Author : Myrtle Elizabeth Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 32,97 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Shells
ISBN :
[PDF] Occasional Publications eBook
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Occasional Publications (Illinois State Historical Society)
Author : Illinois State Historical Society
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 10,47 MB
Release : 1910
Category :
ISBN :
The University of Chicago
Author : John W. Boyer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 27,26 MB
Release : 2024-09-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226835316
An expanded narrative of the rich, unique history of the University of Chicago. One of the most influential institutions of higher learning in the world, the University of Chicago has a powerful and distinct identity, and its name is synonymous with intellectual rigor. With nearly 170,000 alumni living and working in more than one hundred and fifty countries, its impact is far-reaching and long-lasting. With The University of Chicago: A History, John W. Boyer, Dean of the College from 1992 to 2023, thoroughly engages with the history and the lived politics of the university. Boyer presents a history of a complex academic community, focusing on the nature of its academic culture and curricula, the experience of its students, its engagement with Chicago’s civic community, and the resources and conditions that have enabled the university to sustain itself through decades of change. He has mined the archives, exploring the school’s complex and sometimes controversial past to set myth and hearsay apart from fact. Boyer’s extensive research shows that the University of Chicago’s identity is profoundly interwoven with its history, and that history is unique in the annals of American higher education. After a little-known false start in the mid-nineteenth century, it achieved remarkable early successes, yet in the 1950s it faced a collapse of undergraduate enrollment, which proved fiscally debilitating for decades. Throughout, the university retained its fierce commitment to a distinctive, intense academic culture marked by intellectual merit and free debate, allowing it to rise to international acclaim. Today it maintains a strong obligation to serve the larger community through its connections to alumni, to the city of Chicago, and increasingly to its global community. Boyer’s tale is filled with larger-than-life characters—John D. Rockefeller, Robert Maynard Hutchins, and many other famous figures among them—and episodes that reveal the establishment and rise of today’s institution. Newly updated, this edition extends through the presidency of Robert Zimmer, whose long tenure was marked by significant developments and controversies over subjects as varied as free speech, medical inequity, and community relations.
Remains and occasional publications
Author : John Davison
Publisher :
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 1840
Category :
ISBN :
The Land of Story-books
Author : Sarah Dunnigan
Publisher : Occasional Papers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,35 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781908980298
This volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of nineteenth-century Scottish children's literature. As well as much-loved authors such as Stevenson, Barrie, and MacDonald, it explores how women writers shaped Scottish children's literature, the contribution of Gaelic writers, and the role of folklore and tradition.
Occasional Publications
Author : University of London. School of Librarianship and Archives
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 33,68 MB
Release : 1962
Category :
ISBN :
Telling Tales and Crafting Books
Author : Dorsey Armstrong
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1580442293
The great corpus that is medieval literature contains, at its very center, the tale. These verse and prose fictional narratives, as well as stories that are grounded in some degree of historical truth, are the foundation of what readers, scholars, and enthusiasts often point to as signifiers of the medieval age. These tales - from the skillfully crafted to the more rudimentary and plain - often make familiar to modern readers what seems so distant and foreign about the Middle Ages. This volume of essays focuses on the tale and its ability to create "mirth," what modern audiences would often define as "happiness" or "joy," and the significance that the book has had on the transference of this mirth to audiences. This volume also celebrates the scholarship of Thomas H. Ohlgren, a medievalist whose work encompasses a number of different areas, but at its center lives the power of the tale and its ability to create a lasting impression on readers, both medieval and modern.
Occasional Publications
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Geography
ISBN :
Occasional Papers
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Engineering
ISBN :
Mystery and Manners
Author : Flannery O'Connor
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 10,38 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374217920
This collection shows Flannery O'Connor's extraordinary versatility and expertise as a practitioner of the essayistic form. The book opens with "The King of the Birds", her famous account of raising peacocks. There are three essays on regional writing, two on teaching literature, and four on the writer and religion. Essays such as "The Nature and Aim of Fiction" and "Writing Short Stories" are gems, and their value to the contemporary reader -- and writer -- is inestimable. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.