Download or read book Old Floating Cloud written by Canxue and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two novellas, Yellow mud street and Old floating cloud, by one of mainland China's most innovative contemporary writers. Translated by Ronald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang, with a foreword by Charlotte Innes. Can Xue's only other book in English is Dialogues in paradise, published in 1989 by Northwestern U. Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest written by Katharine Berry Judson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Download or read book The Conscience of Humankind written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traumatic experiences of persecution and genocide have changed traditional views of literature. The discussion of historical truth versus aesthetic autonomy takes an unexpected turn when confronted with the experiences of the victims of the Holocaust, the Gulag Archipelago, the Cultural Revolution, Apartheid and other crimes against humanity. The question is whether - and, if so, to what extent - literary imagination may depart from historical truth. In general, the first reactions to traumatic historical experiences are autobiographical statements, written by witnesses of the events. However, the second and third generations, the sons and daughters of the victims as well as of the victimizers, tend to free themselves from this generic restriction and claim their own way of remembering the history of their parents and grandparents. They explore their own limits of representation, and feel free to use a variety of genres; they turn to either realist or postmodernist, ironic or grotesque modes of writing.

Download or read book Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest written by Katharine Berry Judson and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest written by Anonymous and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the beginning of the New-making, the ancient fathers lived successively in four caves in the Four fold-containing-earth. The first was of sooty blackness, black as a chimney at night time; the second, dark as the night in the stormy season; the third, like a valley in starlight; the fourth, with a light like the dawning. Then they came up in the night-shine into the World of Knowing and Seeing. So runs the Zuni myth, and it typifies well the mental development, insight, and beauty of speech of the Indian tribes along the Pacific Coast, from those of Alaska in the far-away Northland, with half of life spent in actual darkness and more than half in the struggle for existence against the cold and the storms loosed by fatal curiosity from the bear's bag of bitter, icy winds, to the exquisite imagery of the Zunis and other desert tribes, on their sunny plains in the Southland. It was in the night-shine of this southern land, with its clear, dry air and brilliant stars, that the Indians, looking up at the heavens above them, told the story of the bag of stars of Utset, the First Mother, who gave to the scarab beetle, when the floods came, the bag of Star People, sending him first into the world above. It was a long climb to the world above and the tired little fellow, once safe, sat down by the sack. After a while he cut a tiny hole in the bag, just to see what was in it, but the Star People flew out and filled the heavens everywhere. Yet he saved a few stars by grasping the neck of the sack, and sat there, frightened and sad, when Utset, the First Mother, asked what he had done with the beautiful Star People. The Sky-father himself, in those early years of the New-making, spread out his hand with the palm downward, and into all the wrinkles of his hand set the semblance of shining yellow corn-grains, gleaming like sparks of fire in the dark of the early World-dawn. "See," said Sky-father to Earth-mother, "our children shall be guided by these when the Sun-father is not near and thy mountain terraces are as darkness itself. Then shall our children be guided by light." So Sky-father created the stars. Then he said, "And even as these grains gleam upward from the water, so shall seed grain like them spring up from the earth when touched by water, to nourish our children." And he created the golden Seed-stuff of the corn.

Download or read book Dialogues in Paradise written by 残雪 and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1989-06 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirteen stories of Dialogues in Paradise are eloquent in a way the West associates with both the modern and the ancient: the dark oracles of Aeschylus and Sophocles, the paranoid mystery of Kafka, the moving stream of Woolf. The work of Can Xue (a pseudonym of Changsa writer Deng Xiao-hua) renews our consciousness of the long tradition of the irrational in our literature, where dreams and reality constitute one territory, its borders open, the passage back and forth barely discernible. She fuses lyrical purity with the darkest visions of the grotesque and the result is a unique literary experience.

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Download or read book The Chinese Postmodern written by Xiaobin Yang and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful look into contemporary Chinese avant-garde fiction and the problem of Chinese postmodernity

Download or read book The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century written by Bonnie S. McDougall and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The written culture of 20th-century China has only recently begun to receive sustained attention from Western readers and critics. This book presents illuminating information on writers, audiences, and the impact of various literary works on politics and culture--and provides a unique window on Chinese society.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture written by Edward Lawrence Davis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Download or read book Swallows Amazons ALL 12 Adventure Novels written by Arthur Ransome and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 2717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Swallows and Amazons is a series of twelve adventure novels set in the interwar period, involving group adventures by children, mainly in the school holidays and mainly in England. They revolve around outdoor activities, especially sailing. The series begins with the Walker children from London, who stay at a lakeside farm in the school holidays, sail a dinghy named Swallow, while the local Blackett girls, living on the opposite shore, have one named Amazon. The Walkers see themselves as explorers, while the Blacketts declare themselves pirates. They clash on an island in the lake, make friends, and have a series of adventures that weave tales of pirates and exploration into everyday life in rural England. Table of Contents: Swallows and Amazons Swallowdale Peter Duck Winter Holiday Coot Club Pigeon Post We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea Secret Water The Big Six Missee Lee The Picts and the Martyrs: Or Not Welcome At All Great Northern?

Download or read book Swallows Amazons Boxed Set written by Arthur Ransome and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 2717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Swallows and Amazons series includes twelve adventure novels by English author Arthur Ransome. Set in the interwar period, it involves group adventures by children, mainly in the school holidays and mainly in England. They revolve around outdoor activities, especially sailing. The series begins with the Walker children from London, who stay at a lakeside farm in the school holidays, sail a dinghy named Swallow, while the local Blackett girls, living on the opposite shore, have one named Amazon. The Walkers see themselves as explorers, while the Blacketts declare themselves pirates. Contents: Swallows and Amazons Swallowdale Peter Duck Winter Holiday Coot Club Pigeon Post We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea Secret Water The Big Six Missee Lee The Picts and the Martyrs: Or Not Welcome At All Great Northern?

Download or read book The Subject in Crisis in Contemporary Chinese Literature written by Rong Cai and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2004 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1980s & 1990s the crippled agent who fails to realise the humanist autonomy envisioned by post-Mao theorists remained a common subject of Chinese literature. Rong Cai studies the work of five contemporary writers & assesses the reasons for the popularity of this subject.

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