Balik-Tanaw: The Road Taken

Balik-Tanaw: The Road Taken
Author: Soledad S. Reyes
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2023-03-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1837643199

Balik-Tanaw: The Road Taken is the memoir of the distinguished Filipino critic, Soledad S. Reyes. This book is a record of Reyess journey of more than seven decades where personal narrative intertwines with people and events, with social and political movements with which the country sought to negotiate the treacherous shoals in the postwar years. The account carries a fair amount of biographical data (as lodged in the critics memory in the absence of diaries), from her childhood into her college years. But as the context becomes wider and more complex, the narrative takes on a more analytical frame as she tries to make sense of disparate experiences whirling about her in the tumult of the 1970s and beyond, and in the startling changes in the political landscape, local and global, that now grip the Filipino nation. This account, according to the author, is a story of an individual constructing a narrative that seeks to impose order upon chaos by retrieving aspects of the past and weaving a series of recalcitrant experiences into a coherent whole. Published in association with De La Salle University Publishing House

Hiligaynon Dictionary

Hiligaynon Dictionary
Author: Cecile L. Motus
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2019-03-31
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0824881990

The Philippines series of the PALI Language Texts, under the general editorship of Howard P. McKaughan, consists of lesson textbooks, grammars, and dictionaries for seven major Filipino languages.

Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen
Author: Philippe Girard
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781770464896

A captivating, revealing biography of the legendary musician and poet Leonard Cohen opens in Los Angeles on the last night of the man’s life in 2016. Alone in his final hours, the beloved writer and musician ponders his existence in a series of flashbacks that reveal the ups and downs of a storied career. A young Cohen traded in the promise of steady employment in his family’s Montreal garment business for the unlikely path of a literary poet. His life took another sharp turn when, already in his thirties, he recorded his first album to widespread international acclaim. Along the way he encountered a who’s who of musical luminaries, including Lou Reed, Nico, Janis Joplin, and Joni Mitchell. And then there’s Phil Spector, the notorious music impresario who held a gun to Cohen’s head during a coke-fueled, all-night recording session. Later in Cohen’s life, there’s the story of "Hallelujah," one of his most famous songs, and its slow rise from relative obscurity when first recorded in the 1980s to its iconic status a decade later with covers by John Cale and Jeff Buckley. And the period when Cohen went broke after his manager embezzled his lifetime savings, which ironically sparked an unlikely career resurgence and several worldwide tours in the 2000s. Written with careful attention to detail and drawn with a palette of warm, lush colors by the Quebec-based cartoonist Philippe Girard, Leonard Cohen is an engaging portrait of a cultural icon.

Rosario de Guzman Lingat, 1924-1997

Rosario de Guzman Lingat, 1924-1997
Author: Soledad S. Reyes
Publisher: Ateneo University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2003
Genre: Authors, Filipino
ISBN: 9789715504508

"A narrative of the life and career of Rosario de Guzman Lingat, one of the most prolific but understudied writers of the 1960s and 1970s. It traces key events in her life and shows how these complex experiences in her life and that of her nation could have shaped the directions she pursued as a popular writer for weekly magazines."--Page [4] of cover.

Proto Malayic

Proto Malayic
Author: K. Alexander Adelaar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1992
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Wasak!

Wasak!
Author: Matthias Arndt
Publisher: Distanz Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Art, Modern
ISBN: 9783954761173

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