Glencoe Literature: The Reader's Choice, Grade 12, British Literature

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Glencoe Literature is a powerful blend of classic and contemporary literature to engage and motivate your students. Integrated reading, writing and language arts skills instruction address the demands of your curriculum. A full range of assessment tools is designed for flexibility and ease of use.

As Found: The Discovery of the Ordinary: British Architecture and Art of the 1950s, New Brutalism, Independent Group, Free Cinema, Angry Young Men

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As Found: The Discovery of the Ordinary: British Architecture and Art of the 1950s, New Brutalism, Independent Group, Free Cinema, Angry Young Men

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ASIN: 3907078438

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British art and architecture of the 1950s are little known but extraordinarily topical today. Of particular relevance are the activities of the Independent Group, a loosely structured organization whose members included artists Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Magda Cordell, photographer Nigel Henderson, critics Reyner Banham and Lawrence Alloway, and architects Alison and Peter Smithson, James Stirling, and Colin St. John Wilson, who sought the essence of the everyday through a sensitivity to the hardships and charm of life in the raw. "As Found" encounters the transdisciplinary relationship between the constructed environment as it is visually perceived and verbally expressed.
Edited by Claude Lichtenstein & Thomas Schregenberger. Artists include: Magda Cordell, Richard Hamilton, Nigel Henderson and Eduardo Paolozzi. Architects include: Alison & Peter Smithson, James Stirling and Colin St. John Wilson.

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A rigorously researched, wickedly witty, and eminently useful collection of over 5,000 Briticisms (and Americanisms).

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Best reference of its type.......2007-02-24

I write sophisticated Harry Potter fanfic, but I'm an American and I don't have much of a clue about British usages. I had been relying upon a number of Internet sources of greater or lesser quality before I saw Britisn English from A to Zed recommended in one of the writer's fora on Fictionalley. I bought it, and I must say it is smashing. There is no better reference work for American-British conversion available. It is comprehensive and understandable - also funny; I sometimes find myself just reading a series of entries for the humour value. I absolutely recommend this to anyone trying to write in the British style.

There are only two drawbacks. One, the indexing is rather rudimentary. It's sometimes hard to find what one wants. Second, it's rather dear - over $50 (£35) for a couple hundred pages in hardback. But, as it's a specialty work, I suppose the price is to be expected.

not complete.......2007-02-05

Even though there are about 4000 entries I can never find what I am looking for. These are words used in BBC and ITV programs and must be ordinary and not smutty, yet they are not listed.

A Brit view living in the USA.......2007-01-20

I work with an American organisation and we have many interesting conversations about the different languages (English v. American). I have great fun teaching them new words, such as Tickety-Boo which has become a well known phrase in my local work place. The book is very popular with the Americans (it is the standard gift from me when any of them leave) and provides far more 'translations' than many books written in a similar vein. I will certainly be ordering many more copies (I think I have given away 6 or 7 books so far).

Don't miss it.......2005-06-02

This is a must if you want to understand the English. I took it with me to Britain and found it very useful. Its dictionary format makes it easy to find the term you need. It also helps with things like gestures, not just words.

It will also help you understand what they are saying in British movies, translate what they say.

The book includes reference to other variants, like Australian. perhaps the author would like to develop this into a book specifically for American people traveling to Australia.

Don't miss it.......2005-06-02

Don't miss this book if you are going to Europe. It really bridges the language gap between America and Britain. It is packed with useful expressions for everyday communication in Britain. In adition to being very useful, this book is extremely entertaining, a lot of fun to read.

I am pleased I have bought this book and happy to recommend it to other travelers to Britain, 'on holiday' as they say or to do business.

Literature and Language Arts: The British Tradition

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Literature and Language Arts: The British Tradition
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Literature and the Language Arts: The British Tradition (The Emc Masterpiece Series)

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Comprehensive, Colourful, Excellent.

Young British Art
Dick Price
Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
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Shark-Infested Waters: The Saatchi Collection of British Art in the 90s

ASIN: 0810963892

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A new era of British art began in 1988 when a group of anxious and ambitious Goldsmiths College students organized an independent exhibition of their work in an abandoned factory building in London. The show caught the attention of advertising magnate Charles Saatchi, who purchased a piece by its organizer, the now-renowned artist Damien Hirst. After that, Saatchi scoured artist-run alternative spaces and student degree exhibitions at British art schools, buying contemporary art in huge amounts and then curating it into hotly debated shows at his London gallery. When he exhibited his collection under the title "Sensation" at the Royal Academy, a record-breaking quarter of a million people attended. The show contained all the makings of an art-world melodrama, including Academy resignations, hostile critics, picketing protesters, a vandal, and security guards. Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade explains what all the fuss was about by presenting a comprehensive and visually arresting survey of this internationally notorious collection, which includes paintings, sculpture, photography, video, and installation art. It is the biggest individual collection of art in Britain today and perhaps the most coherent record of artistic activity in London during the 1990s.

Young British Art includes quotes from interviews with Hirst, Rachel Whiteread, Sarah Lucas, Gary Hume, and others who offer firsthand accounts, both positive and negative, of their experiences with Saatchi and the media, as well as fascinating testimonials about their newfound art-world celebrity and how it affects their work. It is lavishly illustrated with 600 full-color reproductions, including many of Hirst's animals in formaldehyde-filled vitrines, Whiteread's casts of empty spaces, Lucas's offbeat arrangements of everyday objects, and Humes's painted abstractions. Designed by Jonathan Barnbrook, this bright, bold hardcover is as frenetic as a long, crazed e-mail, with headings, borders, patterns, and picture graphics made from elaborate configurations of ASCII text or simple keyboard letters and punctuation marks. The images are arranged around a timeline that traces the social and political events of the '90s, and are accompanied by brief artist biographies as well as examples of press clippings from the media frenzy that descended upon the legendary "Britpack." Also included are essays by Richard Cork, senior art critic for the London Times; Sarah Kent, visual arts editor for London's Time Out magazine; and Dick Price, who writes, "The art of the past ten years included in this collection has made an indelible stamp on a generation of artists who will be making art into the next millennium." --A.C. Smith

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Comprehensive, Colourful, Excellent........2000-05-13

Absolutely massive, full-colour book about many, many artists currently working in the U.K. Includes excerpts of British newspaper and tabloid commentary, eye-catching graphics, essays by art historians, hundreds of gorgeous photographic examples of artwork throughout the book, and much, much more. Ideal for anyone interested in the art of the yBAs, or indeed the very future of contemporary art.

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Young British Architects
Jeremy Melvin
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In recent years, Great Britain has produced a number of notable architects who are acclaimed throughout the world, and now the creativity and dynamism of the younger generation is rapidly gaining recognition. This monograph features 14 younger architectural practices together with their most admired buildings and projects: Shed KM, Liverpool; Weston Williamson, London; Haworth Tompkins, London; Niall McLaughlin, London; Caruso St John, Walsall; Eric Parry, Cambridge; Patrick Davies, Cardiff; Foreign Office Architects, London/New York/Yokohama; Bauman Lyons, Bridlington; AHMM, Walsall; Stephen Hodder, Oxford; Richard Murphy, Edinburgh/Dundee; FAT, London; Birds Portchmouth Russum, Chichester. Each office is portrayed in detail, documenting several projects and including biographical information, thus providing the compelling overview of the young architectural scene in Britain which has previously been lacking.

High Art Lite: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art, Revised and Expanded Edition

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Very Intelligent and Thorough Exploration of Recent UK Art
New British Art

High Art Lite: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art, Revised and Expanded Edition
Julian Stallabrass
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ASIN: 1844670856

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A scathing and incisive critique of the contemporary art world, in an updated new edition.

This extensively illustrated book is a lacerating account of the new British art scene which emerged in the 1990s, its legacy in the 21st century, and what it tells us about the fate of high art in contemporary society. High Art Lite takes a critical look at the phenomenal success of YBA, young British artists obsessed with commerce, mass media and the cult of personality—Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Marcus Harvey, Sarah Lucas, among others—and questions whether their success is at the price of dumbing down and selling out. In a new chapter, Stallabrass explains how YBA lost its critical immunity and explores the ways in which the leading YBA figures have altered their work in recent years.

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Very Intelligent and Thorough Exploration of Recent UK Art.......2002-01-16

This is a (very) critical look at the art produced recently in the United Kingdom, particularly that of "young British artists", those artists made into stars in the 90s by collector Charles Saatchi. It is intelligently written, and explains well the historical background that led up to this type of art. Stallabrass is no fawning fan of these artists by any means, and has no time for accolades or flattery; he dissects the yBa phenomenon completely and leaves its bones for the culture vultures.

New British Art.......2000-12-18

This is the best and clearest text on the YBA [Young British Artists] phenonomenon of the 1990s - required reading for anyone who is interested in Damien Hirst, Jake and Dinos Chapman and their peers. A little spoilt by a certain Marxist rigidty of attitude but highly intelligent and frequently amusing as well.

Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection

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Controversial Art Needs More Than a Picture Book
Lotsa yBa images &some authority types spouting about art.
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Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection
Norman Rosenthal , Brooks Adams , and Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
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ASIN: 0500280428

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Sensation is the first definitive survey of work by the younger generation of British artists that has captivated the international art world with its vitality and inventiveness. As a constant and prodigious collector and patron of young British artists, Charles Saatchi has been unique in his commitment to British art as it is now being produced. His support extends far beyond those such as Damien Hirst and Rachel Whiteread, whose work has acquired wide notoriety, to dozens of others at the cutting edge of the current art scene. Sensation features the work of forty-two of the most exciting and radical artists working in Britain today. Many of them--such as Jenny Saville, Rachel Whiteread, or Jake & Dinos Chapman--are already internationally acclaimed; others are destined to be. The book's original and penetrating essays include the critical context of their work and trace the phenomenon of the British art scene since "Freeze," the 1988 exhibition that is now recognized as a defining moment in the story of British art. Cutting through tabloid headlines, controversial press coverage, and art-world debate, Sensation reveals the achievements of young British artists and the role played by courageous and imaginative patronage.

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Darren Almond Richard Billingham Glenn Brown Simon Callery Jake & Dinos Chapman Adam Chodzko Mat Collishaw Keith Coventry Peter Davies Tracey Emin Paul Finnegan Mark Francis Alex Hartley Marcus Harvey Mona Hatoum Damien Hirst Gary Hume Michael Landy Abigail Lane Langlands & Bell Sarah Lucas Martin Maloney Jason Martin Alain Miller Ron Mueck Chris Ofili Jonathan Parsons Richard Patterson Simon Patterson Hadrian Pigott Marc Quinn Fiona Rae James Rielly Jenny Saville Yinka Shonibare Jane Simpson Sam Taylor-Wood Gavin Turk Mark Wallinger Gillian Wearing Rachel Whiteread Cerith Wyn Evans

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Controversial Art Needs More Than a Picture Book.......2005-04-30

I have been following the work of many of the artists highlighted in this book for a few years now - specifically Damien Hirst. This had been one book I've had my eye on for a long time and I am thoroughly disappointed now having made the purchase. It is merely a picture book, sure; we ARE talking about the visual arts here. But if you want pictures: buy a poster, if you want information on the artists, their thoughts, their inspiration, their theory, their goal, their motives, their background; you still might be better off buying a poster - it's very likely it will contain more information that this book gives.

For each artist there is a small paragraph at the end of the book, and other than that the only text is the introduction which talks about the hype surrounding the `young brit's' and some history of an average patron compared with Saatchi.

An underwhelming book, unfortunately I have no other recommendations to look into on the young brit's.

Lotsa yBa images &some authority types spouting about art........1999-09-28

Great piccies...plenty of authority types spouting about art...a key catalogue on yBa's...especially recommended for art students desperately seeking quotes from the stuffed shirts of art, on Saatchi's girls and guys...don't get hung up on the media controversy...it's only art...it can't bite you...and if you don't get it, then 'Sod You Gits!'...as Sarah Lucas says.

I went, if you didn't, buy this. Lots of love, Liz Delag xxx (young, British and an artist...shouldn't I be famous by now?)

This book kicks arse........1999-07-14

Recommended for any serious artlover, especially those with good taste. Oh yes.

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A Great Bargin! C.S. Lewis Fans Will Love It!
The Lewis Abecedarium
Best single volume Lewis reference

C. S. Lewis Readers' Encyclopedia, The
Jeffrey D. Schultz , and Jr., John West
Manufacturer: Zondervan
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This encyclopedia of C. S. Lewis's life works includes thoughts and ideas by a wide range of Lewis experts.

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A great resource.......2006-05-12

C S Lewis wrote extensively on society, politics, philosophy and government, as well as on Christianity. This book gives the reader access to the breadth of Lewis's thinking on this vast territory, and hundreds of starting points for further investigation.

A Great Bargin! C.S. Lewis Fans Will Love It!.......2004-04-15

This is simply a great "readers' encyclopedia" for the C.S. Lewis reader. All of his material is dealt with; but this book is so worth the low price because it goes beyond the usual commentary about what influenced Lewis with this book or that poem. Instead, the editors took pains to ensure that the C.S. Lewis fan would see how, whether negatively or positively, other people and ideas affected his writings, lectures, thoughts, and positions.

We read how Sigmund Freud, Thomas Aquinas, G.E.M. Anscombe, William Shakespeare, Hume, and of course J.R.R. Tolkien played into his thoughts and discussions. Further, how he viewed such ideas as evolution, capital punishment, democracy, and tradition are also discussed. The list goes on and on. This book is also a steel - economically speaking. There are not many hardbound books of this quality going for such an inexpensive price.

This book is just a wealth of information and a joy for any C.S. Lewis fan.

The Lewis Abecedarium.......2001-08-08

C. S. Lewis would doubtless have scoffed at the idea of a reference book about himself, just as he disapproved of university courses devoted to modern authors on the sensible ground that "helps" to reading them are not needed and come between the writer and his audience.

Nonetheless, students and "fans" of the great Christian apologist and literary scholar now are offered two thick compendia on his life and work. Each has its virtues and faults, and both are worthwhile investments - though not a substitute for the straight, unfiltered Lewis.

The "Readers' Encyclopedia", reviewed here, contains articles by 44 contributors, many of them very prominent in the world of C. S. Lewis studies. The one striking absentee is Walter Hooper, Lewis' semi-official literary executor and solo author of the rival work, "C. S. Lewis: Companion and Guide". This omission is, as the saying goes, not accidental.

In more than 400 pages, consisting of a 57-page biography followed by topical entries, the Encyclopedia covers the full scope of Lewis' life, work and thought. The "work" draws the greatest attention. There are articles not only on the major books but also on virtually all of Lewis' shorter pieces, including even letters to newspapers. In addition to summarizing content, most of the contributors consider its significance, respond to the views of critics or advance criticisms of their own. They may admire their subject, but this volume is not the production of a fan club.

Weighing the Encyclopedia against the Companion, the latter is heavier (almost twice as many pages), but the former is wider in scope, with more attention to CSL's career as a scholar and more systematic coverage of his entire body of work. It makes room by treating topics more succinctly. Epitomes are shorter, there is less biographical detail, and quotations from the Lewis canon are less extensive. Unfortunately, one space saving idea was the omission of an index, the need for which is distinctly not obviated by putting articles into alphabetical order.

Often both works are excellent, though many times in different ways. The Companion's life of CSL's close friend Owen Barfield tells much about the man but is rather imprecise on his ideas and how they influenced Lewis. The Encyclopedia's fine article fills those gaps.

Elsewhere the Encyclopedia is clearly superior. The Companion's discussions of "An Experiment in Criticism" and "The Personal Heresy" leave out the context in which Lewis developed his critical theories. The Encyclopedia gives him a place in the debates occasioned by the "New Criticism".

The Companion has its innings, too. Its introductory biography is fuller and less given to unsupported psychological speculations. The Encyclopedia writer, curiously, accepts the conjectures of the anti-Christian polemicist A. N. Wilson on major issues (e. g., Lewis's relationship with Mrs. Moore and the impact of his debate with Professor Anscombe), even while pointing out that Wilson in unreliable in detail and malicious in intent.

There are spots, inevitably, where both volumes are weak. Neither describes the substance of Professor G. E. M. Anscombe's famous critique of Chapter III of "Miracles" or how Lewis amended the text to answer her criticisms. Those matters are surely of more lasting import than whether Lewis did or did not feel "defeated" after debating Anscombe.

They can also fail in different ways on the same topic. The Encyclopedia's article on "The Dark Tower", the now controversial novel fragment published after Lewis's death, is a one-sided diatribe on behalf of the theory that the work is a forgery. The Companion naturally does not allude to that allegation (as Walter Hooper is the accused forger), and it also says virtually nothing useful about the story. In fact, the uninspired plot summary is marked by omissions and mistakes. (The writer does not realize, for instance, that "Michael" is the given name of the protagonist, not of his Othertime double.)

Finally, each volume has its (very small) share of this-can't-be-real lapses. An Encyclopedia article begins, "C. S. Lewis followed traditional theological thinking of his time in presuming the Holy Spirit was the third person of the Trinity." What a ripe example of the liberal historicizing that CSL so persistently combated! But it is probably a more serious matter that the Companion barely notices "The Allegory of Love", Lewis's pioneering work on medieval love poetry that laid the foundation of his academic reputation.

But let me pause here. It is easy - and an occasion of intellectual sin - to scrutinize every inch of a mighty edifice in search of blemishes. Overall, the Encyclopedia is a capacious and well-wrought work. It may not be a work that C. S. Lewis would have desired anyone to undertake, but I do not think that he can be displeased with the quality of the result.

Best single volume Lewis reference.......2000-11-03

If you can have only one reference work on Jack Lewis, this is the one to have. This volume is well edited, well written, and complete. You can find allmost as much about some of Lewis' obscure essays as about the Chronicles of Narnia and the Screwtape Letters. Most of the entries include suggestions for further reading. There is also short but reasonably complete biography included, written by John Bremer.

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