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Faulkner’s Modernisms

Jay Watson is Howry Emeritus Professor of Faulkner Studies and Distinguished Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He is author of many publications, including William Faulkner and the Faces of Modernity; Forensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner; and Fossil Fuel Faulkner: Energy, Modernity, and the US South. He is also coeditor of multiple volumes in University Press of Mississippi’s Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series. James G. Thomas, Jr., is associate director for publications at the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture. He is an editor of the twenty-four-volume New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and The Mississippi Encyclopedia; coeditor (with Jay Watson) of multiple volumes in the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series; and editor of Conversations with Barry Hannah. His work has appeared in Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi: The Twentieth Century, Southern Cultures, Southern Quarterly, and elsewhere.

History of Western Subcultures in the 20th-Century

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 20th century saw the rise and fall of many subcultures. In the early part of the 20th century, subcultures were mostly informal groupings of like-minded individuals. The Bloomsbury group in London was one example, providing a place where the diverse talents of people like Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, and E.M. Forster could interact. Other pre-World War I subcultures were smaller social groupings of hobbyists or a matter of style and philosophy amongst artists and bohemian poets. In Germany, from 1896 onward there developed a movement of young men (and later young women) which focused on freedom and natural environments. Called Wandervogel (translated as "hikers", "ramblers" or, more precisely, "migratory birds"), they wanted to throw off the strict rules of society and be more open and natural. The first known organized club for nudists, Freilichtpark (Free-Light Park), was opened near Hamburg, Germany, in 1903. In Italy, a popular art movement and philosophy called Futurism championed change, speed, violence and machines.

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Im Rausch der Seiten

Was treibt Menschen dazu, Bücher leidenschaftlich zu jagen, zu verstecken oder gar zu stehlen? Im Rausch der Seiten gibt faszinierende Einblicke in legendäre Bibliotheken, die Köpfe obsessiver Sammler und die zwielichtigen Facetten großer Bücherliebe. In 26 kurzweiligen Kapiteln erzählt Alexander Pechmann Geschichten und Anekdoten einer exzentrischen Passion - mal heiter, mal spannend, mal berührend: von Bibliophilen, deren Häuser bis auf den letzten Winkel (einschließlich des Kühlschranks) mit Büchern vollgestopft sind, von Biblioklasten, die Büchern mit Schere und Messer zu Leibe rücken, und von skrupellosen Bibliomanen, die selbst vor Diebstahl und Mord nicht zurückschrecken.  Ein Kopfkissenbuch für Büchernarren, in dem man sich festliest, egal wo man es aufschlägt. Und das die tröstliche Botschaft bereithält: Solange man nur wöchentlich einen kleinen Stapel aus der Buchhandlung nach Hause trägt, hat man seine Leseleidenschaft noch wunderbar im Griff.

Valentine Cameron Prinsep

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Valentine Cameron Prinsep, often known as Val Princep, (14 February 1838 in Calcutta, India - 4 November 1904 in London) was a British painter of the Pre-Raphaelite school.His parents were Henry Thoby Prinsep, who was for sixteen years a member of the Council of India, and Sarah Monckton Pattle; sister of pioneering photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (née Pattle) and Maria Jackson (née Pattle), grandmother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. Henry and Sarah had settled at Little Holland House and made it a centre of artistic society.

Edith Craig

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Edith Ailsa Geraldine Craig (9 December 1869 - 27 March 1947) was the daughter of Victorian era actress Ellen Terry and the progressive English architect-designer Edward William Godwin, and the sister of theatre practitioner Edward Gordon Craig. She was a prolific theatre director, producer, costume designer and early pioneer of the women's suffrage movement in England. As a lesbian, an active campaigner for women's suffrage and a womanworking as a theatre director, Edith Craig has been recovered by feminist scholars as well as theatre historians.

Dreadnought hoax

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Dreadnought Hoax was a practical joke pulled by Horace de Vere Cole in 1910. Cole tricked the Royal Navy into showing their flagship, the warship HMS Dreadnought to a supposed delegation of Abyssinian royals. The hoax drew attention in Britain to the emergence of the Bloomsbury Group.