187 results on '"Rexroth, Kenneth"'
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2. A Letter to William Carlos Williams.
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Rexroth, Kenneth
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- LETTER to William Carlos Williams, A (Poem), REXROTH, Kenneth, 1905-1982
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- 2022
3. The Bad Old Days.
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Rexroth, Kenneth
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- BAD Old Days, The (Poem), REXROTH, Kenneth, 1905-1982
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- 2022
4. WEST COAST BARD.
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WILLS, DAVID S.
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MENTORING ,AUTHORS ,CANON (Literature) ,FREEDOM & art - Abstract
The author reflects on Kenneth Rexroth's pivotal role as a poet and cultural influencer on the West Coast during the mid-twentieth century. Topics include his mentorship of young writers, his editorial work shaping the West Coast literary canon, and his lasting impact despite eventual obscurity. Rexroth, originally from Chicago, migrated westward, where he immersed himself in San Francisco's literary scene, hosting influential salons and advocating for artistic freedom and political activism.
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- 2024
5. Your Birthday in the California Mountains.
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Rexroth, Kenneth
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- YOUR Birthday in the California Mountains (Poem), REXROTH, Kenneth, 1905-1982
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- 2022
6. Red Maple Leaves.
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Rexroth, Kenneth
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- RED Maple Leaves (Poem), REXROTH, Kenneth, 1905-1982
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- 2022
7. Party.
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Rexroth, Kenneth
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- PARTY (Poem), REXROTH, Kenneth, 1905-1982
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- 2022
8. I Dream of Leslie.
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Rexroth, Kenneth
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- I Dream of Leslie (Poem), REXROTH, Kenneth, 1905-1982
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- 2022
9. Confusion of the Senses.
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Rexroth, Kenneth
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- CONFUSION of the Senses (Poem), REXROTH, Kenneth, 1905-1982
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- 2022
10. Now the Starlit Moonless Spring.
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Rexroth, Kenneth
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- NOW the Starlit Moonless Spring (Poem), REXROTH, Kenneth, 1905-1982
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- 2022
11. A Dialogue of Watching.
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Rexroth, Kenneth
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- DIALOGUE of Watching, A (Poem), REXROTH, Kenneth, 1905-1982
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- 2022
12. The Mirror in the Woods.
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Rexroth, Kenneth
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- MIRROR in the Woods, The (Poem), REXROTH, Kenneth, 1905-1982
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- 2022
13. Loneliness.
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Rexroth, Kenneth
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- LONELINESS (Poem), REXROTH, Kenneth, 1905-1982
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- 2022
14. 乐府诗《秋风辞》译者行为研究.
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李正栓 and 吴朝凤
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- 2024
15. GO WEST YOUNG BEATS.
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MATHEWS, RYAN
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BEAT generation ,BEAT literature ,COUNTERCULTURE ,SUBCULTURES ,CULTURAL movements - Abstract
The author reflects on the provocative notion that while the Beat Generation began in New York, its essential spirit was profoundly shaped in California. Topics explored include the pivotal Six Gallery reading in San Francisco as the defining moment of the Beats' birth, the diverse and inclusive nature of the movement encompassing various countercultural expressions, and the ongoing challenge of defining what constitutes a "Beat" amidst its broad cultural impact and geographical influences.
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- 2024
16. Denise Levertov's "Histrionics".
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Parrish, Melissa
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POETRY collections ,HOUSEHOLDS ,NATIONAL security - Abstract
This essay argues that Denise Levertov's antiwar poetry challenges contemporary assumptions about the limits of bearing witness to war. Contrary to George Oppen's intimation that she should limit her writing to "authentic" accounts of her own domestic experience, Levertov wrote about her uneven relationship with the "here" of the Cold War homefront and the "there" of the Vietnam War's violence. In grappling with these two seemingly disparate domains, she exposes the Cold War security state's reliance on gendered household motifs to justify state-sponsored violence across geographic and temporal divides. Levertov treats wartime witnessing as an imaginative and critical encounter with racial and gendered violence—one that relies less on narrating discrete and directly observed events and more on challenging the permissibility of perpetual war itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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17. Margarita Nelken y Anna Seghers. Telarañas de intriga y espionaje.
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LINHARD, TABEA ALEXA
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EXILE (Punishment) ,TREASON ,ESPIONAGE ,CONSPIRACY ,SUSPICION - Abstract
Copyright of Literatura Mexicana is the property of Instituto de Investigaciones Filologicas - UNAM and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2023
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18. Origins and Development of Translations of Chinese Classical Chan Poetry in the United States.
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Qin Si
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CHINESE poetry ,TRANSLATIONS of poetry ,ENGLISH poetry ,LITERATURE translations ,POETRY (Literary form) ,TRANSLATING & interpreting - Abstract
Since around the 1970s, the United States has published numerous collections of translated Chinese Chan poetry and single volumes of poems by Chan hermit poets, gradually forming a prominent feature and a sub-field of translation poetry in the introduction of Chinese classical poetry into the US. Chan poetry translation can be classified as literature translation, poetry, as well as religious text. The author intends to trace and sort out the historical context of the formation of the field of Chan poetry translation in the United States from three aspects: religion, literature, and poetry translation at the time of the occurrence of Chan poetry translation in English, and to reproduce the origin and development of Chan poetry translation in the United States. Ultimately, the formation and establishment of Chan poetry translation stems from the historical interaction and fusion of religion, literature, and translation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
19. Rzeczy i natura a (nadto) mówiące ja. Przekłady a wiersze Miłosza.
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Skwara, Marta
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CHINESE poetry ,TRANSLATIONS of poetry ,TRANSLATORS ,LITERARY criticism - Abstract
The author analyzes the connections between Miłosz's poetry and his translation work based on his translations and interpretations of the poetry of Wallace Stevens and Chinese poets, especially the poem "Another Spring" by Tu Fu. The subject of particular interest is Miłosz's vision of "realistic poetry" and poetic epiphany related to the attempt to create/translate poems in which "the voice of the subject disappears". The author also examines how Polish literary criticism accepted Miłosz's translations and interpretations, relating them to the poet's own poems. The article proves that Miłosz practiced the art of translation quite freely, in the interpretation of foreign poems he often used generalizations and unauthorized comparisons, which was not much discussed during the poet's lifetime, and even after his death the dialogue with Miłosz as an interpreter and translator of poetry was not very polemical in the country. Combinations of Miłosz's translations and his own works were often used as the poet had planned it, without any attempt to verify the translation or the interpretation associated with it. The world's "realistic poetry", in which the voice of the subject disappears, was largely the poet's creation, and the connections with his own work confirm the dependence of Miłosz's translations/interpretations on his own poems and insurmountable problems with the presence of the lyrical subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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20. JAMES LAUGHLIN, AMERICAN MODERNISM AND POST WORLD WAR II WELSH WRITING IN ENGLISH.
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Lloyd, David
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MODERNISM (Literature) ,EXPERIMENTAL literature ,CULTURE - Abstract
James Laughlin, who founded New Directions Press in 1936, had an early and enduring commitment to publishing innovative European authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Louis Ferdinand Céline, Hermann Hesse, García Lorca, Eugenio Montale, Vladimir Nabokov and Pablo Neruda. Laughlin's international ambitions as a publisher extended to engaging with contemporary British writers and journal editors demonstrating a modernist dimension, evidenced in his extensive correspondence. This essay explores ways in which Laughlin furthered the New Direction Press publishing objectives within the post World War II English-language literary culture of Wales, including his interactions with Dylan Thomas, editors Keidrych Rhys and Gwyn Jones, and significant poets and fiction writers emerging in Wales during the 1940s. While Laughlin was informing Welsh writers and editors about New Directions Press authors and titles - and thus about manifestations of international modernism - Welsh writers and editors in turn educated Laughlin about the burgeoning English-language literary culture of Wales. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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21. Kenneth Rexroth, the Beats, and the Poetics of the Soapbox.
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Johnston, Allan
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POETICS ,LABOR union members ,BEAT generation ,GOSSIP ,FOREST fire prevention & control ,CIGARETTE smokers ,SOCIAL forces ,ANARCHISM ,PARANOIA - Published
- 2023
22. Delimit/De-limit: Barbara Guest at Kandinsky's Window.
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Coase, Hal
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AVANT-garde (Arts) ,ECLECTICISM ,IDIOMS ,AESTHETICS ,MODERNISM (Art) - Abstract
This essay reads Barbara Guest's poem "The View from Kandinsky's Window" from her 1989 collection Fair Realism alongside Wassily Kandinsky's own theories of form and abstraction. It argues that Guest's poetic reinvention of historic avant-garde aesthetics on the page can be taken as an exemplary case for new feminist theorizing of the avant-garde as a set of decentered, provisional, and heterogenous practices. Guest's engagement with Kandinsky is initially situated in the context of Clement Greenberg's criticisms of the painter throughout the 1940s. According to Greenberg's formalism, Kandinsky is shown to have "failed" due to his provincialism, eclecticism, and disharmonizing of scale. Guest's poem can be seen as valuing and accentuating each of these qualities and in so doing it presents a subtle defence of Kandinsky's aesthetics and becomes an example of the kind of intermedia contamination which Greenberg's theorizing on "pure" modernist painting had attempted to delimit. Guest's counter interest in "de-limiting" the work of art--removing boundaries imposed by period, style, and media--is contextualized within debates on the "limit" within avant-garde aesthetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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23. Why Do We Do Comparative Literature? Simone Weil's Reading of the Iliad and the Bhagavad Gītā as a Case Study.
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FIGUEIRA, DOROTHY
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COMPARATIVE literature ,TRANSLATIONS - Published
- 2022
24. William Carlos Williams and West Coast Poetic Culture: Personalist Poetics from Paterson to Bolinas Mesa.
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Soldofsky, Alan
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- 2023
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25. Introduction.
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Long, Mark C.
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- 2023
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26. Exotic Construction of an Ancient Oriental Sappho: On Rexroth's Creative Translation of Li Ch'ing-Chao's Ci-Poems and its Influences.
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FU, Yuqun
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SONG dynasty, China, 960-1279 ,WOMEN poets ,FEMININE identity ,LITERATURE translations - Abstract
In her article "Exotic Construction of an Ancient Oriental Sappho: On Rexroth's Creative Translation of Li Ch'ing-Chao's Ci-Poems and its Influences," Yuqun Fu discusses Li Ch'ing-Chao's Ci-poems and her identity as a woman intellect in the patriarchal and feudal Song Dynasty of China. Due to Kenneth Rexroth's feminist perspective and Sappho complex as well as his own pursuit to excel in the hipster stylistics of the newly prospering Beat writers, Rexroth turns to the Eastern women poets to fuel his own cause, especially in his idiosyncratic way of interpreting and translating Li Ch'ing-Chao. His translation focuses on gender identity and displays the manipulation of a mainstream culture to a nonmainstream culture. He misinterprets some frequent images and narrations in Li's poems by singling out some love poems and supplementing some sexual implications and hence shapes the peculiar imagery of a heterogeneous ancient Chinese woman figure with the bold and unveiled expression of her own bodily desires and feminist emancipation with the mysterious veil of ancient Oriental mysticism. His translation of Li has profound influences on his own poetry in terms of themes and writing techniques. In addition, his version of Li has influenced some of his peers and subsequent translators, some Beat writers, and contemporary writers in the U.S. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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27. The Hero on a Pedestal: Reading Stevens in an Indian Classroom.
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Chandran, K. Narayana
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AMERICAN poetry ,POETICS ,STUDENT activism - Abstract
The author relates teaching students in India for a course on American poetry and poetics during the period of unrest. He discusses their reading of Wallace Stevens's "Examination of the Hero in a Time of War," Stevens's description of the hero in the penultimate stanza of "Examination," and Stevens's lines that the class found most puzzling yet pertinent to the protocols of student movements across the world.
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- 2022
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28. Japanese Buddhism and Ireland.
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Cox, Laurence and Ó Laoidh, John
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BUDDHISM ,IRISH literature ,IRISH poetry ,SOCIOCULTURAL factors ,BUDDHISTS ,FAMINES - Abstract
This article argues that there is no single relationship between Japanese Buddhism and Ireland. Rather, there is a series of changing relationships mediated by different world-system contexts between one island and another (peripheral and post-colonial) one: as ethnographic information, as cultural influence and as religious practice. The process of building such relationships has a long history, stretching back to the Irish reception of both Jesuit and traveller's accounts of Japan, later made concrete by early intermediaries like Lafcadio Hearn / Koizumi Yakumo and Charles Pfoundes. W.B. Yeats in particular helped to give Japanese Buddhism a significant place in Irish culture, notably in poetry. From the 1960s and 1970s, Japanese Buddhists started to settle in Ireland and Japanese Buddhism began to be practiced; both are now an established part of the Irish religious landscape. The article sketches this history, culminating in the present situation of Japanese Buddhism in Ireland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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29. 'Howl' en performance: una experiencia sensorial y colectiva (Six Gallery, San Francisco, 1955).
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Gina Barelli, Sofía
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AMERICAN poetry ,TWENTIETH century ,LISTENING ,TASTE ,AUDITORIUMS - Abstract
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- 2021
30. "All the Girls".
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Mitchell Wallace†, Emily
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- 2022
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31. Ono no Komachi.
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Dawes, K. P.
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JAPANESE poets ,JAPANESE women poets ,WAKA (Japanese poetry) ,LOVE poetry ,LOVE in literature ,SENSUALITY in literature ,HEIAN Period, Japan, 794-1185 - Abstract
A biography of Japanese poet Ono no Komachi is presented. She was born around 825 and historians suggest she was an educated woman and likely a lady-in-waiting for the emperor or other court official. Legends about Komachi indicate she was cruel to others and ultimately lost her beauty and became destitute. Her poetry featured themes of sensuality, love, and melancholy and were collected in the "Kokinshu." She is believed to have died around the year 900.
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- 2023
32. The Poem Knows More Than We Do: Learning to Let Go Through the Art of Listening
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Kalamaras, George
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My Mother's Voice Any discussion of craft would benefit from acknowledging the seemingly simple assertion that the poem knows more than we do. I say "seemingly simple" because I realize [...]
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- 2024
33. Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte
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Hubert Zapf, Timo Müller, Hubert Zapf, and Timo Müller
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- Literature—History and criticism, America—Literatures, Literature, Education in literature
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In der 4. Auflage ist das Buch umfassend neu konzipiert worden. Neben den Kapiteln von den Puritanern bis zur Postmoderne, die als Klassiker in der Amerikanistik gelten und nur wenig verändert beibehalten werden, sind alle anderen Kapitel entweder neu geschrieben oder stark revidiert worden. Die ausführlichen Porträts der indigenen und der Latino/a-Literatur, der afro- und asiatisch-amerikanischen Literatur tragen der ausgeprägten Diversität der literarischen Kultur der USA Rechnung. Kernstück ist ein ganz neu verfasstes, umfangreiches Kapitel zur Literatur der Gegenwart.
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- 2024
34. Conversations with Michael McClure
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David Stephen Calonne and David Stephen Calonne
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- Poets, American--Interviews, Beats (Persons)--Interviews, Beat poetry, American
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Conversations with Michael McClure features twenty interviews from 1969 to 2015 that chronicle the capacious scope of McClure's creativity. McClure (1932–2020) is notable not only for his considerable achievements as a poet and prose writer of the Beat Generation, but also for the many collaborative connections he forged over seven decades. From the 1950s to his death, McClure worked with an astonishing range of important figures in the worlds of painting, filmmaking, music, and science. McClure counted among his friends and acquaintances Bruce Conner, Harold Pinter, Amiri Baraka, Richard Brautigan, Wallace Berman, George Herms, Lawrence Jordan, Dennis Hopper, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Sterling Bunnell, Francis Crick, Gary Snyder, Francesco Clemente, and Diane di Prima.During his early years in San Francisco, McClure attended Kenneth Rexroth's literary evenings and formed significant lifelong friendships. Among those friends were poets Philip Lamantia and Robert Duncan, who became a mentor to McClure. He also learned much from Charles Olson and adopted several features of Olson's concept of “Projective Verse” in his own work. McClure's exchange of letters with experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage lasted for four decades. During his illustrious career, McClure published fourteen books of poetry, eight books of plays, and four collections of essays. Conversations with Michael McClure reveals the many contributions of this central personality in the evolution of the American counterculture.
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- 2024
35. Beat Film, Beat Writers
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David Stephen Calonne and David Stephen Calonne
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Beat Film, Beat Writers is the first monograph to analyze the films of Christopher Maclaine, Lawrence Jordan, ruth weiss, Ron Rice, Robert Frank, Barbara Rubin, Shirley Clarke, William S. Burroughs, and Joanne Kyger. The book is noteworthy for its emphasis on women filmmakers who have traditionally been excluded from close analysis by film scholars. Beat Film, Beat Writers also explores the ways Beat authors such as Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Diane di Prima, Wiliam S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso, Joanne Kyger, and others became deeply involved with the film communities of New York and California. The book discusses their roles as both actors and participants in the making of these films and demonstrates how many of the same themes that characterized Beat literature surface in cinema. The anxiety over the possibilities of nuclear war, the search for deeper modes of spirituality in the study of Buddhism as well as occult and esoteric systems, the struggle for equality for the LGBTQ+ community, the beginnings of the ecological movement, and the fight against censorship and the open depiction of sexuality are all themes that occur both in Beat film and in Beat literature. Beat Film, Beat Writers also features an Epilogue on the cinema of singer and poet Jim Morrison, who, although not part of the Beat movement, was deeply influenced by Beat literature and carried on many of the aesthetic and philosophical aims of the Beats into the late sixties.
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- 2024
36. Alone with Each Other : Literacy and Literature Intertwined
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Eli Goldblatt and Eli Goldblatt
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- Composition (Language arts)--Study and teaching, Literacy--Study and teaching, Literature--Study and teaching--Social aspects
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This collection of essays by an award winning scholar and poet will appeal to readers from many areas of English, with particular appeal to grad students preparing to teach writing courses.'As an admirer of Eli Goldblatt's original, groundbreaking, and beautifully crafted written work in composition, I think this focused book of his collected essays will be extremely compelling reading for people in this field.'—Russel Durst, Professor, University of Cincinnati'Goldblatt's perspective, his embeddedness in his place, community, and culture, and his range of topical interests is truly unique. He is a teacher, poet, essayist, activist, literacy scholar, and publisher of great importance. I don't know anyone else whose work can simultaneously occupy so many vantage points so deeply and well.'—Paula Mathieu, Associate Professor, Boston College
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- 2024
37. Female Voices and Egyptian Independence : Marginalized Women in Egyptian and British Fiction
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Rania M. Mahmoud and Rania M. Mahmoud
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- Arabic fiction--Egypt--History and criticism, Arabic fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Women in literature, Nationalism in literature, Arabic fiction--21st century--History and criticism, English fiction--21st century--History and criticism, English fiction--20th century--History and criticism
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This book offers a nuanced analysis of the ways in which Egyptian and British novels represent the Egyptian nationalist project in its struggle against British hegemony in the aftermath of two revolutions: the 1881-82 Urabi Revolution, known for inaugurating the British occupation of Egypt, and the 1919 Revolution celebrated in Egyptian national memory as the classic Egyptian revolution par excellence. Reading the novels against the grain, the study recovers female voices that are multiply marginalized, due to their gender and/or ethnicity, whether by colonial imperial powers, the nation, their immediate regional community or, finally, by the works under discussion themselves. Using a comparative lens, the study foregrounds the ways in which the authors confirm, critique, rewrite/revise, or reject developmental narratives. Female Voices and Egyptian Independence pays particular attention to women that range from the uneducated black slave, to the uneducated rural Siwan woman with artistic talent, to the wealthy cultured Coptic housewife, to the rising late nineteenth-century British female professional, and finally to the eclipsed twentieth-century Egyptian female national intellectual, all of whom play crucial roles in the journeys of the respective male protagonists, and by extension, the Egyptian national project.
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- 2024
38. Staging the Lyric : Modern and Contemporary Experiments with Verse Drama
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Sarah Berry and Sarah Berry
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Verse drama is not a dead form, but very much alive on the contemporary stage. Drawing on plays from throughout the English-speaking world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Caribbean, Staging the Lyric seeks to explain the 21st-century resurgence of Anglophone verse drama, tracing it back to an experimental impulse that is present in the modernist verse drama of a century ago. Covering major writers including Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath, Samuel Beckett, Dorothy Sayers, Djuna Barnes, and Ntozake Shange, it also encompasses lesser known and more recent poets and playwrights. This modern verse drama differs from its ancient and Elizabethan antecedents as it is understood not as a genre in its own right, but as a hybrid of the lyric and the dramatic. Both modernist and contemporary writers take advantage of this hybridity as fertile ground for experimentation. While they differ in their ideology and form, this book contends that they are united by exploring the relationship between lyric and dramatic elements on stage and what these two different modes afford. To demonstrate this continuity, it traces a genealogy from contemporary plays by Joanna Laurens, Joyelle McSweeney, and David Grieg back to W.B. Yeats, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, and W.H. Auden, to reveal that the tensions that animate verse drama have stayed the same, even as the strategies for staging them have evolved. The book is divided into three sections-'Voice,''Words,'and'Time'-each treating one feature that has been used to define the lyric. Within these sections, the chapters compare contemporary plays with modernist ones that experiment with the same point of tension between the lyric and the dramatic.
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- 2024
39. Never By Itself Alone : Queer Poetry, Queer Communities in Boston and the Bay Area, 1944—Present
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David Grundy and David Grundy
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- Sexual minorities--California--San Francisco Bay Area--Intellectual life, Sexual minorities--Massachusetts--Boston--Intellectual life, Sexual minority authors--California--San Francisco Bay Area, American poetry--California--San Francisco Bay Area--History and criticism, American poetry--Massachusetts--Boston--History and criticism, Sexual minorities' writings, American--History and criticism, American poetry--Minority authors--History and criticism, Sexual minority authors--Massachusetts--Bosto
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Providing an unprecedented exploration of key moments in queer literary history, Never By Itself Alone changes our sense of both the American literary and political landscapes from the late 1940s through the 21st century. Grundy presents the first comprehensive history of post-war queer writing in Boston and San Francisco, intertwining analysis of lesbian, gay, and queer writing, and insisting on the link between activism and literature. The book centers a host of underrepresented writers, especially writers of color and those with gender non-conforming identities, and challenges the Stonewall exceptionalism of queer historiography. Starting with Robert Duncan's 1944 essay,'The Homosexual in Society', one of the first significant public defenses of homosexuality in the US, Grundy takes the reader through pioneering works by queer voices of the era, including Adrian Stanford's Black and Queer, the first published book by an out, Black gay poet in the US; the Boston collective Fag Rag and their radical reconsideration of family, private property and the State; the Combahee River Collective, whose Black Feminist analysis drew together race, class, and sexuality; the anthology This Bridge Called My Back, in which women of color spoke truth to power, together; and New Narrative writing, which audaciously mixed Marxism, porn and gossip while uniting against the New Right. Linking these works to the context which produced them, Grundy uncovers the communities formed around activism and small press publishing during this era and elevates neglected voices to narrate a history that before now has never been told in its entirety. Drawing on extensive archival research, Never By Itself Alone is a rigorous and unmatched work of both literary criticism and queer scholarship which underscores the vital importance of radical accounts of race, class, and gender in any queer studies worthy of the name.
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- 2024
40. Jim Morrison, Secret Teacher of the Occult : A Journey to the Other Side
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Paul Wyld and Paul Wyld
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• Reveals Jim Morrison as a shamanic initiate and esoteric teacher who used his role as a rock singer to promote the adventure of the spirit and express the power of inner experience• Examines Morrison's deep occult and artistic influences, including Kurt Seligmann's The Mirror of Magic, Colin Wilson's The Outsider, and the works of Jack Kerouac• Draws on Morrison's lyrics and poems, his intimate writings, and the recollections of friends like photographer Paul Ferrara and Doors keyboard player Ray ManzarekThe groundbreaking 1960s band The Doors, named for Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, achieved incredible acclaim and influence, ultimately serving as a key group in the development of psychedelic and progressive rock. At the center of it all was front man Jim Morrison, who died in 1971 at age 27. Yet, as author Paul Wyld reveals, despite Morrison's reputation as a lewd, drunken performer, he was a full-fledged mystical, shamanic figure, a secret teacher of the occult who was not merely central to the development of rock music, but also to the growth of the Western esoteric tradition as a whole.Wyld looks at the mystical works that inspired Morrison, including Kurt Seligmann's The Mirror of Magic, Colin Wilson's The Outsider, and the writings of Nietzsche and Jack Kerouac. Drawing on Morrison's lyrics and poems, his intimate writings, and the recollections of friends like photographer Paul Ferrara and Doors keyboard player Ray Manzarek, the author makes the case that Morrison was not simply a superficial dabbler in the occult but an actual secret teacher transmitting knowledge through the golden thread stretching back to Egypt and Thoth-Hermes.Explaining how Morrison sought to use his role as a rock singer to express the power of inner experience, Wyld shows how praxis was at the heart of Morrison's approach, revealed in his journey through the arduous ordeals of shamanic initiation. He was a shaman, mystic, and sage—and an essential part of a great spiritual awakening to which he gave himself over fully.
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- 2024
41. Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish : Anarchism and Yiddish Literature
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Anna Elena Torres and Anna Elena Torres
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- Yiddish literature--History and criticism, Jewish anarchists, Anarchism in literature, Yiddish literature--20th century--History and criticism, Jewish diaspora in literature, Exiles in literature, Jewish diaspora
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A bold recovery of Yiddish anarchist history and literature Spanning the last two centuries, this fascinating work combines archival research on the radical press and close readings of Yiddish poetry to offer an original literary study of the Jewish anarchist movement. The narrative unfolds through a cast of historical characters, from the well known—such as Emma Goldman—to the more obscure, including an anarchist rabbi who translated the Talmud and a feminist doctor who organized for women's suffrage and against national borders. Its literary scope includes the Soviet epic poemas of Peretz Markish, the journalism and modernist poetry of Anna Margolin, and the early radical prose of Malka Heifetz Tussman. Anna Elena Torres examines Yiddish anarchist aesthetics from the nineteenth-century Russian proletarian immigrant poets through the modernist avant-gardes of Warsaw, Chicago, and London to contemporary antifascist composers. The book also traces Jewish anarchist strategies for negotiating surveillance, censorship, detention, and deportation, revealing the connection between Yiddish modernism and struggles for free speech, women's bodily autonomy, and the transnational circulation of avant-garde literature. Rather than focusing on narratives of assimilation, Torres intervenes in earlier models of Jewish literature by centering refugee critique of the border. Jewish deportees, immigrants, and refugees opposed citizenship as the primary guarantor of human rights. Instead, they cultivated stateless imaginations, elaborated through literature.
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- 2024
42. Think to New Worlds : The Cultural History of Charles Fort and His Followers
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Joshua Blu Buhs and Joshua Blu Buhs
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- Science in literature, Science fiction, American--20th century--History and criticism, Science writers--United States, Authors, American--20th century--Biography
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How a writer who investigated scientific anomalies inspired a factious movement and made a lasting impact on American culture. Flying saucers. Bigfoot. Frogs raining from the sky. Such phenomena fascinated Charles Fort, the maverick writer who scanned newspapers, journals, and magazines for reports of bizarre occurrences: dogs that talked, vampires, strange visions in the sky, and paranormal activity. His books of anomalies advanced a philosophy that saw science as a small part of a larger system in which truth and falsehood continually transformed into one another. His work found a ragged following of skeptics who questioned not only science but the press, medicine, and politics. Though their worldviews varied, they shared compelling questions about genius, reality, and authority. At the center of this community was adman, writer, and enfant terrible Tiffany Thayer, who founded the Fortean Society and ran it for almost three decades, collecting and reporting on every manner of oddity and conspiracy. In Think to New Worlds, Joshua Blu Buhs argues that the Fortean effect on modern culture is deeper than you think. Fort's descendants provided tools to expand the imagination, explore the social order, and demonstrate how power is exercised. Science fiction writers put these ideas to work as they sought to uncover the hidden structures undergirding reality. Avant-garde modernists—including the authors William Gaddis, Henry Miller, and Ezra Pound, as well as Surrealist visual artists—were inspired by Fort's writing about metaphysical and historical forces. And in the years following World War II, flying saucer enthusiasts convinced of alien life raised questions about who controlled the universe. Buhs's meticulous and entertaining book takes a respectful look at a cast of oddballs and eccentrics, plucking them from history's margins and spotlighting their mark on American modernism. Think to New Worlds is a timely consideration of a group united not only by conspiracies and mistrust of science but by their place in an ever-expanding universe rich with unexplained occurrences and visionary possibilities.
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- 2024
43. How to Reread a Novel
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Matthew Clark and Matthew Clark
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- Literary form, Fiction--History and criticism, Narration (Rhetoric)
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A novel is among the most intricate of human creations, the result of thousands of choices and decisions. In How to Reread a Novel, Matthew Clark explicates the intricacies of fiction writing through practical analysis of the resources of narration, demystifying some of the tools novelists use to build worlds.Drawing on classical philology, the rhetorical tradition, and recent approaches to narratology, Clark explores reading fiction as a complex experience of perception, cognition, and emotion, in which the writer of a narrative attempts to create and control the experience of the reader through the deployment of narrative techniques. Texts examined range from the Iliad and the Odyssey to contemporary literature, including detailed discussions of novels by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Henry James, and Raymond Chandler, as Clark investigates fundamental methodologies of narrative storytelling and the effects they employ to form beauty and meaning.By exploring some of the central techniques of narrative composition, How to Reread a Novel helps uncover subtleties in a text that may be missed on a first reading, encouraging readers to go beyond the surface to see what creates the unique experience of reading fiction.
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- 2024
44. The Routledge Introduction to the American Novel
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D. Quentin Miller and D. Quentin Miller
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- American fiction--History and criticism, American fiction--Themes, motives
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The Routledge Introduction to the American Novel provides a comprehensive and engaging guide to this cornerstone literary genre, reframing our understanding of the American novel and its evolving traditions. This volume aims to engage productive classroom discussion, including: What differentiates the American novel from its European predecessors and traditions from other parts of the world? How have the related myths of the American Dream and the Great American Novel affected understanding of the tradition over time? How do American novels by or about women, racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, and members of lower social classes challenge the American cultural monomyth? How do experimental novels and eco-conscious novels alter the American novel tradition? Rethinking historical trends and debates surrounding the American novel, this text delivers a persuasive case for why it's important to reevaluate the American novelistic tradition. The Routledge Introduction to the American Novel offers a much-needed update to the history and future of this literary form.
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- 2024
45. Regeneration Through Violence : The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860
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Richard Slotkin and Richard Slotkin
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National Book Award Finalist: A study of national myths, lore, and identity that “will interest all those concerned with American cultural history” (American Political Science Review).Winner of the American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Award for Best Book in American History In Regeneration Through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, historian and cultural critic Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the attitudes and traditions that shape American culture evolved from the social and psychological anxieties of European settlers struggling in a strange new world to claim the land and displace Native Americans. Using the popular literature of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries—including captivity narratives, the Daniel Boone tales, and the writings of Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Melville—Slotkin traces the full development of this myth. “Deserves the careful attention of everyone concerned with the history of American culture or literature. ”—Comparative Literature “Slotkin's large aim is to understand what kind of national myths emerged from the American frontier experience.... [He] discusses at length the newcomers'search for an understanding of their first years in the New World [and] emphasizes the myths that arose from the experiences of whites with Indians and with the land.” —Western American Literature
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- 2024
46. The Zen of Ecopoetics : Cosmological Imaginations in Modernist American Poetry
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Enaiê Mairê Azambuja and Enaiê Mairê Azambuja
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- Buddhism and literature--United States, Ecocriticism, Buddhism in literature, American poetry--20th century--History and criticism, Modernism (Literature)--United States, Poetics
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This book is the first comprehensive study investigating the cultural affinities and resonances of Zen in early twentieth-century American poetry and its contribution to current definitions of ecopoetics, focusing on four key poets: William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and E.E. Cummings.Bringing together a range of texts and perspectives and using an interdisciplinary approach that draws on Eastern and Western philosophies, including Zen and Taoism, posthumanism and new materialism, this book adds to and extends the field of ecocriticism into new debates. Its broad approach, informed by literary studies, ecocriticism, and religious studies, proposes the expansion of ecopoetics to include the relationship between poetic materiality and spirituality. It develops ‘cosmopoetics'as a new literary-theoretical concept of the poetic imagination as a contemplative means to achieving a deeper understanding of the human interdependence with the non-human.Addressing the critical gap between materialism and spirituality in modernist American poetry, The Zen of Ecopoetics promotes new forms of awareness and understanding about our relationship with non-human beings and environments. It will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students in ecocriticism, literary theory, poetry, and religious studies.
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- 2024
47. Nazorean : How a Jewish Wisdom Sect Gave Birth to the Church
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Kem Luther and Kem Luther
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A swirl of Jewish sectarian movements muddied the religious waters during the late Second Temple period. In recent decades, scholars of the Bible have struggled to understand the role these sects played in the rise and spread of the Jesus movement. Nazorean joins this wave of sectarian scholarship. In this book, Kem Luther sketches the history of a wisdom-oriented sect that gave birth to the Christian church. Weaving a series of what the philosopher and historian R. G. Collingwood called'webs of imaginative construction,'he provides a provocative and plausible story about a wisdom sect--the Nazoreans--that shaped the career and teachings of John the Baptist and Jesus. To support his scenario, Luther offers sectarian readings of passages from the Gospels of Matthew and John, the Epistle of James, Acts, the Wisdom of Solomon, and the Psalms of Solomon. He links his developing awareness of the sectarian context of these documents to his own trek through a landscape of post-1960 American religion. The candid account of Luther's own journey through a naive modernism, his immersion in evangelical subculture at a Bible school, and his postgraduate studies in mysticism and philosophy makes a fascinating complement to his textual studies.
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- 2024
48. The University of Arizona : A History in 100 Stories
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Gregory McNamee and Gregory McNamee
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- University of Arizona--History
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The University of Arizona: A History in 100 Stories is a celebration of the people, ideas, inventions, teaching, and structures that have been part of the school's evolution from a small land-grant institution to an internationally renowned research institution. Drawing on half a century of connection with the University of Arizona as a student, staff member, and faculty member, Gregory McNamee presents a history through the lens of a hundred subjects. That story begins in 1885, with the establishment of the school, which quickly proved itself to be a powerhouse in its foundational “four pillars”: agriculture and earth sciences, followed by astronomy and anthropology. In the years following World War II, those four pillars became ever more important to the University, even as countless other fields of study gained prominence: optical sciences, women's studies, the humanities, mathematics, and more. This phenomenal institution has as its setting the Sonoran Desert, and, closer to home, to a built environment that is widely considered among the most scenic in the country, from the Historic District with its buildings that are more than a century old to the latest steel-and-glass constructions on the edges of the ever-expanding campus. McNamee relates this history in an entertaining manner, peppering discussion of serious intellectual and institutional themes with lighter moments—the origins of the university's rivalry with Arizona State, the ghosts that are said to lurk about campus, and more. Wildcats everywhere will delight in McNamee's celebration of the people, places, learning, books, and pastimes that have distinguished our school.
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- 2024
49. East Asian Landscapes and Legitimation : Localizing Authority Through Sacred Sites in China and Vietnam
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Yasmin Koppen and Yasmin Koppen
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- Sacred space--China--Sichuan Sheng, Sacred space--Vietnam
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The conquest of Sichuan and Vietnam by the Chinese Empire led to very different outcomes. This volume examines the negotiations between central authority and local autonomy, the physical manifestations of socially constructed identities, and the transformation of sacred spaces which reflect broader social, political, and religious currents. It also offers a method to study spatial-social interactions in historical settings that provides insights into dynamics of power imposition and identity negotiation in local contexts. Experiential Architecture Analysis (EAA) serves to explore the interplay of local traditions, transcultural ideology transfer, and sacred water sites in the peripheries of Chinese culture. It analyzes the spatial ensembles of sacred sites regarding their roles for legitimation, dominance, and social resistance, while highlighting the agency of consumers to redefine spatial media. All scholars of Chinese and Southeast Asian History, of Religious Studies or Cultural Anthropology find in this volume valuable insights for their research, especially where it concerns areas lacking reliable written sources.
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- 2024
50. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Art of Leadership : Battling the Great Depression and the Axis Powers
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William Nester and William Nester
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- Political leadership--United States, New Deal, 1933-1939, Depressions--1929--United States
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Scholar William Nester explores Franklin D. Roosevelt's character, personality, and presidential power.After their independence and civil wars, Americans never faced a greater threat than the sixteen years of global depression followed by global war from 1929 to 1945. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the president for the last dozen of those years, during which he led the nation first to alleviate the Great Depression then led an international alliance that vanquished the fascist powers during the Second World War. Along the way, he established the modern presidency with centralized powers to make and implement domestic and foreign policies. He was naturally a master politician who eventually, through daunting trials and errors, became an accomplished statesman.For all that, historians regularly rank Roosevelt among the top three presidents. Yet, most historians and countless others criticize Roosevelt for an array of things that he did or failed to do. Conservatives lambast him for creating a welfare state and trying to pack federal courts with liberal judges while liberals condemn him for interning 120,000 Japanese-Americans during the war and doing little to advance civil rights for African Americans. Critics blister war commander Roosevelt for caving into strategies demanded by powerful leaders that squandered countless lives and treasure in literal and figurative dead ends. These include Prime Minister Churchill's push to invade the Italian peninsula and General MacArthur's determination to recapture the Philippines.At times, his policies violated his principles. Like President Wilson during the Second World War, Roosevelt championed self-determination but not for every nation. He badgered Churchill to break up Britain's empire while bowing to Stalin's brutal communist conquest of eastern Europe. And those are just the opening barrages against Roosevelt. Although he won four presidential elections with overwhelming majorities, nearly as many people reviled him as they adored him.Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Art of Leadership explores the dynamic among Roosevelt's character, personality, and presidential power with which he asserted policies that overcame first the Great Depression and then the Axis powers during the Second World War. Along the way, the book raises and answers key questions. What were Roosevelt's leadership skills and how did he develop them over time? Which New Deal policies succeeded, which failed, and what explains those results? Which war strategies succeeded, which failed, and what explains those results? What policies rooted in Roosevelt's instincts proved to be superior to alternatives grounded in thick official reports advocated by his advisors? Finally, how does Roosevelt rank as an American and global leader?
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- 2024
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