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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Garry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Quran Meant, Wills invites readers to join him as he embarks on a timely and necessary reconsideration of the Quran, leading us through perplexing passages with insight and erudition. What does the Quran actually say about veiling women? Does it justify religious war? There was a time when ordinary Americans did not have to know much about Islam. That is no...
Author
Series
Infidel poetics volume no. 4
Publisher
Noemi Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
In this ground-breaking book, Bonnie S. McDougall and Kam Louie present the first comprehensive survey of twentieth-century Chinese lierature - the fiction, poetry, and drama that have been inextricably linked with the politics and culture of modern China. Organized chronologically, The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century traces the development of Chinese literature from the Boxer Rebellion to the Tiananmen Massacre, when dissident poets,...
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"North India is home to a wealth of musical traditions composed of many different styles, genres, and practices. Music in North India provides a representative overview of this music, discussing rhythm and drumming traditions, song composition and performance styles, and melodic and rhythmic instruments. Drawing on his experience as a sarod player, vocalist, and music teacher, author George Ruckert incorporates numerous musical exercises to demonstrate...
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Publisher
The University of Arkansas Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This book surveys two centuries of Ozarks literature, from an Osage creation story to contemporary poetry and fiction. This anthology presents writings from more than forty authors and connects these works to major literary movements while exploring their regional themes and their contributions to the social construction of the Ozarks"--
Author
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
Michel Delville's book is the first full-length work to provide a critical and historical survey of the American prose poem from the early years of the twentieth century to the 1990s. Delville reassesses the work of established prose poets in relation to the history of modern poetry and introduces writings by some whose work in the form has so far escaped mainstream critical attention (Sherwood Anderson, Kenneth Patchen, Russell Edson). He describes...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
Such sayings as "Hard times make a monkey eat red pepper when he don't care for black," "The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice," and "Nothing ruins a duck but its bill" convey not only axiomatic impact but also profound contextual meanings. This study of African-American proverbs is the first to probe deeply into these meanings and contexts. Sw. Anand Prahlad's interest in proverbs dates back to his own childhood in rural Virginia when he listened...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too." Inspired by these few words, spoken by Josephine Baker at the 1963 March on Washington, Hanif Abdurraqib has written a profound reflection on how Black performance is inextricably woven into the fabric of American culture.
"A Little Devil in America is an urgent project that unravels all modes and methods of Black performance, in this moment when Black performers are coming...