1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911104479203321

Autore

May Kirse Granat

Titolo

Golden state, golden youth : the California image in popular culture, 1955-1966 / / by Kirse Granat May

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002

ISBN

979-88-908741-8-4

0-8078-9896-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

306.09794

979.4/053

979.4053

Soggetti

Popular culture - California - History - 20th century

Mass media - Social aspects - California - History - 20th century

Youth - California - Social life and customs - 20th century

Baby boom generation - California - History

Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century

Mass media - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century

Mass media and youth - United States - History - 20th century

Baby boom generation - United States - History

California Civilization 20th century

California Social life and customs 20th century

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. [213]-239) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Suburban Eden; 2. California Disneying; 3. Come Along and Sing Our Song; 4. Gidget Without a Cause; 5. Wish They All Could Be California; 6. Beach Blanket California; 7. Berkeley and Watts; 8. Reagan's Conservative Wave; 9. Endless Summer; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Seen as a land of sunshine and opportunity, the Golden State was a mecca for the post-World War II generation, and dreams of the California good life came to dominate the imagination of many Americans in the 1950's and 1960's. Nowhere was this more evident than in the explosion of California youth images in popular culture.



Disneyland, television shows such as The Mickey Mouse Club, Gidget and other beach movies, the music of the Beach Boys--all these broadcast nationwide a lifestyle of carefree, wholesome fun supposedly enjoyed by white, middle-class, suburban young people in California

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911147170503321

Autore

Heath Peter <1949->

Titolo

Allegory and philosophy in Avicenna (Ibn Sînâ) : with a translation of the book of the prophet Muhammad's ascent to heaven / / Peter Heath

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1992

ISBN

1-283-21170-X

9786613211705

0-8122-0222-8

0-585-11282-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Middle Ages series

Altri autori (Persone)

Avicenna <980-1037.>

Disciplina

181/.5

Soggetti

Philosophy, Medieval

Islamic philosophy

Allegory

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. [215]-236) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Allegory and philosophy -- pt. 3. The Miʻrâj Nâma -- pt. 4. Interpretation and allegory.

Sommario/riassunto

Islamic allegory is the product of a cohesive literary tradition to which few contributed as significantly as Ibn Sina (Avicenna), the eleventh-century Muslim philosopher. Peter Heath here offers a detailed examination of Avicenna's contribution, paying special attention to Avicenna's psychology and poetics and to the ways in which they influenced strains of theological, mystical, and literary thought in subsequent Islamic—and Western—intellectual and religious history.Heath begins by showing how Avicenna's writings fit into the context and general history of Islamic allegory and explores the interaction among allegory, allegoresis, and philosophy in Avicenna's thought. He



then provides a brief introduction to Avicenna as an historical figure. From there, he examines the ways in which Avicenna's cosmological, psychological, and epistemological theories find parallel, if diverse, expression in the disparate formats of philosophical and allegorical narration. Included in this book is an illustration of Avicenna's allegorical practice. This takes the form of a translation of the Mi'raj Nama (The Book of the Prophet Muhammad's Ascent to Heaven), a short treatise in Persian generally attributed to Avicenna.The text concludes with an investigation of the literary dimension Avicenna's allegorical theory and practice by examining his use of description metaphor. Allegory and Philosophy in Avicenna is an original and important work that breaks new ground by applying the techniques of modern literary criticism to the study of Medieval Islamic philosophy. It will be of interest to scholars and students of medieval Islamic and Western literature and philosophy.