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Essays on Music and History in Africa (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This classic ethnomusicological survey provides a valuable guide to African music. The essays review a broad swath of genres and topics, including court songs and music history, musical instruments in different traditions, and the connection between Islam and African music.
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Fair Rosamond: A Study of the Development of a Literary Theme (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In Fair Rosamond Virgil B. Heltzel traces the character of Rosamond Clifford, known as ""Fair Rosamond"" - which has its origins as a theme in medieval literature - through its use in poetry and plays and novels, from the Renaissance through the early twentieth century.
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Matthew Arnold the Ethnologist (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Originally published in 1951, this book makes the original argument that the renowned English critic Matthew Arnold contributed to the climate of ""racialism"" current... Læs mere
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Miracle Marks: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)In her third poetry collection, Miracle Marks, the indomitable Purvi Shah charts women's status through pointed explorations of Hindu iconography and philosophy and powerful critiques of American racism.
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Motive and Intention: An Essay in the Appreciation of Action (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Offers a critique of certain conceptual foundations of the description and judgment of human action. Drawing on sources such as narrative... Læs mere
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Nathanael West: An Interpretive Study (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This study of the novels of Nathanael West begins with the important threads of West’s life and their relationship to his works. James Light gives a detailed... Læs mere
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Printed Writings by George W. Russell: A Bibliography (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)This bibliography lists the books, paintings, and portraits of the mystic Irish poet George William Russell, best known by his pseudonym, ""AE"".... Læs mere
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The Price of Literature: The French Novel's Theoretical Turn (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Examines the presence of theory in the nineteenth-century French novel. Emerging after the French Revolution, what we call literature was... Læs mere
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Samuel Johnson and Moral Discipline (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Provides a reading of Johnson that emphasizes his moral discourse. After its publication, Alkon's book became the standard reading of Johnson's essays, contrasting... Læs mere
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Scandinavian Elements of Finnegans Wake (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Examines the significance of Scandinavian history, literature, and languages for the composition of James Joyce's masterwork. The significance of Dounia Bunis Christiani's work lies in her deep historical and cultural analysis.
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Science and the Humanities (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Contains five lectures concerning the discussion of the relation of science and the humanities, focusing on the work of thinkers such as James B. Conant and C.P. Snow.
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Schools of Our Own: Chicago's Golden Age of Black Private Education (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Recounts how a diverse contingent of educators, nuns, and political activists embraced institution building as the most effective means... Læs mere
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