Baedeker's AA New York

Baedeker's AA New York
Author: Carin Drechsler-Marx
Publisher: Salem House Publishers
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1983-02
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780861451180

Bibles and Baedekers

Bibles and Baedekers
Author: Michael Grimshaw
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2014-12-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1317491475

Contemporary tourism and travel have become a form of religion, a new opiate of the masses. However, could Church and theology be religious forms of tourism and travel? 'Bibles and Baedekers' offers a theology of tourism and exile for a modern and postmodern world. It examines the ways in which location, identity and movement have made use of religious texts and metaphor and questions the relative absence of secular texts and ideas in theology. The theology of the tourist and traveller is one of new experiences, the acquisition of identity through movement. 'Bibles and Baedekers' uniquely applies this to the postmodern Christian, embodying the fulfilment of Bonhoeffer's 'religionless Christianity', dislocated from both a secular and 'religious' world.

Ex Libris

Ex Libris
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 662
Release: 1923
Genre: Bibliography
ISBN:

Poetic Salvage

Poetic Salvage
Author: Tara Prescott
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2016-12-19
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1611488133

Mina Loy—poet, artist, exile, and luminary—was a prominent and admired figure in the art and literary circles of Paris, Florence, and New York in the early years of the twentieth century. But over time, she gradually receded from public consciousness and her poetry went out of print. As part of the movement to introduce the work of this cryptic poet to modern audiences, Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy provides new and detailed explications of Loy’s most redolent poems. This book helps readers gain a better understanding of the body of Loy’s work as a whole by offering compelling close readings that uncover the source materials that inspired Loy’s poetry, including modern artwork, Baedekertravel guides, and even long-forgotten cultural venues. Helpfully keyed to the contents of Loy’s Lost Lunar Baedeker, edited by Roger Conover, this book is an essential aid for new readers and scholars alike. Mina Loy forged a legacy worthy of serious consideration—through a practice best understood as salvage work, of reclaiming what has been so long obscured. Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy dives deep to bring hidden treasures to the surface.

The Transatlantic World of Higher Education

The Transatlantic World of Higher Education
Author: Anja Werner
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857457837

Between the 1760s and 1914, thousands of young Americans crossed the Atlantic to enroll in German-speaking universities, but what was it like to be an American in, for instance, Halle, Heidelberg, Göttingen, or Leipzig? In this book, the author combines a statistical approach with a biographical approach in order to reconstruct the history of these educational pilgrimages and to illustrate the interconnectedness of student migration with educational reforms on both sides of the Atlantic. This detailed account of academic networking in European educational centers highlights the importance of travel for academic and cultural transformations in nineteenth-century America.

Baedeker New York

Baedeker New York
Author: Alec Court
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1995
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780028606736

From the Staten Island Ferry to the IRS, from Greenwich Village to Manhattan, from the Russian Tea Room to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Baedeker's New York is a traveler's full-color companion to the Big Apple and all its fabulous sites.