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Reading Humility in Early Modern England

By: Professor Jennifer Clement

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Reading Humility in Early Modern England

By: Professor Jennifer Clement

While humility is not especially valued in modern Western culture, Clement argues, it is central to early modern understandings of Christian faith and behavior, and is vital to contemporary concepts of the self. Early modern literary engagements with humility link it to self-knowledge through the practice of right reading. This study complicates modern views of an early modern virtue, and challenges the assumption that agency is always defined by resistance.

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167

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472453778

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9781472453778

Carmen in Diaspora

Adaptation, Race, and Opera's Most Famous Character

By: Associate Professor of English African & African Diaspora Studies and Comparative Literature Jennifer Wilks

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Carmen in Diaspora

Adaptation, Race, and Opera's Most Famous Character

By: Associate Professor of English African & African Diaspora Studies and Comparative Literature Jennifer Wilks

Carmen in Diaspora is a cultural history of Carmen adaptations set in African diasporic contexts. Beginning with Prosper Mérimée's novella and Georges Bizet's opera and continuing through twentieth- and twentieth-first century interpretations in literature, film, and musical theatre, the book explores how opera's most famous character has exceeded the 19th-century French context in which she was created and taken on a life of her own. Through this transformation, the Carmen figure has sparked important conversations not only about French culture and canonical opera but also about Black womanhood, community, and self-determination.

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281

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Oxford University Press

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0197566146

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9780197566145

Knowledge as Acceptable Testimony

By: Steven Reynolds (Associate Professor of Philosophy)

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Knowledge as Acceptable Testimony

By: Steven Reynolds (Associate Professor of Philosophy)

This book explains how the concept of knowledge functions to improve our system of linguistic information exchange, by comparison with social norms.

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225

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Cambridge University Press

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1107197759

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9781107197756

South American Independence

Gender, Politics, Text

By: Catherine Davies,Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies Catherine Davies,Claire Brewster,Hilary Owen

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South American Independence

Gender, Politics, Text

By: Catherine Davies,Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies Catherine Davies,Claire Brewster,Hilary Owen

Examining women writers from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Colombia, this book traces the contradictions inherent in revolutionary movements that, while arguing for the rights of all, remained ambivalent, at best, about the place of women. It reveals the complex role of women in shaping the vexed ideologies of independence.

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334

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Liverpool University Press

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184631027X

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9781846310270

Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513

By: Christopher A. Reynolds,Professor of Music Christopher Alan Reynolds

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Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513

By: Christopher A. Reynolds,Professor of Music Christopher Alan Reynolds

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470

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Univ of California Press

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0520082125

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9780520082120

Gender and the Journal

Diaries and Academic Discourse

By: Associate Professor of English and Director of Core Writing Cinthia Gannett,Cinthia Gannett

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Gender and the Journal

Diaries and Academic Discourse

By: Associate Professor of English and Director of Core Writing Cinthia Gannett,Cinthia Gannett

This book explores the gendered historical and social contexts and discursive traditions that have characterized journals and diaries in academic discourse. The tension between the term "journal," which has a variety of positive public and scholarly connotations, and the term "diary," which is currently understood as a feminized, trivial, and confessional kind of writing inappropriate for school, is a critical part of the problem. This book uses the developing and shifting notions of diary and journal to explore several critical questions about the larger relations between gender, language, canonicity, and academic discourse.

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SUNY Press

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0791406830

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9780791406830

Music for the Common Man : Aaron Copland during the Depression and War

Aaron Copland during the Depression and War

By: Elizabeth B. Crist Assistant Professor of Musicology University of Texas at Austin

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Music for the Common Man : Aaron Copland during the Depression and War

Aaron Copland during the Depression and War

By: Elizabeth B. Crist Assistant Professor of Musicology University of Texas at Austin

In the 1930s, Aaron Copland began to write in an accessible style he described as "imposed simplicity." Works like El Salon Mexico, Billy the Kid, Lincoln Portrait, and Appalachian Spring feature a tuneful idiom that brought the composer unprecedented popular success and came to define an American sound. Yet the cultural substance of that sound--the social and political perspective that might be heard within these familiar pieces--has until now been largely overlooked. While it has long been acknowledged that Copland subscribed to leftwing ideals, Music for the Common Man is the first sustained attempt to understand some of Copland's best-known music in the context of leftwing social, political, and cultural currents of the Great Depression and Second World War. Musicologist Elizabeth Crist argues that Copland's politics never merely accorded with mainstream New Deal liberalism, wartime patriotism, and Communist Party aesthetic policy, but advanced a progressive vision of American society and culture. Copland's music can be heard to accord with the political tenets of progressivism in the 1930s and '40s, including a fundamental sensitivity toward those less fortunate, support of multiethnic pluralism, belief in social democracy, and faith that America's past could be put in service of a better future. Crist explores how his works wrestle with the political complexities and cultural contradictions of the era by investing symbols of America--the West, folk song, patriotism, or the people--with progressive social ideals. Much as been written on the relationship between politics and art in the 1930s and '40s, but very little on concert music of the era. Music for the Common Man offers fresh insights on familiar pieces and the political context in which they emerged.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195348575

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Book's by Professor Jennifer Clement

Reading Humility in Early Modern England

Reading Humility in Early Modern England

Carmen in Diaspora

Carmen in Diaspora

Knowledge as Acceptable Testimony

Knowledge as Acceptable Testimony

South American Independence

South American Independence

Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513

Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513

Gender and the Journal

Gender and the Journal

Music for the Common Man : Aaron Copland during the Depression and War

Music for the Common Man : Aaron Copland during the Depression and War

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