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The holy drama : Persian passion play in modern Iran
Persian passion play or ta‘ziya depicts the role of the Prophet’s granddaughter Zeynab during the tragic death of the third Shiite Imam Hoseyn in Karbala in 680. This book describes how Zeynab has become a role model in modern Iranian society, especially during the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War.
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- 9789087281151
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- 792 MAH h
History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction : Victorian Afterimages
History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction combines innovative literary and historiographical analysis to investigate the way neo-Victorian novels conceptualise our relationship to the Victorian past, and to analyse their role in the production and communication of historical knowledge. Positioning neo-Victorian novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary, …
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- 9780230228580
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- IX, 222 halaman
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- 800 MIT h
Language Shattered : Contemporary Chinese Poetry and Duoduo
Language Shattered is both a history of poetry from the People's Republic of China and a case study of the oeuvre of a leading Chinese poet. After the stifling orthodoxy of the 1950s and early 1960s, the terror of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) brought official Chinese literature to a total standstill. At the same time, disillusioned youths were more or less accidentally exposed to a varie…
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- 9789073782525
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- 800 CRE l
Language Parasites : of Phorontology
Who speaks when you speak? Who writes when you write? Is it “you”—is it the “I” that you think you are? Or are we the chance inheritors of an invasive, exterior parasite—a parasite that calls itself “Being” or “Language?” If our sense of self is best defined on the basis of an exterior, parasitical force that enters us from the outside, then the “self” is no longer a cen…
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- 9780998531861
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- 136 halaman
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- 400 BRA l
Landscapes of Encounter : The Portrayal of Catholicism in the Novels of Brian…
Brian Moore (1921-1999) is one of the few novelists whose literary portrayal of Catholicism effectively spans the period prior to and following the Second Vatican Council. His novels—from 1955’s Judith Hearne to his final work, 1997’s The Magician’s Wife—are characterized by an enormously varied portrayal of pre- and post-Vatican II Catholicism. Many critics have discussed how Moore…
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- 9781552386637
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- 312 halaman
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- 800 GEA l
Language Between God and the Poet : Ma‘na in the Eleventh Century
How does language work? How does language produce truth and beauty? Eleventh-century Arabic scholarship has detailed answers to these universal questions. Language Between God and the Poets reads the theory of four major scholars and asks how the conceptual vocabulary they shared enabled them to create theory in lexicography, theology, logic, and poetics. Their ideas engaged God and poetry at t…
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- 9780520970144
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- 322 halaman
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- Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship
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- 800 KEY l
Landmarks Revisited : The Vekhi Symposium One Hundred Years On
The symposium entitled Vekhi, or Landmarks, is one of the most famous publications in Russian intellectual and political history. Its fame rests on the critique it offers of the phenomenon of the Russian intelligentsia. It was published in 1909, under the editorship of Mikhail Gershenzon, as a polemical response to the revolution of 1905, the failed outcome of which was deemed by all the Landma…
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- 9781618117021
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- 324 halaman
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- Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century
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- 800 AIZ l
Idle Talk, Deadly Talk : The Uses of Gossip in Caribbean Literature
The first book-length study of gossip’s place in the literature of the multilingual Caribbean reveals gossip to be a utilitarian and deeply political practice—a means of staging the narrative tensions, and waging the narrative battles, that mark Caribbean politics and culture. Revising the overly gendered existing critical frame, Rodríguez Navas argues that gossip is a fundamentally advers…
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- 9780813941622
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- 380 halaman
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- 800 NAV i
How Comics Travel : Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies
n How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies, Katherine Kelp-Stebbins challenges the clichéd understanding of comics as a “universal” language, circulating without regard for cultures or borders. Instead, she develops a new methodology of reading for difference. Kelp-Stebbins’s anticolonial, feminist, and antiracist analytical framework engages with comics as sites o…
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- 9780814215043
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- 238 halaman
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- 700 KEL h
How to Read a Folktale : The ‘Ibonia’ Epic From Madagascar
How to Read a Folktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Ibonia is a folktale on epic scale. Much of its plot sounds familiar: a powerful royal hero attempts to rescue his betrothed from an evil adversary and, after a series of tests and duels, he and his lover are joyfully united with a marriage that affirms the royal lineage. These fairytal…
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- 9781909254077
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- 163 halaman
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- 800 HAR h
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