East End Vernacular
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East End Vernacular
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Author : Gentle Author
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
East End Vernacular written by Gentle Author and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with East End (London, England) categories.
'East End Vernacular' presents a magnificent selection of pictures - many never published before - revealing the evolution of painting in the East End of London and tracing the changing character of the streets through the 20th century.
Spitalfields Life
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Author : The Gentle Author
language : en
Publisher: Saltyard Books
Release Date : 2013-07-16
Spitalfields Life written by The Gentle Author and has been published by Saltyard Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-16 with Travel categories.
"I am going to write every single day and tell you about my life here in Spitalfields at the heart of London..." Drawing comparisons with Pepys, Mayhew and Dickens, the gentle author of Spitalfields Life has gained an extraordinary following in recent years, by writing hundreds of lively pen portraits of the infinite variety of people who live and work in the East End of London. Everything you seek in London can be found here - street life, street art, markets, diverse food, immigrant culture, ancient houses and history, pageants and parades, rituals and customs, traditional trades and old family businesses. Spend a night in the bakery at St John, ride the rounds with the Spitalfields milkman, drop in to the Golden Heart for a pint, meet a fourth-generation paper bag seller, a mudlark who discovers treasure in the river Thames, a window cleaner who sees ghosts and a master bell-founder whose business started in 1570. Join the bunny girls for their annual reunion, visit the wax sellers of Wentworth Street and discover the site of Shakespeare's first theatre. All of human life is here in Spitalfields Life.
From Bow To Biennale
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Author : David Buckman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-11
From Bow To Biennale written by David Buckman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11 with categories.
Shtetl
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Author : Jeffrey Shandler
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2014-01-15
Shtetl written by Jeffrey Shandler and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-15 with Social Science categories.
In Yiddish, shtetl simply means “town.” How does such an unassuming word come to loom so large in modern Jewish culture, with a proliferation of uses and connotations? By examining the meaning of shtetl, Jeffrey Shandler asks how Jewish life in provincial towns in Eastern Europe has become the subject of extensive creativity, memory, and scholarship from the early modern era in European history to the present. In the post-Holocaust era, the shtetl looms large in public culture as the epitome of a bygone traditional Jewish communal life. People now encounter the Jewish history of these towns through an array of cultural practices, including fiction, documentary photography, film, memoirs, art, heritage tourism, and political activism. At the same time, the shtetl attracts growing scholarly interest, as historians, social scientists, literary critics, and others seek to understand both the complex reality of life in provincial towns and the nature of its wide-ranging remembrance. Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History traces the trajectory of writing about these towns—by Jews and non-Jews, residents and visitors, researchers, novelists, memoirists, journalists and others—to demonstrate how the Yiddish word for “town” emerged as a key word in Jewish culture and studies. Shandler proposes that the intellectual history of the shtetl is best approached as an exemplar of engaging Jewish vernacularity, and that the variable nature of this engagement, far from being a drawback, is central to the subject’s enduring interest.
Languages Scripts And Chinese Texts In East Asia
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Author : Peter Francis Kornicki
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
Languages Scripts And Chinese Texts In East Asia written by Peter Francis Kornicki 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 2018 with FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY categories.
This is a wide-ranging study of vernacularization in East Asia, examining Chinese script of the early common era, the spread of Chinese Buddhist, Confucian, and medical texts throughout East Asia, all the way to the end of the nineteenth century when nationalism created new roles for vernacular languages and vernacular scripts.
Tokyo Vernacular
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Author : Jordan Sand
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2013-07-13
Tokyo Vernacular written by Jordan Sand and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-13 with Architecture categories.
Preserved buildings and historic districts, museums and reconstructions have become an important part of the landscape of cities around the world. Beginning in the 1970s, Tokyo participated in this trend. However, repeated destruction and rapid redevelopment left the city with little building stock of recognized historical value. Late twentieth-century Tokyo thus presents an illuminating case of the emergence of a new sense of history in the city’s physical environment, since it required both a shift in perceptions of value and a search for history in the margins and interstices of a rapidly modernizing cityscape. Scholarship to date has tended to view historicism in the postindustrial context as either a genuine response to loss, or as a cynical commodification of the past. The historical process of Tokyo’s historicization suggests other interpretations. Moving from the politics of the public square to the invention of neighborhood community, to oddities found and appropriated in the streets, to the consecration of everyday scenes and artifacts as heritage in museums, Tokyo Vernacular traces the rediscovery of the past—sometimes in unlikely forms—in a city with few traditional landmarks. Tokyo's rediscovered past was mobilized as part of a new politics of the everyday after the failure of mass politics in the 1960s. Rather than conceiving the city as national center and claiming public space as national citizens, the post-1960s generation came to value the local places and things that embodied the vernacular language of the city, and to seek what could be claimed as common property outside the spaces of corporate capitalism and the state.
The Real East End
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Author : Thomas Burke
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2020-09-17
The Real East End written by Thomas Burke and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-17 with History categories.
This classic work, originally published in 1932, is now being republished with a new introductory biography. Thomas Burke, born in Clapham, London in 1886, considered himself a true Londoner and the large majority of his writings are on the subject of everyday life in London. We are republishing this classic work with a new biographical introduction.
A People S Guide To Los Angeles
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Author : Laura Pulido
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2012-04-23
A People S Guide To Los Angeles written by Laura Pulido and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-23 with History categories.
A People’s Guide to Los Angeles offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to L.A.’s usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related to race, class, gender, and sexuality have occurred. They introduce us to people and events usually ignored by mainstream media and, in the process, create a fresh history of Los Angeles. Roughly dividing the city into six regions—North Los Angeles, the Eastside and San Gabriel Valley, South Los Angeles, Long Beach and the Harbor, the Westside, and the San Fernando Valley—this illuminating guide shows how power operates in the shaping of places, and how it remains embedded in the landscape.
The Maze At Windermere
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Author : Gregory Blake Smith
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-01-09
The Maze At Windermere written by Gregory Blake Smith and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-09 with Fiction categories.
Named one of the best books of 2018 by The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, and The Advocate “Staggeringly brilliant . . . You’ll start The Maze of Windermere with bewilderment, but you’ll close it in awe.” —The Washington Post “Pitch perfect.” —New York Times Book Review When a drunken party guest challenges him to a late-night tennis match, Sandy Allison finds himself unexpectedly entangled in the monied world of Newport, Rhode Island. A former touring pro a little down on his luck, Sandy has nothing to stake against the vintage motorcycle his opponent wagers. But then Alice DuPont—the young heiress to a Newport mansion called Windermere—offers up her diamond necklace. With this reckless wager begins a dazzling narrative odyssey that braids together four centuries of aspiration and adversity in this renowned seaside society capital. A witty and urbane bachelor of the Gilded Age embarks on a high-risk scheme to marry into a fortune; a young Henry James, soon to make his mark on the world, turns himself to his craft with harrowing social consequences; an aristocratic British officer during the American Revolution carries on a courtship that leads to murder; and, in Newport’s earliest days, a tragically orphaned Quaker girl imagines a way forward for herself and the slave girl she has inherited. Gregory Blake Smith weaves these intersecting worlds into a rich, brilliant tapestry. A deftly layered novel of love, ambition, and duplicity, The Maze at Windermere charts a voyage across the ages into the maze of the human heart.
Literary Sinitic And East Asia
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Author : Bunkyo Kin
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-04-06
Literary Sinitic And East Asia written by Bunkyo Kin and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In Literary Sinitic and East Asia: A Cultural Sphere of Vernacular Reading, Professor Kin Bunkyō surveys the ‘vernacular reading’ technologies used to read Literary Sinitic through a wide variety of vernacular languages across diverse premodern literary cultures in East Asia.