1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450971803321

Autore

Porter Dennis <1933->

Titolo

Rousseau's legacy [[electronic resource] ] : emergence and eclipse of the writer in France / / Dennis Porter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995

ISBN

1-280-52757-9

0-19-535803-1

1-4294-0659-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Disciplina

840.9/007

Soggetti

Authors and readers - France - History

Authorship - Social aspects - France - History

Autobiography

French literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Literature and society - France - History

Politics and literature - France - History

Electronic books.

France Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-296) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Putting the Polis in Command; 2. Stendhal: Overpoliticization and the Revenge of Literature; 3. Charles Baudelaire: Portrait of the Poet as Antiwriter; 4. Jean-Paul Sartre: Writer, Militant, Graphomaniac; 5. The Cultural Twilight of Roland Barthes; 6. Marguerite Duras: Autobiographical Acts, Celebrity Status; 7. Epilogue: From Althusser's Theory of a Murder to Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This study focuses on the emergence, with Jean Jacques Rousseau, of a new and influential type of writer who specialized in revolutionary, sociopolitical critique. Close readings of the work of a number of major French writers are described.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965848903321

Autore

Ossian Lisa L. <1962->

Titolo

The home fronts of Iowa, 1939-1945 / / Lisa L. Ossian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2009

ISBN

9780826272010

0826272010

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Disciplina

977.7/032

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Iowa

World War, 1939-1945 - Social aspects - Iowa

Iowa History 20th century

Iowa Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Soldiers of the soil: the farm front -- E awards and WOWs: the production front -- Bonds, scrap, and boys: the community front -- Mrs. America's mission: the kitchen front.

Sommario/riassunto

As Americans geared up for World War II, each state responded according to its economy and circumstances-as well as the disposition of its citizens. This book considers the war years in Iowa by looking at activity on different home fronts and analyzing the resilience of Iowans in answering the call to support the war effort. With its location in the center of the country, far from potentially threatened coasts, Iowa was also the center of American isolationism-historically Republican and resistant to involvement in another European war. Yet Iowans were quick to step up, and Lisa Ossian draws on historical archives as well as on artifacts of popular culture to record the rhetoric and emotion of their support. Ossian shows how Iowans quickly moved from skepticism to overwhelming enthusiasm for the war and answered the call on four fronts: farms, factories, communities, and kitchens. Iowa's farmers faced labor and machinery shortages, yet produced record amounts of crops and animals-even at the expense of valuable topsoil. Ordnance plants turned out bombs and machine gun bullets. Meanwhile, communities supported war bond and scrap drives, while



housewives coped with rationing, raised Victory gardens, and turned to home canning. The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1939-1945 depicts real people and their concerns, showing the price paid in physical and mental exhaustion and notes the heavy toll exacted on Iowa's sons who fell in battle. Ossian also considers the relevance of such issues as race, class, and gender-particularly the role of women on the home front and the recruitment of both women and blacks for factory work-taking into account a prevalent suspicion of ethnic groups by the state's largely homogeneous population. The fact that Iowans could become loyal citizen soldiers-forming an Industrial and Defense Commission even before Pearl Harbor-speaks not only to the patriotism of these sturdy midwesterners but also to the overall resilience of Americans. In unraveling how Iowans could so overwhelmingly support the war, Ossian digs deep into history to show us the power of emotion-and to help us better understand why World War II is consistently remembered as "the Good War."