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Serious Nonsense
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Author : William W. Donner
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2016-05-15
Serious Nonsense written by William W. Donner and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-15 with History categories.
Versammlinge—community events filled with songs, performances, speeches, and skits that celebrate Pennsylvania German heritage and culture—are held entirely in the Pennsylvania German Deitsch language. Some, the “groundhog lodges,” feature a ceremony honoring the groundhog, while others do not. These unique meetings, expressions of a distinctive ethnic identity in the context of a rapidly changing society, have become a traditional mainstay among Pennsylvania Germans who have worked to preserve their language and culture into the twenty-first century. Serious Nonsense introduces readers to Pennsylvania German cultural practices that tourists rarely see and that outsiders, including most scholars, rarely learn about. The book explores the origins of the versammlinge and details the practice’s significance since the 1930s, when the first meetings of the Pennsylvania German groundhog lodges were held. Much as they did then, versammlinge today follow a pattern of prayers, patriotism, and speeches extolling values associated with Pennsylvania German identity, as well as theatrical and oral events that humorously contrast a simpler past with a more complex and confusing present. And the groundhog lodges feature one Pennsylvania German tradition that has become familiar in popular culture: groundhog weather prognostication.
Serious Nonsense
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Author : BEN. MACPHERSON
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Serious Nonsense written by BEN. MACPHERSON and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.
Serious Nonsense
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Author : Bruce McCall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Serious Nonsense written by Bruce McCall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with American wit and humor, Pictorial categories.
Up Verses Down
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Author : Calef Brown
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Release Date : 2019-06-18
Up Verses Down written by Calef Brown and has been published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-18 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Enter the delightful world of this long-format picture book poetry collection from #1 New York Times-bestselling creator Calef Brown. This book is powered by 100% natural POETROLIUMTM A verse-based energy source (with verbal synergy, of course) This stupendous poetry collection is full of zany characters—from Sleepy LaFeete, who chooses to snooze in the busiest spots, to Mister Adam Hatter and the Lovely Lady Wigg, who had a fig banquet and danced a fancy jig, to a guy named Rexx who uses exxtra Xs every now and then. It’s an irresistible feast: whimsical, hilarious, and always inspired. Calef Brown—master of wordplay and whimsy—serves up a spectacular verbal and visual banquet! Christy Ottaviano Books
Serious Nonsense
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Author : William Wilkinson Donner
language : en
Publisher: Keystone Books
Release Date : 2016
Serious Nonsense written by William Wilkinson Donner and has been published by Keystone Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
Explores Pennsylvania German versammlinge (meetings), where participants celebrate and preserve their heritage and culture. Argues that these gatherings, conducted in the Pennsylvania German Deitsch language, are rooted in American communicative styles that date back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, before mass and electronic media.
From The Elephant S Back
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Author : Lawrence Durrell
language : en
Publisher: University of Alberta
Release Date : 2015-08-16
From The Elephant S Back written by Lawrence Durrell and has been published by University of Alberta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-16 with Literary Collections categories.
Rare and previously unpublished essays and letters showcasing “Durrell’s wit, elegance, philosophy, joie de vivre and flaming intelligence” (The Irish Times). “The proverb says that whoever sees the world from the back of an elephant learns the secrets of the jungle and becomes a seer. I had to be content to become a poet.” ?Lawrence Durrell Best known for his novels and travel writing, Lawrence Durrell defied easy classification within twentieth-century Modernism. His anti-authoritarian tendencies put him at odds with many contemporaries?aesthetically and politically. However, thanks to a compelling recontextualization by editor James Gifford, these thirty-eight previously unpublished and out-of-print essays and letters reveal that Durrell’s maturation as an artist was rich, complex, and subtle. Durrell fans will treasure this selection of rare nonfiction, while scholars of Durrell, Modernist literature, anti-authoritarian artists, and the Personalist movement will also appreciate Gifford’s fine editorial work. “Gifford's scholarly command of the archives shows?especially his working intimacy with the unpublished archived words of Durrell’s editors, publishers, and collaborators. I have no doubt that this collection will serve as a starting point for any number of new critical ventures into the life and writing of Lawrence Durrell.” ?Charles Sligh, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
G K Chesterton Explorations In Allegory
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Author : Lynette Hunter
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1979-07-12
G K Chesterton Explorations In Allegory written by Lynette Hunter and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979-07-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Tao Of Zen
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Author : Ray Grigg
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 2012-09-11
Tao Of Zen written by Ray Grigg and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-11 with Philosophy categories.
The premise of The Tao of Zen is that Zen is really Taoism in the disguise of Buddhism—an assumption being made by more and more Zen scholars. This is the first Zen book that links the long-noted philosophical similarities of Taoism and Zen. The author traces the evolution of Ch'an The The Tao of Zen is a fascinating book that will be read and discussed by anyone interested in both Taoism and Zen
Splashed
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Author : Tom Mangold
language : en
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Release Date : 2016-11-08
Splashed written by Tom Mangold and has been published by Biteback Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Tom Mangold is known to millions as the face of BBC TV's flagship current affairs programme Panorama and as its longest-serving reporter. Splashed! is the 'antidote to the conventional journalist's autobiography' - a compelling, hilarious and raucous revelation of the events that marked an extraordinary life in journalism. Mangold describes his National Service in Germany, where he worked part-time as a smuggler, through his years in the 1950s on Fleet Street's most ruthless newspapers, a time when chequebook journalism ruled and shamelessness was a major skill. Recruited by the BBC, he spent forty years as a broadcaster, developing a reputation for war reporting and major investigations. From world exclusives with fallen women in the red-top days to chaotic interviews with Presidents, Splashed! offers a rare glimpse of the personal triumphs and disasters of a life in reporting, together with fascinating revelations about the stories that made the headlines on Mangold's remarkable journey from print to Panorama.
Wittgenstein And Heidegger
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Author : David Egan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-07-18
Wittgenstein And Heidegger written by David Egan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-18 with Philosophy categories.
Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger are arguably the two most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Their work not only reshaped the philosophical landscape, but also left its mark on other disciplines, including political science, theology, anthropology, ecology, mathematics, cultural studies, literary theory, and architecture. Both sought to challenge the assumptions governing the traditions they inherited, to question the very terms in which philosophy’s problems had been posed, and to open up new avenues of thought for thinkers of all stripes. And despite considerable differences in style and in the traditions they inherited, the similarities between Wittgenstein and Heidegger are striking. Comparative work of these thinkers has only increased in recent decades, but no collection has yet explored the various ways in which Wittgenstein and Heidegger can be drawn into dialogue. As such, these essays stage genuine dialogues, with aspects of Wittgenstein’s elucidations answering or problematizing aspects of Heidegger’s, and vice versa. The result is a broad-ranging collection of essays that provides a series of openings and provocations that will serve as a reference point for future work that draws on the writings of these two philosophers.