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Rio Mimbres Acequia Systems: An Oral History, Neal W. Ackerly Jan 1993

Rio Mimbres Acequia Systems: An Oral History, Neal W. Ackerly

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This volume contains transcripts of interviews with various residents collected during the 1993 field phase of the survey of acequia systems in the Mimbres Valley. As noted in Volume 1, additional interviews were conducted with other residents, but were not recorded. Accordingly, no transcript of these interview sessions cannot be included here.

The individuals interviewed, as well as the abbreviated names appearing in these transcripts, included John VonTress (JVT, age 57), Regis McSherry (RM, age 67), Sam Grijalva (age 73), Charles Disert (age 84), and Horace Bounds (HB, age 90). Vesta McSherry, appearing as VM in transcripts, provided additional information …


Diamond Days: An Oral History Of The University Of Texas At El Paso, Charles H. Martin, Rebecca M. Craver Jan 1991

Diamond Days: An Oral History Of The University Of Texas At El Paso, Charles H. Martin, Rebecca M. Craver

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Freud's Dream Of Interpretation, Ken Frieden Jan 1990

Freud's Dream Of Interpretation, Ken Frieden

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Frieden explores methods of dream interpretation in the Bible, the Talmud, and in the writings of Sugmund Freud, and brings to light Freud's Troubled relationship to his Judaic forerunners. This book reveals unfamiliar associations in intellectual history and challenges received ideas in biblical, Talmudic, and Freudian scholarship.


Genius And Monologue, Ken Frieden Jan 1985

Genius And Monologue, Ken Frieden

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"Genius is the intellectual obsession of our time," Ken Frieden writes, "and monologue is one symptom of the disorder." From ancient, spiritual conceptions of genius to modern notions of the extraordinary mind, Frieden traces associated philosophic and literary expressions of inspiration and individuality.

Frieden juxtaposes the evolving forms of genius with traditions of monologue in pre-Shakespearean and Shakespearean drama, Romantic poetry, and nineteenthand twentieth-century fiction. He delineates the linguistic mechanisms that have shaped the dominant ideology of genius, showing that while literary monologues typically break the conventions of dialogue, aethetics ultimately identifies originality with deviance and madness. The successive guises …