Classical Place Names In New York State
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Classical Place Names In New York State
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Author : William R. Farrell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Classical Place Names In New York State written by William R. Farrell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Names, Geographical categories.
Explores connectons between contemporary New York State and its history, language and mythological heritage.--Résumé de l'éditeur.
The Encyclopedia Of New York State
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Author : Peter Eisenstadt
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2005-05-19
The Encyclopedia Of New York State written by Peter Eisenstadt and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-19 with History categories.
The Encyclopedia of New York State is one of the most complete works on the Empire State to be published in a half-century. In nearly 2,000 pages and 4,000 signed entries, this single volume captures the impressive complexity of New York State as a historic crossroads of people and ideas, as a cradle of abolitionism and feminism, and as an apex of modern urban, suburban, and rural life. The Encyclopedia is packed with fascinating details from fields ranging from sociology and geography to history. Did you know that Manhattan's Lower East Side was once the most populated neighborhood in the world, but Hamilton County in the Adirondacks is the least densely populated county east of the Mississippi; New York is the only state to border both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean; the Erie Canal opened New York City to rich farmland upstate . . . and to the west. Entries by experts chronicle New York's varied areas, politics, and persuasions with a cornucopia of subjects from environmentalism to higher education to railroads, weaving the state's diverse regions and peoples into one idea of New York State. Lavishly illustrated with 500 photographs and figures, 120 maps, and 140 tables, the Encyclopedia is key to understanding the state's past, present, and future. It is a crucial reference for students, teachers, historians, and business people, for New Yorkers of all persuasions, and for anyone interested in finding out more about New York State.
Classical Place Names In The United States
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Author : Wolfgang M. Schutte
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2016-11-29
Classical Place Names In The United States written by Wolfgang M. Schutte and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-29 with Art categories.
This compilation of place names of classical origin in the US, mostly initiated by immigrants from Southern Europe, intends to make residents and visitors alike aware of our rich European heritage here in the United States. Population figures and information given about access routes could, in some instances, differ from present data since some time elapsed between the author's research and publication of this compendium.
American Language Supplement 2
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Author : H.L. Mencken
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2012-04-04
American Language Supplement 2 written by H.L. Mencken and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The DEFINITIVE EDITION OF The American Language was published in 1936. Since then it has been recognized as a classic. It is that rarest of literary accomplishments—a book that is authoritative and scientific and is at the same time very diverting reading. But after 1936 HLM continued to gather new materials diligently. In 1945 those which related to the first six chapters of The American Language were published as Supplement I; the present volume contains those new materials which relate to the other chapters. The ground thus covered in Supplement II is as follows: 1. American Pronunciation. Its history. Its divergence from English usage. The regional and racial dialects. 2. American Spelling. The influence of Noah Webster upon it. Its characters today. The simplified spelling movement. The treatment of loan words. Punctuation, capitalization, and abbreviation. 3. The Common Speech. Outlines of its grammar. Its verbs, pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. The double negative. Other peculiarities. 4. Proper Names in America. Surnames. Given-names. Place-names. Other names. 5. American Slang. Its origin and history. The argot of various racial and occupational groups. Although the text of Supplement II is related to that of The American Language, it is an independent work that may be read profitably by persons who do not know either The American Language or Supplement I.
American Language
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Author : H.L. Mencken
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2012-01-04
American Language written by H.L. Mencken and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The American Language, first published in 1919, is H. L. Mencken's book about the English language as spoken in the United States. Mencken was inspired by "the argot of the colored waiters" in Washington, as well as one of his favorite authors, Mark Twain, and his experiences on the streets of Baltimore. In 1902, Mencken remarked on the "queer words which go into the making of 'United States.'" The book was preceded by several columns in The Evening Sun. Mencken eventually asked "Why doesn't some painstaking pundit attempt a grammar of the American language... English, that is, as spoken by the great masses of the plain people of this fair land?" It would appear that he answered his own question. In the tradition of Noah Webster, who wrote the first American dictionary, Mencken wanted to defend "Americanisms" against a steady stream of English critics, who usually isolated Americanisms as borderline barbarous perversions of the mother tongue. Mencken assaulted the prescriptive grammar of these critics and American "schoolmarms", arguing, like Samuel Johnson in the preface to his dictionary, that language evolves independently of textbooks. The book discusses the beginnings of "American" variations from "English", the spread of these variations, American names and slang over the course of its 374 pages. According to Mencken, American English was more colorful, vivid, and creative than its British counterpart.
Annual Bibliography Of English Language And Literature
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Author : John Horden
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1972
Annual Bibliography Of English Language And Literature written by John Horden and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Bibliography categories.
Plaster Casts
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Author : Rune Frederiksen
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2010-09-27
Plaster Casts written by Rune Frederiksen and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-27 with Art categories.
This volume originates from an international conference (Oxford University, 2007). Texts address plaster casts and related themes from antiquity to the present day, and from Egypt to America, Mexico and New Zealand. They are of interest to classical archaeologists, art historians, the history of collecting, curators, conservators, collectors and artists. Articles explore the functions, status and reception of plaster casts in artists’ workshops and in private and public collections, as well as hands-on issues, such as the making, trading, display and conservation of plaster casts. Case-studies on artists’ use of material and technique include ancient Roman copyists, Renaissance sculptors and painters, Dutch 17th-century workshops, Canova, Boccioni and others. A second theme is the role of plaster casts in the history of collecting from the Renaissance to the present day. Several papers address the dissemination of visual ideas, models and ideals through the medium. Papers on modern and contemporary art illuminate the changing uses and semantic values of plaster casts in this period. Amongst the types of casts discussed are artists’ models and final works as well as casts after antiquities, including sculpture, architecture and gems (dactyliothecae). The volume demonstrates the richness of the field, both in terms of the material itself and modern scholarship concerned with it. Conceived as a handbook for students, academics, curators and collectors, the text will form a standard work on the role of plaster casts in the history of Western sculpture.
The Concise Dictionary Of World Place Names
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Author : John Everett-Heath
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-19
The Concise Dictionary Of World Place Names written by John Everett-Heath and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-19 with Reference categories.
This unique and informative dictionary explores the history, meanings, and origin of place names around the world. In over 11,000 entries it covers an enormous geographical range, including continents, countries, islands, cities, mountains, rivers, and much more. Key historical facts are incorporated into each entry, as well as a record of the place name in the local language for an accurate and comprehensive account. For this fifth edition, 134 entirely new entries have been added, including Byzantine Empire, Lac qui Parle, Nasr, Sauk City, and Yekaterinogradskaya. Existing entries have also been fully updated to reflect recent socio-political and geographical changes, most notably in Eswatini and Northern Macedonia. In addition to the entries themselves, the dictionary contains invaluable supplementary content to support the text. There is a glossary of foreign word elements which appear in place names, as well as a list of personalities and leaders who have influenced the naming of places around the world.
The Epic Trickster In American Literature
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Author : Gregory E. Rutledge
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-26
The Epic Trickster In American Literature written by Gregory E. Rutledge and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of Western cultural production rests upon the archetypal binary of Trickster/Epic, with trickster aesthetics and commensurate cultural forms characterizing Africa. Challenging this binary and the exceptionalism that underlies anti-hegemonic efforts even today, this book begins with the scholarly foundations that mapped out African trickster continuities in the United States and excavated the aesthetics of traditional African epic performances. Rutledge locates trickster-like capacities within the epic hero archetype (the "epic trickster" paradigm) and constructs an Homeric Diaspora, which is to say that the modern Homeric performance foundation lies at an absolute time and distance away from the ancient storytelling performance needed to understand the cautionary aesthetic inseparable from epic potential. As traditional epic performances demonstrate, unchecked epic trickster dynamism anticipates not only brutal imperialism and creative diversity, but the greatest threat to everyone, an eco-apocalypse. Relying upon the preeminent scholarship on African-American trickster-heroes, traditional African heroic performances, and cultural studies approaches to Greco-Roman epics, Rutledge traces the epic trickster aesthetic through three seminal African-American novels keenly attuned to the American Homeric Diaspora: Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition, Richard Wright’s Native Son, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved.
Bibliography Of Place Name Literature
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Author : Richard Burl Sealock
language : en
Publisher: Chicago : American Library Association
Release Date : 1982
Bibliography Of Place Name Literature written by Richard Burl Sealock and has been published by Chicago : American Library Association this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with History categories.