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Oral Epics of Central Asia

By: Nora K. Chadwick,Victor Zhirmunsky,Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunskiĭ

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Oral Epics of Central Asia

By: Nora K. Chadwick,Victor Zhirmunsky,Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunskiĭ

This book examines the oral literature of the nomadic Turkic peoples.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521148286

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9780521148283

Child of a Turbulent Century

By: Victor Erlich

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Victor Erlich was born in 1914, at the threshold of what the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova called "the real twentieth century," in Petrograd, a place indelibly marked by that century's violent dislocations and upheavals. His story, begun on the eve of the First World War and taking him through Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Germany, and the U. S. Army, is in many ways a memoir of that "real twentieth century," reflecting its lethal nature and shaped by the "fearful symmetry" of the age of totalitarianism. To read about Erlich's life growing up at the intersection of the century's darkest currents is to experience history firsthand from the Russian Revolution to the end of the Second World War--and to know what it truly is to be a child of the century. Throughout, despite the darkness, even the horror, of much of what he describes, the author maintains the beguiling tone and the warm manner of one who has reached the new millennium with rare and hard-won insight into the human comedy of his time.

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241

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Northwestern University Press

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0810123517

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9780810123519

Modernism and Revolution

Russian Literature in Transition

By: Victor Erlich

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Modernism and Revolution

Russian Literature in Transition

By: Victor Erlich

Now that the political rhetoric can end, Erlich (Russian literature, Yale U.) examines the impact of the 1917 revolution on Russian poetry, criticism, and artistic prose. He looks at the flirtations with modernism of the early 20th century and compares the futurists, formalists, novelists, and short-story writers of the first decade of the new social and political order. Assumes no knowledge of Russian. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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336

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Harvard University Press

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0674580702

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9780674580701

Painting and Performance

Chinese Picture Recitation and Its Indian Genesis

By: Victor H. Mair

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Painting and Performance

Chinese Picture Recitation and Its Indian Genesis

By: Victor H. Mair

In this extraordinary work of scholarship, Victor Mair traces the global development over a thousand years of a genre of popular Buddhist folk literature from China known as pien-wen, pointing out its origins in India as a form of oral storytelling using painting as an aid, and showing how that form has influenced performance and literary traditions in India, Indonesia, Japan, Central Asia, the near East, Italy, France, and Germany. Professor Mair's research has important implications for students and scholars of literature, folklore, painting, religion, history, art, and theater and the performing arts, not to mention Chinese popular culture and Indian civilization.

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420

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824881141

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9780824881146

The Use of Sacred Books in the Ancient World

By: Leonard Victor Rutgers

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The Use of Sacred Books in the Ancient World

By: Leonard Victor Rutgers

In this volume a number of scholars from Israel, the USA, and England have joined forces with the well-known Utrecht University Research Unit "The Cultural Milieu of Early Christianity" to investigate in an unprecendently interdisciplinary fashion how sacred books functioned in pagan, Jewish, and Christian circles. The 16 essays cover a wide range of topics including a discussion of emergence of canonical scriptures in late antiquity, an investigation of parallels between exegesis of Homer by the Greeks and that of the Bible by the Jews, a study of the rise of Virgil's Aeneid to the status of "canonical" book; a discussion of the use of sacred books as instant oracles; an investigation of the role of the Bible in polemics between Jews and Christians; an analysis of the wide variety of quotation formula's used by New Testament authors, a discussion of the role of biblical interpretation in the thought world of Jesus' brother, James; an investigation of the function of Scripture in the midrash Aggadat Bereshit, and other topics.

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324

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Peeters Publishers

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9042906960

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9789042906969

Oral Epics of Central Asia

By: Nora K. Chadwick,Victor Zhirmunsky

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Oral Epics of Central Asia

By: Nora K. Chadwick,Victor Zhirmunsky

Originally published in 1969, this book consists of a revised version of Dr Chadwick's section on the oral literature of the Turkic peoples in The Growth of Literature with supplementary material on the results of research in the Soviet Union by Professor Victor Zhirmunsky. This literature is of the greatest interest and variety, and not excessively 'strange' to readers of European oral literature. It was produced by nomadic peoples with well-developed traditions of narrative heroic poetry. Dr Chadwick paraphrases and analyses the more important epics; and Professor Zhirmunsky adds a study on epic songs and their singers on the processes of oral transmission. This is a fascinating study that will be of particular interest to scholars of comparative literature and of the origins of literature generally; but it should also be read by anthropologists and scholars of folklore.

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376

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Cambridge University Press

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0521148286

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Critical Levels in the Development of Natural Systems

By: Alexey V. Zhirmunsky,Victor I. Kuzmin

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Critical Levels in the Development of Natural Systems

By: Alexey V. Zhirmunsky,Victor I. Kuzmin

This book deals with general quantitative regularities of the alteration of evolutionary and reconstruction (critical) periods of development. An equation and a model of development are introduced which generalize a wide range of commonly accepted models, allowing the analysis of the characteristics of processes occurring on different structural levels of natural system organization. On the basis of this model, a hierarchy of critical constants has been established, applicable to, for example, geological history, cyclicity in the individual development of animals, structures of population and ecological systems, as well as to the perception of acoustical signals by man.

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Springer

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3642730191

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9783642730191

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Oral Epics of Central Asia

Oral Epics of Central Asia

Child of a Turbulent Century

Child of a Turbulent Century

Modernism and Revolution

Modernism and Revolution

Painting and Performance

Painting and Performance

The Use of Sacred Books in the Ancient World

The Use of Sacred Books in the Ancient World

Oral Epics of Central Asia

Oral Epics of Central Asia

Critical Levels in the Development of Natural Systems

Critical Levels in the Development of Natural Systems

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