Author: Fang QIPublisher: Merwinasia
ISBN: 9781937385385
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Distributed for MerwinAsia
Elegy of a River Shaman
Author: Fang QIPublisher: Merwinasia
ISBN: 9781937385385
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Distributed for MerwinAsia
Shamanism in the Contemporary Novel
Author: Özlem Ögüt YaziciogluPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498591167
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Shamanism in the Contemporary Novel examines how shamanism is used as a significant trope in a selection of novels. Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu contends that the shamanic figures and societies featured in these works have been subjected to marginalization, dislocation, and dispossession through imperialist, colonialist, and capitalist encroachments in different historical contexts.
Three Elegies of Chʻu
Author: Geoffrey R. WatersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Elegies of Ted Hughes
Author: E. HadleyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230281419
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
The elegiac aspect of Ted Hughes' poetry has been frequently overlooked, an oversight which this book sets out to rectify. Encompassing a broad range of themes, from the decline of nature and local industry to the national grief caused by the First World War, this book is a comprehensive addition to the study of Hughes' poetry.
Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Sabina KnightPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199913137
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of Chinese literature from antiquity to the present, focusing on the key role literary culture played in supporting social and political concerns. Embracing traditional Chinese understandings of literature as encompassing history and philosophy as well as poetry and poetics, storytelling, drama, and the novel, Sabina Knight discusses the philosophical foundations of literary culture as well as literature's power to address historical trauma and cultivate moral and sensual passions. From ancient historical records through the modernization and globalization of Chinese literature, Knight draws on lively examples to underscore the close relationship between ethics and aesthetics, as well as the diversity of Chinese thought. Knight also illuminates the role of elite patronage; the ways literature has served the interests of specific groups; and questions of canonization, language, nationalism, and cross-cultural understanding. The book includes Chinese characters for names, titles, and key terms.
The Falling Sky
Author: Davi KopenawaPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674292138
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
Anthropologist Bruce Albert captures the poetic voice of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon, in this unique reading experience—a coming-of-age story, historical account, and shamanic philosophy, but most of all an impassioned plea to respect native rights and preserve the Amazon rainforest.
Jemez Spring
Author: Rudolfo A. AnayaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Private detective Sonny Baca enters a deadly race against time when his investigation of the drowning death of the governor of New Mexico leads him to the realization that his old enemy Raven in back at work and has planted a bomb near the Los Alamos National Laboratories.
My Land Sings
Author: Rudolfo AnayaPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504021657
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
“Filled with ghosts, devils, and tricksters . . . This appealing volume will add diversity to folklore collections.” —Library Journal Rich in the folklore of his ancestors, Rudolfo Anaya’s tales will delight young readers from across the globe. In stories both original and passed down, this bestselling and American Book Award–winning author incorporates powerful themes of family, faith, and choosing the right path in life. In “Lupe and la Llorona,” a seventh grader searches for the legendary Llorona; in “The Shepherd Who Knew the Language of Animals,” a shepherd named Abel saves a snake and gains the ability to understand the language of animals; In “Dulcinea,” a fifteen-year-old dances with the Devil. Other tales feature coyotes, ravens, a woodcutter who tries to cheat death, the Virgin Mary, a golden carp, and a young Latino who seeks immortality. Deeply rooted in ancient mythological beliefs and based on the folklore and traditions of Mexican and Native American cuentistas, these accounts of enchantment are as beautiful and mysterious as the Rio Grande itself—and serve as a testament to the lost art of oral storytelling. This ebook features illustrations by Amy Córdova.
Poetry Index Annual, 1993
Author: Inc Staff Roth PublishingPublisher: Roth Publishing Incorporated
ISBN: 9780896093294
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Author: 屈原