A Cast of Friends

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First time in paperback: The professional-and very personal-memoir of the legendary animator of Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear, the Flintstones, and other cartoon classics

For more than sixty years, Bill Hanna has made entertaining children and the young at heart his "business." In A Cast of Friends, he offers an engaging look at his decades in animation and at the people who helped make it all possible. Hanna shares his memories of the tough and wild years at the beginning of animation, working with such legendary colleagues as Tex Avery and Friz Freleng. He describes as only he can the hard work and determination it took to make Hanna-Barbera Productions a success, with unforgettable behind-the-scenes stories of Daws Butler, Alan Reed, Mel Blanc, Casey Kasem, and other voiceover magicians. Throughout it all, he was determined to be a family man with his wife and their two children, to live a life different from Hollywood standards-and this adds a singularly personal aspect to Hanna's very special, insider's look at the history of animation.

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Cartoons, Ltd.......2001-07-10

This ghosted autobiography is recommended to anyone interested in how the Hollywood animation industry of the golden age adapted to the labour-intensive demands of television. As one half of the Hanna-Barbera team that created Tom and Jerry for MGM in the forties and pioneered low-budget, high-output TV animation in the fifties, Bill Hanna has much of interest to say about the economic aspects of an artform that, during this period, was largely transformed by commercial concerns. However, if lively insight into the creative process is what you're looking for, this book is not for you. Hanna is essentially a business man, with his partner Joe Barbera apparently handling the creative side. The pleasure he takes in relating the building of H-B as a successful studio makes satisfying reading, but one often has the impression that he could have been involved in virtually any business -- it just happened to be animation. Therefore, the decline in quality from the early H-B TV shows onward is defended on the grounds that numerous jobs were created by the new conveyor-belt process, while the comparatively bland nature of so much latterday Saturday morning product (the early TV shows are great in their way) is justified on the grounds that it is "wholesome" (a favourite word), as if cartoons should only be made for young children. Hanna's philosophy is probably acceptable within the context of H-B's juvenile TV work, but falls down when he tries to present it as a continuation of the MGM shorts, where Tom and Jerry's more universal appeal was based partly on the artistry and expense with which their adventures were presented and partly on the fact that their relationship was the antithesis of wholesome -- violent and antagonistic to the end (and certainly not one of Hanna's "cast of friends" in spite of the uncharacteristic picture of them on the cover). I've previously found it hard to reconcile the high standards and complexity of the Tom and Jerrys with the worst of latter-day H-B, yet, between-the-lines, this honest account helps to explain the connection. It also acts as a reminder of how commercial demands can upend even the most successful of artistic ventures.

The Astrology Kit: Everything You Need to Cast Horoscopes for Yourself, Your Family & Friends

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Excellent
Excellent introduction
Doesn't Work!
Excellent
Excellent for amateur astrology enthusiasts and lots of fun!

The Astrology Kit: Everything You Need to Cast Horoscopes for Yourself, Your Family & Friends
Grant Lewi , and Liz Greene
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0312013507

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Excellent.......2004-10-02

This is an excellent astrology kit. I've owned two of these kits already and it never fails to disappoint. Unfortunately, it may be difficult to acquire a complete set nowadays as it appears to be out of print. What a shame.

Excellent introduction.......2000-08-11

While you do need to know your time of birth to get the most out of this kit, if you plan to get the most out of any astrological reading you need your time and place of birth to determine the exact location of the planets. That said, this kit is wonderfully detailed, but also very simple to use. My friends and I had hours of fun casting our horoscope and then reading our personality traits out loud to see if they fit us. A great introduction to the complexities of astrology.

Doesn't Work!.......2000-03-03

Judge for youself. Refer to page 10 of "Book one: How to Cast a Horoscope" in book one of the Astrology Kit. Your horoscope will be judged on the position of the sun and the moon at the time of your birth. From there, you fill in all the conjuctions and aspects of the other planets for additional readings. But the author states that you can not know the position of the moon unless you know the exact time of your birth! Such as 9:43 a.m. If you don't, you will have to guess among three sun-moon horoscopes as to which is yours! Good luck. Now if you do know the exact time of your birth, you won't have to guess ONLY if the time of birth was not early in the day (let's say between midnight and 3:00 a.m.) or late on that date (let's say between 9:00 p.m. and midnight). Then you are to choose between two horoscopes based on which one you are most alike. Since I know that I'm a highly intelligent and loving saint, this wasn't hard for me (JOKE!). But that still leaves the odds at 25% of missing. And many of the aspects and conjunctions will be based on a very possibly erroneous moon sign. So you will be just be having fun and be giving a bad name for astrology in the process. Simply put, if you can't obtain the exact time of birth, your chances of being right are 1 in 3. And if you do know the exact time, it's 75% in your favor. You can do better. Buy Suzanne's White "The New Astology". And if you want to go deeper, get one of those exact time charts. I did a woman's astrological chart whom I met on the internet. She turned out wonderful according to "The Astrology Kit" (we are to date soon). Using this kit, I now wonder if she will slice me up into little bity pieces and stuff me in her mailbox (joke, lol, hiccup). Good luck future astologers of America.

Excellent.......1999-04-17

I have used this system for the last 6 years and think it is the absolutly BEST that I have seen for chart interpretation.

Excellent for amateur astrology enthusiasts and lots of fun!.......1998-07-31

The kit includes an easy to use astrology chart and instructions on how to cast a horoscope. Sun signs, moon signs, conjunctions and aspects of a chart are all included. It is amazing how accurate the personality readings are! My friends and I have played around with analyzing our bosses, boyfriends, and husbands! What a kick! Even if you take all of this with a grain of salt, as I do, The Astrology Kit makes casting a horoscope enjoyable and fascinating. I highly recommend this book.

Sock and Glove: Creating Charming Softy Friends from Cast-Off Socks and Gloves

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Wonderful and fun!!!
You won't be disappointed!
I CUT UP ALL MY HUSBAND'S SOCKS!!!!....
harbinger of a trend?
Super Fun Projects

Sock and Glove: Creating Charming Softy Friends from Cast-Off Socks and Gloves
Miyako Kanamori
Manufacturer: HP Trade
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1557885168

Book Description

Easy to make...easy to love!

Sock and Glove presents thirteen delightful softy projects that are quick to make-and certain to amuse and delight. Full of individuality and mischief, these stuffed creations are all pieced together from ordinary socks, gloves, and mittens. Step-by-step illustrations and instructions make it easy to craft and dress a whole menagerie, including monkeys, elephants, piglets, bunnies, and even an insouciant fish.

Endearing to adults and children alike, these whimsical creatures make perfect gifts and inspiring companions.

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Wonderful and fun!!!.......2007-09-19

I ordered this book because of the cute dog pictured on the cover! I was even more excited with the rest of the pictures in the book. The instructions are easy to follow with excellent pictures and drawings.

Even if you don't do any of the projects the book is great to look at. It brighted my day.

My husband better lock his sock drawer before I get to it.

You won't be disappointed!.......2007-09-03

So easy to make, we are going to try this as a teen craft at the public library at work in.

Has anyone found the source of the gloves/socks used in this book? I know any sock would do, but I like the look of these gloves and socks with their color band.

I CUT UP ALL MY HUSBAND'S SOCKS!!!!...........2007-08-04

I too LOVE THIS BOOK! I just got a minute to open it and have already whipped up the sweet elephant and dog- I'll definetely sew up each little project (just as soon as I can get up to the attic and pull out some knit gloves from storage!) ...but first I have to go out and replace all the socks I just cut up!

harbinger of a trend?.......2007-07-25

I love Japanese craft books.

No, I mean it. I *love* them. Love them so much that I'm willing to spend a zillion dollars in postage to get them here in the US, because they almost never disappoint.

I'd seen the japanese version of this book, and it's been on my wishlist at amazon.jp forEVER. So when I found out there was an english version, I dove on it with the voracity of a hungry shark on chum.

And I'm definitely not disappointed. True to the japanese craft book roots, the photography is gorgeous, the projects are so cute they'll send you running ofr insulin (in a good way), and the instructions are clear and follow-able, even to a non-seamstress like myself.

If this is a trend that publishers are heading toward -- reprinting these japanese favorites in english -- then let me be the first to stand up and applaud wildly. Maybe even whoop a little. Because if this book is any indication, it's going to be a fabulous, wild ride.

Super Fun Projects.......2007-05-31

I love Japanese craft books, but I'm not so good following the Japanese instructions. So this book is just perfect--precious projects that work up fast thanks to blissfully simple instructions.

The projects are addictive, fun, and cheap to make. They're full of personality and easy to customize. I've already given a few of my creations as presents and they were a huge hit.

Cast for a revolution;: Some American friends and enemies, 1728-1814

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Cast for a revolution;: Some American friends and enemies, 1728-1814
Jean Fritz
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A Cast of Friends
Bill ; Ito, Tom Hanna
Manufacturer: Taylor Publishing Company
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Meet the Cast of Friends

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Our Mutual Friend: BBC (BBC Radio Presents)

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Down by the river, up from the river
Great Book Club Read!
Dickens at his best
Not worth every effort to read unless you've read rest of Dickens first
Our Mutual Friend was the last completed novel by the mutual friend of all readers: the inimitable Charles Dickens!

Our Mutual Friend: BBC (BBC Radio Presents)
Charles Dickens
Manufacturer: Random House Audio
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: 0553525549
Release Date: 1999-01-05

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Our Mutual Friend was the last novel Charles Dickens completed and is, arguably, his darkest and most complex. The basic plot is vintage Dickens: an inheritance up for grabs, a murder, a rocky romance or two, plenty of skullduggery, and a host of unforgettable secondary characters. But in this final outing the author's heroes are more flawed, his villains more sympathetic, and the story as a whole more harrowing and less sentimental. The mood is set in the opening scene in which a riverman, Gaffer Hexam, and his daughter Lizzie troll the Thames searching for drowned men whose pockets Gaffer will rifle before turning the body over to the authorities. On this particular night Gaffer finds a corpse that is later identified as that of John Harmon, who was returning from abroad to claim a large fortune when he was apparently murdered and thrown into the river.

Harmon's death is the catalyst for everything else that happens in the novel. It seems the fortune was left to the young man on the condition that he marry a girl he'd never met, Bella Wilfer. His death, however, brings a new heir onto the scene, Nicodemus Boffin, the kind-hearted but low-born assistant to Harmon's father. Boffin and his wife adopt young Bella, who is determined to marry money, and also hire a mysterious young secretary, John Rokesmith, who takes an uncommon interest in their ward. Not content with just one plot, Dickens throws in a secondary love story featuring the riverman's daughter, Lizzie Hexam; a dissolute young upper-class lawyer, Eugene Wrayburn; and his rival, the headmaster Bradley Headstone. Dark as the novel is, Dickens is careful to leaven it with secondary characters who are as funny as they are menacing--blackmailing Silas Wegg and his accomplice Mr. Venus, the avaricious Lammles, and self-centered Charlie Hexam. Our Mutual Friend is one of Dickens's most satisfying novels, and a fitting denouement to his prolific career. --Alix Wilber

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With a cast of characters that covers the whole spectrum of London life, from the grotesque nouveax riches Veneerings to the poverty-stricken Betty Higden, Dickens weaves a tapestry of tales that are by turns funny, moving the and tragic. It is both a powerful satire on the corrupting power of wealth and a richly comic vision of the great city of Dickens' time.

Originally produced for BBC broadcast by the world's most talented creators of radio entertainment, this audio presentation of Dicken's last completed novel is brought magically to life. Wtih a full cast and stirring music, Our Mutual Friend is an extraordinary dramatization listeners won't soon forget.

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Charles Dickens's last completed novel tells the story of a young man who must marry a stranger in order to win his inheritance. Wanting to learn the lady's nature, John Harmon fakes his own death and takes on a new identity. As the complexities of the deceit are revealed, Dickens gives us his most profoundly cynical, yet brilliantly funny, insight into the corruption of wealth on human nature. 40 illustrations.

Customer Reviews:

Down by the river, up from the river.......2007-07-18

The last completed novel by Dickens is also one of the darkest and, in my opinion, one of the best. The plot, as usual, is too dense and complex to be treatd here in detail. The story centers around one John Harmon, back from abroad to claim the inheritance from his deceased, horrible, and miser of a father. For reasons that are never explained (one of the several loose ends of the book), Old Harmon had set the condition that, in order for his son to receive the inheritance, he must marry a young, poor girl called Bella Wilfer, whom young Harmon had never met. One night, a guy whose trade was to recover things -and bodies- from the fetid Thames, along with his daughter, finds a corpse, which is later identified as that of John Harmon. Mysterious characters appear to have an interest in the affair, but the fact is that, missing the first-choice heir, the fortune must go to the Boffins, long time employees of Old Harmon. By the way, Old Harmon's source of fortune is a very strange one: he was a Dustman, apparently someone who trades in garbage and other discarded objects. The Boffins are an old, childless, good, charming, and ignorant couple. Feeling sorry for the death of beloved Johnny, and owing to a sense of reparation, they practically adopt Bella Wilfer. They also hire as their secretary an old tenant of the Wilfers, the mysterious John Rokesmith, who falls in love with the arrogant and pretentious Bella.

What follows is a mad, symphonic, convoluted tale of ambition, corruption, passion, crime, and revenge, as well as of confused identities. All in a tone of farce and black -but very funny- humor. Dickens paints his very own London, dark, wet, fetid, inhuman. The characters travel up and down the Thames, through St. James, the Temple, the City, etc., crossing time and again the dangerous river. They come and go all the time. The two young ladies, Bella and Lizzie Hexam, the daughter of the man who first recovered the body, are subject to mad passions, especially the latter. There are dozens of subplots, all worth reading. Dickens mocks just about every kind of people in London: business, politics, social habits. Most characters are mean and ridiculous. The vividness of the situations is witness to the enormous creative powers of this great writer.

Thre are too many characters to sketch them all here, but some memorable ones are: Miss Jenny Wren ("I know your tricks and your manners"), the dolls' dressmaker, smart, cynical, penetrating, beautiful and handicapped, as well as her pathetic drunkard of a father. Silas Wegg, "a man of letters and with a wooden leg", a sinister rascal who tries to dispossess the Boffins through blackmail, and his associate, Mr. Venus, embalmer and taxidermist, always sitting in his dark parlour, surrounded by phaetuses in bottles. Bradley Headstone, who literally gets crazy about Lizzie. Rogue Riderhood, the common criminal of the Thames. The most outrageous one is an usurer, a petulant and despicable pseudo-dandy called Fascination Fledgeby.

It's true: in contrast with most great writers of the XIX Century, Dickens does not create human beings. He creates cartoons. In fact, at least for me, some passages of the novel are more easily imagined as cartoons than as people. But, as Anthony Burgess put it, "Language and morality add dimensions to his cartoons and turn them into literature". This is an enormously funny book, well worth your dedication through its many pages. Some people criticize him for leaving subplots open and for not tying it all up close circle. Who cares, his power with words is extraordinary and his landscape of characters unforgettable.

Great Book Club Read!.......2007-07-17

Great book club pick! Many plots to follow and tons of discussion. For people who typically read Oprah books, this is not an easy read. If you enjoy classics and can get through the period type of writing, this is a great book. I would read reviews first so you can get the general feel. Also good to note: Gets much easier after the first 250 pages. Hang in there and it is soooo worth it.
This should be a book taught in high school. Lots of issues of that time to discuss and learn from.

Dickens at his best.......2007-05-02

This is by far my favorite novel by Dickens. I couldn't put it down. Dickens draws you in to his world like nobody else is able to do. I am still trying to find that feeling of satisfaction that Our Mutual friend gave me after I completed it. Amazing novel.

Not worth every effort to read unless you've read rest of Dickens first.......2007-01-02

Difficult to get your head round and finish unless you really love Dickens - which I do. This is not one of his best and so by Dickens' standards a failure. It was the last novel he finished and it lacks the optimism and wit of many of his other works. If you have to read this for study purposes, good luck to you. If for leisure, I personally would read another Dickens, say David Copperfield, Hard Times, Great Expectations, Pickwick Papers, Bleak House or Little Dorrit.

Our Mutual Friend was the last completed novel by the mutual friend of all readers: the inimitable Charles Dickens!.......2006-11-21

A dark and dangerous night along the foggy Thames. Lizzie Hexam and her father Gaffer retrive a dead man from the icy waters. During the next 900 pages the name of the victim will be explained. Along the way we will meet such characters as:
the nouveau riche family of the Veneerings. He becomes a Member of Parliament entertaining the fatuous Miss Tippins, the timorous Twemlow and an assorted miscellany of rogues (such as the greedy Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Lammle) in high Victorian satire worthy of Thackery in Vanity Fair.
The Golden Dustman Mr. Boffin who inherits the estate of the rich John Harmon is a slow-witted old man who gets the infamous Silas Wegg and the antiquarian Mr. Venus to sit with him on long evenings. Wegg reads Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire to the old man while seeking ways to discovered hidden treasure in the dust heaps contained on the Boffin property.
Love stories abound. Bella Wilfer who falls in love with John Rokesmith (we learn his identity as the novel concludes) was affianced to the "late"
heir of the Harmon estated who is missing and presumed murdered.
Lizzie Hexam is courted by lawyer Eugene Wrayburn and the odious schoolmaster Bradley Headstone who has murder in his heart and lust on his mind.
The novel is dark with fine illustrations by Marcus Stone adding to the pleasures of this three decker.
One lacks the exuberance and joy of the earlier Dickens but in this late work one still marvels at the mastery of the genius of Dickens. Like a black widow spider he has the ability to tie all the plots together in a web of murder, intrigue, mystery and romance.
This 1865 novel will hold your interest; exciting your imagination and keep you up nights in quest of answers to this "novel noire" of long ago.

The almost Christian discovered, or, The false professor tried and cast: Being the substance of seven sermons, first preached at St. Sepulchre's, London, ... at the importunity of friends made public

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The almost Christian discovered, or, The false professor tried and cast: Being the substance of seven sermons, first preached at St. Sepulchre's, London, ... at the importunity of friends made public
Matthew Mead
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The Astrology Kit: Everything You Need to Cast Horoscopes for Yourself, Your Family & Friends
Grant Lewi Liz Greene
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTCJZG

Calumny refuted: And the members of Miami monthly meeting of Friends defended against the wanton and malicious charges and foul reproaches cast upon them, ... Friends [orthodox] concerning Joseph Cloud"

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Calumny refuted: And the members of Miami monthly meeting of Friends defended against the wanton and malicious charges and foul reproaches cast upon them, ... Friends [orthodox] concerning Joseph Cloud"
David Evans
Manufacturer: Thos. J. Larsh
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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Used for nearly two decades in schools nation-wide, this unique anthology offers provocative examples of successful, influential American writing drawn from advertising, the press, popular magazines, bestsellers, classics, film and television, suiting a variety of classroom purposes--topics for lively class discussions, practical models for student composition, and imaginative texts for literary study. The fifth edition places a new emphasis on multicultural perspectives on the media, and offers an infusion of new selections by a diversity of authors, both within and outside the established literary canon. New to this edition are essays by John Updike, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, E.B. White, Maxine Hong Kingston, Walker Percy, Lewis Thomas, Annie Dillard and June Jordan, as well as short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Raymond Carver, and Amy Tan, giving teachers a wider range of both fiction and nonfiction to work with. In response to requests for more material encouraging issue-oriented expository writing, the Fifth Edition expands the Press and Magazine sections to include a generous sampling of contemporary essays and articles on such topics as abortion, AIDS, censorship, "politically correct" speech codes, racism, feminism, the canon controversy, and multiculturalism. The popular Advertising section, a proven tool for teaching rhetorical and argumentative strategies, now includes many new advertisements and essays providing in-depth discussion of familiar ads and related campaigns. Of special interest is a large cluster of short selections on the obscenity controversy surrounding the rap group "2 Live Crew" designed to stimulate classroom discussion and encourage students to develop argumentative essays more effectively. As always, every selection is connected either stylistically or thematically with one or more of the other selections, and an expanded "Table of Linked Selections" follows the "Rhetorical Table of Contents". This feature encourages readers to discover the different ways the same subject can be treated by different writers or by different media--for example, how staff writers for Time and Newsweek each handled the space shuttle disaster in January 1986, how a major author like Stephen Crane used his personal experience of a disaster at sea to write both a newspaper report and a classic American short story, or how Ernest Hemingway's famous short story, "Soldier's Home," was transformed into a film script. Current and comprehensive, Popular Writing in America offers a unique method of teaching composition, one that appeals to students and teachers alike.

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Wonderful anthology, but dated.......2006-04-14

You won't find another anthology that packs so many classic essays and stories (EB White, Stephen Crane, John Updike) with quality journalism and parts of popular novels (Tarzan, Godfather). The issue areas are still relevant--lyrics in popular music, violence in youth, sexism, persuasion in advertisements, popular hysteria (War of the Worlds in 1930s). But there's a disappointment too: the book has not been revised since 1993. So there's nothing on Columbine, the Twin Towers,
recent rock group, terrorism, and display ads that young readers might recognize. It's a shame that the editors have moved on to other projects and another publisher, and that Oxford has not been able (or willing?) to update some of the issue areas. So four, not five stars.

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Generous introduction if you're goin' hardcore

Literature in the Greek World

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback

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Literature in the Roman World
Latin Literature: A History

ASIN: 0192893033

Book Description

'Our present appreciation of Greek and Roman literature should be informed and influenced by consideration of what it was originally appreciated for. The past, for all its alienness, affects and changes the present.' The focus of this book - its new perspective - is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences. Six contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, explore the various and changing interactions between the makers of literature and their audiences or readers from the earliest Greek poetry through to the drama, history, and philosophy of Greece under Roman rule. The contributors deploy fresh insights to map out lively and provocative, yet accessible, surveys. They cover the kinds of literature which have shaped western culture - epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, rhetoric, epigram, elegy, pastoral, satire, biography, epistle, declamation, and panegyric. Who were the audiences, and why did they regard their literature as so important?

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Generous introduction if you're goin' hardcore.......2006-10-04

Accessible, with generous tidbits of the major literary masterpieces that civilization offered. When you're done, head on over to the Perseus Project [...] to start your immersion into Greek literature. Highly recommended secondary or tertiary volume, plus the companion LITERATURE IN THE ROMAN WORLD. Appropriate chrono-thematic organization with historical background for each period, its dominant aesthetic contribution to the growth and flourishing of Greek civilization and literature in general, the important works and authors, the circles of influence (schools of thought, schools of practice, what their beef were), samples of the texts in translation:

- epic, foundational poetry
- song and poetry
- drama
- history
- philosophy and discourse
- oratory and persuasion
- denouement, recapitulation, and the rise of the Romans

That's pretty much the majority opionion (de facto?) arrangement of the Greek world's aesthetic progression. It _moves_ and, for sheer emotional import, immensely moving, neither evolving nor devolving. Stick to this arrangement. I've found it to be quite reasonable and useful for further exploration. What you're likely to (re)discover, as I have, is every genre has a smattering of the other genres. THAT's what's so cool about the Greeks... until the Romans came along and added

- jurisprudence

Sounds like one big love letter to the Greeks done in stylish Latin :-) Why? Because law is about decisionmaking, something that sits slightly on the outside of literature, which is more about sentiments and emotions.

Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies

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Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies
James Machor
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0415926505

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Reception study is an important tool for understanding how readers encounter texts and absorb information. This up-to-date selection of the most important published work lays out the principles of reception study and its major theoreticians, and goes on to show how the method is being widely used in areas as varied as cultural studies, African-American studies, and the burgeoning field called the history of the book. This volume presents the only complete account of reception study today.

Controlling Readers: Guillaume de Machaut and His Late Medieval Audience (Studies in Book and Print Culture)

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Controlling Readers: Guillaume de Machaut and His Late Medieval Audience (Studies in Book and Print Culture)
Deborah McGrady
Manufacturer: University of Toronto Press
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ASIN: 0802090206

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Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377) was the master poet of fourteenth-century France. He established models for much of the vernacular poetry written by subsequent generations, and he was instrumental in institutionalizing the lay reader. In particular, his longest and most important work, the Voir dit, calls attention to the coexistence of public and private reading practices through its intensely hybrid form: sixty-three poems and ten songs invite an oral performance, while forty-six private prose letters as well as elaborate illustration and references to it's own materiality promote a physical encounter with the book.

In Controlling Readers, Deborah McGrady uses Machaut's corpus as a case study to explore the impact of lay literacy on the culture of late-medieval Europe. Arguing that Machaut and his bookmakers were responding to contemporary debates surrounding literacy, McGrady first accounts for the formal invention of the lay reader in medieval art and literature, then analyses Machaut and his bookmakers' innovative use of both narrative and bibliographical devices to try to control the responses of his readers and promote intimate and sensual reading practices in place of the more common public performances of court culture. McGrady's erudite and exhaustive study is key to understanding Machaut, his works, and his influence on the history of reading in the fourteenth-century and beyond.

Ambrosia in an Earthen Vessel: Three Centuries of Audience and Reader Response to the Works of Thomas Middleton (Ams Studies in the Renaissance)

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Ambrosia in an Earthen Vessel: Three Centuries of Audience and Reader Response to the Works of Thomas Middleton (Ams Studies in the Renaissance)
Sara J. Steen
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The Audience Studies Reader
Will Brooker
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Has political propaganda ever been effective? To what extent do African-American families interpret their favorite TV show differently from their white neighbors? Are romance novels and teenage magazines reactionary fantasies or do they provide women with an important space of their own?

The Audience Studies Reader brings together key writings exploring questions of reception and interpretation, reprinting forgotten pieces and combining key essays with new research. Beginning with a general introduction to the Reader, each extract is placed in its historical context with specially written section prefaces and suggestions for further reading.

Organized chronologically and thematically, sections address: the paradigm shift--from "effects" to "uses and gratifications"; moral panic and censorship; the active audience and reading as resistance; shifts in screen theory --the spectator and the audience; the fan and the audience; gendering the audience; internet audiences, convergence andincreased levels of interactivity; and nation and ethnicity. The conclusion discusses the effects of Internet "overflow" and the increased level of interactivity it seems to offer.

The Audience Studies Reader provides a guide to historical approaches and suggests new ways of looking at the relationship between media texts and those who receive, consume and interpret them.

Essays on Henry David Thoreau: Rhetoric, Style, and Audience (Locust Hill Literary Studies)

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Approaches to Audiences: A Reader (Foundations in Media)

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The study of mass media audiences has produced much of the liveliest and most influential media studies work of recent years. This Reader brings together some of the most important landmark articles and chapters which represent key steps in our understanding of media influence. Approaches to Audiences offers articles and chapters which represent key steps in our understanding of media influence and an overview of the major traditions of research and presents summaries of up to the minute work written specifically for this volume by key authors working in the field. Part One looks at the impact and influence of the media on society, Part Two looks at studies of the individual in the audience and Part Three looks at the audiences in the perspectives of cultures, communities and families.

Audiences and Intentions: A Book of Arguments (3rd Edition)

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Audiences and Intentions: A Book of Arguments (3rd Edition)
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The guiding principle behind this reader is that training in argument helps writers where they need it most: in focusing their sense of audience and purpose. This rich collection includes narrative as well as expository works, representing many different periods, cultures, and genres from Greek drama to American political speeches. With a balance of classic and contemporary selections, the readings clearly demonstrate the relevance of past arguments to present-day concerns. In organization, the text combines coherence with a high degree of flexibility. The first four chapters emphasize critical reading and writing. Each chapter introduces a fundamental concept for readers to consider as they react to the readings. The accompanying commentary and questions place an equal emphasis on critical analysis and the shaping of written arguments. In both cases, the authors focus on audience and intent. The final chapter brings together readings from many different periods and perspectives. For all professionals wishing to improve upon their writing skills.

Developing Arguments: Strategies for Reaching Audiences

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