Bøger om År 1900 til 1910

A pioneering artist who subverted conventions in her depictions of the nude, self-portraits, and still-lives. An iconoclast in her own time, Modersohn-Becker is today considered an icon of modernity. Throughout her career, Paula Modersohn-Becker boldly experimented with styles while steadfastly pursuing the truth of everyday life and her own female experience. This monograph looks at the entire spectrum of her work-figure drawings, still-lifes, self-portraiture, landscape, nudes, and portraits of young girls and old women-to illustrate the evolution of an artist reacting to seismic cultural change at the turn of the nineteenth century. Whether she was embracing or subverting the principles of realism, naturalism, impressionism, symbolism, or expressionism, Modersohn-Becker remained interested in issues of identity, peeling away outer layers to uncover what she understood as the true essence of life. This book features numerous examples of Modersohn-Becker's striking and relatively unknown drawings of men, women, and children facing poverty, as well as her highly original figure paintings and nudes-including her unprecedented nude self-portraits. Accompanying the first museum exhibition of Modersohn-Becker's work in the United States, it reveals the deeply personal and authentic work of an artist who resolutely forged her own path.

The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it.In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world's greatest living ice navigator. The expedition's visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame.Just six weeks after the Karluk departed, giant ice floes closed in around her. As the ship became icebound, Stefansson disembarked with five companions and struck out on what he claimed was a 10-day caribou hunting trip. Most on board would never see him again.Twenty-two men and an Inuit woman with two small daughters now stood on a mile-square ice floe, their ship and their original leader gone. Under Bartlett's leadership they built make-shift shelters, surviving the freezing darkness of Polar night. Captain Bartlett now made a difficult and courageous decision. He would take one of the young Inuit hunters and attempt a 1000-mile journey to save the shipwrecked survivors. It was their only hope.Set against the backdrop of the Titanic disaster and World War I, filled with heroism, tragedy, and scientific discovery, Buddy Levy's Empire of Ice and Stone tells the story of two men and two distinctively different brands of leadership-one selfless, one self-serving-and how they would forever be bound by one of the most audacious and disastrous expeditions in polar history, considered the last great voyage of the Heroic Age of Discovery.

A vibrant historical novel following a tenacious and quick-witted young Japanese girl who becomes the protégée of a highest-ranking courtesan, from Akutagawa-Prize winner Kiyoko Murata

Formal categorization of people presents significant challenges. When politics and law become ethnicized, the pivotal question arises: who is who? This problem surfaced in Moravia after the 1905 Settlement. Other countries faced similar dilemmas decades later, during affirmative action implementation. Contemporary Moravians, like Americans or Brazilians later on, possibly grappled with a clash between traditional individual rights and modern collective rights. The critical inquiry: how far can we limit individual rights for collective rights (nation, race, minority)? Moravia, in the early 20th century, served as the first experimental laboratory.

San Francisco, 1906. I en by der vrimler med nyslåede millionærer og intrigante opkomlinge, håber to meget forskellige kvinder på at ændre deres skæbner: Gemma, en guldhåret, sølvstemmet sopran, hvis karriere desperat trænger til genoplivning, og Suling, en brodøse i China Town, der er fast besluttet på at slippe ud af et arrangeret ægteskab. Deres veje krydses, da de bliver trukket ind i kredsen omkring Henry Thornton, en charmerende jernbanemagnat, hvis ekstraordinære samling af kinesiske antikviteter omfatter den sagnomspundne Fønikskrone.

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio proposes a perception of reality and of what lies beyond it. The rational, the irrational and the transrational are fundamentally linked to this author's writing. His writing is a philosophy of existence, with all its certainties and uncertainties. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio's writing is marked by reflection and perpetual questioning. One might even say that it is writing at the frontiers of human thought in its relationship to knowledge and truth. The questions that pile up in Leclézio's novels bear witness to a kind of repeated anxiety that runs through the stories and the characters.

This book aims to analyze the profiles of women built in the poetics of Chico Buarque, confronting myths and legends that projected the image of women over time, contributing to literary studies on the subject. Francisco Buarque de Hollanda, better known as Chico Buarque, is a musician, playwright and writer who became an icon in Brazilian culture, because when we talk about Brazilian popular music (MPB) in the decades of 1960 - 70 it is impossible not to make reference to Chico, due to his great contribution to the cultural scene of the country. Thus, the research aims to understand, through literary analysis, the meanings put in the songs of Chico Buarque, in which he thematizes the female figure, conflicting with the fact that the female is considered a social marginality, in various periods of history.

A true-crime whodunnit set in a Chesapeake Bay oystering village at the turn of the 20th century with a double-barrel focus on crime and its consequents-in the courts of public opinion and of law-and beyond.

¿ sollte von einer bewußt langsam wachsenden Zahl deutscher Neusiedler ¿ Vertretern möglichst verschiedener Berufsgruppen ¿ zunächst noch ausschließlich Tauschhandel getrieben werden, damit die Insulaner sich dank einer so angebotenen Vielfalt von Kontakten ihre Partner selber aussuchen und das Tempo ihrer ¿Zivilisierung¿ in Grenzen mitbestimmen konnten ¿Auf seinen frühen Handelsfahrten durch die Südsee und in Auseinandersetzung mit seinem mächtigen politischen Gegner, dem Berliner Bankier Adolph von Hansemann, entwarf der Kaufmann Eduard Hernsheim ein alternatives Kolonialprogramm für die Südsee. Im Mittelpunkt von Hernsheims Vision standen eine Begegnung mit den Inselbewohnern auf Augenhöhe und eine schonende Modernisierung ihrer Lebenswelt. Jakob Anderhandt wurde 1967 in Bonn geboren und lebt als freier Schriftsteller im Großraum Sydney (Australien). Während seiner ersten Weltreise als Überarbeiter auf einem Frachtschiff der Hamburg Südamerikanischen Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft passierte er auch mehrere Südsee-Inseln. Anderhandts Biographie über den Südseekaufmann Eduard Hernsheim fand in allen einschlägigen Fachzeitschriften positive Resonanz und gilt als Standardwerk.Die Südsee-Bibliothek erzählt wissenschaftlich fundiert vom deutschen Einfluss in Ozeanien ab etwa 1850. Historisch interessierten Lesern bietet sie einen lebendigen Einstieg in das Thema, Akademikern eine solide Material- und Arbeitsgrundlage. Wichtigster Grundsatz der Schriftenreihe ist ihre Treue zu den Quellen.

Today, technology invades man's life, often to the point of depriving him of happiness, which justifies the need of the 21st century man for a refuge where he can find his lost happiness. Among these writers, Michel Tournier in Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique pushes this fugitive man to an island where he not only finds life, but also begins the search for himself. Thus, as the story progresses, the physical journey takes on another form, that of the inner journey. At the same time, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio treats the same theme in Désert from his own point of view. What attracts attention in these two works is the fact that the journey is first physical, before turning into an inner quest. Indeed, the characters leave their homes and it is through this physical displacement that their communication with the outside world evolves.

IN THE WORLD Some countries in Latin America and Africa, two centuries and fifty years after their independence respectively, have not yet managed to solve economic underdevelopment. This is in spite of the theories, models, economic solutions available or the abundant presence of scholars and experts in the field. Our research has uncovered the main phenomenon that has always prevented and complicated the sustainable resolution of problems in nations, while at the same time transmitting the problems from generation to generation. Our research has just discovered the main phenomenon that prevents even the great scholars and experts from discovering the root causes that produce most of the problem. Now with this discovery, the world will easily solve its public problems. The results of our research provide a new approach to sustainable problem solving. TO THE DRC The results of our research bring the only adequate solution that is missing not only today but since the time of Mobutu to solve durably the socio-political crisis of the DRC.

A gripping, illustrated narrative of the longest and most brutal land battle of the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War.Growing rivalry between Imperial Russia and Imperial Japan over territorial control in China and Korea led to the outbreak of war in February 1904. Japan struck the first blow with a surprise naval attack against the anchored Russian Pacific Fleet at its base in Port Arthur. Once the fleet had been neutralized, the Japanese landed their Second Army on the Liaotung Peninsula in May 1904, in order to besiege Port Arthur. The fighting that followed has become legend in military history. Respected military historian Robert Forczyk describes the Russian relief operation towards Port Arthur (the Battle of Telissu), and the lengthy siege of the Russian-held town and harbour. The initial Japanese attempts to capture the port by assault are documented in detail, together with the Japanese progress through the heavily fortified lines protecting Port Arthur. Specially commissioned artworks bring to life in vivid detail the Battle of Nanshan Hill, the Japanese assault on the Wantai Heights, and the bombardments of the Russian forts. Maps and diagrams explore the strategic situation and tactical progress of the fighting in step-by-step detail, and over 60 period photographs reveal the appearance and weaponry of the opposing forces and the terrain around Port Arthur.

A writer of passion and death, Duras can also be described as a writer of the intimate. As shown in the stories of the sixties, Moderato Cantabile, Ten and a half hours of the evening in summer, Hiroshima my love and The Ravishment of Lol V. Stein, the silence around which the texts are built, the mystery that surrounds the female characters and their feelings, are the sign of an "intimate" experience kept secret, internalized, never quite expressed. In these works, Duras tirelessly tries to penetrate the intimacy of the heroines by seeking to uncover and understand their experiences, this painful and personal history that remains buried. Duras will thus only write and rewrite the traumatic event lived by her heroines. The lack and the absence, omnipresent motives also associated with the female characters, turn out to echo an impossible mourning. While this process of rewriting is indicative of a quest for a solution, Duras seems far from having resolved the heroines' immemorial past, since absence, love and death are directly or indirectly linked to childhood, to the mother and to the death of the younger brother.

Sociologists and writers, all agreed on a common point of view: the family has changed, and even more so it is in crisis. I wanted to do a research on Hervé Bazin's novel, Qui j'ose aimer, because in his work, man is celebrated and the family is the central theme of all his novels. I will try to see how this family mutation in the broad sense is transposed in the novel and influences the relationships between all the members of the family. What I also found very interesting was the fact that the novel was about a matriarchal family (recomposed towards the end) and this phenomenon is similar to that of today where many women live alone or live only with their children, the traditional figure of the father not being so important anymore. The novel also deals with this problem of marriage, which is no longer defined as an institutional logic, an inescapable social obligation (as in the past), but rather as an emotional logic ("we love each other, we marry"). The traditional model, based on marriage, has been shattered.

Il Breaf Historical Sketch copre lo sviluppo storico dell'Ucraina nel ¿¿ - all'inizio del ¿¿¿ secolo. Il materiale è rappresentato facendo affidamento sulle fonti storiche e sulle ricerche scientifiche contemporanee della storiografia nazionale e straniera, nonché sulle ultime conquiste scientifiche e metodologiche. Il manuale discute vari aspetti e prospettive della società nelle relazioni socio-economiche e nello sviluppo nazionale dell'Ucraina.

This book offers a novel investigation of the Edwardian picture postcard as an innovative form of communication. It offers original insights into the historical and social context in which the postcard emerged; including how the postcard can reveal details of the lives and literacy practices of often overlooked sectors of the population.

This work deals with the representation of death in selected contemporary American novels: White Noise (1986) and Zero K (2016) by Don DeLillo, and Everyman (2003) and Nemesis (2010) by Philip Roth. Using the existential theories of Martin Heidegger, the psychoanalytical ideas of Sigmund Freud and the literary theory of dialogism by Mikhael Bakhtin, it looked into the cultural and private dynamics which altered the death epistemology in the selected novels. The existential, psychological and spiritual impacts of the dissimilar attitudes toward death range from denial to affirmation of its inevitability without admitting its existential/ ontological merit. Existential inauthenticity, meaninglessness, and loss of dwelling, in addition to psychological introversion and uncanniness, are consequences of the different representations of death. They articulate the postmodern estrangement from the naturalness and necessity of finitude. However, while DeLillo struggles against the postmodern cultural pathology of meaninglessness by advocating reconciliation with the inevitability of death, Roth struggles with the idea of mortality and offers a cynical image of death as humiliation.

The half-naked young woman was found by Mr. Eronnais, the cop from the nearby village. A report had to be made, as he had learned at the police academy. Finding a corpse on the beach is not like finding a hot dog. No, it was an unpleasant surprise for Mr. Eronnais, though a professional one; he put on gloves and examined the corpse carefully. No recourse to recognizable strength!

This book describes Alexander Feinberg's thoughts, parts of his life, and some of his work. Golden thoughts of Uzbek writers and Uzbeks about the Russian poet and his immortal works became the decoration of the book. Some examples from Feinberg's works are given, as well as their definition and purpose of writing. It tells the story of a Russian poet who was born and raised in Uzbekistan, worked shoulder-to-shoulder with the people of this country all his life, and made a great contribution to the country's development. Also, readers can learn about the author's scientific work on the talented and pure-hearted poet and the translation of his work.

"En agitators erindringer" er socialdemokraten og forfatteren A.C. Meyers selvbiografi i to bind. Trods barndommens fattige kår på Nørrebro havde Meyer altid et lyst sind og en tro på fremskridtet for især arbejderklassen. Som ung maskinarbejder holdt han sine første politiske taler, og da han blev ansat som journalist for Social-Demokraten, rejste han land og rige rundt. Rejserne blev formative for den unge agitator, og med sine oplevelser i bagagen drog han tilbage til København, hvor han stillede op til Folketinget for Socialdemokratiet. Første bind af Meyers erindringer slutter ved året 1905.-

The epic historical murder mystery, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. 1901, Mingheria is on the cusp of catastrophe. There are rumours of plague - rumours some in power will try to suppress. Plague is not the only killer. The future of a fragile empire is at stake, in a rich and epic mystery of passion, fear, scandal and murder.

Robert College of Constantinople is the oldest American school still in existence in its original location outside the borders of the United States. The history of the College includes 160 years of originality, innovations and astonishing development that impacted the history of Armenia, Bulgaria, Greece, the Ottoman Empire and the United States of America.