile of Boccaccio's readership and the scribes and printers who laboured to reproduce three of his works: the Teseida , Decameron , and De mulieribus claris . Rhiannon Daniels is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Italian at the University of Leeds.
Everything But the Burden
Everything But the Burden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everything But the Burden write by Greg Tate. This book was released on 2003-09-09. Everything But the Burden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. White kids from the ’burbs are throwing up gang signs. The 2001 Grammy winner for best rap artist was as white as rice. And blond-haired sorority sisters are sporting FUBU gear. What is going on in American culture that’s giving our nation a racial-identity crisis? Following the trail blazed by Norman Mailer’s controversial essay “The White Negro,” Everything but the Burden brings together voices from music, popular culture, the literary world, and the media speaking about how from Brooklyn to the Badlands white people are co-opting black styles of music, dance, dress, and slang. In this collection, the essayists examine how whites seem to be taking on, as editor Greg Tate’s mother used to tell him, “everything but the burden”–from fetishizing black athletes to spinning the ghetto lifestyle into a glamorous commodity. Is this a way of shaking off the fear of the unknown? A flattering indicator of appreciation? Or is it a more complicated cultural exchange? The pieces in Everything but the Burden explore the line between hero-worship and paternalism. Among the book’s twelve essays are Vernon Reid’s “Steely Dan Understood as the Apotheosis of ‘The White Negro,’” Carl Hancock Rux’s “The Beats: America’s First ‘Wiggas,’” and Greg Tate’s own introductory essay “Nigs ’R Us.” Other contributors include: Hilton Als, Beth Coleman, Tony Green, Robin Kelley, Arthur Jafa, Gary Dauphin, Michaela Angela Davis, dream hampton, and Manthia diAwara.
Kissing the Wild Woman
Kissing the Wild Woman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kissing the Wild Woman write by Christopher Nissen. This book was released on 2011. Kissing the Wild Woman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Giulia Bigolina's (ca. 1516-ca. 1569) Urania (ca. 1552) is the oldest known prose romance to have been written by an Italian woman. In Kissing the Wild Woman, Christopher Nissen explores the unique aesthetic vision and innovative narrative features of Bigolina's greatest surviving work, in which she fashioned a new type of narrative that combined elements of the romance and the novella and included a polemical treatise on the moral implications of portraiture and the role of women in the arts. Demonstrating that Bigolina challenged cultural authority by rejecting the prevailing views of both painting and literature, Nissen discusses Bigolina's suggestion that painting constituted an ineffectual, even immoral mode of self-promotion for women in relation to the views of the contemporary writer Pietro Aretino and the painter Titian. Kissing the Wild Woman's analysis of this little-known work adds a new dimension to the study of Renaissance aesthetics in relation to art history, Renaissance thought, women's studies, and Italian literature.
