The Text and Beyond

The Text and Beyond
Author: Cynthia Bernstein
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 1994
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0817306994

Demonstrates that the approaches of literary linguistics extend to the many influences outside it—history, culture, or politics—that contribute to our understanding of language The Text & Beyond: Essays in Literary Linguistics is a collection of suggestive models for those interested in using the tools of linguistics to meet the aims of literary criticism and theory. Only very recently have linguists and literary scholars come to recognize that their goals are compatible.

The Body of This Death

The Body of This Death
Author:
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1996
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780804727280

"Tanizaki Jun'ichiro is read to examine historiographical representation and to consider the possibilities of the parodic as a fundamentally perverse, queer practice. Finally, a study of selected essays by Sue Golding points a way to think toward the necessary conjunction of the ethical, the political, and the perverse; in order, that is to say, to think toward a politics of inconsolable perversity."--BOOK JACKET.

Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies

Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies
Author: Abbe J.A. Dubois
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 781
Release: 2013-10-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136213341

First Published in 2005. This work is an impressive eye-witness account of life in India at the tum of the century. It combines descriptions of the Hindu religion and Hindu sociology with masterful portraits of the intimate lives of the people among whom the author lived. Many important issues are explored, including the caste system, poverty, the mythical origin of the Brahmins, Hindu sects, ceremonies, religious fasting, morality, the position of women, and Hindu literature.