1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910810761903321

Autore

McLean Albert F.

Titolo

American vaudeville as ritual / / Albert F. McLean, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : University Press of Kentucky, , 1965

©1965

ISBN

0-8131-8479-7

0-8131-5074-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Disciplina

792.7

Soggetti

Vaudeville - United States

Popular culture - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 223-238)

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; One: The Symbolism of Vaudeville; Two: Evolution of a Ritual; Three: The New Folk and Their Heroes; Four: From Sin to Sociology; Five: The Mechanics of Fantasy; Six: The New Humor; Seven: A Modern Totemism and Sorcery; Eight: The Playlets; Nine: The Palaces; Ten: The Patterns of Ritual Meaning; Notes; A Note on the Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

This study affords an entirely new view of the nature of modern popular entertainment. American vaudeville is here regarded as the carefully elaborated ritual serving the different and paradoxical myth of the new urban folk. It demonstrates that the compulsive myth-making faculty in man is not limited to primitive ethnic groups or to serious art, that vaudeville cannot be dismissed as meaningless and irrelevant simply because it fits neither the criteria of formal criticism or the familiar patterns of anthropological study. Using the methods for criticism developed by Susanne K. Langer and other



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910962838803321

Autore

Nelson Janet L (Janet Laughland), <1942->

Titolo

The Frankish world, 750-900 / Janet L. Nelson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; Rio Grande, : Hambledon Press, 1996

ISBN

9786612709821

9781472540690

1472540697

9781282709829

1282709828

9780826422125

0826422128

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxi, 256 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

944/.014

Soggetti

Carolingians

Franks - France - History

France Kings and rulers Influence

France Politics and government To 987

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Literacy in Carolingian Government; 2 The Last Years of Louis the Pious; 3 Dispute Settlement in Carolingian West Francia; 4 Ninth-Century Knighthood: The Evidence of Nithard; 5 Translating Images of Authority: The Christian Roman Emperors in the Carolingian World; 6 The Lord's Anointed and the People's Choice: Carolingian Royal Ritual; 7 'Not Bishops' Bailiffs but Lords of the Earth': Charles the Bald and the Problem of Sovereignty; 8 Making Ends Meet: Wealth and Poverty in the Carolingian Church

9 The Intellectual in Politics: Context, Content and Authorship in the Capitulary of Coulaines, November 843; 10 Rewriting the History of the Franks; 11 Gender and Genre in Women Historians of the Early Middle Ages; 12 Women and the Word in the Earlier Middle Ages; 13 Women at the Court of Charlemagne: A Case of Monstrous Regiment?; Index



Sommario/riassunto

During the central middle ages to modem times, western Europeans were often known to their neighbours and enemies as Franks. This was due to the creation of a Frankish Empire in the eighth and ninth centuries which embraced much of Latin Christendom. Usually referred to as the Carolingian period, this volume instead invites us into a Frankish world. This shifts the accent from the dynasty of the Carolingian family to the people that made up the Frankish population and, in fact, pre-dated the Carolingians. The essays collected in this volume reflect the Frankish world from a variety of angles, but in particular the main topics include: - Carolingian politics and ritual; - Dimensions of early medieval thought; - Gender history. These essays, written over the past ten years, look beyond the aggression and intolerance often associated with the Carolingian empire and look instead towards the pluralistic alternative to domination and the plentiful potential for change and adaptation this period offered.