Creator: Monica J. Slomski
Publication date: 1994-11-30
Dewey code: 780.92
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Review Paul Creston: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music) / Greenwood Press:Although born Giuseppe Guttovergi to a poor, immigrant Italian family, it was as Paul Creston that Giuseppe rose to prominence, becoming one of the most widely performed American composers. Rhythm was a continued subject of research for this composer, and by 1945 he had established a terminology of rhythmic structures, which he observed both in his music and the music of other composers, even writing two books on the subject. This volume presents for the first time a complete descriptive account of the life of the composer, as well as access to currently available materials by and about him.
Creator: Stewart R. Craggs
Publication date: 2007-10-18
Dewey code: 016.78092
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Review Alun Hoddinott / Ashgate:Internationally known Welsh composer Alun Hoddinott has played a major role in the promotion of contemporary music in his country through his own prolific compositions-operas; orchestral, chamber, band, and solo instrumental pieces; choral music; songs; and incidental music-and as a professor of music at Cardiff University and artistic director of the Cardiff Festival of Twentieth-Century Music. This bio-bibliography includes a catalog of his works, classified by genre, which documents 278 compositions (plus numerous derived pieces) composed from 1946 to 1991, indicating commissioning, dedication, instrumentation, duration, manuscript information, publication, recordings, and premieres and selected performances. The works catalog is cross-referenced to recordings in a discography section and to related items in an annotated bibliography, which includes a large number of reviews and writings by the composer. An introductory biography, appendices listing the musical compositions alphabetically and chronologically, and a general index complete the volume. Prepared with the full cooperation of Hoddinott, this is the first detailed publication on this important composer.
Publication date: 2007-04-25
Dewey code: 944.033092
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Review Artists Images and the Self-descriptions of Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orleans (1652-1722), the Second Madame: Representations of a Royal Princess in the Time of Louis XIV and the Regency / Edwin Mellen Press:Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orleans, (1652-1722), the Palatine princess who became the second wife of Monsieur and the mother of the Regent, is well known for the thousands of letters she wrote about her life at the court of Louis XIV and during the Regency, many of which have been anthologized. She is further defined for many by Rigaud s sumptuous court portrait of her in old age. Many other portraits of her were made by both painters and engravers, and in the course of her letters she penned many self-descriptions and wrote about some of the paintings and engravings. This is the first comprehensive study of her physical image and her self-image, using all available evidence, both visual and verbal.
Publication date: 1990-06
Dewey code: 947.08
Price: $36.00
Review Narodniki Women: Russian Women Who Sacrificed Themselves for Freedom (Athene Series) / Teachers College Pr:
Authors
- Elizabeth Darracott Wheeler
Dewey code: 941.050922
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Review Ten Remarkable Women of the Tudor Courts and Their Influence in Founding of the New World, 1530-1630 (Mellen Lives, Vol 11) / Edwin Mellen Press:The remarkable women studied in this work include: Lady Jane Grey; Mary Queen of Scots; Margaret, Countess of Cumberland; Bess Throckmorton Raleigh; and Eleanor White Dare.
Publication date: 2007-08-30
Dewey code: 770.94209034
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Review Women's Albums and Photography in Victorian England / Ashgate Publishing:In her beautifully illustrated study, Patrizia Di Bello recaptures the rich history of women photographers and image collectors in nineteenth-century England. Situating the practice of collecting, exchanging and displaying photographs and other images in the context of feminine sociability, Di Bello shows that albums express Victorian women's experience of modernity. While attentive to the albums of individual women, Di Bello also examines the broader feminine culture of collecting and displaying images; uncovers the cross-references and fertilizations between women's albums and illustrated periodicals; and demonstrates the way albums and photography itself were represented in women's magazines, fashion plates, and popular novels. Bringing a sophisticated eye to overlooked images such as the family photograph, Di Bello not only illustrates their significance as historical documents but elucidates the visual rhetorics at play. In doing so, she identifies the connections between Victorian album-making and the work of modern-day amateurs and artists who use digital techniques to compile and decorate albums with Victorian-style borders and patterns. At a time when photographic album-making is being re-vitalised by digital technologies, this book rewrites the history of photographic albums, placing the female collector at its centre and offering an alternative history of photography focused on its uses rather than on its aesthetic or artistic considerations. Di Bello's book is remarkable in elegantly connecting the history of photography with the fields of material culture and women's studies.
Creator: Brian Keith Smith
Edition: Supplement
Publication date: 2000-01
Dewey code: 830
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Review An Encyclopedia of German Women Writers: Wahrheit Aus Morgentraumen (German Women Writers) / Edwin Mellen Press:This autobiography of childhood years in Copenhagen from 1765-1780 was written in 1818. Family concerns hold the foreground, while political upheavals are understood partly through the eyes of statesmen and writers who visited Brun's father's house.
Publication date: 1996-06
Dewey code: 328.73092
Review Margaret Chase Smith: Beyond Convention / Univ of Maine Pr:
Publication date: 2006-11
Dewey code: 821.7099287
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Review The Literary Protegees of the Lake Poets (Nineteenth Century (Aldershot, England).) (Nineteenth Century (Aldershot, England).) (Nineteenth Century (Aldershot, England).) / Ashgate Publishing:Dennis Low's re-evaluation of the Lake Poets as mentors begins with the controversial premise that Robert Southey was one of the nineteenth-century's greatest champions of women's writing. Together with Wordsworth and Coleridge, Low argues, Southey tried to end what he perceived to be the cultural decline of literature by nurturing the creative talents of many exceptional women writers. Drawing on 3,000 unpublished manuscripts in England, Scotland and the United States, Low examines the lives and works of four of the Lake Poets' literary protegees: Caroline Bowles, Maria Gowen Brooks, Sara Coleridge and Maria Jane Jewsbury. Though diverse in terms of their literary production, these women were united in their defiant efforts to write against an increasingly stagnant cultural milieu and their negotiation, wholeheartedly encouraged by their mentors, of contemporary publishing mores. This scrupulously researched book is a valuable contribution to the study of little-known women writers and to our understanding of the literary and publishing environment of Britain in the 1820s and 1830s.
Authors
- Johannes Von Marienwerder
- Ute Stargardt
Dewey code: 282.092
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Review The Life of Dorothea Von Montau, a Fourteenth-Century Recluse (Studies in Women and Religion) / Edwin Mellen Press:This is a translation of the mystical tract "Des Leben der Zeligen Frawen Dorothee Clewsenerynne in der Thumkyrchen Czu Marienwerdir des Landes Czu Prewszen" (completed circa 1404). It is the last vita in a series of works the Prussian theologian Johannes von Marienwerder compiled in the service of the housewife, lay mystic, and finally anchoress Dorothea von Montau (1347-94) as Prussia's first native saint. It provides insights into the dispersal of mystical concepts in the borderlands of Christianity and also descirbes daily life on the farm, in the village and in the prosperous towns. The translation of this work, which in 1492 furnished the text for the first book to be printed in Prussia, also facilitates studies of textual authority and audience expectation and manipulation in medieval writing.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-06-21
Dewey code: 305.420922
List Price: $100.00
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Review Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women / Routledge:Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity explores the lives and theory of Mary Wollstonecraft, Germaine de Staël, Emma Goldman, and Simone de Beauvoir in light of and alongside contemporary feminist work, to examine the significance that being a woman and the material conditions of femininity thrust upon one based on the times in which one lives had on their lives and work. These historical women are often valorized as thinkers and intellectuals, whose private lives are deemed irrelevant at best, and degrading as worst, or are the subjects of biographies that ignore their political contributions. Marso argues that the theories of these feminists should not be divorced from the struggles and contradiction of their actual lives. She uses the memoirs left by these women to explore how they criticized the constraints of femininity while simultaneously living within them. Finally, Marso explores a few memoirs of contemporary feminist thinkers to show that contemporary feminists struggle with the same difficulties encountered by the women who came before.
Publication date: 1983
Review Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan: A Biography / All Pakistan Women's Association:
Creator: Erin Griffey
Publication date: 2008-07-22
Dewey code: 941.062092
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Review Henrietta Maria (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) / Ashgate:Compiled by art historians, literary scholars, musicologists, and historians, this essay collection is an innovative and interdisciplinary study of Queen Henrietta Maria and her multi-faceted roles and responsibilities. Elements of the queen's popular biography - her European identity and devout Catholic faith - are only a part of the backdrop against which Henrietta Maria is re-considered. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of scholars from different disciplines, these essays explore and shed new light on the Queen's various roles: a patron of performing and visual arts with taste and influence comparable to her husband's, her salient political position between the French and English courts, and her political sentiments at the outbreak of the English Civil War. Through cutting-edge archival research that includes investigations into household accounts and personal correspondence, this collection ultimately presents a new assessment of female power and influence at the early modern court. What becomes strikingly evident is that Henrietta Maria had a distinct and profound influence on material and political culture that deserves the attention of art history, literature, theatre, and musicology scholars.
Creator: Pauline Polkey
Publication date: 2000-06
Dewey code: 820.9492072
Review Representing Lives: Women and Auto/Biography / St. Martin's Press:This is an eclectic and comprehensive collection of essays, exploring contemporary issues and debates concerning women's auto-biographical representations from a range of disciplinary perspectives. With contributions from a number of prominent figures in the field of women's auto/biography, as well as innovative new voices, this volume offers a broad and contemporary lens on the issues and debates relevant to the act of representing women's lives. Drawing on a variety of theoretical frameworks and discussing theatre, literature, popular culture and women in history, these essays help to map out some of the new intellectual spaces inhabited by feminist scholarship in the 1990s.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-04-26
Dewey code: 791.43028092273
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Review The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star / Routledge:The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star investigates the contemporary film actress both as an artist and as an ideological construct. Divided into two sections, The Actress first examines the major issues in studying film acting, stardom, and the Hollywood actress. Part Two examines five case studies: Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Jodie Foster, Angela Basset, and Gwyneth Paltrow, each of whose careers exemplify key issues in the creation of film stardom, the function of acting style, and the creation of celebrity. Combining theories of screen acting and of film stardom, The Actress presents a synthesis of methodologies and offers the student and scholar a new approach to these two subjects of study. Throughout the book, Hollinger emphasizes the craft of acting, a dimension of the subject often given less attention than other elements in the study of female stardom.
Creator: Michal Michelson
Publication date: 2007-03-30
Dewey code: 305.42092
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Review Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith / Ashgate Publishing:"Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith" includes essays from diverse disciplinary perspectives to consider the full range of Astell's political, theological, philosophical, and poetic writings. The volume does not eschew the more traditional scholarly interest in Astell's concerns about gender; rather, it reveals how Astell's works require attention not only for their role in the development of early modern feminism, but also for their interventions on subjects ranging from political authority to individual agency, from political eros to divine service, from civil war historiography to Lockean epistemology. Given the vast breadth of her writings, her active role within early modern political and theological debates, and the sophisticated complexity of her prose, Astell has few parallels among her contemporaries. "Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith" bestows upon Astell the attention which she deserves not merely as a proto-feminist, but as a major figure of the early modern period.
Authors
- Asuncion Nunez
- Joaquin Leguina
Dewey code: 910
Price: $29.95
Review Ramon Franco: El Hermano Olvidado Del Dictador / Temas De Hoy:
Publication date: 2002-12-01
Dewey code: 910
Price: $27.50
Review On His Majesty's Secret Service, Sydney Reilly Codename St1 / Tempus Pub Ltd:Sidney Reilly was probably the greatest spy the world has ever known. He lived on his wits and thrived on danger, using women ruthlessly and killing where necessary-and unnecessary. A womaniser, he had four wives- three marriages of which were bigamous- and numerous mistresses from New York to the Ukraine. From the gentlemen's clubs of Edwardian England to the forbidding gates of the Kremlin itself, he influenced world history with coups of extraordinary magnitude that required skill- and audacity- rarely seen since. Like the fictional Bond he would later inspire, he would make navigating Soviet Russia as a British agent seem like a walk in the park. After four years working for MI6 and being exposed by the Soviets for his role in the plot to overthrow Lenin, he mysteriously disappeared in Russia in 1925. By the 1930s the press had turned Reilly into a household name, dubbing him 'Master Spy'- the myth was cast. It was upon this myth and the first hand access to British intelligence records on Reilly that Ian Fleming (himself a secret service desk officer during the Second World War) was inspired to create James Bond. Until now major questions have remained unanswered about Reilly. During his life Reilly laid an almost impenetrable fog of mystery and deception around his origins as he adopted and shed one identity after another. [+]Those who entered this ruthlessly compartmentalised life knew only what Reilly himself had told them. Andrew Cook's startling biography- itself a detective story of epic proportions- cuts through the myths revealing for the first time Reilly's true identity, his precarious 'disappearance' in 1925, using new, independent and expert photographic analysis of the photographs of Reilly's corpse to ascertain their authenticity, and finally providing concrete proof that he was executed by the Russians in 1925. His most sensational discovery of all, however, is the identity of a close former colleague in MI6 circles whose collaboration with the Russians aided his entrapment.
Publication date: 1958
Review The true book about heroines of adventure / Frederick Muller:
Publication date: 1968
Review Jose Policarpo Rodriguez, "the old guide": Surveyor, scout, hunter, Indian fighter, ranchman, preacher, his life in his own words / Maverick:
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(Nineteenth Century (Aldershot, England).), The Life of Dorothea Von Montau, a Fourteenth-Century Recluse (Studies in Women and Religion), Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women, Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan: A Biography, Henrietta Maria (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World), Representing Lives: Women and Auto/Biography, The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star, Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith, Ramon Franco: El Hermano Olvidado Del Dictador, On His Majesty's Secret Service, Sydney Reilly Codename St1, The true book about heroines of adventure, Jose Policarpo Rodriguez, "the old guide": Surveyor, scout, hunter, Indian fighter, ranchman, preacher, his life in his own wordsTop headlines: Slain anchors parents still ask: Why?: A suspect is in custody, but unanswered questions remain about why Anne Pressly was brutally murdered in her home, the Little Rock TV anchors parents said Monday. 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