books about: self-fashioning     books:       The "I" of History: Self-Fashioning and National Consciousness in Jules Michelet (North Carolina Studies in ... Vivian Kogan The University of North Carolina Press, 2006 Long before Charles de Gaulle, Michelet asserted that he "was" France. His self-representation as the "I" of the nation and the embodiment of history ("moi-histoire") takes form as a rhetorical personification that shapes the historian's writing as it informs his project to use history to construct the nation. Offering a new multidisciplinary perspective, Kogan both exposes Michelet's vision of France, his grand narrative, and demystifies that ...             Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare5 reviews Stephen Greenblatt University Of Chicago Press, 2005 The Best Book on the Renaissance Ever OK. So maybe I'm biased. I took a course from Greenblatt when an undergard at U.C. Berekely, and he then directed my dissertation when I took my Ph.D. From U.C. Berkeley as well. But I am not alone in regarding this book as a masterpiece, exteremely well-written adn insightful. This book transformed not only the study of the Renaissance but of English literature in general. Moreover, it has ...             Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society14 reviews Nadia Abu El-Haj University Of Chicago Press, 2002 An Amazing, Top-Rate Scholarly Work This is an amazing book that should be taught in every relevant course! As an archaeologist, I found it impeccably researched, well-written and indispensable. A must-read for those who are committed to rigorous scholarship as opposed to political agendas. What is most remarkable about this eye-opening book is the disciplined and highly sophisticated methodology in utilizing original sources in ...             The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe Paul Reitter University Of Chicago Press, 2008 In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism, penning incisive satires that elicited both admiration and outrage. Kraus’s spectacularly hostile critiques often focused on his fellow Jewish journalists, which brought him a reputation as the quintessential self-hating Jew. The Anti-Journalist overturns this view with unprecedented force and sophistication, showing how Kraus’s criticisms form ...             Modal Subjectivities: Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal Susan McClary University of California Press, 2004 In this boldly innovative book, renowned musicologist Susan McClary presents an illuminating cultural interpretation of the Italian madrigal, one of the most influential repertories of the Renaissance. A genre that sought to produce simulations in sound of complex interiorities, the madrigal introduced into music a vast range of new signifying practices: musical representations of emotions, desire, gender stereotypes, reason, madness, tensions ...             The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel: The Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning in the Era of Globalization ... Stephen Levin Routledge, 2008 An exploration of the growth in literary travel writing since the 1940s within the context of shifting leisure practices in Britain and the United States, The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel provides an insight into the ways that globalization informs mass cultural practices.             Subject to Colonialism: African Self-Fashioning and the Colonial Library Gaurav Desai Duke University Press, 2001 Subject to Colonialism provides a much needed revisionist perspective on the way twentieth-century Africa is viewed and analyzed among scholars. Employing literary, historical, and anthropological techniques, Gaurav Desai attempts to generate a new understanding of issues that permeate discussions of Africa by disrupting the centrality of postcolonial texts and focusing instead on the cultural and intellectual production of colonial Africans. ...             Autobiographical Jews: Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies) Michael Stanislawski University of Washington Press, 2004 Autobiographical Jews examines the nature of autobiographical writing by Jews from antiquity to the present, and the ways in which such writings can legitimately be used as sources for Jewish history. Drawing on current literary theory, which questions the very nature of autobiographical writing and its relationship to what we normally designate as the truth, and, to a lesser extent, the new cognitive neurosciences, Michael Stanislawski analyzes ...             Gender and self-fashioning.(Critical Essay): An article from: Studies in the Humanities Bonnie Melchior Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Department of English, 2000 This digital document is an article from Studies in the Humanities, published by Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Department of English on June 1, 2000. The length of the article is 5684 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: ...             Romantic Self-Fashioning: John Thelwall and the Science of Elocution.(Critical Essay): An article from: ... ANDREW McCANN Boston University, 2001 This digital document is an article from Studies in Romanticism, published by Boston University on June 22, 2001. The length of the article is 8250 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Romantic Self-Fashioning: John Thelwall and ...             Literary Self-Fashioning in Sor Juana Ines De LA Cruz (Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and ... Frederick Luciani Bucknell University Press, 2004             Marketing the Author.(Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, ... Julian Wolfreys Thomson Gale, 2006 This digital document is an article from English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2006. The length of the article is 1622 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Marketing the ...             Sexual (Dis)Orientation: Gender, Sex, Desire and Self-Fashioning Tamsin Wilton Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 Tamsin Wilton interviewed close to one hundred women in order to understand how we go about constructing a sexual identity as "lesbian" or "heterosexual." How do women experience desire? What are the differences between men and women as sexual partners? How do desire, pleasure, intimacy, gender and morality become part of a woman's sense of self? Asking these and other questions, this study breaks the stand-off between essentialists and ...             The Self-Fashioning of Disraeli, 1818-18511 review Cambridge University Press, 1999 A useful collection of sharply foccussed essays. Locates Disraeli in a European, cosmopolitan context, not merely as either a conservative empire-inventor or novelist but also as an outsider establishing himself as an insider. It contains a compelling essay on the breakdown or hypomania he suffered in his 20s.              search for books 1880-1920, 1880-1930, aesthetics, anglophone, anti-journalist, archaeological, authorial, autobiographical, colonialism, consciousness, contemporary, criticism, elocution, fashioning, fin-de-siecle, globalization, humanities, journalist, literature, literatures, marketing, narrative, orientation, renaissance, romanticism, self-fashioning, shakespeare, subjectivities, territorial, transition books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen health & personal care: Surround Air XJ-202 S (P14) Plug in Purifier with Light, Silver we recommend A useful collection of sharply foccussed essays. 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