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UNINA9910454328003321 |
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Meehan Sean Ross <1969-> |
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Mediating American autobiography [[electronic resource] ] : photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman / / Sean Ross Meehan |
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Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2008 |
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1 online resource (265 p.) |
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American prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Literature and photography - United States - History - 19th century |
Authors, American - Biography - History and criticism |
Photography - United States - History - 19th century |
Visual perception in literature |
Photography in literature |
Autobiography |
Self-realization in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238) and index. |
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Prologue: the reproduction of the author -- Strange developments: photography's autobiography -- Like iodine to light: Emerson's photographic thinking -- Pencil of nature: Thoreau's photographic register -- Pictures in progress: the claims of Frederick Douglass, photographically considered -- Specimen daze: Whitman's photobiography -- Epilogue: future readers. |
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"Examines works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman to explore how the emergence of photography in the mid-nineteenth century transformed their ideas, how photography mediated their conceptions of self-representation, and how their appropriation of photographic thinking created a new kind of autobiography"--Provided by publisher. |
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UNINA9910452448903321 |
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Autore |
Tyner James A. <1966-> |
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Genocide and the geographical imagination [[electronic resource] ] : life and death in Germany, China, and Cambodia / / James A. Tyner |
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Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield, 2012 |
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1-280-69979-5 |
9786613676771 |
1-4422-0900-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (195 p.) |
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Genocide - Germany - History |
Genocide - China - History |
Genocide - Cambodia - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Ch01. The Spatiality of Life and Death; Ch02. The State Must Own Death: Germany; Ch03. Starving for the State: China; Ch04. Normalizing the State: Cambodia; Ch05. Everyday Death and the State; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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This groundbreaking book brings an important spatial perspective to our understanding of genocide through a fresh interpretation of Germany under Hitler, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, and China's Great Leap Forward famine under Mao. James A. Tyner's powerful analysis of these horrifying cases provides insight into the larger questions of sovereignty and state policies that determine who will live and who will die. Specifically, he explores the government practices that result in genocide and how they are informed by the calculation and valuation of life-and death. A geograp |
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UNINA9910791004003321 |
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The age of Asian migration . Volume 1 : Continuity, diversity, and susceptibility / / edited by Yuk Wah Chan, David Haines and Jonathan H. X. Lee ; contributors Takeshi Akiba [and twenty three others] |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1 online resource (428 pages) |
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Cultural pluralism - Asia |
Immigrants - Asia |
Asia Emigration and immigration History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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