In the Key of Blue and Other Prose Essays

In the Key of Blue and Other Prose Essays
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Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015028765587
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Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis In the Key of Blue and Other Prose Essays by : John Addington Symonds

Chromographia

Chromographia
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 366
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ISBN-10 : 9781452957630
ISBN-13 : 1452957630
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Chromographia by : Nicholas Gaskill

The first major literary and cultural history of color in America, 1880–1930 Chromographia tells the story of how color became modern and how literature, by engaging with modern color, became modernist. From the vivid pictures in children’s books to the bold hues of abstract painting, from psychological theories of perception to the synthetic dyes that brightened commercial goods, color concerned both the material stuff of modernity and its theoretical and artistic formulations. Chromographia spans these diverse practices to reveal the widespread effects on U.S. literature and culture of the chromatic revolution that unfolded at the turn of the twentieth century. In analyzing color experience through the lens of U.S. writers (including Charlotte Perkins Gilman, L. Frank Baum, Stephen Crane, Charles Chesnutt, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen, and William Carlos Williams), Chromographia argues that modern aesthetic techniques are inseparable from the theories and technologies that drove modern color. Nicholas Gaskill shows how literature registered the social worlds within which chromatic technologies emerged, and also experimented with the ideas about perception, language, and the sensory environment that accompanied their proliferation. Chromographia is the only study of modern color in U.S. literature. It presents a new reading of perception in literature and a theory of experience that uses color to move beyond the usual divisions of modern thought.

Catalogues

Catalogues
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Total Pages : 1400
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015085428822
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Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Catalogues by : Walter M. Hill (Firm)

The Passions of John Addington Symonds

The Passions of John Addington Symonds
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 649
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ISBN-10 : 9780192692504
ISBN-13 : 019269250X
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis The Passions of John Addington Symonds by : Shane Butler

John Addington Symonds (Bristol 1840 - Rome 1893) was one of Victorian Britain's most prolific authors, with works that included poems, translations, travel essays, and scholarly studies on topics ranging from classical literature to the Renaissance to the poetry of his contemporaries. Today, however, he is usually remembered for his long unpublished Memoirs, a major early monument of queer life-writing, and for two privately printed, secretly circulated essays, one of which includes the earliest printed appearance in English of the word homosexual. This new word, first coined in German, has long provided a useful milestone for historians of sexuality charting the emergence not only of new typologies but of whole new regimes of knowledge. But what of the rest of Symonds's vast body of work? This book returns to Symonds, not as the origin of a now familiar history, but as a far more complex thinker, with an ambitious vision of the queerness of the world itself--and of what it means to live in it.

The Weekly Review

The Weekly Review
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Total Pages : 632
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112109516598
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Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

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The Dial

The Dial
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Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:32044089408405
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Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis The Dial by : Francis Fisher Browne

The Seduction of the Mediterranean

The Seduction of the Mediterranean
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 9781134871391
ISBN-13 : 1134871392
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis The Seduction of the Mediterranean by : Robert Aldrich

Through an explanation of forty figures in European culture, ^The Seduction of the Mediterranean argues that the Mediterranean, classical and contemporary, was the central theme in homoerotic writing and art from the 1750s to the 1950s. Episodes of exile, murder, drug-taking, wild homosexual orgies and court cases are woven into an original study of a significant theme in European culture. The myth of a homoerotic Mediterranean made a major contribution to general attitudes towards Antiquity, the Renaissance and modern Italy and Greece.

A Catalogue of ... [books] ...

A Catalogue of ... [books] ...
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Total Pages : 1044
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015076074403
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Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis A Catalogue of ... [books] ... by : Bernard Quaritch (Firm)

Joyce and Company

Joyce and Company
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 190
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ISBN-10 : 9781847141422
ISBN-13 : 1847141420
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Joyce and Company by : David Pierce

Joyce and Company is a comparative study which encourages a way of thinking about Joyce not as an isolated figure but as someone who is best understood in the company of others whether from the past, the present or, indeed, the imagined future. Throughout, Pierce places Joyce and his time in dialogue with other figures or different historical periods or languages other than English. In this way, Joyce is seen anew in relation to other writers and contexts. The book is organised in four parts: Joyce and History, Joyce and Language, Joyce and the City, and Joyce and the Contemporary World. Pierce emphasises Joyce's position as both an Irish and a European writer and shows Joyce's continuing relevance to the twenty-first century, not least in his commitment to language, culture and a discourse on freedom.

Poems

Poems
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Total Pages : 110
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015039638427
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Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Poems by : Alice Meynell