Author: Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: poetics, ritual, myth, poetry, islamic, immortals, speak, pre, mute
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 1993-09
List price: $75.50
ISBN-10: 0801427649
ISBN-13: 9780801427640

A body of Bedouin oral poetry which was collected in the second or third Islamic century, the pre-Islamic qasidah, or ode, stands with the Qur’an as a twin foundation of Arabo-Islamic literary culture. Throughout the rich fifteen-hundred-year history of classical Arabic literature, the qasidah served as profane anti-text to the sacred text of the Qur’an. While recognizing the esteem in which Arabs have traditionally held this poetry of the pagan past, modern critics in both East and West have yet to formulate a poetics that would provide the means to analyze and evaluate the qasida

Author: Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: prophet, muhammad, poems, praise, odes, arabic, mantle
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2010-06-14
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0253222060
ISBN-13: 9780253222060

Three of the most renowned praise poems to the Prophet, the mantle odes span the arc of Islamic history from Muhammad’s lifetime, to the medieval Mamluk period, to the modern colonial era. Over the centuries, they have informed the poetic and religious life of the Arab and Islamic worlds. Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych places her original translations of the poems within the odes’ broader cultural context. By highlighting their transformative power as speech acts and their ritual func

Author: Jaroslav Stetkevych
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: arabic, nasib, classical, nostalgia, najd, poetics, zephyrs
Number of Pages: 333
Published: 1993-12-15
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0226773361
ISBN-13: 9780226773360

Arabs have traditionally considered classical Arabic poetry, together with the Qur’an, as one of their supreme cultural accomplishments. Taking a comparatist approach, Jaroslav Stetkevych attempts in this book to integrate the classical Arabic lyric into an enlarged understanding of lyric poetry as a genre.Stetkevych concentrates on the "places of lost bliss" that furnish the dominant motif in the lyric-elegiac opening section (nasib) of the classic Arab code, or qusidah. In defining the Arabic lyrical genre, he shows how pre-Islamic lamentations over abandoned campsites evolved, in Arab

Author: Jaroslav Stetkevych
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: arabian, myth, reconstructing, bough, golden, muhammad
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2000-06-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0253214130
ISBN-13: 9780253214133

"This book is must reading for everyone in the field of religion and one of the most important works in recent years." -Religious Studies Review "Highly recommended for collections in folklore and mythology, ancient Near Eastern studies, and Islam." -Choice "The graceful writing, interdisciplinary scope, and hermeneutical depth should make it compelling reading for those interested in the mythos of Arabia before and at the birth of Islam and in comparable myths in neighboring civilizations." -MESA Bulletin The richness of myth in Arab-Islamic culture has long been ignored or even deni

Authors:Bob Gordon, Ed Pinckney,
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
Keywords: hardwood, villanova, tales, pinckney
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1582618097
ISBN-13: 9781582618098

Take a bunch of nice kids, dump in gobs of fiery Italian seasoning, mix in copious measures of robust Augustinian teaching, and stir gently for four years. ThatÂ’s the winning recipe that transformed April FoolÂ’s Day 1985 into a feast for underdogs and everymen everywhere. March Madness maddened to the max that year with the crowning of perhaps the NCAA TournamentÂ’s most unlikely champion, the Villanova Wildcats. The most unlikely and perhaps the most liked team to ever win the championship, the Villanova kids won the nation over with courtesy and class more than jump shots and slam

Authors:David J. Caudle, Suzanne Disheroon-Green, Suzanne Di
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: bibliographies, indexes, women, studies, works, critical, chopin, annotated, bibliography, kate
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1999-06-30
List price: $112.95
ISBN-10: 0313304246
ISBN-13: 9780313304248

Kate Chopin has emerged as one of the most significant American writers of the nineteenth century. Though her works typically reflect the language and customs of Louisiana, they also make universal comments about women, men, and human relationships. The last thirty years have witnessed heightened scholarly interest in her writings. This bibliography surveys the vast amount of scholarship published on Chopin between 1976 and 1998, with some coverage of 1999. Included are annotated entries for books, articles, and dissertations, along with extensive indexes. The volume also provides a biographic

Authors:Walter Bernhart, Suzanne Aspden, Suzanne M. Lodato,
Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V.
Keywords: word, studies, music, identity, musical, amp, cultural, stage, paul, essays, honor, steven, scher
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-12-12
List price: $52.50
ISBN-10: 9042009934
ISBN-13: 9789042009936

The eighteen interdisciplinary essays in this volume were presented in 2001 in Sydney, Australia, at the Third International Conference on Word and Music Studies, which was sponsored by The International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA). The conference celebrated the sixty-fifth birthday of Steven Paul Scher, arguably the central figure in word and music studies during the last thirty-five years. The first section of this volume comprises ten articles that discuss, or are methodologically based upon, Scher’s many analyses of and critical commentaries on the field, particularly on