Familiar Studies of Men and Books
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Authors |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Authors |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2014-07-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1108074561 |
Published together in 1882, these essays explore the works of nine writers from around the world and across the centuries.
Author | : Agnes M. Clerke |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2023-10-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3387095155 |
Author | : Jonathan N. Lipman |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295800550 |
The Chinese-speaking Muslims have for centuries been an inseperable but anomalous part of Chinese society--Sinophone yet incomprehensible, local yet outsiders, normal but different. Long regarded by the Chinese government as prone to violence, they have challenged fundamental Chinese conceptiosn of Self and Other and denied the totally transforming power of Chinese civilization by tenaciously maintaining connectios with Central and West Asia as well as some cultural differences from their non-Muslim neighbors. Familiar Strangers narrates a history of the Muslims of northwest China, at the intersection of the frontiers of the Mongolian-Manchu, Tibetan, Turkic, and Chinese cultural regions. Based on primary and secondary sources in a variety of languages, Familiar Strangers examines the nature of ethnicity and periphery, the role of religion and ethnicity in personal and collective decisions in violent times, and the complexity of belonging to two cultures at once. Concerning itself with a frontier very distant from the core areas of Chinese culture and very strange to most Chinese, it explores the influence of language, religion, and place on Sino-Muslim identity.
Author | : Sara Pursley |
Publisher | : Stanford Studies in Middle Eas |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804793179 |
Introduction : Iraqi futures and the age of development -- Sovereignty, violence, and the dual mandate -- Determining a self -- The gendering of school time -- Generational time and the marriage crisis -- The family farm and the peculiar futurist perspective of development -- Revolutionary time and wasted time -- Law and the post-revolutionary self -- Epilogue : postcolonial heterotemporalities
Author | : Stuart Hall |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2017-03-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0822372932 |
"Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial." This, in his own words, is the extraordinary story of the life and career of Stuart Hall—how his experiences shaped his intellectual, political, and theoretical work and how he became one of his age's brightest intellectual lights. Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Kingston, Jamaica, still then a British colony, the young Stuart Hall found himself uncomfortable in his own home. He lived among Kingston's stiflingly respectable brown middle class, who, in their habits and ambitions, measured themselves against the white elite. As colonial rule was challenged, things began to change in Kingston and across the world. In 1951 a Rhodes scholarship took Hall across the Atlantic to Oxford University, where he met young Jamaicans from all walks of life, as well as writers and thinkers from across the Caribbean, including V. S. Naipaul and George Lamming. While at Oxford he met Raymond Williams, Charles Taylor, and other leading intellectuals, with whom he helped found the intellectual and political movement known as the New Left. With the emotional aftershock of colonialism still pulsing through him, Hall faced a new struggle: that of building a home, a life, and an identity in a postwar England so rife with racism that it could barely recognize his humanity. With great insight, compassion, and wit, Hall tells the story of his early life, taking readers on a journey through the sights, smells, and streets of 1930s Kingston while reflecting on the thorny politics of 1950s and 1960s Britain. Full of passion and wisdom, Familiar Stranger is the intellectual memoir of one of our greatest minds.
Author | : Edward D. Melillo |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2015-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0300206623 |
A wide-ranging exploration of the diverse historical connections between Chile and California This groundbreaking history explores the many unrecognized, enduring linkages between the state of California and the country of Chile. The book begins in 1786, when a French expedition brought the potato from Chile to California, and it concludes with Chilean president Michelle Bachelet's diplomatic visit to the Golden State in 2008. During the intervening centuries, new crops, foods, fertilizers, mining technologies, laborers, and ideas from Chile radically altered California's development. In turn, Californian systems of servitude, exotic species, educational programs, and capitalist development strategies dramatically shaped Chilean history. Edward Dallam Melillo develops a new set of historical perspectives--tracing eastward-moving trends in U.S. history, uncovering South American influences on North America's development, and reframing the Western Hemisphere from a Pacific vantage point. His innovative approach yields transnational insights and recovers long-forgotten connections between the peoples and ecosystems of Chile and California.
Author | : Susan M. Fitzmaurice |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781588111869 |
This research monograph examines familiar letters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English to provide a pragmatic reading of the meanings that writers make and readers infer. The first part of the book presents a method of analyzing historical texts. The second part seeks to validate this method through case studies that illuminate how modern pragmatic theory may be applied to distant speech communities in both history and culture in order to reveal how speakers understand one another and how they exploit intended and unintended meanings for their own communicative ends. The analysis demonstrates the application of pragmatic theory (including speech act theory, deixis, politeness, implicature, and relevance theory) to the study of historical, literary and fictional letters from extended correspondences, producing an historically informed, richly situated account of the meanings and interpretations of those letters that a close reading affords. This book will be of interest to scholars of the history of the English language, historical pragmatics, discourse analysis, as well as to social and cultural historians, and literary critics.