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Book The Hybrid Muse

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  • Author : Jahan Ramazani
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2001-10
  • ISBN : 9780226703428
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book The Hybrid Muse written by Jahan Ramazani and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial novelists such as Salman Rushdie and V.S. Naipaul are widely celebrated, yet the achievements of these poets have been strangely neglected. This work argues that these poets have dramatically expanded the atlas of English literature.

Book The Hybrid Muse

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  • Author : Jahan Ramazani
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2001-10
  • ISBN : 0226703436
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book The Hybrid Muse written by Jahan Ramazani and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial novelists such as Salman Rushdie and V.S. Naipaul are widely celebrated, yet the achievements of these poets have been strangely neglected. This work argues that these poets have dramatically expanded the atlas of English literature.

Book The Passionate Muse

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  • Author : Keith Oatley
  • Publisher : OUP USA
  • Release : 2012-03-23
  • ISBN : 0199767637
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book The Passionate Muse written by Keith Oatley and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-03-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hybrid book that alternates sections of an original short story, "One Another", with chapters that illuminate how emotion and fiction interact.

Book The Archaeology of Hybrid Material Culture

Download or read book The Archaeology of Hybrid Material Culture written by Jeb J. Card and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, archaeologists have used the terms hybrid and hybridity with increasing frequency to describe and interpret forms of material culture. Hybridity is a way of viewing culture and human action that addresses the issue of power differentials between peoples and cultures. This approach suggests that cultures are not discrete pure entities but rather are continuously transforming and recombining. The Archaeology of Hybrid Material Culture discusses this concept and its relationship to archaeological classification and the emergence of new ethnic group identities. This collection of essays provides readers with theoretical and concrete tools for investigating objects and architecture with discernible multiple influences. The twenty-one essays are organized into four parts: ceramic change in colonial Latin America and the Caribbean; ethnicity and material culture in pre-Hispanic and colonial Latin America; culture contact and transformation in technological style; and materiality and identity. The media examined include ceramics, stone and glass implements, textiles, bone, architecture, and mortuary and bioarchaeological artifacts from North, South, and Central America, Hawai‘i, the Caribbean, Europe, and Mesopotamia. Case studies include Bronze Age Britain, Iron Age and Roman Europe, Uruk-era Turkey, African diasporic communities in the Caribbean, pre-Spanish and Pueblo revolt era Southwest, Spanish colonial impacts in the American Southeast, Central America, and the Andes, ethnographic Amazonia, historic-era New England and the Plains, the Classic Maya, nineteenth-century Hawai‘i, and Upper Paleolithic Europe. The volume is carefully detailed with more than forty maps and figures and over twenty tables. The work presented in The Archaeology of Hybrid Material Culture comes from researchers whose questions and investigations recognized the role of multiple influences on the people and material they study. Case studies include experiments in bone working in middle Missouri; images and social relationships in prehistoric and Roman Europe; technological and material hybridity in colonial Peruvian textiles; ceramic change in colonial Latin America and the Caribbean; and flaked glass tools from the leprosarium at Kalawao, Moloka‘i. The essays provide examples and approaches that may serve as a guide for other researchers dealing with similar issues.

Book Postcolonial Poetry in English

Download or read book Postcolonial Poetry in English written by Rajeev S. Patke and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series (general editor: Elleke Boehmer) offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. Postcolonial Poetry in English provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of English poetry in all the regions that were once part of the British Empire. The idea of postcolonial poetry is held together by three factors: the global community constituted by English; the creative possibilities accessible through English; and patterns of literary development common to regions with a history of recent decolonization. In showing how diverse poetic traditions in English evolved from dependency to varying degrees of cultural self-confidence, the book answers two broad questions: how is postcolonial studies relevant to the interpretation of poetry, and how does poetry contribute to our idea of postcolonial writing? The book is divided into three parts: the first works out a method of analysis based on recent publications of outstanding interest; the second narrates the development of poetic traditions in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, and the settler colonies of Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand; the third analyses key motifs, such as the struggle for minority self-representation; the cultural politics of gender, modernism, and postmodernity; and the experience of migration and self-exile in contemporary Anglophone societies. Postcolonial Poetry in English provides a succinct and wide-ranging introduction to some of the most exciting poetic writing of the twentieth century. It is ideally suited for readers interested in world writing in English, contemporary literature, postcolonial writing, cultural studies, and postmodern culture.

Book Hybridity  OR the Cultural Logic of Globalization

Download or read book Hybridity OR the Cultural Logic of Globalization written by Kraidy and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hybrid Renaissance

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  • Author : Peter Burke
  • Publisher : Central European University Press
  • Release : 2016-05-15
  • ISBN : 9633860881
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Hybrid Renaissance written by Peter Burke and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hybrid Renaissance introduces the idea that the Renaissance in Italy, elsewhere in Europe, and in the world beyond Europe is an example of cultural hybridization. The two key concepts used in this book are “hybridization” and “Renaissance”. Roughly speaking, hybridity refers to something new that emerges from the combination of diverse older elements. (The term “hybridization” is preferable to “hybridity” because it refers to a process rather than to a state, and also because it encourages the writer and the readers alike to think in terms of degree: where there is more or less, rather than presence versus absence.) The book begins with a discussion of the concept of cultural hybridization and a cluster of other concepts related to it. Then comes a geography of cultural hybridization focusing on three locales: courts, major cities (whether ports or capitals) and frontiers. The following seven chapters describe the hybridity of the Renaissance in different fields: architecture, painting and sculpture, languages, literature, music, philosophy and law and finally religion. The essay concludes with a brief account of attempts to resist hybridization or to purify cultures or domains from what was already hybridized.

Book Hybrid Justice

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  • Author : John D. Ciorciari
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2014-02-20
  • ISBN : 0472119303
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book Hybrid Justice written by John D. Ciorciari and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive scholarly treatment of the ECCC from legal and political perspectives

Book Hybrid

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  • Author : Ruth Colker
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 1996-05
  • ISBN : 0814715389
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Hybrid written by Ruth Colker and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States, and the West in general, have always organized society along bipolar lines. We are either white or black, gay or straight, male or female, disabled or not. In recent years, however, America seems increasingly aware of those who defy such easy categorization. Yet, rather than being welcomed for the challenges they offer, people "living the gap" are often stigmatized by all the communities to which they might belong. These hybrids befuddle courts because existing classifications do not fit them. Ruth Colker here argues that our bipolar classification system obscures a genuine understanding of the very nature of subordination. By rejecting conventional bipolar categories, we can broaden our understanding of sexuality, gender race, and disability. Acknowledging that categorization is crucial and unavoidable in a world of practical problems and day-to-day conflicts, Colker shows how categories can and must be improved, for the good of all.

Book Academic E Books

Download or read book Academic E Books written by Suzanne M. Ward and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users provides readers with a view of the changing and emerging roles of electronic books in higher education. The three main sections contain contributions by experts in the publisher/vendor arena, as well as by librarians who report on both the challenges of offering and managing e-books and on the issues surrounding patron use of e-books. The case study section offers perspectives from seven different sizes and types of libraries whose librarians describe innovative and thought-provoking projects involving e-books. Read about perspectives on e-books from organizations as diverse as a commercial publisher and an association press. Learn about the viewpoint of a jobber. Find out about the e-book challenges facing librarians, such as the quest to control costs in the patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) model, how to solve the dilemma of resource sharing with e-books, and how to manage PDA in the consortial environment. See what patron use of e-books reveals about reading habits and disciplinary differences. Finally, in the case study section, discover how to promote scholarly e-books, how to manage an e-reader checkout program, and how one library replaced most of its print collection with e-books. These and other examples illustrate how innovative librarians use e-books to enhance users’ experiences with scholarly works.

Book Madly after the Muses

Download or read book Madly after the Muses written by Alexander Riddiford and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madly after the Muses examines the use of Graeco-Roman samplings in the Bengali works of Michael Madhusudan Datta (1824-1873), the nineteenth-century poet and playwright. His oeuvre, which includes a Bengali play dramatizing a Hindu version of the Judgement of Paris, a retelling of the Sanskrit Ramayana using various Vergilian and Homeric tropes, a Hindu response to Ovid's Heroides, and a Bengali prose version of the first half of Homer's Iliad, utilize the Greek and Roman classics in a surprising and subversive way. Though steeped in contemporary British literary culture, Madhusudan's Bengali works bypassed the literary trends of his British contemporaries and, most strikingly, used the Western classics to defy the hegemonic elite culture of the Hindu pundits. He treated traditional Hindu material with innovations inspired by the literature of the Graeco-Roman world, and provided an Orientalist Indo-European reading of the ancient cultures of India and Europe. By subverting contemporary British constructions of what constituted 'classical', he also highlighted counter-currents within the Western classical discourse. In this volume, Riddiford introduces new texts and contexts to the fields of classical reception and postcolonial scholarship, and includes appendices with translated excerpts from Bengali works not previously translated into English. He also examines the Bengali poet's classical education, drawing on new material from various archives to show that he was given a rigorous British-style classical education, offering a surprising early chapter in the story of the dissemination and reception of the Graeco-Roman classics in India.

Book The Practical Muse

Download or read book The Practical Muse written by Patricia Rae and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patricia Rae's study, while accepting Rorty's view that there is philosophical solidarity between pragmatism and modernism, rejects his interpretation of both as forms of dogmatic skepticism. If pragmatism and modernism coincide, Rae argues, the case of these three writers suggests that the intersection lies not in a rejection of "truthfulness to experience" but in a cautious respect for it.

Book The Low Density University

Download or read book The Low Density University written by Edward J. Maloney and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COVID-19 has placed American higher education at a crossroads. This book is the roadmap. COVID-19 triggered an existential crisis for American higher education. Faced with few safe choices, most colleges and universities switched to remote learning during the 2020 spring semester. The future, however, provides more choices about how institutions can fulfill their mission of teaching and research. But how do we begin to make decisions in an uncertain and shifting environment? In this concise guide, authors Edward J. Maloney and Joshua Kim lay out clear ways colleges and universities can move forward in safe and effective ways. The Low-Density University presents fifteen scenarios for how colleges and universities can address the current crisis from a fully online semester to others with students in residence and in the classroom. How can changing the calendar or shifting to hybrid models of blended classrooms impact teaching, learning, and the college experience? Could we emerge from this crisis with new models that are better and more adapted to today's world? The Low-Density University focuses primarily on teaching and learning, but student life (housing, athletics, health, etc.) are core to the college experience. Can we devise safe and effective ways to preserve the best of that experience? The lessons here extend beyond the classroom. Just as the pandemic will change American higher education, the choices we make now will change what college looks like for generations to come.

Book The Philosophizing Muse

Download or read book The Philosophizing Muse written by David Konstan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PIERIDES III, Editors: Myrto Garani and David Konstan Despite the Romans' reputation for being disdainful of abstract speculation, Latin poetry from its very beginning was deeply permeated by Greek philosophy. Philosophical elements and commonplaces have been identified and appreciated in a wide range of writers, but the extent of the Greek philosophical influence, and in particular the impact of Pythagorean, Empedoclean, Epicurean and Stoic doctrines, on Latin verse has never been fully in...

Book The Retrospective Muse

Download or read book The Retrospective Muse written by Froma I. Zeitlin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Retrospective Muse showcases the celebrated work of Froma I. Zeitlin. Over many decades, Zeitlin's innovative studies have changed the field of classics. Her instantly recognizable work brings together anthropology, gender studies, cultural studies, and an acute literary sensibility to open ancient texts and ideas to new forms of understanding. A selection of her luminous essays on topics still timely today are collected for the first time in a volume that shows the full range and flair of her remarkable intellect. Together, these illuminating analyses show why Zeitlin's work on ancient Greek culture has had an enduring impact on scholars around the world, not just in classics but across multiple fields. From Homer to the Greek novel, from religion to erotics, from myth and ritual to theatrical performance, she expounds on some of the most important works of ancient writing and some of modernity's most significant critical questions. Zeitlin's writing still sheds light on the durable aspects of classics as a discipline, and this book encapsulates her achievement.

Book The Once and Future Muse

Download or read book The Once and Future Muse written by Nancy Kang and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Once and Future Muse presents the first major study of the life and work of Dominican-born bilingual American poet and translator Rhina P. Espaillat (b. 1932). Beginning with her literary celebrity as the youngest poet ever inducted into the Poetry Society of America, it traces her relative obscurity after 1952 when she married and took on family and employment responsibilities, to her triumphant return to the poetry spotlight decades later when she reclaimed her former prestige with a series of award-winning poetry collections. The authors define Espaillat's place in American letters with attention to her formalist aesthetics, Hispanic Caribbean immigrant background, poetic community building, bilingual ethos, and domestically minded woman-of-color feminism. Addressing the temporality of her oeuvre—her publishing before and after the splitting of American literature into distinct ethnic segments—this work also highlights the demands that the social transformations of the 1960s placed on literary artists, critics, and readers alike.

Book Phantom   Planet   Muse Crisis of the earth in the 2050 year

Download or read book Phantom Planet Muse Crisis of the earth in the 2050 year written by tomohisa fujii and published by TOM PUBLISHING. This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As for the earth, in the 2040s, with the technology of the silicon carbide which was included in the coming to practical use step, to make energy saving moved ahead in entering, the beginning in the 2010s and the atomic control technique made leaping progress. In the 2040s, the human race desired in the atomic beneficence and was reaching the atomic times which are at the height of prosperity. On the way which returns to NASA after spending the New Year holiday in Japan on January 3rd in 2050, Takeru and Rumi of the undergraduate arrived at San Francisco Airport in America. They were space Pilot's egg. When thinking whether or not it felt the shake of the disastrous earthquake for several seconds while resting at the airport lobby, the huge explosive sound as earsplitting in the moment occurred. The airplanes to be flying in the air began to collide in the air. Moreover, at the ground, it occurred in the place where the crash among the trains and the crash among the cars result and surely, it took on an aspect as it sees hell. Moreover, 5 minutes later, the time speed of the earth had begun to decline gradually. The body that the influence of the extraordinary magnetic field began to shrink Naotsune in the sun gradually and to have come and for the distribution of the dark matter which exists at the interplanetary in the solar system which was keeping a balance to have begun a malfunction in the past As for the earthquake with mighty magnitude 9.0 which occurred in San Francisco on January 3rd in 2050, the nuclear reactor in all-America each place made a meltdown occur in the influence of the earthquake. After that, the shocking truth that the energy of the huge atomic-explosion did a leak to the superconductive cable which was set up around the all-America mainland through the power-transmission wire at the exploded nuclear power plant and that it caused the huge extraordinary magnetic field came to light. Most of the machines by which a computer system and an IC chip all over the world were embedded were cruelly, too, destroyed and all the information of the person, goods, the money had disappeared with the occurrence of the huge magnetic field this time. Moreover, in the whole world, the atomic dust of radioactivity material diffused, and the human race sheltered in the shelter which got ready in the underground depth and became the status that it cannot help being content with the cellar life. In the next day of the worldwide destruction which is due to the extraordinary magnetic field, the leader in the whole world gathered to the United Nations and reviewed the ideal way of the world in the future. As a result, it resulted in the conclusion that there is a alternative only in only 6 month grace's there being and immigrating to the other planet even if it estimates the shelter life of the human race long. It is an immigration to the twin earth. After that, the formation to seem a huge spacecraft by the distant sky in each main city in the whole world *of* showed the appearance. It is the group of the spaceman who did the appearance of the human race and the Tweedledum and Tweedledee that appeared at the ground from the inside of the formation of the spacecraft which was staying in the of metropolis sky. They called the earth in the twin planet which they live in Muses. It said that it came to sense the critical status of the earth this time via 200 pieces of Mannen and to extend a hand. Takeru and Rumi were chosen as the selection member and about 1 month as Team Member which scouts the other party, stayed at the earth in the twin planet. In the story of the Muses person, they seem equipped with the ability for the elasticity of the speed in the time to be able to be controlled, being free by the individual level. Therefore, it is possible for night to rejuvenate the age if it takes medicine for the rejuvenation, Powers, by 1 tablet if it can be chosen, being free and wanting to return in the young period. Likewise, if swallowing Powers for aging if wanting to return to the elderly, it is possible to be transformed into the elderly. Saying that it prepares for the interior of the body in the associating time machine feature in the past, the future at present In Muses which the genetic engineering cleared up by developing exceedingly and multiplying 10 pieces of Mannen all of the mysteries of the life-phenomenon, it is the society which can control a life perfectly. The love is a free love and the concept, the marriage, doesn't exist. Its copy can be created by making cultivate it while being in home using the life hatch equipment, too. A born double is already transplanted in the experience and the memory like him. Because the speed in the time can be controlled, there are not concepts such as the productivity and the value, the efficiency, too, in Muses and the one which becomes the root of the various evils such as the money, too, doesn't exist. However, in Muses, the population increased explosively and reached 100 times the earth, too. It is in the water resources and the source of protein in the rich earth that they aimed secretly. The terrestrial kind immigrated to Muses and was immersed to the life of the paradise in Muses but it had begun to notice a sense of incongruity. There, it was dense or the god of the omniscient and almighty evil in the galactic system at the four dimensions space boiled and was making the holocaust plan of the earth people-out progress.