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In the United States today many people are as likely to identify themselves by their ethnicity or region as by their nationality. In this country with its diversity and inequalities, can there be a shared public culture? Is there an unbridgeable gap between cultural variety and civic unity, or can public forms of expression provide an opportunity for Americans to come together as a people? In Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States , an interdisciplinary group of scholars addresses these questions while considering the state of American public culture over the past one hundred years. From medicine shows to the Internet, from the Los Angeles Plaza to the Las Vegas Strip, from the commemoration of the Oklahoma City bombing to television programming after 9/11, public sights and scenes provide ways to negotiate new forms of belonging in a diverse, postmodern community. By analyzing these cultural phenomena, the essays in this volume reveal how mass media, consumerism, increased privatization of space, and growing political polarization have transformed public culture and the very notion of the American public. Focusing on four central themes—public action, public image, public space, and public identity—and approaching shared culture from a range of disciplines—including mass communication, history, sociology, urban studies, ethnic studies, and cultural studies— Public Culture offers refreshing perspectives on a subject of perennial significance.

Учебное пособие разработано с целью обучения искусствоведческому аспекту мировой художественной культуры и расширению англоязычного словаря на базе культуроведчески насыщенных аутентичных текстов. В учебном пособии прослеживается развитие искусств разных стран и народов от древнейших времен до Средних веков. Особое внимание уделяется описанию шедевров мирового искусства: всемирно известных памятников архитектуры, скульптуры и живописи. Искусствоведческие тексты сопровождаются упражнениями, направленными на стандартизацию и вариативное употребление культурно-маркированной лексики. Учебное пособие рассчитано на студентов вузов, обучающихся на искусствоведческих, художественных и культурологических факультетах, для студентов отделения методики преподавания иностранных языков и культур филологического, исторического факультетов, а также может быть использовано в художественных колледжах, гуманитарных гимназиях и лицеях.

As the title reveals, these stories are a collection of some of Mark Twain's more fanciful and eccentric works. They run the gamut from political commentary to our species' need to "be remembered" somehow. Taken as a whole the stories are "whimsical". Taken individually, they speak the truth in different ways.