Characteristically American
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Characteristically American
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Author : Joy Giguere
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-03-17
Characteristically American written by Joy Giguere and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-17 with categories.
Prior to the nineteenth century, few Americans knew anything more of Egyptian culture than what could be gained from studying the biblical Exodus. Napoleon's invasion of Egypt at the end of the eighteenth century, however, initiated a cultural breakthrough for Americans as representations of Egyptian culture flooded western museums and publications, sparking a growing interest in all things Egyptian that was coined Egyptomania. As Egyptomania swept over the West, a relatively young America began assimilating Egyptian culture into its own national identity, creating a hybrid national heritage that would vastly affect the memorial landscape of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Far more than a study of Egyptian revivalism, this book examines the Egyptian style of commemoration from the rural cemetery to national obelisks to the Sphinx at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Giguere argues that Americans adopted Egyptian forms of commemoration as readily as other neoclassical styles such as Greek revivalism, noting that the American landscape is littered with monuments that define the Egyptian style's importance to American national identity. Of particular interest is perhaps America's greatest commemorative obelisk: the Washington Monument. Standing at 555 feet high and constructed entirely of stone--making it the tallest obelisk in the world--the Washington Monument represents the pinnacle of Egyptian architecture's influence on America's desire to memorialize its national heroes by employing monumental forms associated with solidity and timelessness. Construction on the monument began in 1848, but controversy over its design, which at one point included a Greek colonnade surrounding the obelisk, and the American Civil War halted construction until 1877. Interestingly, Americans saw the completion of the Washington Monument after the Civil War as a mending of the nation itself, melding Egyptian commemoration with the reconstruction of America. As the twentieth century saw the rise of additional commemorative obelisks, the Egyptian Revival became ensconced in American national identity. Egyptian-style architecture has been used as a form of commemoration in memorials for World War I and II, the civil rights movement, and even as recently as the 9/11 remembrances. Giguere places the Egyptian style in a historical context that demonstrates how Americans actively sought to forge a national identity reminiscent of Egyptian culture that has endured to the present day.
Characteristically American
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Author : Ralph Barton Perry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Characteristically American written by Ralph Barton Perry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with National characteristics, American categories.
Characteristically American
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Author : Ralph Barton Perry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
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Characteristically American
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Author : Ralph Barton Perry
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2015-09-06
Characteristically American written by Ralph Barton Perry and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-06 with categories.
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The Music In African American Fiction
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Author : Robert H. Cataliotti
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1995
The Music In African American Fiction written by Robert H. Cataliotti and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
American English
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Author : Zoltan Kovecses
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2000-09-26
American English written by Zoltan Kovecses and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is a cultural-historical (rather than purely linguistic) introduction to American English. The first part consists of a general account of variation in American English. It offers concise but comprehensive coverage of such topics as the history of American English; regional, social and ethnic variation; variation in style (including slang); and British and American differences. The second part of the book puts forward an account of how American English has developed into a dominant variety of the English language. It focuses on the ways in which intellectual traditions such as puritanism and republicanism, in shaping the American world view, have also contributed to the distinctiveness of American English.
William James Pragmatism And American Culture
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Author : Deborah Whitehead
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2016-01-21
William James Pragmatism And American Culture written by Deborah Whitehead and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-21 with Philosophy categories.
“Continues and adds to a rich conversation among American philosophers concerning the origins of pragmatism and its possibilities for the future.” —William Gavin, University of Southern Maine William James, Pragmatism, and American Culture focuses on the work of William James and the relationship between the development of pragmatism and its historical, cultural, and political roots in nineteenth-century America. Deborah Whitehead reads pragmatism through the intersecting themes of narrative, gender, nation, politics, and religion. As she considers how pragmatism helps to explain the United States to itself, Whitehead articulates a contemporary pragmatism and shows how it has become a powerful and influential discourse in American intellectual and popular culture.
A Literary History Of America
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Ardent Media
Release Date : 1901
A Literary History Of America written by and has been published by Ardent Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1901 with categories.
Music In America
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Author : Frédéric Louis Ritter
language : en
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Release Date : 1890
Music In America written by Frédéric Louis Ritter and has been published by New York : C. Scribner's Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Music categories.
Sold American
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Author : Charles F. McGovern
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2009-01-06
Sold American written by Charles F. McGovern and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-06 with History categories.
At the turn of the twentieth century, an emerging consumer culture in the United States promoted constant spending to meet material needs and develop social identity and self-cultivation. In Sold American, Charles F. McGovern examines the key players active in shaping this cultural evolution: advertisers and consumer advocates. McGovern argues that even though these two professional groups invented radically different models for proper spending, both groups propagated mass consumption as a specifically American social practice and an important element of nationality and citizenship. Advertisers, McGovern shows, used nationalist ideals, icons, and political language to define consumption as the foundation of the pursuit of happiness. Consumer advocates, on the other hand, viewed the market with a republican-inspired skepticism and fought commercial incursions on consumer independence. The result, says McGovern, was a redefinition of the citizen as consumer. The articulation of an "American Way of Life" in the Depression and World War II ratified consumer abundance as the basis of a distinct American culture and history.