Renaissance Books

The Harlem Renaissance was a broad movement of the 1920s and 30s in America which involved all genres of the arts in a vivid spurt of creative growth, and charting the literary movement's works and major players is Encyclopedia Of The Harlem Literary Renaissance: The Essential Guide To The Lives And Works Of The Harlem Renaissance Writers. Over six hundred A-Z entries detail the history of the movement and explain how the writer and their works helped influence and change the face of American literary achievement. From historical studies to literary criticism, primary source materials and quotes throughout make the Encyclopedia Of The Harlem Literary Renaissance an important mainstay for either high school or college-level literary holdings.

I'm absolutely, positively NOT an expert on this topic. I'm interested in the topic for its own sake, and I'm also interested in cultural and environmental factors that foster creativity. I have kept this book in my car for the last couple weeks, and I find myself reading a passage or two here and there. I've been reading it along with Abdul-Jabbar's recent book. There are quite a few books out there on the Harlem Renaissance, and the last 100 years of African-American history. I'm not familiar with most of them.

Here's why I loved THIS book.

The writing is superb. The passages are about 1-4 pages each, and they confront the reader with the snap, crackle and pop of concise, crisp journalistic prose. The authors have a knack for deepening knowledge while causing the reader to want to know even more about the topic. The portraits tend to be descriptive without being judgmental, which adds credibility to the passages and force to the general topic. At the same time, the authors seem psychologically savvy, providing internally consistent life histories in many instances. There's a phenomenal amount of information here about remarkable people and places. The scholarship appears to be quite good, with helpful references following each passage.

This review is a work in progress, so stay tuned.

This is a fine study of the filthy anti-conduct text, GROBIANUS, which Correll calls "that strange verse compendium of bad manners first written thirty years after THE COURTIER by the minor German humanist Friedrich Dedekind." Beautifully written, elegantly thought, this book analyzes early modern identity formation, "refocusing on the margins" to show how this text seeks to "secure normative masculine identity and construct the gendered subject of civility by means of the labor of aversion." Correll sees GROBIANUS as an end point of conduct books and connects it with a dense early modern European context. One comes away with an enlivened appreciation of the minor text and with the pleasure of contact with an insightful and deeply informed intellect.

This book is important to understand postmodernism. However, i don't image american readers accepting Vattimo's tesis about weak subjet right to have a place in world. Why modern civilization has impossed to us the obligation of being strong and the first in every action as the only way to be allowed as a member of this society?

This four-volume set of 9 cassettes recounts the entire saga of Ender Wiggin and is packaged together for maximum impact. The initial titles in the saga are brought to life in abridged works which also benefit from a dual narration by Mark Rolston and Barrett Whitener. The effect is uniform and absorbing.

This is a very well written book by a scholar who is clearly master of her material. The book surveys the translations of Aesop (or rather, of the collections of fables that were attributed to Aesop) that competed for English readers for the better part of a century. The book is particularly good with the three major collections--those by Ogilby, L'Estrange, and Croxall--and deals very nicely with Samuel Richardson's arbitration between the Stuart L'Estrange and the Hanoverian Croxall. Lewis herself recommends Annabel Patterson's FABLES OF POWER as a turning point in Aesop scholarship, a well deserved tribute, but this book is no less valuable and important. Like Patterson's study, it pays due attention to the LIFE of Aesop as it morphed through the decades.

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This book does much to dispel the myth that London was the font of all culture in England during the eighteenth century; likewise, it challenges the long-accepted notion that the gentry in the provinces desired little but to emulate London fashion in all things, be it personal fashion, garden design or architecture. Peter Borsay's writing style is smooth and erudite, his grasp on the many interweaving threads of eighteenth century life is firm and confident; the tapestry he creates in this book is as colourful and rich as it is flawless. As a seasoned historian in this area I suggest that no serious library of works dealing with eighteenth-century English culture is complete without this wonderful work.

Here's my confession. I loved this book so much I want to read it to myself every night before bed. And I don't even have children.

I'm not particularly familiar with writing from the Harlem Renaissance, and this is a great introduction. But more than that the poems selected and the loving images are delightful, uplifting, engaging and warm. They touch and tickle the humanity of all--regardless of race or ethnic background. I'm buying some for Mother's Day gifts and B-day presents for grown folks and they will be stocking stuffers come Winter.

Evolving within the Exchequer Department during the Middle Ages for the purpose of settling legal disputes over the royal revenue, the High Court of Exchequer also began to hear common law disputes between private parties when relevant to the collection of those royal revenues. In the mid-seventeenth century the court extended its jurisdiction to all common law and equity cases. Painstakingly compiled, deftly edited, and superbly presented by William Hamilton Bryson, "Equity Cases In The Court Of Exchequer, 1660-1714" is an compilation of succinct descriptions of the cases brought before the court for adjudication. An impressive 724-page work of seminal and meticulous scholarship, "Equity Cases In The Court Of Exchequer, 1660-1714" is strongly recommended as a core contribution to academic library Medieval Studies, Judicial History Studies, and British History Studies reference collections.