The Rise of the New York Intellectuals
Title | The Rise of the New York Intellectuals PDF eBook |
Author | Terry A. Cooney |
Publisher | |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The Nature of Things
Title | The Nature of Things PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Ponge |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Poetry. Translated from the French by Lee Fahnestock. First published in 1942 and considered the keystone of Francis Ponge's work, Le parti pris de choses appears here in its entirety. It reveals his preoccupation with nature and its metaphoric transformation through the creative ambiguity of language. "My immediate reaction to Lee Fahnenstock's translation was: this must certainly be 'Ponge's voice in English'...[She] gives us his tones, rhythms, humor...[and] maneuvers his word play with respect and unostentatious discretion"--Barbara Wright, translator of Queneau, Pinget, Sarraute.
Masscult and Midcult
Title | Masscult and Midcult PDF eBook |
Author | Dwight Macdonald |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2011-10-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1590174682 |
A New York Review Books Original An uncompromising contrarian, a passionate polemicist, a man of quick wit and wide learning, an anarchist, a pacifist, and a virtuoso of the slashing phrase, Dwight Macdonald was an indefatigable and indomitable critic of America’s susceptibility to well-meaning cultural fakery: all those estimable, eminent, prizewinning works of art that are said to be good and good for you and are not. He dubbed this phenomenon “Midcult” and he attacked it not only on aesthetic but on political grounds. Midcult rendered people complacent and compliant, secure in their common stupidity but neither happy nor free. This new selection of Macdonald’s finest essays, assembled by John Summers, the editor of The Baffler, reintroduces a remarkable American critic and writer. In the era of smart, sexy, and everything indie, Macdonald remains as pertinent and challenging as ever.
Partisan Hearts and Minds
Title | Partisan Hearts and Minds PDF eBook |
Author | Donald P. Green |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780300101560 |
A treatment of party identification, in which three political scientists argue that identification with political parties powerfully determines how citizens look at politics and cast their ballots. They build a case for the continuing theoretical and political significance of partisan identities.
A Partisan Century
Title | A Partisan Century PDF eBook |
Author | Edith Kurzweil |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 1996-09-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780231513432 |
For more than sixty years, Partisan Review has been the most influential literary and cultural journal in America, home to some of this century's finest writers. A Partisan Century now collects the journal's greatest political essays from the 1930s to the present. The list of writers collected here is a virtual who's who of American and European intellectual culture in the past half century. Leon Trotsky, James T. Farrell, Irving Howe, Hannah Arendt, Norman Mailer, C. Wright Mills, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Nat Hentoff, Steven Marcus, Andrei Sakharov, and many more. A Partisan Century gathers together some of the journal's most outstanding moments:from George Orwell's "London Letter," written when invasion by Nazi Germany seemed imminent; to Susan Sontag's 1964 essay, "Notes on 'Camp'," a harbinger to the age of postmodernism; to Steven Marcus's "Soft Totalitarianism," part of a rousing symposium on the effects of political correctness. On the subjects ranging from the Cold War tothe neoconservatives, from the war in Vietnam to revolutionaries in Romania, the writings in A Partisan Century are a barometer of the shifts in global politics in the twentieth century.
Writers & Politics
Title | Writers & Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Edith Kurzweil |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 1983-01-01 |
Genre | Politics and literature |
ISBN | 9780710093165 |
Italian Partisan Weapons in WWII
Title | Italian Partisan Weapons in WWII PDF eBook |
Author | Gianluigi Usai |
Publisher | Schiffer Military History |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2016-12-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780764352102 |
This book covers all classes and types of small arms, from pistols to heavy machine guns, known to have been used by the Italian partisans during WWII. It provides a brief history of the origin and development of the partisan movement in Italy following the 8 September 1943 armistice between Italy and the Allies and subsequent occupation of the northern portion of the country by Germany. There are many relevant examples of correspondence between partisan units relating to acquisition, distribution, use, maintenance, and problems encountered with the various types of small arms available. The majority of the pages of this book are dedicated to a complete, thorough, and extensive coverage of each individual type of weapon known to have been used by the partisans, including specifications, supported by current as well as vintage photographs showing the weapons in use by the partisans.