Parry's Literary Journal

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Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Parry's Literary Journal

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Pages : 402

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Parry's Monthly Magazine

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Languages : en
Pages : 444

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The Making of Homeric Verse

The Making of Homeric Verse PDF Author: Milman Parry
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019520560X
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 546

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This volume collects for the first time the works--articles, M.A. thesis, dissertations, and journal extracts--of Milman Parry, whose death at thirty-three brought to a precipitous end the career of one of the leading classical scholars of our century.

The Japan Journals

The Japan Journals PDF Author: Donald Richie
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
ISBN: 089346984X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 513

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“Richie should be designated a living national treasure.”—Library Journal "Wonderfully evocative and full of humor... honest, introspective, and often poignant."—New York Times "No one has written with more concentration about the peculiar quality of exile enjoyed by the gaijin, the foreigner in Japan."—London Review of Books "To read [The Donald Richie Reader and The Japan Journals] is like diving for pearls. Dip into any part of them and you will surely find treasures about the cinema, literature, traveling, writing. The passages are evocative, erotic, playful, and often profound."—Japanese Language and Literature Donald Richie has been observing and writing about Japan from the moment he arrived on New Year’s Eve, 1946. Detailing his life, his lovers, and his ideas on matters high and low, The Japan Journals is a record of both a nation and an evolving expatriate sensibility. As Japan modernizes and as the author ages, the tone grows elegiac, and The Japan Journals—now in paperback after the critically acclaimed hardcover edition—becomes a bittersweet chronicle of a complicated life well lived and captivatingly told. Donald Richie, the eminent film historian, novelist, and essayist, still lives in Tokyo.

The New Monthly Magazine, and Literary Journal

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Languages : en
Pages : 768

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Written in Stone

Written in Stone PDF Author: Rosanne Parry
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0375871357
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Rosanne Parry, acclaimed author of A Wolf Called Wander and Heart of a Shepherd, shines a light on Native American tribes of the Pacific Northwest in the 1920s, a time of critical cultural upheaval. Pearl has always dreamed of hunting whales, just like her father. Of taking to the sea in their eight-man canoe, standing at the prow with a harpoon, and waiting for a whale to lift its barnacle-speckled head as it offers its life for the life of the tribe. But now that can never be. Pearl's father was lost on the last hunt, and the whales hide from the great steam-powered ships carrying harpoon cannons, which harvest not one but dozens of whales from the ocean. With the whales gone, Pearl's people, the Makah, struggle to survive as Pearl searches for ways to preserve their stories and skills.

Lost People

Lost People PDF Author: David Graeber
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253219159
Category : Betafo (Madagascar)
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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An epic account of the power of memory in Madagascar.

Hearing Homer's Song

Hearing Homer's Song PDF Author: Robert Kanigel
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0525520945
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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From the acclaimed biographer of Jane Jacobs and Srinivasa Ramanujan comes the first full life and work of arguably the most influential classical scholar of the twentieth century, who overturned long-entrenched notions of ancient epic poetry and enlarged the very idea of literature. In this literary detective story, Robert Kanigel gives us a long overdue portrait of an Oakland druggist's son who became known as the "Darwin of Homeric studies." So thoroughly did Milman Parry change our thinking about the origins of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey that scholars today refer to a "before" Parry and an "after." Kanigel describes the "before," when centuries of readers, all the way up until Parry's trailblazing work in the 1930's, assumed that the Homeric epics were "written" texts, the way we think of most literature; and the "after" that we now live in, where we take it for granted that they are the result of a long and winding oral tradition. Parry made it his life's work to develop and prove this revolutionary theory, and Kanigel brilliantly tells his remarkable story--cut short by Parry's mysterious death by gunshot wound at the age of thirty-three. From UC Berkeley to the Sorbonne to Harvard to Yugoslavia--where he traveled to prove his idea definitively by studying its traditional singers of heroic poetry--we follow Parry on his idiosyncratic journey, observing just how his early notions blossomed into a full-fledged theory. Kanigel gives us an intimate portrait of Parry's marriage to Marian Thanhouser and their struggles as young parents in Paris, and explores the mystery surrounding Parry's tragic death at the Palms Hotel in Los Angeles. Tracing Parry's legacy to the modern day, Kanigel explores how what began as a way to understand the Homeric epics became the new field of "oral theory," which today illuminates everything from Beowulf to jazz improvisation, from the Old Testament to hip-hop.

The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal

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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 582

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Postcolonial Studies

Postcolonial Studies PDF Author: Benita Parry
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134307411
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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A powerful selection of essays by one of the most important critics in postcolonial studies, arguing for practices of reading and criticism fully attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions.