The Humanities In American Life
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Author | : Commission on the Humanities (1978- ) |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1980-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520041837 |
Examines the present position of the humanities in the educational system and culture of the United States and recommends methods for finding sources of financial support for the humanities
Author | : Commission on the Humanities (1978- ) |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1980-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520042087 |
Examines the present position of the humanities in the educational system and culture of the United States and recommends methods for finding sources of financial support for the humanities
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : NON-CLASSIFIABLE. |
ISBN | : 9780520311787 |
Author | : Commission on the Humanities |
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Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : V.S.A |
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Author | : Samantha Allen Wright |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2020-06-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1839096721 |
American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities: Writing Contagion bridges a gap in the market by linking the medical humanities with disability studies. It examines how Americans used life writing to record epidemic disease throughout history.
Author | : Carin Berkowitz |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
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Author | : Geoffrey Galt Harpham |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2011-02-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226317013 |
In this bracing and original book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that today’s humanities are an invention of the American academy in the years following World War II, when they were first conceived as an expression of American culture and an instrument of American national interests. The humanities portray a “dream of America” in two senses: they represent an aspiration of Americans since the first days of the Republic for a state so secure and prosperous that people could enjoy and appreciate culture for its own sake; and they embody in academic terms an idealized conception of the American national character. Although they are struggling to retain their status in America, the concept of the humanities has spread to other parts of the world and remains one of America's most distinctive and valuable contributions to higher education. The Humanities and the Dream of America explores a number of linked problems that have emerged in recent years: the role, at once inspiring and disturbing, played by philology in the formation of the humanities; the reasons for the humanities’ perpetual state of “crisis”; the shaping role of philanthropy in the humanities; and the new possibilities for literary study offered by the subject of pleasure. Framed by essays that draw on Harpham’s pedagogical experiences abroad and as a lecturer at the U.S. Air Force Academy, as well as his vantage as director of the National Humanities Center, this book provides an essential perspective on the history, ideology, and future of this important topic.
Author | : Marilynne Robinson |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2018-02-20 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0374717788 |
New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America like Emerson and Tocqueville inform our political consciousness or discussing the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson’s peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display. What Are We Doing Here? is a call for Americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake American political and cultural life as “deeply impressed by obligation [and as] a great theater of heroic generosity, which, despite all, is sometimes palpable still.”
Author | : Allyson Hobbs |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2014-10-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 067436810X |
Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions. It also tells a tale of loss. As racial relations in America have evolved so has the significance of passing. To pass as white in the antebellum South was to escape the shackles of slavery. After emancipation, many African Americans came to regard passing as a form of betrayal, a selling of one’s birthright. When the initially hopeful period of Reconstruction proved short-lived, passing became an opportunity to defy Jim Crow and strike out on one’s own. Although black Americans who adopted white identities reaped benefits of expanded opportunity and mobility, Hobbs helps us to recognize and understand the grief, loneliness, and isolation that accompanied—and often outweighed—these rewards. By the dawning of the civil rights era, more and more racially mixed Americans felt the loss of kin and community was too much to bear, that it was time to “pass out” and embrace a black identity. Although recent decades have witnessed an increasingly multiracial society and a growing acceptance of hybridity, the problem of race and identity remains at the center of public debate and emotionally fraught personal decisions.
Author | : University California |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Humanities |
ISBN | : 9780520041837 |