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Penniless Politics
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
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Penniless Politics
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Author : Douglas Oliver
language : en
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Release Date : 1994
Penniless Politics written by Douglas Oliver and has been published by Bloodaxe Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
Penniless Politics grapples with the problems of survival and protest in the blighted urban world of modern, multicultural America. The focus of this late 20th century 're-take' of The Decameron is the vital, violent city of New York, where Douglas Oliver lived on the Lower East Side, imagining the non-voting minorities coming together through the creation of a new kind of political party called Spirit. When Penniless Politics first appeared 'in a curious samizdat' edition, Howard Brenton hailed Oliver's 'great poem' in The Guardian as 'epoch-making...startlingly original'. 'As great writing will, Penniless Politics identifies a new era's themes that we all sense to be there, just beyond language, waiting for their first expression. The poem's theme is desire: a ferocious, overwhelming desire for the human spirit to change...Could it be that the most unlikely thing, a poem, can show the way out of the post-communist, post-modernist, "ideas are dead" miasma that is poisoning us? I suggest the reader hold on and take the rollercoaster ride through Oliver's amazing plot and the dizzying heights and water splashes of his poetic invention. It's worth it because the poem, with its ambitious-as-Milton first line - All politics the same crux: to define humankind richly - to its blistering final stanzas, could well be our Paradise Lost.' - from foreword by Howard Brenton
Encyclopedia Of The New York School Poets
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Author : Terence Diggory
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Release Date : 2015-04-22
Encyclopedia Of The New York School Poets written by Terence Diggory and has been published by Infobase Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-22 with American poetry categories.
Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of poets associated with the New York Schools of the early twentieth century.
Coming After
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Author : Alice Notley
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2005-03-17
Coming After written by Alice Notley and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-17 with Literary Collections categories.
Alice Notley explores the work of second-generation New York School poets & their allies, including Ted Berrigan, Anne Waldman & Joanne Kyger, who are notorious for their refusal to criticise & theorise, assuming the stance that 'only the poems matter'.
The Poetry And The Politics
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Author : Gregory James
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-10-10
The Poetry And The Politics written by Gregory James and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The nineteenth century was a time of 'movements' - political, social, moral reform causes - which drew on the energies of men and women across Britain. This book studies radical reform at the margins of early Victorian society, focusing on decades of particular social, political and technological ferment: when foreign and British promoters of extravagant technologically assisted utopias could attract many hundreds of supporters of limited means, persuaded to escape grim conditions by emigration to South America; when pioneers of vegetarianism joined the ranks of the temperance movement; and when working-class Chartists, reviving a struggle for political reform, seemed to threaten the State for a brief moment in April 1848. Through the forgotten figure of James Elmslie Duncan, 'shabby genteel' poet and self-proclaimed 'Apostle of the Messiahdom', The Poetry and the Politics considers themes including poetry's place in radical culture, the response of pantomime to the Chartist challenge to law and order, and associations between madness and revolution.Duncan became a promoter of the technological fantasies of John Adolphus Etzler, a poet of science who prophesied a future free from drudgery, through machinery powered by natural forces. Etzler dreamed of crystal palaces: Duncan's public freedom was to end dramatically in 1851 just as a real crystal palace opened to an astonished world. In addition to Duncan, James Gregory also introduces a cast of other poets, earnest reformers and agitators, such as William Thom the weaver poet of Inverury, whose metropolitan feting would end in tragedy; John Goodwyn Barmby, bearded Pontiffarch of the Communist Church; a lunatic 'Invisible Poet' of Cremorne pleasure gardens; the hatter from Reading who challenged the 'feudal' restrictions of the Game Laws by tract, trespass and stuffed jay birds; and foreign exotics such as the German-born Conrad Stollmeyer, escaping the sinking of an experimental Naval Automaton in Margate to build a fortune as theAsphalt King of Trinidad.Combining these figures with the biography of a man whose literary career was eccentric and whose public antics were capitalised upon by critics of Chartist agitation, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in radical reform and popular political movements in Victorian Britain.
New York Fictions
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Author : Peter Brooker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-08
New York Fictions written by Peter Brooker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this original study, Peter Brooker takes issue with the simplified opposition of postmodernism to modernism in accounts of the modern period. Instead, he follows the course of modernity in the spectacular example of New York, to reveal the complexities of both modernist and postmodern responses to the city. Brooker's study refers us to the fiction of Doctorow, Don DeLillo and Toni Morrison and especially to the new urban `ethnic' writing. Here the voice of creative dissent and cultural hybridity expresses the best in a tradition of Amerian newness; this Peter Brooker calls the `new modern'. The text is an important contribution to contemporary debates on modernism and postmodernism, providing a thorough interdisciplinary study of new American writing within the socio-economic context of New York City and will be of great interest to students of American Studies, Cultural Studies and Literature.
Civil Society And Politics In Central Asia
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Author : Charles E. Ziegler
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2015-02-27
Civil Society And Politics In Central Asia written by Charles E. Ziegler and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-27 with Political Science categories.
The five Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan constitute an area of increasing importance in global politics. The region currently serves as the main route for transporting American and NATO supplies and personnel into Afghanistan. Its Turkic Muslim peoples share ethnic and religious roots with China's Uighurs in neighboring Xinjiang, where some Uighurs have connections to the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, fueling Beijing's already acute fears of terrorism and separatism. Perhaps most importantly, the Caspian basin holds immense reserves of oil and natural gas. Countries rich in hydrocarbons—like Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan—can benefit greatly from this wealth, but often they must rely on foreign companies (usually backed by foreign governments) to develop these resources. Revolts in Kyrgyzstan (in 2005 and 2010) and Uzbekistan (in 2005); Tajikistan's civil war (in the 1990s); and continued terrorist incidents (2010–2011), strikes, and suicide bombings in Kazakhstan (in 2011) have contributed to concerns about stability in the region. In Civil Society and Politics in Central Asia, a prominent group of scholars assesses both the area's manifold problems and its emerging potential, examining the often uneasy relationship between its states and the societies they govern. A meticulously in-depth study, the volume demonstrates the fascinating cultural complexity and diversity of Central Asia. Small, landlocked, and surrounded by larger powers, Central Asian nations have become adept at playing their neighbors against each other in order to maximize their own abilities to maneuver. The essays in this book look beyond the surface of Central Asian politics to discover the forces that are working for political change and continuity in this critical region of the world.
Broadening And Deepening Democracy
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Author : E Raghavan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-11-12
Broadening And Deepening Democracy written by E Raghavan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-12 with Political Science categories.
This book examines certain changes in the political make-up of Karnataka, between the early 1970s and the late 1980s, which, in turn, led to the birth of a unique democracy in the state. In a departure from most studies on political science and political history which pay little or no attention to the role of politicians and focus only on technocratic blueprints, administrative processes and incentive systems, this volume takes into account the role politicians play in shaping the character of their governments, public policy and state–society relations. It studies the political transformation of Karnataka by focusing heavily on three chief ministers of the state who played an important role in making politics in Karnataka more accommodative, enlightened and, hence, more democratic. This volume is a detailed insider’s account of the political processes in Karnataka, enriched with interviews and surveys which seek to locate this work in the social science literature, in Karnataka’s recent history and in comparative context alongside other Indian states.
The Politics Of Economic Life
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Author : Martin Beckstein
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-09-07
The Politics Of Economic Life written by Martin Beckstein and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-07 with Political Science categories.
In recent years, economic life has become increasingly politicized: now, every company has a ‘philosophy’, promising its customers some ethical surplus in return for buying their products; consumers shop for change; workers engage in individualized forms of employee activism such as whistleblowing; and governments contribute to the re-configuration of the economic sphere as a site of political contestation by reminding corporate and private economic actors of their duty to ‘do their bit’. The Politics of Economic Life addresses this trend by exploring the ways in which practices of consumption, work, production, and entrepreneurship are imbued with political strategy and ideology, and assesses the potentials and perils of the politicization of economic activity for democracy in the 21st century.
The Dictator
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Author : Justin McCarthy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
The Dictator written by Justin McCarthy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with categories.