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Book A South Carolina Requiem

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tony Scully
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2022-04-04
  • ISBN : 1666736775
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book A South Carolina Requiem written by Tony Scully and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A South Carolina Requiem, the final book in Tony Scully’s trilogy, evokes his earlier books, A Carolina Psalter and Come into the Light, with poems addressing foundation texts with questions and occasional confrontation as we move into new understandings of Spirit. As South Carolina strives forward in cultural achievements in science, education, and the arts, A South Carolina Requiem celebrates the warmth of its people and their continuing determination to fight for justice and civil rights. A South Carolina Requiem acknowledges the struggles over the centuries of dirt farmers and mill workers, the removal of the Cherokee in the Trail of Tears, and the injustices of slavery and Jim Crow as the threshold of rebirth and transformation. Scully’s poems interact with South Carolina traditions and rituals: Baptist hymns; Presbyterian hymns; Anglican hymns; the Kaddish; the Cherokee prayer at death; significant sermons in the history of the Carolinas; and the Requiem Mass, itself a compendium of ancient and revered texts. The poems also interact with the sometimes controversial public events and personalities that have challenged and ultimately transformed the people of the state.

Book A South Carolina Requiem

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tony Scully
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2022-04-04
  • ISBN : 1666795577
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book A South Carolina Requiem written by Tony Scully and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A South Carolina Requiem, the final book in Tony Scully's trilogy, evokes his earlier books, A Carolina Psalter and Come into the Light, with poems addressing foundation texts with questions and occasional confrontation as we move into new understandings of Spirit. As South Carolina strives forward in cultural achievements in science, education, and the arts, A South Carolina Requiem celebrates the warmth of its people and their continuing determination to fight for justice and civil rights. A South Carolina Requiem acknowledges the struggles over the centuries of dirt farmers and mill workers, the removal of the Cherokee in the Trail of Tears, and the injustices of slavery and Jim Crow as the threshold of rebirth and transformation. Scully's poems interact with South Carolina traditions and rituals: Baptist hymns; Presbyterian hymns; Anglican hymns; the Kaddish; the Cherokee prayer at death; significant sermons in the history of the Carolinas; and the Requiem Mass, itself a compendium of ancient and revered texts. The poems also interact with the sometimes controversial public events and personalities that have challenged and ultimately transformed the people of the state.

Book Requiem by Fire

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  • Author : Wayne Caldwell
  • Publisher : Random House Incorporated
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1400063442
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Requiem by Fire written by Wayne Caldwell and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2010 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up to Cataloochee follows the experiences of villagers deep in the Great Smoky Mountains who in 1928 lose their land to eminent domain forces, a situation for which some embrace the modern world while others remain committed to their rural heritage.

Book A Textual and Critical Study of William Faulkner s Requiem for a Nun

Download or read book A Textual and Critical Study of William Faulkner s Requiem for a Nun written by Noel Earl Polk and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Requiem for a Nun

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  • Author : William Faulkner
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-08-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book Requiem for a Nun written by William Faulkner and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Requiem for a Nun" by William Faulkner. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book A New Requiem

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  • Author : B Lance Jenkins
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-07-12
  • ISBN : 9781925939729
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book A New Requiem written by B Lance Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 17-year-old boy is murdered, and a gay community chorus director and teacher is wrongly accused. The small, radically-fundamental town mounts against the alleged perpetrator, whose identity so starkly contrasts with the community's social norms, and a local defense attorney must sacrifice everything to save the man he knows is innocent. A thrilling story of good and evil, 'A New Requiem' entertains with whimsical humor while constantly pulling at the heartstrings in a call for empathy and understanding toward things different than what we are used to.

Book The Ballad of Frankie Silver

Download or read book The Ballad of Frankie Silver written by Sharyn McCrumb and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Bestseller Set in the Appalachian wilderness and blending legends and folklore with high suspense, this stellar novel, The Ballad of Frankie Silver, is considered one of McCrumb's crowning achievements. In 1833 Frankie Silver was an eighteen-year-old girl convicted of murder in Burke County, North Carolina. Through a detailed investigation, the local sheriff, and soon all the townsfolk, discover reason to question her guilt---but the wheels of justice were mercilessly unstoppable, and she was hanged. Now, more than a century later, another woman is convicted of murder in the lush hills of Tennessee. Her life is in the hands of Spencer Arrowood, a man who begins to discover that the convictions of these two women have deep and haunting parallels. Although Frankie's fate cannot be changed, there is still time to alter the fate of another innocent woman. In a voice that could only be Sharyn McCrumb's, the worlds of these two murders, these two women, intersect in this densely plotted and lyrical novel—and characters, generations, and history are breathlessly painted against an Appalachian canvas.

Book No Vivaldi in the Garage

Download or read book No Vivaldi in the Garage written by Sheldon Morgenstern and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a work rich with colorful anecdotes about family, friends, and colleagues, Sheldon Morgenstern reflects on his childhood in Cleveland, Ohio, summers at the Brevard Music Festival, and years at Northwestern University. He recounts his experiences playing French horn in the Atlanta Symphony, studying conducting at the New England Conservatory, his long tenure as artistic director at the Eastern Music Festival at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, and performances as guest conductor with dozens of orchestras around the world. Morgenstern scrutinizes the reasons behind the increasing mediocrity of classical music and the precarious financial state of professional symphony orchestras, many of which have already declared bankruptcy. He sharply criticizes the NEA, the Canada Council, and other arts councils and political groups for the elimination of music education in nearly all public schools. He is also highly critical of Yo-Yo Ma, Shlomo Mintz, Daniel Barenboim, and other superstars who command extraordinary fees for sometimes second-rate performances but do little to teach young artists or to support struggling companies and festivals. He concludes by calling for strong actions that will ensure the economic survival of the arts without sacrificing excellence in performance. Filled with vivid behind-the-scenes descriptions and highlighting such well-known figures as Leonard Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Wynton Marsalis, and others, No Vivaldi in the Garage offers a refreshingly candid insider's perspective on the classical music scene.

Book Voice and Eye in Faulkner s Fiction

Download or read book Voice and Eye in Faulkner s Fiction written by Hugh M. Ruppersburg and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh M. Ruppersburg examines the use of narrative viewpoint and structure in four representative novels by William Faulkner: Light in August, Pylon, Requiem for a Nun, and Absalom, Absalom! In his discussion of these four works he refers frequently, and often at length, to Faulkner's other novels and stories, so that the book offers a comprehensive examination of the narrative principle that underlie Faulkner's literary achievement. Ruppersburg shows how the Nobel Prize-winning novelist employed a number of elements to guarantee the impersonality of his fiction--how he built his novels primarily around the speech and thoughts of his characters. The absence of a judgmental authorial or narrational voice, says Ruppersburg, compels the reader to reach his own judgment concerning the behavior of these characters as well as the meaning and value of the fiction. By fusing a number of individual perspectives into a composite perspective, Faulkner gives the community itself a voice. He also uses narrative viewpoint to dramatize the individual's search for identity and the nature of truth, time, history, and human consciousness. Most significantly, the author says, Faulkner's manipulation of character perspective forces the reader to participate in the narrative process on the same level as that of the fictional characters. Voice and Eye in Faulkner's Fiction is primarily intended for the literature teacher and specialist, but it is directed as well to all readers curious about Faulkner's methods and the ways in which his novels work.

Book Confederate Memorial Day at Charleston  S C

Download or read book Confederate Memorial Day at Charleston S C written by Ladies' Memorial Association (Charleston, S.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Requiem for a Lost City

Download or read book Requiem for a Lost City written by Sarah Conley Clayton and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Requiem for a Lost City shows us the reality of Civil War Atlanta from the eve of secession to the memorials for the fallen, through the memories of a participant. Sallie Clayton would have been the same age as the fictional Scarlett O'Hara during the Civil War. Sallie Clayton's memoirs, however, are not a work of fiction but bittersweet reminiscences of growing up in a doomed city in the midst of losing a war. Although her memoirs provide invaluable detail on Civil War Atlanta, they also tell of her personal experiences on a plantation in Montgomery, Alabama, and in postwar Augusta and Athens. Sallie Clayton belonged to one of Georgia's wealthiest and most prominent families. Her memoirs are colored by the losses suffered by her family. Robert Davis's introduction to this work illustrates the background of the Claytons, Sallie's writings, and Civil War Atlanta, providing a balanced account of life at "the crossroads of the Confederacy." The introduction also provides a corrective to the popular, Gone With the Wind view of Civil War Atlanta.

Book Fishing North Carolina s Outer Banks

Download or read book Fishing North Carolina s Outer Banks written by and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fishing North Carolina's Outer Banks

Book Index to Poetry and Recitations

Download or read book Index to Poetry and Recitations written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book AN INDEX TO POETRY AND RECITATIONS

Download or read book AN INDEX TO POETRY AND RECITATIONS written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Index to Poetry and Recitations

Download or read book An Index to Poetry and Recitations written by Edith Granger and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Archaeology in South Carolina

Download or read book Archaeology in South Carolina written by Adam King and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich human history of South Carolina from its earliest days to the present Adam King's Archaeology in South Carolina contains an overview of the fascinating archaeological research currently ongoing in the Palmetto state featuring essays by twenty scholars studying South Carolina's past through archaeological research. The scholarly contributions are enhanced by more than one hundred black and white and thirty-eight color images of some of the most important and interesting sites and artifacts found in the state. South Carolina has an extraordinarily rich history encompassing the first human habitation of North America to the lives of people at the dawn of the modern era. King begins the anthology with the basic hows and whys of archeology and introduces readers to the current issues influencing the field of research. The contributors are all recognized experts from universities, state agencies, and private consulting firms, reflecting the diversity of people and institutions that engage in archaeology. The volume begins with investigations of some of the earliest Paleo-Indian and Native American cultures that thrived in South Carolina, including work at the Topper Site along the Savannah River. Other essays explore the creation of early communities at the Stallings Island site, the emergence of large and complex Native American polities before the coming of Europeans,the impact of the coming of European settlers on Native American groups along the Savannah River, and the archaeology of the Yamassee, apeople whose history is tightly bound to the emerging European society. The focus then shifts to Euro-Americans with an examination of a long-term project seeking to understand George Galphin's trading post established on the Savannah River in the eighteenth century. A discussion of Middleburg Plantation, one of the oldest plantation houses in the South Carolina lowcountry, is followed by a fascinating glimpse into how the city of Charleston and the lives of its inhabitants changed during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Essays on underwater archaeological research cover several Civil War-era vessels located in Winyah Bay near Georgetown and Station Creek near Beaufort, as well as one of the most famous Civil War naval vessels—the H.L. Hunley. The volume concludes with the recollections of a life spent in the field by South Carolina's preeminent historical archaeologist Stanley South, now retired from the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina.

Book Performing Commemoration

    Book Details:
  • Author : Annegret Fauser
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2020-10-07
  • ISBN : 0472127217
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book Performing Commemoration written by Annegret Fauser and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public commemorations of various kinds are an important part of how groups large and small acknowledge and process injustices and tragic events. Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma looks at the roles music can play in public commemorations of traumatic events that range from the Armenian genocide and World War I to contemporary violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the #sayhername protests. Whose version of a traumatic historical event gets told is always a complicated question, and music adds further layers to this complexity, particularly music without words. The three sections of this collection look at different facets of musical commemorations and reenactments, focusing on how music can mediate, but also intensify responses to social injustice; how reenactments and their use of music are shifting (and not always toward greater social effectiveness); and how claims for musical authenticity are politicized in various ways. By engaging with critical theory around memory studies and performance studies, the contributors to this volume explore social justice, in, and through music.