Download or read book Reciting America written by Christopher Douglas and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He explores how these novels and other texts confront national discourse and strive, though with inconclusive results, to open America up to new subject positions by offering alternatives to the dominant ideology." "Douglas finds contemporary intellectual and political life, against the backdrop of a mythology enshrined in proclamations, pledges, and public documents, to be impoverished by the pervasive use of cliches, which he identifies as figures of speech that stimulate emotion or action while shortcircuiting reflection. In its extreme cliched form, the American Dream consists of nothing more than advertising slogans and popular culture images; yet these pronouncements retain a powerful hold on the will and imagination of U.S. citizens."

Download or read book China Men written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989-04-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.

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Download or read book Ten Tamil Saints written by M S Purnalingam Pillai and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten Tamil saints: sketches of their lives, works and teachings, together with bibliographies. by M S Purnalingam Pillai first published in 1915. This book contains life-sketches of ten great saints and seer that have appeared in the Tamil land. These saints have exercised profound influence on the religion and culture of the Tamil people; their live and songs are still read an admired all over the country and are a source o inspiration to many a pious and ardent soul. The character and piety of these saints make them an eminent group among India's spiritual sons. The author has dealt with the lives of these saints in a new light and in a concise form. While basing their lives largely on the accounts left by medievel chroniclers, he has also availed himself of the researches of modern Tamil scholars and treated the subject in a historical and critical sprit. Ample quotations are given from the work or these saints and poets to illustrate their teaching and their faith.

Download or read book East is East written by T. C. Boyle and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasically funny novel by the author of The Tortilla Curtain, about a man washed up on an inhabited island and his adventures there

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Download or read book Tamil Heroic Poetry written by K. Kailasapathy and published by Hachette India. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elegant and thorough examination of the riches of Sangam poetry In this acclaimed comparative study, K. Kailasapathy, the celebrated Sri Lankan academic and critic, introduces and interprets ancient Tamil poems and examines the stylistic heritage, themes and motifs pervading Sangam poetry while building the literary corpus's bridge to heroic poetry in other languages - most notably Greek. He identifies the formulaic expression, stock phrases and overarching sensibilities pervasive in the poems and, going much against the popular grain, expands on the notion that oral verse-making is central to Sangam poetry. A nod to Milman Parry, this deeply necessary exploration of our neglected past is an engaging and accessible discourse on one of our most fertile literary ages and, with much agility, connects the dots in studying early Tamil poetry for a modern reader.

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