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Max Frisch: "Stiller", "Homo faber" und "Mein Name sei Gantenbein"
1990Frederick Alfred Lubich
Work provides a an introduction to Max Frisch's three most important novels and explores the themes of narrative experimentation, ego loss, the experience of the "New World," and the discussion of technology and myth.
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The Elements of Modern Philosophy: Descartes Through Kant
1989William H. Brenner
Many of the important figures of modern philosophy, including Descartes, Spinoza, Liebniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant, are introduced with an emphasis on criticism of their work.
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Knowing Children: Participant Observation with Minors
1988Gary Alan Fine and Kent L. Sandstrom
When studying children too often it is assumed that "our" view of the world will be their view of the world. Knowing Children explores this lofty assumption and explodes various myths that researchers commonly hold about children. Using the assumptions that minors are knowledgeable about their world and that the worlds of minors are special and noteworthy, Fine and Sandstrom explore the worlds of children and demonstrate that adults can greatly benefit from studying their worlds through the use of qualitative research methods. In this insightful volume Fine and Sandstrom present timely methodological statements on doing participant observation with children. Drawing on case studies of children from three age groups they provide the first extended treatment of methodological problems with qualitative research involving children which integrates previous writings. They cover general issues involved in research with children, focusing on methodological and ethical concerns as well. This volume provides a fresh view of the worlds of children while providing an invaluable reference for the ethnographic researcher. Knowing Children helps the researcher understand how and why children react to adults doing ethnographic research. This work will prove to be specifically of interest to applied researchers in child development and education. It will also be of interest to those in other human services and more traditional ethnographic fields. [From the publisher]
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Don't Grieve after Me: The Black Experience in Virginia, 1619-1986
1986Phillip David Morgan, Michael Hucles, and Sarah S. hughes
Three chronological essays present an historical overview of the African-American experience in Virginia from 1619-1986.
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The Life and Works of Otto Dix: German Critical Realist
1981Linda F. McGreevy
A revision of the author's thesis, University of Georgia, 1975. From the series, Studies in Fine Arts, No. 12.
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The Extraordinary Envoy: General Hiroshi Ōshima and Diplomacy in the Third Reich, 1934-1939
1980Carl Boyd
Ōshima approved of the militarism and totalitarianism evident in the Third Reich when he arrived in Berlin as the Japanese military attaché in 1934. Ōshima’s personal ability and initiative sub rosa greatly enhanced his importance in German-Japanese relations. Scenes between the spirited military attaché and National Socialist functionaries soon followed, the like of which are often enacted in higher places and by more important people. Ōshima’s behavior was exceptional. He would become Japan’s Ambassador to Germany in 1938 when the military gained greater influence in the Japanese government. Though many Japanese army officers admired the German military, Ōshima represented an extreme military point of view, and he was infatuated particularly with the armed forces of Hitler’s Third Reich. [From the “Introduction”]
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First Person Female American: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography of the Autobiographies of American Women Living After 1950
1980Carolyn H. Rhodes (Editor), Mary Louise Briscoe (Editor), and Ernest L. Rhodes (Editor)
An annotated bibliography of autobiographies written by American woman living in the post-1950 era.
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Old Dominion University: A Half Century of Service
1980James R. Sweeney
Dr. James R. Sweeney has written an informative account of the university's first half-century. It is a history of growth from a small two-year branch of the College of William and Mary to a state-supported university that has gained its own national reputation.
[From the "Introduction," by Alfred B. Rollins Jr, Aug. 14, 1980]
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McClure's Magazine and the Muckrakers
1970Harold S. Wilson
McClure's was the leading muckraking journal among the many which flourished at the turn of the century. Both a literary and political magazine, It introduced exciting new writers to the American scene (Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, A. Conan Doyle) and fearlessly championed the important causes of the day (from betterment of conditions in the coal mines to antitrust measures).
This is the story of McClure's lifespan, beginning in Ohio when Samuel McClure gathered around himself a talented group of editors and writers (among them Willa Cather. Frank Norris. Stephen Crane, O. Henry. Hamlin Garland) and continuing to the magazine’s last days in New York City. The growing concern of the staff about American urban and commercial life led to such exposes as Ida Tarbell's History of Standard Oil and Lincoln Steffens' Shame of the Cities. McClure's was a channel for those determined to combat the ills of society, and one of the first voices of the emerging Progressive Party. [From Amazon.com]
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Drama: Literature on Stage
1969Charles O. Burgess
Beginning with the proposition that a good play is con- trolled by the need of the playwright to compress and objectify, Professor Burgess has prepared a book which is at once a concise study of drama as a genre and an anthology of some of the best examples of that genre. Separate chapters explore the elements of the dramatic form: illusion and convention, plot, character, symbolism and other devices, theme, conclusion and culmination. Each element is illustrated with one or more plays which collectively cover the major periods in the history of drama from Greek tragedy to twentieth-century experimentation. Designed for Freshman English and other courses in which types of literature are introduced, this concise text effectively demonstrates how successful playwrights have made skillful use of the conventions of the stage for which they wrote. [From the publisher]
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Jacksonian Democracy: Myth or Reality?
1962James L. Bugg, Jr. (Editor)
A close look at the tumultuous times in United States history named for its seventh president, Andrew Jackson, from a variety of viewpoints. This volatile political leader and war hero, though controversial, was the first president not born into the gentry, whose rise to power coincided with the growth of the "new" democracy. Focuses on two major internal problems, the Nullification Crisis and the Bank War; and also looks at related matters.
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