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Riding to Arms

A History of Horsemanship and Mounted Warfare

By: Charles Caramello

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Riding to Arms

A History of Horsemanship and Mounted Warfare

By: Charles Caramello

Horses and horsemen played central roles in modern European warfare from the Renaissance to the Great War of 1914-1918, not only determining victory in battle, but also affecting the rise and fall of kingdoms and nations. When Shakespeare's Richard III cried, "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!" he attested to the importance of the warhorse in history and embedded the image of the warhorse in the cultural memory of the West. In Riding to Arms: A History of Horsemanship and Mounted Warfare, Charles Caramello examines the evolution of horsemanship—the training of horses and riders—and its relationship to the evolution of mounted warfare over four centuries. He explains how theories of horsemanship, navigating between art and utility, eventually settled on formal manège equitation merged with outdoor hunting equitation as the ideal combination for modern cavalry. He also addresses how the evolution of firepower and the advent of mechanized warfare eventually led to the end of horse cavalry. Riding to Arms tracks the history of horsemanship and cavalry through scores of primary texts ranging from Federico Grisone's Rules of Riding (1550) to Lt.-Colonel E.G. French's Good-Bye to Boot and Saddle (1951). It offers not only a history of horsemen, horse soldiers, and horses, but also a survey of the seminal texts that shaped that history.

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University Press of Kentucky

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081318231X

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9780813182315

Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act

By: Charles Caramello

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Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act

By: Charles Caramello

Focusing on biographical portraiture, Charles Caramello argues that Henry James and Gertrude Stein performed biographical acts in two senses of the phrase: they wrote biography, but as a cover for autobiography. Constructing literary genealogies while creating original literary forms, they used their biographical portraits of precursors and contemporaries to portray themselves as exemplary modern artists. Caramello advances this argument through close readings of four works that explore themes of artistry and influence and that experiment with forms of biographical portraiture: James's early biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne and his much later group biography, William Wetmore Story and His Friends, and Stein's celebrated Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and her largely forgotten Four in America, which comprises biographies of Ulysses S. Grant, Wilbur Wright, Henry James, and George Washington. The first comparative study of these two great expatriate writers, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act addresses questions of art, influence, and literary culture by analyzing important biographical portraits that themselves address the same questions. Originally published 1996. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807860700

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9780807860700

Abandoning the Black Hero

Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel

By: John C. Charles

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Abandoning the Black Hero

Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel

By: John C. Charles

Abandoning the Black Hero is the first book to examine the postwar African American white-life novel—novels with white protagonists written by African Americans. These fascinating works have been understudied despite having been written by such defining figures in the tradition as Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Ann Petry, and Chester Himes, as well as lesser known but formerly best-selling authors Willard Motley and Frank Yerby. John C. Charles argues that these fictions have been overlooked because they deviate from two critical suppositions: that black literature is always about black life and that when it represents whiteness, it must attack white supremacy. The authors are, however, quite sympathetic in the treatment of their white protagonists, which Charles contends should be read not as a failure of racial pride but instead as a strategy for claiming creative freedom, expansive moral authority, and critical agency. In an era when “Negro writers” were expected to protest, their sympathetic treatment of white suffering grants these authors a degree of racial privacy previously unavailable to them. White writers, after all, have the privilege of racial privacy because they are never pressured to write only about white life. Charles reveals that the freedom to abandon the “Negro problem” encouraged these authors to explore a range of new genres and themes, generating a strikingly diverse body of novels that significantly revise our understanding of mid-twentieth-century black writing.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813565839

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The Two-fold Thought of Deleuze and Guattari

Intersections and Animations

By: Charles J. Stivale

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The Two-fold Thought of Deleuze and Guattari

Intersections and Animations

By: Charles J. Stivale

French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari worked together extensively from the 1960s into the 1990s, and the resulting "intersections" of their different sensibilities and modes of knowing fueled powerful alternatives to Marxian and psychoanalytic orthodoxies. Yet readers approaching Deleuze and Guattari's works are often frustrated by the paucity or unfamiliarity of specific examples that might clarify their complex arguments. This timely volume "animates" key concepts and terminology by applying them to provocative readings of literary texts, films, and cultural phenomena--from Apocalypse Now to Cajun music and dance. Drawing extensively from primary and critical sources to elucidate Deleuze and Guattari's theoretical contributions, Stivale reinvigorates their "two-fold thought" for use as an analytical tool in the humanities and social sciences. The book also offers a clear introduction to the precollaborative phase of each thinker's work, an interview Stivale conducted with Guattari, and the first-time English translation of a 1967 essay by Deleuze. Winner--Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award, Wayne State University

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Guilford Press

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1572303263

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The Dictionary of the Opera

By: Charles Osborne

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The Dictionary of the Opera

By: Charles Osborne

This book features entries on nearly 300 composers and 800 singers, as well as conductors, producers, set designers, librettists, and others. There are plot summaries of 570 operas, and contemporary critical receptions of the works and performances.

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1566491088

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Riding to Arms

A History of Horsemanship and Mounted Warfare

By: Charles Caramello

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University Press of Kentucky

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Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act

By: Charles Caramello

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Journal of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, During His Visit to Canada, in 1776

By: Charles Carroll

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Journal of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, During His Visit to Canada, in 1776

By: Charles Carroll

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Palala Press

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1378016823

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Riding to Arms

Riding to Arms

Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act

Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act

Abandoning the Black Hero

Abandoning the Black Hero

The Two-fold Thought of Deleuze and Guattari

The Two-fold Thought of Deleuze and Guattari

The Dictionary of the Opera

The Dictionary of the Opera

Riding to Arms

Riding to Arms

Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act

Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act

Journal of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, During His Visit to Canada, in 1776

Journal of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, During His Visit to Canada, in 1776

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