Creating Irish Tourism

Creating Irish Tourism
Author: William H. A. Williams
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 085728407X

Based on the accounts of British and Anglo-Irish travelers, 'Creating Irish Tourism' charts the development of tourism in Ireland from its origins in the mid-eighteenth century to the country's emergence as a major European tourist destination a century later. The work shows how the Irish tourist experience evolved out of the interactions among travel writers, landlords, and visitors with the peasants who, as guides, jarvies, venders, porters and beggars, were as much a part of Irish tourism as the scenery itself.

The Broadview Introduction to Book History

The Broadview Introduction to Book History
Author: Michelle Levy
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2017-04-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1554810876

Book history has emerged in the last twenty years as one of the most important new fields of interdisciplinary study. It has produced new interpretations of major historical events, has made possible new approaches to history, literature, media, and culture, and presents a distinctive historical perspective on current debates about the future of the book. The Broadview Introduction to Book History provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to this field. Written in a lively, accessible style, chapters on materiality, textuality, printing and reading, intermediality, and remediation guide readers through numerous key concepts, illustrated with examples from literary texts and historical documents produced across a wide historical range. An ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in book history, it offers a road map to this dynamic inter-disciplinary field.

Signal

Signal
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1080
Release: 1988
Genre: Armed Forces
ISBN:

Hamlet and the Visual Arts, 1709-1900

Hamlet and the Visual Arts, 1709-1900
Author: Alan R. Young
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780874137941

This book examines the manner in which Shakespeare's Hamlet was perceived in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and represented in the available visual media. The more than 2,000 visual images of Hamlet that the author has identified both reflected the critical reception of the play and simultaneously influenced the history of the ever-changing constructed cultural phenomenon that we refer to as Shakespeare. The visual material considered in this study offers a unique perspective that complements biographical, critical, and theater history studies by showing how a broad spectrum of the literate and not-so-literate absorbed and responded to Shakespeare's works, not necessarily in academic libraries or at play performances, but in their homes, when browsing in print shops, when reading in coffee houses, or (a far rarer experience) when visiting an art gallery or exhibition.

Galway

Galway
Author: Gerard Moran
Publisher: Barrie Publishing
Total Pages: 888
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN:

Temporary Monuments

Temporary Monuments
Author: Rebecca Zorach
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2024-03-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0226831000

How art played a central role in the design of America’s racial enterprise—and how contemporary artists resist it. Art has long played a key role in constructing how people understand and imagine America. Starting with contemporary controversies over public monuments in the United States, Rebecca Zorach carefully examines the place of art in the occupation of land and the upholding of White power in the US, arguing that it has been central to the design of America’s racial enterprise. Confronting closely held assumptions of art history, Zorach looks to the intersections of art, nature, race, and place, working through a series of symbolic spaces—the museum, the wild, islands, gardens, home, and walls and borders—to open and extend conversations on the political implications of art and design. Against the backdrop of central moments in American art, from the founding of early museums to the ascendancy of abstract expressionism, Zorach shows how contemporary artists—including Dawoud Bey, Theaster Gates, Maria Gaspar, Kerry James Marshall, Alan Michelson, Dylan Miner, Postcommodity, Cauleen Smith, and Amanda Williams—have mined the relationship between environment and social justice, creating works that investigate and interrupt White supremacist, carceral, and environmentally toxic worlds. The book also draws on poetry, creative nonfiction, hip-hop videos, and Disney films to illuminate crucial topics in art history, from the racial politics of abstraction to the origins of museums and the formation of canons.

How We Think

How We Think
Author: N. Katherine Hayles
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2012-04-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0226321371

“How do we think?” N. Katherine Hayles poses this question at the beginning of this bracing exploration of the idea that we think through, with, and alongside media. As the age of print passes and new technologies appear every day, this proposition has become far more complicated, particularly for the traditionally print-based disciplines in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. With a rift growing between digital scholarship and its print-based counterpart, Hayles argues for contemporary technogenesis—the belief that humans and technics are coevolving—and advocates for what she calls comparative media studies, a new approach to locating digital work within print traditions and vice versa. Hayles examines the evolution of the field from the traditional humanities and how the digital humanities are changing academic scholarship, research, teaching, and publication. She goes on to depict the neurological consequences of working in digital media, where skimming and scanning, or “hyper reading,” and analysis through machine algorithms are forms of reading as valid as close reading once was. Hayles contends that we must recognize all three types of reading and understand the limitations and possibilities of each. In addition to illustrating what a comparative media perspective entails, Hayles explores the technogenesis spiral in its full complexity. She considers the effects of early databases such as telegraph code books and confronts our changing perceptions of time and space in the digital age, illustrating this through three innovative digital productions—Steve Tomasula’s electronic novel, TOC; Steven Hall’s The Raw Shark Texts; and Mark Z. Danielewski’s Only Revolutions. Deepening our understanding of the extraordinary transformative powers digital technologies have placed in the hands of humanists, How We Think presents a cogent rationale for tackling the challenges facing the humanities today.

Charles Magnus, Lithographer

Charles Magnus, Lithographer
Author: E. Richard McKinstry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Lithographers
ISBN: 9781584563198

A general study of Charles Magnus, an important figure in American publishing history and popular imagery.

South Tipperary, 1570-1841

South Tipperary, 1570-1841
Author: David J. Butler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN:

Exploring the interaction between Protestants and Catholics in South Tipperary from their earliest encounters in 1570 to after emancipation in 1841, the author also discusses Protestant political strategies to dominate the Catholic majority and the Catholic methods of undermining and resisting this hegemony.