Author: Jo Northrop Publisher: Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum ISBN: 9781555911508 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 212
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For more than a decade, Jo Northrop wrote the "Simple Country Pleasures" column in Country Living magazine. This delightful volume collects Northrops thoughtful observations of contemporary life in the country.
Author: Daniel Hoffman Publisher: LSU Press ISBN: 9780807124260 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 208
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Daniel Hoffman’s bold new readings reveal unsuspected dimensions in Faulkner’s The Unvanquished, The Hamlet, and Go Down, Moses. He shows how these works, often regarded as disunified collections of short stories and novellas, are coherent and successful experiments in novelistic form. These last three novels of Faulkner’s great period are striated with folklore and structured with myths. They teem with folk motifs of comic exaggeration, deception, horse-trading, tall-tale humor. Hitherto, critics unversed in folklore have been able to treat these aspects only in generalities. Here, drawing on fieldwork from the Mississippi Writers Project in the 1930s, the author of Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe and the influential Form and Fable in America Fiction demonstrates in detail Faulkner’s ironical, subversive, and transformative appropriations of folklore plots, characters, comedy, language, and the style of oral tale-telling, setting these in the full complexity of the works they animate. Hoffman, shows, too how in imagining his dynastic novels, Faulkner interprets myth as history, history as myth. He challenges recent deconstructive, post-Marxist and structuralist readings of “The Bear,” and demonstrates the necessity on the reader’s part for an historical imagination to complement Faulkner’s own. Written with verve, Faulkner’s Country Matters enriches our reading of Faulkner by presenting his work in its necessary settings of southern history and culture. Faulkner’s modernism is restated as a continuance of the great American fiction tradition of Hawthorne, Melville, and Mark Twain.
Author: Clare Leighton Publisher: Little Toller Books ISBN: 9781908213389 Category : Country life Languages : en Pages : 0
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When Clare Leighton moved to the countryside in the 1930s, she tuned her exceptional creativity to the Chiltern landscape around her. Already considered one of the finest engravers of her time, she immediately began a series of portraits, in words and engravings, which explored the nature and rhythms of rural life. With subjects as varied as picking primroses, the village witch and smithy, harvest festival, chair bodgers, the local pub, felling trees and country cramps, Leighton documents the idiosyncrasies and nuances of rural culture, leaving us with a valuable and beautiful record of a way of life that has now vanished. Illustrated with her own bold and elegant engravings, here is an affectionate, unsentimental portrait of the English countryside. Book jacket.
Author: Michael Korda Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 006187468X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 324
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“Dreaming of moving to the country? First, read Michael Korda’s engaging memoir. City types will find laughter, profit, and fair warning in Country Matters.” —Washington Post With his inimitable sense of humor and storytelling talent, New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda brings us this charming, hilarious, self-deprecating memoir of a city couple's new life in the country. At once entertaining, canny, and moving, Country Matters does for Dutchess County, New York, what Under the Tuscan Sun did for Tuscany. This witty memoir, replete with Korda's own line drawings, reads like a novel, as it chronicles the author's transformation from city slicker to full-time country gentleman, complete with tractors, horses, and a leaking roof. When he decides to take up residence in an eighteenth-century farmhouse in Dutchess County, ninety miles north of New York City, Korda discovers what country life is really like: Owning pigs, more than owning horses, even more than owning the actual house, firmly anchored the Kordas as residents in the eyes of their Pleasant Valley neighbors. You may own your land, but without concertina barbed wire, or the 82nd Airborne on patrol, it's impossible to keep people off it! It's possible to line up major household repairs over a tuna melt sandwich. The locals are not particularly quick to accept these outsiders, and the couple's earliest interactions with their new neighbors provide constant entertainment, particularly when the Kordas discover that hunting season is a year-round event—right on their own land! From their closest neighbors, mostly dairy farmers, to their unforgettable caretaker Harold Roe—whose motto regarding the local flora is "Whack it all back! "—the residents of Pleasant Valley eventually come to realize that the Kordas are more than mere weekenders. Sure to have readers in stitches, this is a book that has universal appeal for all who have ever dreamed of owning that perfect little place to escape to up in the country, or, more boldly, have done it.
Author: Jagdish Bhagwati Publisher: PublicAffairs ISBN: 1610392728 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 255
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In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s. So which strategy best addresses India's, and by extension the world's, greatest moral challenge: lifting a great number of extremely poor people out of poverty? Bhagwati and Panagariya argue forcefully that only one strategy will help the poor to any significant effect: economic growth, led by markets overseen and encouraged by liberal state policies. Their radical message has huge consequences for economists, development NGOs and anti-poverty campaigners worldwide. There are vital lessons here not only for Southeast Asia, but for Africa, Eastern Europe, and anyone who cares that the effort to eradicate poverty is more than just good intentions. If you want it to work, you need growth. With all that implies.
Author: William Hugh Graham Publisher: Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 344
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"An extraordinary book... it may permanently change the way we see a country spire, a concession road, even a pound of butter" - Books in Canada
Author: Daniel Hoffman Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 9780813915258 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 396
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Combining the disciplines of folklore and literary criticism in his perceptive readings of works by Irving, Hawthorne, Melville, and Mark Twain, Daniel Hoffman demonstrates how these authors transformed materials from both high and popular culture, from their European past and their American present, in works that helped to form our national consciousness. In his new preface, Hoffman describes the evolution of his critical method and suggests the book's value for contemporary readers.
Author: John W. Miller Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317437977 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 213
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International literacy assessments have provided ample data for ranking nations, charting growth, and casting blame. Summarizing the findings of these assessments, which afford a useful vantage from which to view world literacy as it evolves, this book examines literate behavior worldwide, in terms of both the ability of populations from a wide variety of nations to read and the practice of literate behavior in those nations. Drawing on The World’s Most Literate Nations, author Jack Miller’s internationally released study, emerging trends in world literacy and their relationships to political, economic, and social factors are explored. Literacy, and in particular the practice of literate behaviors, is used as a lens through which to view countries’ economic development, gender equality, resource utilization, and ethnic discrimination. Above all, this book is about trajectories. It begins with historical contexts, described in terms of support for literate cultures. Based on a variety of data sources, these trends are traced to the present and then projected ahead. The literate futures of nations are discussed and how these relate to their economic and sociocultural development. This book is unique in providing a broader perspective on an intractable problem, a vantage point that offers useful insights to inform policy, and in bringing together an array of relevant data sources not typically associated with literacy status.
Author: Oliver Maitland Publisher: ISBN: 9781898998211 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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The portion of a woman that appeals to Man's depravity Is fashioned with considerable care, And what, at first, appears to be a simple little cavity Is really an elaborate affair. If he wrote the above verse, and the indications are that he did, A P Herbert never said a truer word. So who better to thoroughly investigate this 'elaborate affair' than one whose credentials in matters of anatomy and art history are equally impeccable - Oliver Maitland? In broad cultural terms, a gynaecological vision of the female parts is perfectly legitimate. Their name, however, is unutterable - hence the Shakespearean euphemism 'country matters' for the title of this book. Maitland discusses the female pudendum and why it has been airbrushed out of art history. He examines taste: 'a light, quite lemony Hollandaise sauce, adorning some foodstuff which I haven't yet quite defined'; anatomy: '[the clitoris is] the only organ in the solar system which has no other function than to give pleasure'; recreation: 'vaginal fisting is not every woman's cup of tea'; scientific theory: 'for the adept... stimulation of the G-spot... produces orgasms far more intense than those produced by clitoral stimulation alone' or 'female ejaculation... its advocates gush over it with unaffected enthusiasm'; and finally, mythology: 'the vagina dentata... an unattainable item on the shopping list of dominatrixes'. 'From the earliest times, art and literature were not the places to find enlightenment about the female parts, or even a subjective angle, ' writes Maitland, grasping this nettle of a subject with a confidence and skill that go far to redress this unfortunate cultural imbalance.
Author: Jo Northrop
Author: Daniel Hoffman
Author: Clare Leighton
Author: Michael Korda
Author: Jagdish Bhagwati
Author: William Hugh Graham
Author: Daniel Hoffman
Author: John W. Miller
Author: Oliver Maitland
Author: John Hollander