ACCA Study & Revision Pack: Level 1.5 Business Mathematics and Information Technology (ACCA Study & Revision Pack)

Jones,Ron

MacKay, John

Business & Money

Financial Times Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)

Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was the nineteenth century's best-selling novel worldwide; only the Bible outsold it. It was known not only as a book but through stage productions, films, music, and commercial advertising as well. But how was Stowe's novel—one of the watershed works of world literature—actually received outside of the American context?            True Songs of Freedom explores one vital sphere of Stowe's influence: Russia and the Soviet Union, from the 1850s to the present day. Due to Russia's own tradition of rural slavery, the vexed entwining of authoritarianism and political radicalism throughout its history, and (especially after 1945) its prominence as the superpower rival of the United States, Russia developed a special relationship to Stowe's novel during this period of rapid societal change. Uncle Tom's Cabin prompted widespread reflections on the relationship of Russian serfdom to American slavery, on the issue of race in the United States and at home, on the kinds of writing appropriate for children and peasants learning to read, on the political function of writing, and on the values of Russian educated elites who promoted, discussed, and fought over the book for more than a century. By the time of the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, Stowe's novel was probably better known by Russians than by readers in any other country.            John MacKay examines many translations and rewritings of Stowe's novel; plays, illustrations, and films based upon it; and a wide range of reactions to it by figures famous (Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Marina Tsvetaeva) and unknown. In tracking the reception of Uncle Tom's Cabin across 150 years, he engages with debates over serf emancipation and peasant education, early Soviet efforts to adapt Stowe's deeply religious work of protest to an atheistic revolutionary value system, the novel's exploitation during the years of Stalinist despotism, Cold War anti-Americanism and antiracism, and the postsocialist consumerist ethos.

True Songs of Freedom: Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Russian Culture and Society

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

University of Wisconsin Press

Music of Many Means introduces musicians, scholars, and listeners to composer Robert Erickson's artistic journey. His reluctance to court national and international recognition kept him out of the contemporary music spotlight, but his best known works include Kryl for solo trumpet, General Speech, and The Idea of Order at Key West. This book combines autobiographical sketches by Erickson and essays by John MacKay that provide the reader with insights into Erickson's creative process along with an objective, analytical discussion of his works. It includes lists of compositions, a bibliography, a discography, and musical examples scattered throughout the text. Music of Many Means will provide scholars with avenues for further research and listeners with a deeper appreciation of Erickson's music.

Music of Many Means

Biographies & Memoirs

Erickson, Robert

Arts & Literature

Scarecrow Press

Scots Proverbs and Rhymes

Travel

MacGregor, Forbes

Reference

G.Wright Pub.

Mud, Sweat and Beers

cheapwayround

The Beer Hunters

The Reay Fencibles, Or, Lord Reay's Highlanders

Dramas & Plays

Legare Street Press

Personnel Management in Secret Service Organizations

Politics & Social Sciences

Czarniawska, Barbara

Siebert, Sabina

Politics & Government

Edward Elgar Publishing

The Convention Of Royal Burghs Of Scotland: From Its Origin Down To The Completion Of The Treaty Of Union Between England And Scotland In 1707 (1884)

Community & Culture

Kessinger Publishing

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