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  1. Of women, outcastes, peasants, and rebels :
    a selection of Bengali short stories /
    Contributor: Bardhan, Kalpana, (editor.)
    Published: [1990]; ©1990
    Publisher:  University of California Press,, Berkeley, CA :

    Until now the large body of socially focused Bengali literature has remained little known to Western readers. This collection includes some of the finest examples of Bengali short stories-stories that reflect the turmoil of a changing society... more

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    Until now the large body of socially focused Bengali literature has remained little known to Western readers. This collection includes some of the finest examples of Bengali short stories-stories that reflect the turmoil of a changing society traditionally characterized by rigid hierarchical structures of privilege and class differentiation.Written over a span of roughly ninety years from the early 1890s to the late 1970s, the twenty stories in this collection represent the work of five authors. Their characters, drawn from widely varying social groups, often find themselves caught up in tumultuous political and social upheaval.The reader encounters Rabindranath Thakur's extraordinarily spirited and bold heroines; Manik Bandyopadhyay's peasants, laborers, fisherfolk, and outcastes; and Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay's rural underclass of snake-charmers, corpse-handlers, stick-wielders, potters, witches, and Vaishnava minstrels. Mahasweta Devi gives voice to the semi-landless tribals and untouchables effectively denied the rights guaranteed them by the Constitution; Hasan Azizul Huq depicts the plight of the impoverished of Bangladesh.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Bardhan, Kalpana, (editor.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9786612355547; 0-520-90945-3; 1-282-35554-6; 0-585-11177-4
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    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: Voices from Asia ; ; 1
    Subjects: Short stories, Bengali
    Other subjects: 19th century.; 20th century.; academic.; asian literature.; bengali literature.; contemporary.; domestic.; eastern literature.; family life.; feminism.; feminist history.; feminist.; folk stories.; folk tales.; folklore.; international literature.; literary analysis.; literary.; scholarly.; short stories.; short story anthology.; short story collection.; womens history.; womens issues.
    Scope: 1 online resource (339 p.)
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    Translated from Bengali.

    Includes bibliographical references.
  2. Sleeping with the Dictionary /
    Author: Mullen, Harryette,
    Published: [2002]; ©2002
    Publisher:  University of California Press,, Berkeley, CA :

    Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her ménage... more

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    Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her ménage à trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that while Roget seems obsessed with categories and hierarchies, the American Heritage, whatever its faults, was compiled with the assistance of a democratic usage panel that included black poets Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, as well as feminist author and editor Gloria Steinem. With its arbitrary yet determinant alphabetical arrangement, its gleeful pursuit of the ludic pleasure of word games (acrostic, anagram, homophone, parody, pun), as well as its reflections on the politics of language and dialect, Mullen's work is serious play. A number of the poems are inspired or influenced by a technique of the international literary avant-garde group Oulipo, a dictionary game called S+7 or N+7. This method of textual transformation--which is used to compose nonsensical travesties reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"--also creates a kind of automatic poetic discourse.Mullen's parodies reconceive the African American's relation to the English language and Anglophone writing, through textual reproduction, recombining the genetic structure of texts from the Shakespearean sonnet and the fairy tale to airline safety instructions and unsolicited mail. The poet admits to being "licked all over by the English tongue," and the title of this book may remind readers that an intimate partner who also gives language lessons is called, euphemistically, a "pillow dictionary."

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0-520-92783-4
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    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: New California Poetry ; ; 4
    Subjects: Language and languages; African Americans
    Other subjects: academic.; acrostic poetry.; american heritage.; anagram.; arna bontemps.; black poetry.; black poets.; creative writing.; democracy.; dictionary.; english language.; english poetry.; famous poet.; female poet.; feminism.; feminist.; gloria steinem.; heritage.; homophone.; langston hughes.; literary analysis.; literary critique.; parody.; poetic forms.; poetics.; poetry studies.; poetry.; puns.; scholarly.; thesaurus.; word games.
    Scope: 1 online resource (99 p.)
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  3. Erec and Enide /
    Author: Chrétien,
    Published: 1992.
    Publisher:  University of California Press,, Berkeley :

    In this new verse translation of one of the great works of French literature, Dorothy Gilbert captures the vivacity, wit, and grace of the first known Arthurian romance. Erec and Enide is the story of the quest and coming of age of a young knight, an... more

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    In this new verse translation of one of the great works of French literature, Dorothy Gilbert captures the vivacity, wit, and grace of the first known Arthurian romance. Erec and Enide is the story of the quest and coming of age of a young knight, an illustrious member of Arthur's court, who must learn to balance the demands of a masculine public life-tests of courage, skill, adaptability, and mature judgment-with the equally urgent demands of the private world of love and marriage. We see his wife, Enide, develop as an exemplar of chivalry in the female, not as an Amazon, but as a brave, resolute, and wise woman. Composed ca. 1170, Erec and Enide masterfully combines elements of Celtic legend, classical and ecclesiastical learning, and French medieval culture and ideals.In choosing to write in rhymed octosyllabic couplets-Chrétien's prosodic pattern-Dorothy Gilbert has tried to reproduce what so often gets lost in prose or free verse translations: the precise and delicate meter; the rhyme, with its rich possibilities for emphasis, nuance, puns and jokes; and the "mantic power" implicit in proper names. The result will enable the scholar who cannot read Old French, the student of literature, and the general reader to gain a more sensitive and immediate understanding of the form and spirit of Chrétien's poetry, and to appreciate the more Chrétien's great contribution to European literature.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Gilbert, Dorothy,
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1-282-35587-2; 9786612355875; 0-520-91097-4
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    Edition: 1st ed.
    Subjects: Erec (Legendary character); Arthurian romances.; Knights and knighthood
    Other subjects: 1170.; academic.; ancient world.; arthurian romance.; celtic legend.; chivalry.; classic literature.; coming of age.; courage.; courtly romance.; european literature.; folklore.; french literature.; gender roles.; jokes.; king arthur.; knight.; knighthood.; literary history.; literary studies.; love story.; love.; marriage.; masculine.; masculinity.; medieval culture.; medieval france.; mythology.; old french.; poetry.; puns.; quest.; scholarly.; translation.; womens roles.; world literature.
    Scope: 1 online resource (287 pages)
    Notes:

    Translated from the Old French.

    Translation of: Eric et Enide / Chrétien de Troyes.

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-263).
  4. Emerson :
    the mind on fire /
    Author: Richardson, Robert D.,
    Published: [2015]; ©2015
    Publisher:  University of California Press,, Berkeley, CA :

    Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his... more

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an Emerson very different from the old stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord. Drawing on a vast amount of new material, including correspondence among the Emerson brothers, Richardson gives us a rewarding intellectual biography that is also a portrait of the whole man.These pages present a young suitor, a grief-stricken widower, an affectionate father, and a man with an abiding genius for friendship. The great spokesman for individualism and self-reliance turns out to have been a good neighbor, an activist citizen, a loyal brother. Here is an Emerson who knew how to laugh, who was self-doubting as well as self-reliant, and who became the greatest intellectual adventurer of his age.Richardson has, as much as possible, let Emerson speak for himself through his published works, his many journals and notebooks, his letters, his reported conversations. This is not merely a study of Emerson's writing and his influence on others; it is Emerson's life as he experienced it. We see the failed minister, the struggling writer, the political reformer, the poetic liberator.The Emerson of this book not only influenced Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, Dickinson, and Frost, he also inspired Nietzsche, William James, Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Jorge Luis Borges. Emerson's timeliness is persistent and striking: his insistence that literature and science are not separate cultures, his emphasis on the worth of every individual, his respect for nature.Richardson gives careful attention to the enormous range of Emerson's readings-from Persian poets to George Sand-and to his many friendships and personal encounters-from Mary Moody Emerson to the Cherokee chiefs in Boston-evoking both the man and the times in which he lived. Throughout this book, Emerson's unquenchable vitality reaches across the decades, and his hold on us endures.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0-520-91837-1; 0-585-24999-7
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    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: Centennial Book
    Subjects: Authors, American
    Other subjects: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, (1803-1882.); Emerson, Ralph Waldo, (1803-1882); academic.; activism.; activist.; american authors.; american history.; american literature.; baudelaire.; biographical.; biography.; contemporary literature.; correspondence.; dickinson.; domestic.; family life.; famous author.; famous philosopher.; fuller.; individualism.; letters.; life story.; nietzsche.; philosophy.; proust.; religion.; sage of concord.; scholarly.; self reliance.; stereotype.; thoreau.; true story.; untold story.; whitman.; woolf.
    Scope: 1 online resource (xiii, 671 p., [16] p. of plates ), ill. ;
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    Includes index.

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 585-656) and index.
  5. The curious humanist :
    Siegfried Kracauer in America /
    Author: von Moltke, Johannes,
    Published: [2016]; ©2016
    Publisher:  University of California Press,, Berkeley, CA :

    During the Weimar Republic, Siegfried Kracauer established himself as a trenchant theorist of film, culture, and modernity, and he is now considered one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century. When he arrived in Manhattan aboard a crowded... more

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    During the Weimar Republic, Siegfried Kracauer established himself as a trenchant theorist of film, culture, and modernity, and he is now considered one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century. When he arrived in Manhattan aboard a crowded refugee ship in 1941, however, he was virtually unknown in the United States and had yet to write his best-known books, From Caligari to Hitler and Theory of Film. Johannes von Moltke details the intricate ways in which the American intellectual and political context shaped Kracauer's seminal contributions to film studies and shows how, in turn, Kracauer's American writings helped shape the emergent discipline. Using archival sources and detailed readings, von Moltke asks what it means to consider Kracauer as the New York Intellectual he became in the last quarter century of his life. Adopting a transatlantic perspective on Kracauer's work, von Moltke demonstrates how he pursued questions in conversation with contemporary critics from Theodor Adorno to Hannah Arendt, from Clement Greenberg to Robert Warshow: questions about the origins of totalitarianism and the authoritarian personality; about high and low culture; about liberalism, democracy, and what it means to be human. From these wide-flung debates, Kracauer's own voice emerges as that of an incisive cultural critic invested in a humanist understanding of the cinema.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0-520-96485-3
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    Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion pictures; Motion pictures; Film critics
    Other subjects: Kracauer, Siegfried, (1889-1966); 1940s.; 20th century.; academic.; american history.; authoritarian.; caligari.; clement greenberg.; contemporary philosopher.; contemporary thinker.; culture.; film making.; film studies.; film theory.; great thinkers.; hannah arendt.; hitler.; immigrant.; immigration.; intellectual.; manhattan.; modern thinker.; modern world.; modernity.; new york.; philosopher.; philosophy.; refugee.; research.; robert warshow.; siegfried kracauer.; theodor adorno.; theorist.; theory of film.; theory.; totalitarianism.; transatlantic.; united states.; weimar republic.; world history.
    Scope: 1 online resource (333 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Introduction: Siegfried Kracauer and the politics of film theory -- Metropolitan contact zones: Kracauer in New York -- Totalitarian propaganda -- Nazi cinema -- Freedom from fear? -- From Hitler to Caligari: spaces of Weimar cinema -- Authoritarian, totalitarian -- Reframing Caligari: the politics of cinema -- Theory of film and the subject of experience -- The curious humanist -- History and humanist subjectivity -- Epilogue: Siegfried Kracauer and the emergence of film studies.
  6. Sappho's lyre :
    archaic lyric and women poets of ancient Greece /
    Author: Rayor, Diane J.,
    Published: [1991]; ©1991
    Publisher:  University of California Press,, Berkeley, CA :

    Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of... more

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    Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this unique anthology, today's reader can enjoy the works of seventeen poets, including a selection of archaic lyric and the complete surviving works of the ancient Greek women poets-the latter appearing together in one volume for the first time.Sappho's Lyre is a combination of diligent research and poetic artistry. The translations are based on the most recent discoveries of papyri (including "new" Archilochos and Stesichoros) and the latest editions and scholarship. The introduction and notes provide historical and literary contexts that make this ancient poetry more accessible to modern readers.Although this book is primarily aimed at the reader who does not know Greek, it would be a splendid supplement to a Greek language course. It will also have wide appeal for readers of' ancient literature, women's studies, mythology, and lovers of poetry.

     
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  7. Shakespeare's metrical art /
    Author: Wright, George Thaddeus.
    Published: 1988
    Publisher:  University of California Press,, Berkeley :

    This is a wide-ranging, poetic analysis of the great English poetic line, iambic pentameter, as used by Chaucer, Sidney, Milton, and particularly by Shakespeare. George T. Wright offers a detailed survey of Shakespeare's brilliantly varied metrical... more

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    This is a wide-ranging, poetic analysis of the great English poetic line, iambic pentameter, as used by Chaucer, Sidney, Milton, and particularly by Shakespeare. George T. Wright offers a detailed survey of Shakespeare's brilliantly varied metrical keyboard and shows how it augments the expressiveness of his characters' stage language.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1-282-35496-5; 9786612354960; 0-520-91193-8
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    Edition: 1st ed.
    Subjects: English language
    Other subjects: Shakespeare, William, (1564-1616); academic.; accentual.; chaucer.; creative writing.; iambic pentameter.; line of poetry.; literary analysis.; literary history.; meter.; metrical style.; metrical.; milton.; pentameter.; poet.; poetic analysis.; poetic forms.; poetic line.; poetic meter.; poetic.; poetry collection.; poetry reference book.; poetry studies.; poetry.; rhythm.; scansion.; scholarly.; shakespeare.; sidney.; writing poetry.
    Scope: 1 online resource (366 p.)
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    Includes index.

    Includes bibliographical references and index.
  8. The gold standard and the logic of naturalism :
    American literature at the turn of the century /
    Author: Michaels, Walter Benn,
    Published: [1987]; ©1987
    Publisher:  University of California Press,, Berkeley, CA :

    The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism discusses ways of creating value in turn-of-the-century American capitalism. Focusing on such topics as the alienation of property, the invention of masochism, and the battle over free silver, it examines... more

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    The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism discusses ways of creating value in turn-of-the-century American capitalism. Focusing on such topics as the alienation of property, the invention of masochism, and the battle over free silver, it examines the participation of cultural forms in these phenomena. It imagines a literary history that must at the same time be social, economic, and legal; and it imagines a literature that, to be understood at all, must be understood both as a producer and a product of market capitalism.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0-520-90829-5; 1-282-35529-5; 9786612355295; 0-585-16121-6
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    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics ; ; 2
    Subjects: Historicism.; Economics in literature.; Capitalism and literature.; Consumption (Economics) in literature.; Production (Economic theory) in literature.; Naturalism in literature.; American fiction
    Other subjects: academic.; american capitalism.; american culture.; american history.; american literature.; capitalism.; capitalist.; contract.; corporate.; culture.; economics.; economy.; finance.; legal issues.; literary history.; literature.; market capitalism.; masochism.; money.; naturalism.; popular economy.; property.; real estate.; scholarly.; social studies.; turn of the century.; us history.
    Scope: 1 online resource (261 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
  9. Encounter :
    a novel of nineteenth-century Korea /
    Author: Hahn, Moo-sook,
    Published: [1992]; ©1992
    Publisher:  University of California Press,, Berkeley, CA :

    This historical novel, Encounter (Mannam), by Hahn Moo-Sook, one of Asia's most honored writers, is a story of the resilience in the Korean spirit. It is told through the experiences of Tasan, a high-ranking official and foremost Neo-Confucian... more

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    This historical novel, Encounter (Mannam), by Hahn Moo-Sook, one of Asia's most honored writers, is a story of the resilience in the Korean spirit. It is told through the experiences of Tasan, a high-ranking official and foremost Neo-Confucian scholar at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Because of Tasan's fascination with Western learning, then synonymous with Catholicism, he is exiled to a remote province for 18 years. In banishment he meets people from various social and religious backgrounds-Buddhist monks, peasants, shamans-whom he would not otherwise have met. The events of Tasan's life are effectively used to depict the confluence of Buddhist, Neo-Confucian, Taoist, and shamanistic beliefs in traditional Korea.A subplot involves three young sisters, the daughters of a prominent Catholic aristocrat, and affords the reader vivid glimpses into Yi-dynasty women's lives, particularly those of palace ladies, scholars' wives, tavern keepers, shamans, and slaves. In contrast to the long-held Confucian stereotype of female subservience, this story illustrates the richness of women's contribution to Korean culture and tradition.Encounter's detailed narrative provides a broad and informed view of nineteenth-century Korea, making it a highly useful book for courses on Korean literature and society. It will also be an engaging read for lovers of historical fiction.

     
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