Viewpoint diversity is suddenly on everyone’s lips — yet few agree on what it really means. Is it about political balance? Free speech? Academic inclusion? Or something far more vital — the courage to engage across difference?In Viewpoint...Loe edasi...
Exploring uncharted literary territory, Nothing Sacred: Outspoken Voices in Contemporary Fiction offers the reading public a compilation of spellbinding stories on topics as diverse as crumbling male privilege, moonshine whiskey brewing, langu...Loe edasi...
François Neyt, Henrich Schweizer, Cutsem Anne Vanderstraete-Van, Dieter Buchhart, Kevin Dumouchelle, Lance Entwistle, Bernard de Grunne, Susan Kloman, Alexis Maggiar, Constantine Petridis...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300267020)
The ultimate and authoritative introduction to Songye culture, sculpture, masks, and iron forging The ultimate and authoritative introduction to Songye culture, sculpture, masks, and iron forging This lavishly illustrated book...Loe edasi...
Nothing Sacred offers the reading public a compilation of spellbinding stories from both emerging and established authors on topics as diverse as crumbling male privilege, moonshine whiskey brewing, language policing, immigrant experience,...Loe edasi...
Bernard Schweizer, Lina Molokotos-Liederman, Yasmin Amin
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bristol University Press, ISBN-13: 9781529214673)
This thought-provoking collection offers a multi-disciplinary approach on the subject of humour, Muslims, and Islam.Beginning with theoretical perspectives and scriptural guidance on permissible and restricted humour, the volume presents a variety of...Loe edasi...
This book traces the development of religious comedy and leverages that history to justify today’s uses of religious humor in all of its manifestations, including irreverent jokes. It argues that regulating humor is futile and counterproductive, i...Loe edasi...
Epic has long been regarded as the exclusive domain of the male literary genius and as an incarnation of patriarchal values. This provocative collection of essays challenges such a hegemonic stereotype by demonstrating the ways in which women writers...Loe edasi...
This book traces the development of religious comedy and leverages that history to justify today’s uses of religious humor in all of its manifestations, including irreverent jokes. It argues that regulating humor is futile and counterproductive, i...Loe edasi...
Epic has long been regarded as the exclusive domain of the male literary genius and as an incarnation of patriarchal values. This provocative collection of essays challenges such a hegemonic stereotype by demonstrating the ways in which women writers...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Nov-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110555943)
Heresy studies is a new interdisciplinary, supra-religious, and humanist field of study that focuses on borderlands of dogma, probes the intersections between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and explores the realms of dissent in religion, art, and liter...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Nov-2012, Hardback, Kirjastus: Salem Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9781429837378)
Odysseus, Gilgamesh, Aneas, even The Lord of the Rings Frodo-their stories thrill us with their adventure and classic quest themes. this volume considers the heros quest with both new and original essays that discuss works such as The Odyssey, T...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Nov-2010, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199751389)
While atheists such as Richard Dawkins have now become public figures, there is another and perhaps darker strain of religious rebellion that has remained out of sight---people who hate God.In this revealing book, Bernard Schweizer looks at m...Loe edasi...
With its specific focus on the connections between politics, travel, and travel writing, Not So Innocent Abroad offers a fresh approach to the study of travel literature....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2006, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Delaware Press, ISBN-13: 9781611492965)
Rebecca West Today, the first-ever collection of essays on this prolific writer, employs cutting-edge as well as more traditional methodological approaches, ranging from historicism to gender studies, textual analyses, and philosophical engage...Loe edasi...
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Recovering a viable though largely neglected minor tradition in literary history, scholars of literature from the US, Britain, and India identify some of the Anglo-American women who have successfully attempted since the 17th century to enter the can...Loe edasi...
Rebecca Wests never-before-published Survivors in Mexico brings to readers a work by a major 20thh-century author. An exhilarating exploration of Mexican history, religion, art and culture, it explores the inner lives of figures ranging from Corr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Apr-2003, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300098860)
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The publication of Rebecca Wests Survivors in Mexico marks an important literary event: the rescue from oblivion of a daring and important work by an major twentieth-century writer. This book is Wests exploration of Mexican history, religion, and c...Loe edasi...
Rebecca West (1892-1983) was a prominent English critic, journalist, and novelist. She contributed to feminist and socialist magazines, had a lengthy relationship with H. G. Wells, and was named Dame of the British Empire in 1959. Her literary reputa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Nov-2001, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813920696)
Schweizer, an independent scholar, explores the travel writing of George Orwell, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Rebecca West. The observations made by these westerners of the lands they visited Catalonia, Africa, Mexico, and Yugoslavia provide a ra...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Nov-2001, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813920702)
In the 1930s, the discourse of travel furthered widely divergent and conflicting ideologies—socialist, conservative, male chauvinist, and feminist—and the major travel writers of the time revealed as much in their texts. Evelyn Waugh was a declare...Loe edasi...
