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Gus Lee, John C. Hawley
Gus Lee, John C. Hawley
English
Augustus Samuel Mein-Sun Lee was born in San Francisco on August 8, 1946, the only son of Tsung-Chi Lee and Da-Tsien Tsu. His three sisters had been born in mainland China and accompanied his mother on the difficult trek across China to India and then to the United States in 1944. There, the family rejoined Tsung-Cbi, wbo had once been a major in the Kuomintang army and who, since 1939, had been working in San Francisco for the Bank of Canton. When Gus was only five, his mother died of breast cancer, and his father, two years later, married a …
Cycles And Change In Beowulf, Phyllis Brown
Cycles And Change In Beowulf, Phyllis Brown
English
This essay argues that a fuller understanding of some cultural systems contributing to medieval spirituality in the early middle ages, transmitted to us for the most part through patristic writings, opens up different possibilities for late 20th-century readers' interpretation of the cycles and change in Beowulf, especially the poem's ending. Competing with the apocalyptic view is the possibility that dramatic reversals continue--for better and for worse--beyond Beowulf's death, beyond the end of the poem, beyond the poet's death, the audience's death, and the reader's death--until the end of time--in ways that seem meaningless unless readers provide their own understanding of …
A Voice Restored: Louise Labé'S Impersonation Of Sappho, Phyllis Brown
A Voice Restored: Louise Labé'S Impersonation Of Sappho, Phyllis Brown
English
Ever since the publication of her Œuvres in 1555, Louise Labé's name and poetic voice have been closely linked with the name, voice, and identity of the ancient Greek poet Sappho. Labé's contemporaries called her the "Sappho Lyonnaise," and Labé names and alludes to Sappho at several points in her writings. For example, in Labé's first elegy the persona specifies that Apollo has given her the lyre which was accustomed to sing about lesbian love and which would at the same time cry about hers.
Defoe And The Black Legend: The Spanish Stereotype In A New Voyage Round The World, Kathryn Rummell
Defoe And The Black Legend: The Spanish Stereotype In A New Voyage Round The World, Kathryn Rummell
English
No abstract provided.
Ngugi Wa Thiong’O., John C. Hawley
Ngugi Wa Thiong’O., John C. Hawley
English
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was born the fifth child of the third of his father's four wives; he had twenty-seven siblings. The family lived in Kamiriithu Village, twelve miles northeast of Nairobi, Kenya. His father, Thiong'o wa Nducu, was a peasant farmer dispossessed by the British Imperial Land Act of 1915 and therefore forced to become a squatter on property meted out to one of the few native Africans who had profited from the act. His father's condition was similar to that of most of the Kikuyu with whom Ngũgĩ grew up.
Making Disciples Of All Nations, John C. Hawley
Making Disciples Of All Nations, John C. Hawley
English
The whole problem is this: how to utter God in a practice of faith where I must decide what I wish to do with the woman or man I find in my path-make of him or her a human being with a right to life or a slave for life.-Jean-Marc Ela (139) Perhaps there is such a thing as seduction. Conversion. Perhaps cultures absorb one another. If it is true that the Franciscan padre forced the Eucharist down the Indian's throat, maybe she forgot to close her mouth. Maybe she swallowed the Franciscan priest. After all, the churches of Latin …
Weir(D) Australia: Picnic At Hanging Rock And The Last Wave, Douglas Keesey
Weir(D) Australia: Picnic At Hanging Rock And The Last Wave, Douglas Keesey
English
No abstract provided.
Patriarchal Mediations Of Carrie: The Book, The Movie, And The Musical, Douglas Keesey
Patriarchal Mediations Of Carrie: The Book, The Movie, And The Musical, Douglas Keesey
English
No abstract provided.
The Assignment, Kevin Clark
Passing And The Modern Persona In Kipling's Ethnographer Fiction, John S. Mcbratney
Passing And The Modern Persona In Kipling's Ethnographer Fiction, John S. Mcbratney
English
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Freya Stark, John C. Hawley
Freya Stark, John C. Hawley
English
Freya Madeline Stark lived for a century, and into that one hundred years she packed a life of extraordinary daring and ingenuity. "Personally I would rather feel wrong with everybody else than right all by myself," she wrote in Baghdad Sketches ( enlarged edition, 193 7); "I like people different, and agree with the man who said that the worst of the human race is the number of duplicates." Such a motto defines not only her approach to the world but also the character of the woman herself. She had no duplicate. The writings that resulted from her constant travels …
Moses And Machiavellism, Steven Marx
Fast Fish And Raw Fish: Moby-Dick, Japan, And Melville’S Thematics Of Geography, Russell Reising, Peter Kvidera
Fast Fish And Raw Fish: Moby-Dick, Japan, And Melville’S Thematics Of Geography, Russell Reising, Peter Kvidera
English
No abstract provided.
Deracialized Discourse: Temperance And Racial Ambiguity In Harper's 'The Two Offers' And And Sowing And Reaping
English
No abstract provided.
The Gift, Kevin Clark
The Steeple, Kevin Clark
The Interplay Of Language And Music In Machaut's Virelai 'Foy Porter', Phyllis Brown, William Peter Mahrt
The Interplay Of Language And Music In Machaut's Virelai 'Foy Porter', Phyllis Brown, William Peter Mahrt
English
Scarcely anywhere else in the repertory of lyric poetry is the identity of the poet and the composer quite as apparent as in the works of Guillaume de Machaut, the foremost French poet and musician of the fourteenth century (d1377). His works with music should be approached confidently as integral lyrics, as composite works of poetry and music, because he wrote about the process of providing music for poetry and writing texts to be set to music. Furthermore, he specified the sequence of his own compositions- narrative and lyrical, poetical and musical - all in a single book.
Anne Hutchinson And The Economics Of Antinomian Selfhood In Colonial New England, Michelle Burnham
Anne Hutchinson And The Economics Of Antinomian Selfhood In Colonial New England, Michelle Burnham
English
If American literary histories so often begin with the New England Puritans, it is because histories with such a starting point are able to tell an appealing national story of coherent community and religious freedom. So, at any rate, suggests T. H. Breen when he notes that beginning the national narrative instead with John Smith and the Virginia colony would require telling a far less pleasing tale of American greed, domination, and exploitation. Philip Gura has likewise wondered how Sacvan Bercovitch's model of an "American self," formulated from exclusively Puritan New England materials, might be complicated by John Smith's mercantilism. …
Progeny: Propero's Books, Genesis And The Tempest, Steven Marx
Progeny: Propero's Books, Genesis And The Tempest, Steven Marx
English
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South African Writing In English, John C. Hawley
South African Writing In English, John C. Hawley
English
As commentators such as Lewis Nkosi and Malvern van Wyk Smith have noted, even though writers from South Africa occasionally engage in an exploration of traditional African values (as has preoccupied the writers of many other countries), their truly characteristic impetus is to focus readers' attention on the conflict between white masters and black servitors. As Bernth Lindfors and Reingard Nethersole have shown, South African writers have had a national obsession to describe in committed detail the practical implications of apartheid, and consequently have produced a literature that is unabashedly didactic. Those who choose to write "metapolitical" fiction are generally …
Accident And Strange Calamity In ‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’, Rachel Crawford
Accident And Strange Calamity In ‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’, Rachel Crawford
English
No abstract available.
Margaret's Face, Kevin Clark
Ethics And Contemporary American Literature: Revisiting The Controversy Over John Gardner's On Moral Fiction, Marilyn Edelstein
Ethics And Contemporary American Literature: Revisiting The Controversy Over John Gardner's On Moral Fiction, Marilyn Edelstein
English
In 1978, the novelist John Gardner published a rather slender treatise called On Moral Fiction in which he claimed that true art must be moral, that little art being produced then was moral and, therefore, that most of his contemporaries were either bad artists or not artists at all.1 It is difficult to recall a book about literature and/or ethics-at least one written by a novelist or poet rather than, say, by William Bennett-that has been received with so much hostility, especially among other writers and artists. Was the hostile response deserved, or is there, beneath the polemics and diatribes, …
Introduction To Through A Glass Darkly: Essays In The Religious Imagination, John C. Hawley
Introduction To Through A Glass Darkly: Essays In The Religious Imagination, John C. Hawley
English
The question that so disturbed Christ's contemporaries resonates even now: "Who do you say that I am?" (Matt. 16 : 15). Paradoxically, the answers his disciples boldly or clumsily offer seem to define them far more clearly than describe their teacher. The New Testament stands as a record of their subsequent obsession with the question, with what they remember their answers to have been, and with how this radically creative interrogation ordered their remaining years. Throughout the centuries their own disciples, variously aided and obstructed by these confessions, used the question as a litmus test not only in their prayer …
The Re Racination Of Driss Chraïbi: A Hajj In Search Of Mecca, John C. Hawley
The Re Racination Of Driss Chraïbi: A Hajj In Search Of Mecca, John C. Hawley
English
In his Introduction to Faces ef Islam, Kenneth Harrow refers to Clifford Geertz's elaboration of three forms of lslam that he observed in Morocco.The first was based upon a cultic veneration of dead saints and those in a patrilinear descent (the "siyyid complex"); the second was centered around individual holy men, marabou ts, and their set of practices (the" zawiya complex"); and the third was focused on the "royal assumption of sacred power assured through descent in the Prophet's line" (Harrow 1991, 6).This last form Geertz called the "maxzen complex" (Geertz 1968, 49-53).While it can be reasonably argued that Driss …
Holy War In Henry Fifth, Steven Marx
Twelve, Kevin Clark
Ben Okri’S Spirit Child: Abiku Migration And Postmodernity, John C. Hawley
Ben Okri’S Spirit Child: Abiku Migration And Postmodernity, John C. Hawley
English
The widespread notion of the abiku in Nigerian culture says volumes about the heartrending deaths of countless newborns throughout the region's history. It also testifies to a belief in the permeability of the membrane separating the spirit world from "our" world. As the abiku puts it, in his family he is surrounded by people "who are seeded in rich lands, who still believe in mysteries" (F am 6), people who hold that "one world contains glimpses of others" (F am 1 0), and people who acknowledge a personal relationship with these spirits in the course of daily life. In western …
"Unmarkt, Unknown": The Return Of The Expressed In Paradise Regained, Douglas M. Lanier
"Unmarkt, Unknown": The Return Of The Expressed In Paradise Regained, Douglas M. Lanier
English
No abstract provided.
Stature, Kevin Clark