Author: Michelle Clayton File Type: pdf Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (18921938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two distinct settingsPeru and Pariswhich were continually crisscrossed by new developments in aesthetics, politics, and practices of everyday life his poetry and prose therefore need to be read in connection with modernity in all its forms and spaces. Michelle Clayton combines close readings of Vallejos writings with cultural, historical, and theoretical analysis, connecting Vallejoand Latin American poetryto the broader panorama of international modernism and the avant-garde, and to writers and artists such as Rainer Maria Rilke, James Joyce, Georges Bataille, and Charlie Chaplin. Poetry in Pieces sheds new light on one of the key figures in twentieth-century Latin American literature, while exploring ways of rethinking the parameters of international lyric modernity. **Review Michelle Clayton reads Vallejos poems like a virtuoso. -- Benigno Trigo, Hispanic Review Poetry in Pieces [...] foregrounds, atevery step, the strategic and corporeal experiences that inflect how onereads and writes. This book is admirable not only for its brilliant, multiplereadings of Vallejo, but also for its implicit mapping out of a terrain ofscholarship, a mode of reading, a strategically shifting location in academia. -- Sarah Ann Wells, A contracorriente a much-needed additionto the English-language literature on this Peruvian poet.[...] A talented comparatist,Clayton situates Vallejo in the wider context of twentieth-century literary history, drawing extremelyinsightful connections between, alternately, Vallejos linguistic invention and Joyceanaesthetics, his political engagement and the positions held by figures like Vicente Huidobro orAndre Breton, and his efforts to write a socialist-realist novel [...]and Sovietdebates on the relationship between literature and revolution. -- Ruben Gallo, Modernismmodernity an outstanding study that enriches not only our understanding ofVallejo, but also the broader fields of Latin American literature, internationalavant-garde culture, and modern poetry -- Leslie Bayers, Revista canadiense de estudios hispanicos This excellent study abounds with insights on an intriguing author.--Choice Ground-breaking. . . . Combines a highly attuned sense of the culturalmilieu in which Vallejo lived with a set of original readings of his poems.--Stephen M. HartModern Language Review (07012013) About the Author Michelle Clayton is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature at Brown University.

Author: Kenneth Dorter File Type: pdf Kenneth Dorters Can Different Cultures Think the Same Thoughts? is a study of fundamental issues in metaphysics and ethics across major philosophical traditions of the world, including the way in which metaphysics can be a foundation for ethics, as well as the importance of metaphysics on its own terms. Dorter examines such questions through a detailed comparison of selected major thinkers and classic works in three global philosophical traditions, those of India, China, and the West. In each chapter Dorter juxtaposes and compares two or more philosophers or classic works from different traditions, from Spinoza and Shankara, to Confucius and Plato, to Marcus Aurelius and the Bhagavad Gita. In doing so he explores different perspectives and reveals limitations and assumptions that might otherwise be obscure. The goal of Dorters cross-cultural approach is to consider how far works from different cultures can be understood as holding comparable philosophical views. Although Dorter reveals commonalities across the different traditions, he makes no claim that there is such a thing as a universal philosophy. Clearly there are fundamental disagreements among the philosophers and works studied. Yet in each of the case studies of a particular chapter, we can discover a shared, or at least analogous, way of looking at issues across different cultures. All those interested in metaphysics, ethics, Indian philosophy, Chinese philosophy, and comparative philosophy will find much of interest in this book. **

Author: Namira Nahouza File Type: pdf Wahhabism is often described as one of the most conservative branches of Islam and its fundamentalist approach seen as fuelling jihadist extremism. But what is the theological basis of Wahhabism? How do Wahhabi beliefs and doctrine differ from branches of Sunni Islam?While previous scholarship has examined Wahhabism as a political phenomenon, this book turns attention to the complex religious issues that are central to its understanding. Tracing its roots in the 18th century up until the present day, Namira Nahouza shows why the Wahhabi movement has opposed traditional Islamic scholarship on the interpretation of the Quran and hadith. Of key importance, Nahouza shows, are the differing beliefs about the oneness of God and Gods names and attributes, issues on which both Wahhabi and other Salafi groups are united. Based on extensive research into classical and contemporary Arabic religious sources, Nahouza presents the contours of Sunni theological debate and reveals how the Wahhabi movement became the predecessor to the Salafism we see today. In highlighting the far-reaching consequences of these theological divisions - both for Muslim communities and the world at large -the book fills a significant gap in existing research and is essential reading for scholars researching Islamic Theology, Islamic History, Security Studies and Islamic Radicalism.

Author: Ulises Mejias File Type: pdf