1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000041620

Autore

Călinescu, George <1899-1965>

Titolo

Viaţa lui Mihai Eminescu / George Călinescu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iaşi : Junimea, 1977

Descrizione fisica

408 p. : ill. ; 20 cm

Collana

Eminesciana ; 5

Disciplina

859

Soggetti

Letteratura romena

Eminescu, Mihai <1850-1889>

Lingua di pubblicazione

Rumeno

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781068603321

Autore

Ivy Marilyn

Titolo

Discourses of the vanishing [[electronic resource] ] : modernity, phantasm, Japan / / Marilyn Ivy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1995

ISBN

1-282-53736-9

9786612537363

0-226-38834-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Disciplina

306.0952

306.4/0952

Soggetti

Ethnology - Japan

National characteristics, Japanese

Nationalism - Japan

Ethnocentrism - Japan

Culture - Semiotic models

Japan Social life and customs

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. 249-260) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. National-Cultural Phantasms and Modernity's Losses -- Chapter Two. Itineraries of Knowledge: Trans-Figuring Japan -- Chapter Three. Ghastly Insufficiencies: Tono Monogatari and the Origins of Nativist Ethnology -- Chapter Four. Narrative Returns, Uncanny Topographies -- Chapter Five. Ghostly Epiphanies: Recalling the Dead on Mount Osore -- Chapter Six. Theatrical Crossings, Capitalist Dreams -- Afterwords on Repetition and Redemption -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Japan today is haunted by the ghosts its spectacular modernity has generated. Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. In this provocative conjoining of ethnography, history, and cultural criticism, Marilyn Ivy discloses these anxieties-and the attempts to contain them-as she tracks what she calls the vanishing: marginalized events, sites, and cultural practices suspended at moments of impending disappearance. Ivy shows how a fascination with cultural margins accompanied the emergence of Japan as a modern nation-state. This fascination culminated in the early twentieth-century establishment of Japanese folklore studies and its attempts to record the spectral, sometimes violent, narratives of those margins. She then traces the obsession with the vanishing through a range of contemporary reconfigurations: efforts by remote communities to promote themselves as nostalgic sites of authenticity, storytelling practices as signs of premodern presence, mass travel campaigns, recallings of the dead by blind mediums, and itinerant, kabuki-inspired populist theater.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786583103321

Autore

Abrahamson Eric John

Titolo

Building home [[electronic resource] ] : Howard F. Ahmanson and the politics of the American dream / / Eric John Abrahamson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013

ISBN

1-283-86030-9

0-520-95342-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Classificazione

HIS036140

Disciplina

332.3/2092

B

Soggetti

Mortgage loans - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century

Savings and loan associations - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century

American Dream - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Father as Mentor -- 2. Among the Lotus Eaters -- 3. Undertaker at a Plague -- 4. The Common Experience -- 5. Building Home -- 6. Scaling Up -- 7. Home and the State -- 8. Political Economy -- 9. Big Business -- 10. The Crest of a New Wave -- 11. Southland Patrician -- 12. Influence -- 13. Short of Domestic Bliss -- 14. Breakdown of Consensus -- 15. Crisis of the Managed Economy -- 16. A New Way of Life -- 17. A Personal Epic -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Building Home is an innovative biography that weaves together three engrossing stories. It is one part corporate and industrial history, using the evolution of mortgage finance as a way to understand larger dynamics in the nation's political economy. It is another part urban history, since the extraordinary success of the savings and loan business in Los Angeles reflects much of the cultural and economic history of Southern California. Finally, it is a personal story, a biography of one of the nation's most successful entrepreneurs of the managed economy -Howard Fieldstad Ahmanson. Eric John Abrahamson deftly



connects these three strands as he chronicles Ahmanson's rise against the background of the postwar housing boom and the growth of L.A. during the same period. As a sun-tanned yachtsman and a cigar-smoking financier, the Omaha-born Ahmanson was both unique and representative of many of the business leaders of his era. He did not control a vast infrastructure like a railroad or an electrical utility. Nor did he build his wealth by pulling the financial levers that made possible these great corporate endeavors. Instead, he made a fortune by enabling the middle-class American dream. With his great wealth, he contributed substantially to the expansion of the cultural institutions in L.A. As we struggle to understand the current mortgage-led financial crisis, Ahmanson's life offers powerful insights into an era when the widespread hope of homeownership was just beginning to take shape.