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Broadside

A large piece of paper on which only one side has print. A broadside is used to make an announcement. It formerly was used as a common way to publish newspapers, though this is rare now. It is also called a broadsheet.

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She also observes that broadside ballads drew their norms for appropriate feminine behavior from conduct books and marriage guides, such as William Whately's A bride-bush and William Gouge's Of domesticall duties.

Sarah F. Williams. Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads

In this case, I suspect it goes back specifically to the new historicism of Bruce Smith, whose contention it is that the broadside ballad was 'more than a genre or print medium but rather a complete system of communication' (p.

Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads

I believe the best bow shot to take on a deer is directly broadside.

Arrow angles

In the early years of Broadside Press, the literature was married with artwork, for many of the leaflets were illustrated and suitable for framing.

The power of the poet

In fact, the idea was hatched at a small memorial for children's writer Beverly Allenson, a Broadside collective member who recently passed away.

Broadly speaking

An American broadside description of the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Rare version of declaration to be displayed

Perhaps sensing what Perloff later observes about the materiality lacking in free verse poetry of the fifties and sixties, Baskin's broadside printing adds textured, physical interest to poetry during that period.

Theorizing Typography: Printing, Page Design, and the Study of Free Verse

Seidman begins his eight-chapter volume with key definitions of broadsides (crude, limited-run prints printed on one side of a sheet of paper), banners, and posters.

Seidman, Steven A. Posters, Propaganda, and Persuasion in Election Campaigns Around the World and Through History

The broadside ballad constitutes one of the oldest forms of popular culture in Europe and America.

Fictional landscapes and social relations in nineteenth-century broadside ballads

The document is one of about six known existing broadside copies of the Declaration that were printed in Boston about a week after the July 4, 1776, signing in Philadelphia.

Shrewsbury's historic claim

I look forward--if and when you do your next article about this subject--to your at least remembering that Broadside Press is still in business.