Author: Stefan Sperl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: century, cambridge, studies, islamic, civilization, texts, selected, arabic, poetry, structural, analysis, mannerism
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1989-06-30
List price: $99.99
ISBN-10: 0521354854
ISBN-13: 9780521354851
Sperl’s study questions whether mannerism and classicism can be applied to the analysis of Arabic poetry. While mannerism in Arabic literature has traditionally been associated with an excessive use of rhetorical devices and illustrated with reference to poetic fragments and extracts, Sperl approaches the question through a structuralist examination of poems as a whole. The texts selected range from the 9th to the 11th centuries AD and are drawn from the works of Abu l-Atahiya, Buhturi, Mihyar al-Daylami and Maarri. The poems which are studied in detail in successive chapters exhibit pr
Author: Sarah A. Willburn
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: century, nineteenth, series, writings, mystical, victorians, spheres, possessed, extra
Number of Pages: 169
Published: 2006-11-15
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754655407
ISBN-13: 9780754655404
In her absorbing study of nineteenth-century mystical writings, Sarah Willburn formulates a new conception of individualism that offers a fresh look at Victorian subjectivity. Drawing upon extensive archival work in the British Library, Willburn analyzes seance accounts, novels about mediumship, and metaphysical treatises, to make important connections between contemporary writings on mysticism and fictional works. Willburn presents the theories of compelling characters such as Newton Crosland and Lois Waisbrooker and provides exciting new readings of well-known texts by Charlotte Bronte, Elio
Author: Michael Davis
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: century, nineteenth, series, country, unmapped, psychology, eliot, george, exploring
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2006-11-11
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 075465172X
ISBN-13: 9780754651727
In his study of Eliot as a psychological novelist, Michael Davis examines Eliot’s writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century scientific writing about the mind. Eliot, Davis argues, manipulated scientific language in often subversive ways to propose a vision of mind as both fundamentally connected to the external world and radically isolated from and independent of that world. In showing the alignments between Eliot’s work and the formulations of such key thinkers as Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, T. H. Huxley, and G. H. Lewes, Davis reveals how Eliot responds
Author: Joe Fuoco
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: century, series, american, federal, twentieth
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1997-10-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738563978
ISBN-13: 9780738563978
Author: Jeffery T. Richelson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: century, twentieth, spies, intelligence
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 1997-07-17
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 019511390X
ISBN-13: 9780195113907
Here is the ultimate inside history of twentieth-century intelligence gathering and covert activity. Unrivaled in its scope and as readable as any spy novel, A Century of Spies travels from tsarist Russia and the earliest days of the British Secret Service to the crises and uncertainties of today’s post-Cold War world, offering an unsurpassed overview of the role of modern intelligence in every part of the globe. From spies and secret agents to the latest high-tech wizardry in signals and imagery surveillance, it provides fascinating, in-depth coverage of the important operations of Uni
Author: Dr. Raj Kumar
Publisher: Kalpaz Publications
Keywords: century, dynasty, chamar, history
Number of Pages: 1035
Published: 2008-07-07
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 817835635X
ISBN-13: 9788178356358
The learned author has produced the work with the sole intent to grasp the real Indian civilizational and cultural postulates in the folds of Indian history. As history forms a colossal steep monumental wall with a crest of todayness, it becomes an uptill task to see the lower parts of this characteristic monument from the crest. To see the intended parts, one, brave like a historian, needs climb down with care and hardihood in the valley of such dark monument, to cheak, examine and observe the intended fact. In this work, the author painstakingly has found the truth about the Hindu sub-caste
Author: Oleg Grabar
Publisher: Prestel USA
Keywords: century, page, decorated, art, islamic, masterpieces
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-09-09
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 3791343793
ISBN-13: 9783791343792
This opulent volume of worksfrom illustrated and illuminatedmanuscripts culled from important public and private collections offers a thorough introduction to the wonders of Islamic art.A renowned scholar of Islamic art, history and culture, Oleg Grabar introduces in this book a wide range of illuminated manuscript masterpieces from the eighth to the seventeenth century. The heroes of grand epics such as Alexander the Great are found side-by-side with mythical monarchs, sultans, and even monsters. Illuminated manuscripts of the Koran, epic poetry, and scientific works from the Egyptian, Syrian
