Tag: Nostalgia

Free Download Christopher Rovee, "New Critical Nostalgia: Romantic Lyric and the Crisis of Academic Life "
English | ISBN: 1531505120 | 2024 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 10 MB + 10 MB
New Critical Nostalgia weighs the future of literary study by reassessing its past. It tracks today’s impassioned debates about method back to the discipline’s early professional era, when an unprecedented makeover of American higher education with far-reaching social consequences resulted in what we might call our first crisis of academic life. Rovee probes literary study’s nostalgic attachments to this past, by recasting an essential episode in the historiography of English―the vigorous rejection of romanticism by American New Critics―in the new light of the American university’s tectonic growth. In the process, he demonstrates literary study’s profound investment in romanticism and reveals the romantic lyric’s special affect, nostalgia, as having been part of English’s professional identity all along.

Free Download Christopher Rovee, "New Critical Nostalgia: Romantic Lyric and the Crisis of Academic Life "
English | ISBN: 1531505120 | 2024 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 10 MB + 10 MB
New Critical Nostalgia weighs the future of literary study by reassessing its past. It tracks today’s impassioned debates about method back to the discipline’s early professional era, when an unprecedented makeover of American higher education with far-reaching social consequences resulted in what we might call our first crisis of academic life. Rovee probes literary study’s nostalgic attachments to this past, by recasting an essential episode in the historiography of English―the vigorous rejection of romanticism by American New Critics―in the new light of the American university’s tectonic growth. In the process, he demonstrates literary study’s profound investment in romanticism and reveals the romantic lyric’s special affect, nostalgia, as having been part of English’s professional identity all along.

Free Download Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia by Tobias Becker
English | December 5th, 2023 | ISBN: 067425175X | 344 pages | True EPUB | 18.91 MB
A sweeping reassessment of our longing for the past, from the rise of "retro" to the rhetoric of Brexit and Trump.

Free Download Past Forward: How Nostalgia Can Help You Live a More Meaningful Life by Clay Routledge,
English | December 5th, 2023 | ISBN: 1683648641 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 0.58 MB
A leading psychological researcher shares compelling science and valuable practices for mindfully using nostalgia to live a more grounded, connected, and purposeful life.

Free Download Peter Mitchell, "Imperial nostalgia: How the British conquered themselves"
English | ISBN: 1526146207 | 2021 | 248 pages | PDF | 19 MB
A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting debates on race, class, gender, culture, the UK’s future and its place in the world. This provocative and passionate book surveys the scene of the imperial memory wars in contemporary Britain, exploring how the myths that structure our views of empire came to be, and how they inform the present. Taking in such diverse subjects as Rory Stewart and inter-war adventure fiction, man’s facial hair and Kipling, the Alt-right and the Red Wall, Imperial Nostalgia asks how our relationship with our national past has gone wrong, and how it might be improved.

Free Download Past Forward: How Nostalgia Can Help You Live a More Meaningful Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPG8FKJN | 2023 | 6 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 372 MB
Author: Clay Routledge
Narrator: Jay Myers
A leading psychological researcher shares compelling science and valuable practices for mindfully using nostalgia to live a more grounded, connected, and purposeful life. When an old song makes you want to dance like you did in high school, or you long for the comforting taste of your mom’s cooking, that’s more than just memory-it’s nostalgia. But is nostalgia all about "living in the past" to hide from reality? In Past Forward, psychologist Clay Routledge presents a fascinating investigation into an emotion we all experience yet often misunderstand, revealing nostalgia’s extraordinary potential to enrich our present-and our future.

Free Download The Tyranny of Nostalgia: Half a Century of British Economic Decline by Russell Jones
English | June 1, 2023 | ISBN: 1913019799 | 302 pages | PDF | 6.70 Mb
The performance of the British economy over the past fifty-odd years does not make for comforting reading. Indeed, the story is a depressing catalogue of misapprehensions, missteps, wasted opportunities, crises and humiliations, with all-too-familiar problems arising time and again and yet never being satisfactorily addressed.