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Histories for the Many

The Victorian Family Magazine and Popular Representations of the Past. The "Leisure Hour", 1852-1870

By: Doris Lechner

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Histories for the Many

The Victorian Family Magazine and Popular Representations of the Past. The "Leisure Hour", 1852-1870

By: Doris Lechner

Histories for the Many examines the contribution of illustrated family magazines to Victorian historical culture. How, by whom, for whom and with which intentions was history used within this popular medium? How were class, gender, age, religion, and space debated? How were academic and popular approaches to the past linked to the materiality of the medium? The focus is set on the evangelical Leisure Hour with comparisons to the London Journal, Good Words and Cornhill. The study's approach to the serialisation of history in text and image combines periodical studies and book history with concepts from cultural studies, sociology as well as narratology.

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transcript Verlag

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3839437113

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Creating Literature Out of Life

The Making of Four Masterpieces

By: Doris Alexander

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Creating Literature Out of Life

The Making of Four Masterpieces

By: Doris Alexander

An exploration of the creative process in four classic works: Death in Venice, Treasure Island, The Rub&áiy&át of Mar Khayy&ám, and War and Peace. Creating Literature Out of Life examines four very dissimilar masterpieces and their authors in search of evidence that will answer some of the many questions in the great mystery of creativity. Crossing boundaries of period, nation, and genre, the study looks into the &"why&" and &"how&" of the creation of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, Edward FitzGerald's The Rub&áiy&át of Mar Khayy&ám, and Lev Tolstoy's War and Peace. Doris Alexander finds that each of these works was compelled by an urgent life problem of its author, some of them partly conscious, others completely unconscious, which worked in harmony and counterpoint with the author's conscious theme to shape his work. She traces an interconnected nexus of memories&—personal experiences, ideas, readings&—that came alive in response to the author's problem and served as a reservoir out of which his characters, his images, his story line, and the emotional tone of his work emerged. Creating Literature Out of Life tells the exciting story of how Mann, Stevenson, FitzGerald, and Tolstoy fought out their major life battles in their works.

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265

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Penn State Press

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0271041560

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9780271041568

Globalizing Family Values

The Christian Right in International Politics

By: Doris Buss

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Globalizing Family Values

The Christian Right in International Politics

By: Doris Buss

With little fanfare and profound effect, "family values" have gone global, and the influence of the Christian Right is increasingly felt internationally. This is the first comprehensive study of the Christian Right's global reach and its impact on international law and politics. Doris Buss and Didi Herman explore tensions, contradictions, victories, and defeats for the Christian Right's global project, particularly in the United Nations. The authors consult Christian Right materials, from pamphlets to novels; conduct interviews with people in the movement; and provide a firsthand account of the World Congress of Families II in 1999, a key event in formulating Christian Right global policy and strategy. The result is a detailed look at a new global player--its campaigns against women's rights, population policy, and gay and lesbian rights; its efforts to build an alliance of orthodox faiths with non-Christians; and the tensions and strains as it seeks to negotiate a role for conservative Christianity in a changing global order.

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244

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816642087

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9780816642083

Negative Indefinites

By: Doris Penka

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Negative Indefinites

By: Doris Penka

In this book, Doris Penka delivers a cross-linguistic, unified analysis of the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites, as in the expressions nobody, nothing, no (as determiner), never and nowhere and their counterparts in other languages. While it is standard to assume that negative indefinites behave like negative quantifiers, the author argues that these expressions are not inherently negative and are only licensed by a covert negation.In an analysis motivated by three phenomena found in the structure and semantics of negative indefinites in different languages - namely negative concord (in which multiple occurrences of negative constituents express a single negation), split readings (in which negative and indefinite parts take scope independently of each other), and the limited distribution of negative indefinites in Scandinavian languages - Doris Penka considers data from a wide range of languages and reviews the mostrecent literature on the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites. Her book will interest all linguists working on negation in particular and the syntax-semantics interface more generally.

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282

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Oxford University Press

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0199567263

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9780199567263

Histories for the Many

The Victorian Family Magazine and Popular Representations of the Past. The "Leisure Hour", 1852-1870

By: Doris Lechner

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The Victorian Family Magazine and Popular Representations of the Past. The "Leisure Hour", 1852-1870

By: Doris Lechner

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Nutrition and Physical Fitness

By: George McSpadden Briggs,Doris Howes Calloway

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Nutrition and Physical Fitness

By: George McSpadden Briggs,Doris Howes Calloway

Abstract: An introductory college nutrition text is designed to provide basic knowledge and a foundation for independent and advanced study, The first two-thirds of the 25 text chapters primarily cover basic nutritio facts; practical applications of these facts are interspersed throughout the text. The last third of the book presents practical information on some of the more important applied nutrition topics not covered earlier (nutrition in athletics, pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood; nutrition and dental health; malnourished world populations; influence of food beliefs on eating habits; the applicatio n of nutritional theory to practice). Basic nutritional information is provided on macro-and nicronutrients, digestion, absorption, physical fitness requirements, electrolyte balance, food composition, and requisite and excessive energy intake. (wz).

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Holt McDougal

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0030585872

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9780030585876

Book's by Doris Lechner

Histories for the Many

Histories for the Many

Creating Literature Out of Life

Creating Literature Out of Life

Globalizing Family Values

Globalizing Family Values

Negative Indefinites

Negative Indefinites

Histories for the Many

Histories for the Many

Nutrition and Physical Fitness

Nutrition and Physical Fitness

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