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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trần Thị Ngân
Read only the Acro short...will read the othes and review wntire book
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: DK
"Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920's" is a perceptive and interesting cultural analysis of American Modernism in what Gertrude Stein described as the "the world's first twentieth century city." The book is full of both intriguing anecdotes and perceptive, if sometimes overly broad, analysis. Among the cast of characters that she draws on to make her arguments are W. E. B. Du Bois, Harry Houdini, Dorothy Parker, Edward Steichen, William James, Billy Wilder, Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Hart Crane, Bessie Smith, Irving Berlin, Al Jolson, Ethel Waters and Groucho Marx. Central to her argument are two processes that she sees as essential to the rise of Modernism. The first is the "mongrelization" of American Culture. Douglas persuasively argues that New York in the twenties saw the first significant cultural interaction between African-Americans, new immigrant arrivals from Europe (particularly Jewish immigrants) and white intellectuals and artists. The rise of mass media and popular culture only fueled the fire. Douglas most skillfully traces this phenomenon in the literary and musical arenas and is somewhat less successful when dealing with the plastic arts. Douglas also argues that, during the period from the end of World War I up until the beginning of the Great Depression, there was a profound rejection of Victorian society, dominated by a feminizing power, represented most typically by the temperance and suffrage movements, both of them led by women, as well as by the idealistic foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson and the "crusading matriarchal ethos" of figures like Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science. Douglas sees the twenties as a period of countervailing "masculinization" of society, a process that was facilitated by both men and women. I really found this book enjoyable, informative and stimulating. I think she makes her case well; although, as is often the case with cultural histories that contain an overarching explanatory framework, she sometimes seems to over-extend her arguments.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hiền Trang
God this thing is dense. I only read about a quarter of both volumes for school but one day I will read the whole thing and then I will be a TRUE GENIUS.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Arkady Gaidar
Oh, this guy is the most amazing author, EVER!!! I give these books a 6--not life-changing, but what would life be like without them? It's such a happy day when a pre-ordered book arrives from Amazon!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Peter Jones
A good continuation from Among the Hidden, although not as good as the first book. Luke goes on to meet others like him, but nothing is quite as it seems.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
I'm enjoying Elizabeths sense of humor in this wonderful book of self discovery and adventure. I love the cultures she dives into in this book. It's like your there with her eating the yummy Italian food in Italy and meditating with her in India. You understand her need to find balance between the pleasures of life and her devotion to God in Indonesia. You feel her pain and you feel her happiness... it's a great read so far.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Pelangi Editorial Team
Best book i've read in a long time!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Yasushi Kitagawa
This is a great book that could easily be scaffolded for all types of readers. There are, however, mature topics (alcoholism, stereotypes, violence, and bulimia) that should be taken into consideration if teaching this novel to students in grade levels below high school
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Vũ Thị Huyền Trang
I did enjoy this book. A lot of my enjoyment came from the themes of the book; it's about a woman from the East Coast who marries and follows her husband out West in the late 1800s, attempting to make a life in various parts of the newly-settled West. She never quite shakes the feeling of being in exile, and I think having struggled with my own feelings of unease in a new part of the country I enjoyed those reflections. It's a pretty long book, so it is a time commitment.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Stephen Hawking
I remember really liking this book (I think I read it in college). Another popular one (they don't have any of my obscure titles listed - like "Tart" or "the Shape of things to come" - that is a wonderful, semi-obscure book!)
Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.