Narcissus in a Dry Pool
Author: Taner Baybars
Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 43
ISBN-13: 9780283984334
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Taner Baybars
Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 43
ISBN-13: 9780283984334
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Joseph Epstein
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2007-07
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780618872169
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Epstein's sixth collection of personal pieces winningly and brilliantly rounds off his 23-year tenure as editor of "The American Scholar". Among the topics covered are naps, Gershwin aging, name-dropping, long books, pet peeves, talent vs. genius, Anglophilia, and surgery--the head and the heart. Excerpted in "The New Yorker".
Author: Taner Baybars
Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Daniele Nunziata
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-11-16
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 3030582361
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book analyses colonial and postcolonial writing about Cyprus, before and after its independence from the British Empire in 1960. These works are understood as ‘transportal literatures’ in that they navigate the liminal and layered forms of colonialism which impede the freedom of the island, including the residues of British imperialism, the impact of Greek and Turkish nationalisms, and the ethnolinguistic border between north and south. This study puts pressure on the postcolonial discipline by evaluating the unique hegemonic relationship Cyprus has with three metropolitan centres, not one. The print languages associated with each centre (English, Greek, and Turkish) are complicit in neo-colonial activity. Contemporary Cypriot writers address this in order to resist sectarian division and grapple with their deferred postcoloniality.
Author: Eugene Benson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-11-30
Total Pages: 1950
ISBN-13: 1134468482
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →" ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
Author: Karen Van Dyck
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2017-03-28
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 1681371154
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A remarkable collection of poetic voices from contemporary Greece, Austerity Measures is a one-of-a-kind window into the creative energy that has arisen from the country's decade of crisis and a glimpse into what it is like to be Greek today. The 2008 debt crisis shook Greece to the core and went on to shake the world. More recently, Greece has become one of the main channels into Europe for refugees from poverty and war. Greece stands at the center of today’s most intractable conflicts, and this situation has led to a truly extraordinary efflorescence of innovative and powerfully moving Greek poetry. Karen Van Dyck’s wide-ranging bilingual anthology—which covers the whole contemporary Greek poetry scene, from literary poets to poets of the spoken word to poets online, and more—offers an unequaled sampling of some of the richest and most exciting poetry of our time.
Author: Catharina Dufft
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9783447058254
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Result of an international workshop held as part of the University of Giessen's Collaborative Research Center 'Memory Cultures'"--Pref.
Author: Daphne K. Forster
Publisher: Robert Hale
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780709023920
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: N. Groom
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9401122962
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1948 I was posted, as a Political Officer, to a remote part of south-west Arabia on the edge of the great desert called the Empty Quarter. In valleys made fertile by seasonal flood-waters lay the remains of an ancient civilization. I found inscriptions and the ruin sites of towns, palaces and temples. Almost buried under the sand dunes were the tumbled walls of a great city. From here, two thousand years before, huge camel caravans had trudged their way along 1600 miles of burning sand and rocks to Petra and Gaza, burdened with a most precious cargo - frankincense, myrrh and other perfume materials for the courts, temples and perfume shops of Rome. My book Frankincense and Myrrh delved into the details of this romantic trade and led to a broader interest in the perfumes of ancient times. Then, researching on behalf of a perfume house into the Arab contribution to perfumery, I came across the collection of perfume recipes assembled by the Arab philosopher-scientist Yaqub al-Kindi, which have never been translated into English (some, which I have translated myself, are now included in an appendix to this book). I realized that in that work I had found key evidence to demonstrate how the medieval Arab perfume makers had been the bridge in perfume history between ancient and modern times. Perfumery could now be seen as an art with a continuous history of development since the dawn of civilization.