Icons of African American Literature: The Black Literary World
Author: Yolanda Williams Page File Type: pdf Icons of African American Literature The Black Literary World examines 24 of the most popular and culturally significant topics within African American literatures long and immensely fascinating history. Each piece provide substantial, in-depth informationmuch more than a typical encyclopedia entrywhile remaining accessible and appealing to general and younger readers.Arranged alphabetically, the entries cover such writers as Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and August Wilson major works, such as Invisible Man, Native Son, and Their Eyes Were Watching God and a range of cultural topics, including the black arts movement, the Harlem Renaissance, and the jazz aesthetic. Written by expert contributors, the essays discuss the enduring significance of these topics in American history and popular culture. Each entry also provides sidebars that highlight interesting information and suggestions for further reading.About the AuthorYOLANDA WILLIAMS PAGE is Professor and Chair of the Department of English, Theatre, and Mass Communication at the University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff.
Author: Andrew Crislip
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The literature of late ancient Christianity is rich both in saints who lead lives of almost Edenic health and in saints who court and endure horrifying diseases. In such narratives, health and illness might signify the sanctity of the ascetic, or invite consideration of a broader theology of illness. In Thorns in the Flesh, Andrew Crislip draws on a wide range of texts from the fourth through sixth centuries that reflect persistent and contentious attempts to make sense of the illness of the ostensibly holy. These sources include Lives of Antony, Paul, Pachomius, and others theological treatises by Basil of Caesarea and Evagrius of Pontus and collections of correspondence from the period such as the Letters of Barsanuphius and John. Through close readings of these texts, Crislip shows how late ancient Christians complicated and critiqued hagiographical commonplaces and radically reinterpreted illness as a valuable mode for spiritual and ascetic practice. Illness need not point to sin or failure, he demonstrates, but might serve in itself as a potent form of spiritual practice that surpasses even the most strenuous of ascetic labors and opens up the sufferer to a more direct knowledge of the self and the divine. Crislip provides a fresh and nuanced look at the contentious and dynamic theology of illness that emerged in and around the ascetic and monastic cultures of the later Roman world. **html
Author: M. C. Bradbrook
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First published in 1978. In this study, Shakespeares own life story and the development of English theatrical history are placed in the wider context of Elizabethan and Jacobean times, but the works themselves are the final objective of this applied biography. The main contention of the book is that Shakespeares life was the lure of the stage itself which inspired him to transform what everyday life provided into the worlds of Hamlet, King Lear and Prospero. **
Author: Lemmy Kilmister
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Told with Lemmys indomitable charisma and humour, this is the autobiography of a rock icon who over the past thirty years in the industry, has stayed true to his music, his fans and his pleasures. Lemmy was born Ian Fraser Kilmister in 1945, the son of a vicar who walked out on his mother when Lemmy was just three months old. Having been inspired to play the guitar by Chicks, Little Richard and Buddy Holly, Lemmy formed what would become the ultimate metal group in 1975 and christened them Motorhead. The group went on to embrace a rock-and-roll lifestyle fuelled by drink, drugs and women, and in the process released twenty-one albums and attracted a huge following. WHITE LINE FEVER is a truly headbanging tour through the last few decades of speedmetal, offering a sometimes hilarious, often outrageous, but highly entertaining trip with the frontman of the loudest rock band in the world.
Author: Joseph Stalin
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Translated from the Russian in 1933, this and thefirst volume of the same title give an invaluable picture of what the Russian leader Joseph Stalin understood by Leninism. Building on the pamphlet Foundations of Leninism, (which forms the first part of this book)the work presents a unified and complete work on the problems of Leninism and socialist construction as they were manifested in the 1920s, as well as discussion of the October Revolution and the relationship of the USSR and the West in the years following the First World War.
Author: Scott Freer
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Were all Modernists either skeptical or reactionary in matters of Christian belief? How can we express ideas of the sacred distinct from religious commitment? Modernist Mythopoeia The Twilight of the Gods argues that the experimental modernist form of mythopoeia was directed towards expressing a range of poetic perspectives that fall between material secularism and dogmatic religion. Modernist mythopoeia is a literary means of eschewing the language of certainty while giving voice to the nature and function of transcendence in a post-religious context. As a comparative study, Scott Freer offers fresh readings on a range of key trans-Atlantic modernist texts, whilst considering their various mythopoeic method or vision Nietzsches Thus Spake Zarauthustra, T.S. Eliots The Waste Land, Franz Kafkas Metamorphosis, Hilda Doolittles Trilogy, D.H. Lawrences Birds, Beasts and Flowers!, and Wallace Stevens Harmonium. The twilight of modernist mythopoeia is the nuanced and complex way of a godless aesthetic, for it accommodates various shades of secularity and religiosity and brings an inconclusiveness to the mysteries of human existence to be embraced and poeticized. The book is a timely addition to the post-secular debate as well as to the return of religion in modernist studies. **
Author: Yopie Prins
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In Ladies Greek, Yopie Prins illuminates a culture of female classical literacy that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century, during the formation of womens colleges on both sides of the Atlantic. Why did Victorian women of letters desire to learn ancient Greek, a dead language written in a strange alphabet and no longer spoken? In the words of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, they wrote some Greek upon the margin--ladys Greek, without the accents. Yet in the margins of classical scholarship they discovered other ways of knowing, and not knowing, Greek. Mediating between professional philology and the popularization of classics, these passionate amateurs became an important medium for classical transmission. Combining archival research on the entry of women into Greek studies in Victorian England and America with a literary interest in their translations of Greek tragedy, Prins demonstrates how women turned to this genre to perform a passion for ancient Greek, full of eros and pathos. She focuses on five tragedies--Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Electra, Hippolytus, and The Bacchae--to analyze a wide range of translational practices by women and to explore the ongoing legacy of Ladies Greek. Key figures in this story include Barrett Browning and Virginia Woolf, Janet Case and Jane Harrison, Edith Hamilton and Eva Palmer, and A. Mary F. Robinson and H.D. The book also features numerous illustrations, including photographs of early performances of Greek tragedy at womens colleges. The first comparative study of Anglo-American Hellenism, Ladies Greek opens up new perspectives in transatlantic Victorian studies and the study of classical reception, translation, and gender.
Author: Mary Ann Caws
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasurethat of being Salvador Dali. He was a force unto himself, an icon of outrageousness, artistic brilliance, eccentricity, and unmistakable style. Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali y Domenech, Marquis of Pubol, was one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century, and in this concise narrative acclaimed art historian Mary Ann Caws provides a sharply written survey of his life and work. Salvador Dali examines every twist and turn in Dalis long and multifaceted career and the pivotal artistic movements at whose center he stood. From his early life in the Catalan region and his expulsions from the School of Fine Arts in Madrid and other schools to the surrealist movement and his work with Bunuel on the films Un chein andalou and LAge dor, Caws charts Dalis influences and creative process. Dalis turbulent personal life brought him in contact with a rich assortment of intellectual figures, and Caws considers his relationships with his family his lovers, including the married Elena Diakonova and with friends such as poet Federico Garcia Lorca. His writings, drawings, photography, and painted works offer up new clues about the artist under Cawss incisive eye, as she analyzes his lesser-known writings and creative works, as well as his Surrealist paintings and hand-painted dream photographs such as The Persistence of Memory. A masterfully written biographical study, Salvador Dali paints an arresting portrait of one of the most elusive artists of our time.
Author: Roald Dahl
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From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected book of his darkest stories. The cruelest lies are often told in silence . . . Why do we lie? Why do we deceive those we love most? What do we fear revealing? In these ten tales of deception master storyteller Roald Dahl explores our tireless efforts to hide the truth about ourselves. Here, among many others, youll read about how to get away with the perfect murder, the old man whose wagers end in a most disturbing payment, how revenge is sweeter when it is carried out by someone else and the card sharp so good at cheating he does something surprising with his life. Dahl understood our deepest secrets, desires and fears and Deception is one of four books - the rest being Lust, Cruelty and Madness - that explore our hidden selves. **
Author: Graham Williams
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This book traces the development of the ideal of sincerity from its origins in Anglo-Saxon monasteries to its eventual currency in fifteenth-century familiar letters. Beginning by positioning sincerity as an ideology at the intersection of historical pragmatics and the history of emotions, the author demonstrates how changes in the relationship between outward expression and inward emotions changed English language and literature. While the early chapters reveal that the notion of sincerity was a Christian intervention previously absent from Germanic culture, the latter part of the book provides more focused studies of contrition and love. In doing so, the author argues that under the rubric of courtesy these idealized emotions influenced English in terms of its everyday pragmatics and literary style. This fascinating volume will be of broad interest to scholars of medieval language, literature and culture.