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Can I read Ordinary Life, Festival Days : Aesthetics in the Midwestern County Fair on EtoBox?
Ordinary Life, Festival Days : Aesthetics in the Midwestern County Fair by Leslie Mina Prosterman is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Ordinary Life, Festival Days : Aesthetics in the Midwestern County Fair about?
A cultural and historical analysis of the famous rural institution, the county fair. Encompassing the year-long preparations, the premium book, the judging process, and the midway, Prosterman (American studies, U. of Maryland) argues that participants devise an aesthetic system that places their activities in the realm of art. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Who reads Ordinary Life, Festival Days : Aesthetics in the Midwestern County Fair?
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Leslie Mina Prosterman
- Publisher
- Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781560984085
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Folklore, Anthropology, Fiction
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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