Rice University Campbell Lectures – serie
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9 produkter
Shakespeare's Freedom
Häftad, 2012
194 kr
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Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes - the absolute authority claimed for God over the world, for the holy scriptures over the faithful, monarchs over subjects, fathers over wives and children, men over women, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. With the elegance and …
Spirit of This Place
How Music Illuminates the Human Spirit
Inbunden, 2018
261 kr
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Artists today are at a crossroads. With funding for the arts and humanities endowments perpetually under attack, and school districts all over the United States scrapping their art curricula altogether, the place of the arts in our civic future is uncertain to say the least. At the same time, faced …
Museums Matter
In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum
Av James Cuno
Häftad, 2018
158 kr
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The concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the enlightenment, a manifestation of European society's growing belief that the spread of knowledge, promotion of intellectual inquiry, and trust in individual agency were crucial to human development and the future of a rational society. But in …
Writer as Migrant
Av Ha Jin
Inbunden, 2008
155 kr
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As a teenager during China's Cultural Revolution, Ha Jin served as an uneducated soldier in the People's Liberation Army. Thirty years later, a resident of the United States, he won the National Book Award for his novel "Waiting", completing a trajectory that has established him as one of the most …
Thousands of Broadways
Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town
Inbunden, 2009
174 kr
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Broadway, the main street that runs through Robert Pinsky's hometown of Long Branch, New Jersey, was once like thousands of other main streets in small towns across the country. But for Pinsky, one of America's most admired poets and its former Poet Laureate, this Broadway is the point of departure …
Spirit of This Place
How Music Illuminates the Human Spirit
Häftad, 2020
194 kr
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Artists today are at a crossroads. With funding for the arts and humanities endowments perpetually under attack, and school districts all over the United States scrapping their art curricula altogether, the place of the arts in our civic future is uncertain to say the least. At the same time, faced …
Writer as Migrant
Av Ha Jin
Häftad, 2024
125 kr
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National Book Award winner Ha Jin raises questions about language, migration, and the place of literature in a rapidly globalizing world.Consisting of three interconnected essays, The Writer as Migrant sets Ha Jin’s own work and life alongside those of other literary exiles, creating a conversation …
Versions of Academic Freedom
From Professionalism to Revolution
Av Stanley Fish
Inbunden, 2014
222 kr
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Through his columns in the New York Times and his numerous best-selling books, Stanley Fish has established himself as our foremost public analyst of the fraught intersection of academia and politics. Here Fish for the first time turns his full attention to one of the core concepts of the …
Shakespeare's Freedom
Inbunden, 2010
262 kr
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Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes-of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. With the elegance and verve for which he is well known, Stephen Greenblatt, …
