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The House of Percy - Bertram Wyatt Brown - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The House of Percy - Bertram Wyatt Brown - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The novels of Walker Percy--The Moviegoer, Lancelot, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndrome to name a few--have left a permanent mark on twentieth-century Southern fiction; yet the history of the Percy family in America matches anything, perhaps, that he could have created. Two centuries of wealth, literary accomplishment, political leadership, depression, and sometimes suicide established a fascinating legacy that lies behind Walker Percy''s acclaimed prose and profound insight into the human condition. In The House of Percy, Bertram Wyatt-Brown masterfully interprets the life of this gifted family, drawing out the twin themes of an inherited inclination to despondency and an abiding sense of honor. The Percy family roots in Mississippi and Louisiana go back to "Don Carlos" Percy, an eighteenth-century soldier of fortune who amassed a large estate but fell victim to mental disorder and suicide. Wyatt-Brown traces the Percys through the slaveholding heyday of antebellum Natchez, the ravages of the Civil War (which produced the heroic Colonel William Alexander Percy, the "Gray Eagle"), and a return to prominence in the Mississippi Delta after Reconstruction. In addition, the author recovers the tragic lives and literary achievements of several Percy-related women, including Sarah Dorsey, a popular post-Civil War novelist who horrified her relatives by befriending Jefferson Davis--a married man--and bequeathing to him her plantation home, Beauvoir, along with her entire fortune. Wyatt-Brown then chronicles the life of Senator LeRoy Percy, whose climactic re-election loss in 1911 to a racist demagogue deply stung the family pride, but inspired his bold defiance to the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. The author goes on to tell the poignant story of poet and war hero Will Percy, the Senator''s son. The weight of this family narrative found expression in Will Percy''s memoirs, Lanterns on the Levee--and in the works of Walker Percy, who was reared in his cousin Will''s Greenville home after the suicidal death of Walker''s father and his mother''s drowning. As the biography of a powerful dynasty, steeped in Sou8thern traditions and claims to kinship with English nobility, The House of Percy shows the interrelationship of legend, depression, and grand achievement. Written by a leading scholar of the South, it weaves together intensive research and thoughtful insights into a riveting, unforgettable story.

DKK 392.00
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Shelley's Goddess - Maternity, Language, Subjectivity - Bog af Barbara Charlesworth (Professor of English Gelpi - Paperback

Shelley's Goddess - Maternity, Language, Subjectivity - Bog af Barbara Charlesworth (Professor of English Gelpi - Paperback

The subject of Gelpi''s new book is the importance of the mother-infant relationship in Percy Bysshe Shelly''s poetry and life. However, her book also uses Shelley as a touchstone by which to examine the rich historical and theoretical issues relevant to motherhood in the Romantic period. Gelpi offers a detailed account of the historical rise in attention paid to mothering, the changing cultural attitudes towards the role of the mother, and the resulting effect on thenature of family life. She further..

DKK 487.95
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A Century of Sonnets - - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

A Century of Sonnets - - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

A Century of Sonnets is a striking reminder of that some of the best known and most well-respected poems of the Romantic era were sonnets. It presents the broad and rich context of such favourites as Percy Bysshe Shelley''s "Ozymandias," John Keats''s "On First Looking into Chapman''s Homer" and William Wordsworth''s "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" by tracing the sonnet revival in England from its beginning in the hands of Thomas Edwards and Charlotte Smith to its culmination in the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This volume is the first in modern times to collect such sonnets, many never published before in the twentieth century, and contains nearly five hundred examples composed between 1750 and 1850 by 81 poets, nearly half of them women.

DKK 580.00
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Medical Visions - Kirsten Ostherr - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Medical Visions - Kirsten Ostherr - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

How do visual images shape the practice of medicine? What role does visual representation play in the cultivation of medical ways of seeing? How might the history of medical imaging technologies help us understand the future of medical media? How has medicine''s visual culture changed in the digital age? Kirsten Ostherr''s ambitious book explores 120 years of medical image-making to explain how visual representations shape medical education and practice. She demonstrates how medical images created by the healthcare industry, documentary filmmakers, experimental artists and the mass media acquire cultural meaning and influence professional and popular understandings of health and disease. Her analysis proceeds chronologically, turning from the earliest experiments with medical filmmaking by the American College of Surgeons, to the place of health films in the "golden age" of instructional film in the 1960s. Ostherr considers the shift to television as the dominant medium of health education, highlighting the evolving status of realism, the techniques employed to bridge the entertainment-education divide, the role of expert consultants and sponsors, and the tradeoffs made by professionals to reach a broad audience. The role of newsmagazines forms a transition between the medical dramas of the 60s, 70s, and 80s (from Frederick Wiseman''s Hospital to Marcus Welby, MD) and more recent reality shows like The Swan and Doctor 90210. Reality-based miniseries (Hopkins, Boston Med) continue the long cycle of comingling between professional and entertainment medicine. The study concludes with an in-depth look at the advertising, moving image, and social media circuits active in the health care setting today, closing with ten key lessons for the future of medical media.

DKK 403.00
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