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Author : Abdulrazak Gurnah
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9987080057
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Peponi written by Abdulrazak Gurnah and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swahili translation of the Nobel-prize winning author's 1994 novel Paradise.
Author : Karin Schlapbach
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198807724
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book The Anatomy of Dance Discourse written by Karin Schlapbach and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the newly thriving field of ancient Greek and Roman performance and dance studies, The Anatomy of Dance Discourse offers a fresh and original perspective on ancient perceptions of dance. Focusing on the second century CE, it provides an overview of the dance discourse of this period and explores the conceptualization of dance across an array of different texts, from Plutarch and Lucian of Samosata, to the apocryphal Acts of John, Longus, and Apuleius. The volume is divided into two Parts: while the second Part discusses ekphraseis of dance performance in prose and poetry of the Roman imperial period, the first delves more deeply into an examination of how both philosophical and literary treatments of dance interacted with other areas of cultural expression, whether language and poetry, rhetoric and art, or philosophy and religion. Its distinctive contribution lies in this juxtaposition of ancient theorizations of dance and philosophical analyses of the medium with literary depictions of dance scenes and performances, and it attends not only to the highly encoded genre of pantomime, which dominated the stage in the Roman empire, but also to acrobatic, non-representational dances. This twofold nature of dance sparked highly sophisticated reflections on the relationship between dance and meaning in the ancient world, and the volume defends the novel claim that in the imperial period it became more and more palpable that dance, unlike painting or sculpture, could be representational or not a performance of nothing but itself. It argues that dance was understood as a practice in which human beings, whether as dancers or spectators, are confronted with the irreducible reality of their own physical existence, which is constantly changing, and that its way to cognition and action is physical experience.
Author : Esther Mukewa Lisanza
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030234797
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book African Languages and Literatures in the 21st Century written by Esther Mukewa Lisanza and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book examines the crucial role still played by African languages in pedagogy and literatures in the 21st century, generating insights into how they effectively serve cultural needs across the African continent and beyond. Boldly positioning African languages as key resources in the 21st century, chapters focus on themes such as language revolt by marginalized groups at grassroots level, the experience of American students learning African languages, female empowerment through the use of African languages in music, film and literary works, and immigration issues. The contributions are written by scholars of language, literature, education and linguistics, and the book will be of interest to students and scholars in these and related areas.
Author : Carlos Federico Jasso-Gastinel
Publisher : William Andrew
ISBN 13 : 0323443982
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Modification of Polymer Properties written by Carlos Federico Jasso-Gastinel and published by William Andrew. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modification of Polymer Properties provides, for the first time, in one title, the latest information on gradient IPNs and gradient copolymers. The book covers the broad range of polymer modification routes in a fresh, current view representing a timely addition to the technical literature of this important area. Historically, blends, copolymers, or filled polymers have been developed to meet specific properties, or to optimize the cost/properties relationship. Using the gradient structure approach with conventional radical polymerization, it has been shown that it is possible to optimize properties if appropriate gradients in the composition of copolymer chains are obtained. An overview of the gradient structure approach for designing polymers has not appeared in the recent literature and this title covers the different methods used to modify properties, offering the whole range of ways to modify polymers in just one volume and making this an attractive option for a wide audience of practitioners. The approach for each chapter is to explain the fundamental principles of preparation, cover properties modification, describe future research and applications as examples of materials that may be prepared for specific applications, or that are already in use, in present day applications. The book is for readers that have a basic background in polymer science, as well as those interested in the different ways to combine or modify polymer properties. Provides an integrated view on how to modify polymer properties Presents the entire panorama of polymer properties modification in one reference, covering the essential information in each topic Includes the optimization of properties using gradients in polymers composition or structure
Author : Robert Turley
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452031231
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Poacher Hunter written by Robert Turley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grant Robinson, newly retired as a Police Chief Superintendent, now had the opportunity to exercise his lifelong interest in animal photography. His planned trip would take him to the Maasai Mara, the Serengeti and the NgoroNgoro Crater. Little did he realise that his desire to take photographs of the "welcome dance", would dramatically alter his plans. What does Kiambu, the Nairobi Commissioner of Police want with Grant Robinson? Who murdered Pili? Is the Governor of the Bank of Kenya as honest and scrupulous as he appears? What is the connection between Maalik and Roobie the restaurateur? What is the meaning of the "Elephant Mark"? How did the death of Dominik cause a major smuggling route to be closed? Grant Robinson has to face these challenges, as well as many others, as he becomes The Poacher Hunter.
Author : Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019979832X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Frontiers of Pleasure written by Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontiers of Pleasure calls into question a number of influential modern notions regarding aesthetics by going back to the very beginnings of aesthetic thought in Greece and raising critical issues regarding conceptions of how one responds to the beautiful. Despite a recent rebirth of interest in aesthetics, extensive discussion of this key cluster of topics has been absent. Anatasia-Erasmia Peponi argues that although the Greek language had no formal term equivalent to the "aesthetic," the notion was deeply rooted in Greek thought. Her analysis centers on a dominant aspect of beauty - the aural - associated with a highly influential sector of culture that comprised both poetry and instrumental music, the "activity of the Muses," or mousik . The main argument relies on a series of close readings of literary and philosophical texts, from Homer and Plato through Kant, Joyce, and Proust. Through detailed attention to such scenes as Odysseus' encounter with the Sirens and Hermes' playing of his lyre for his brother Apollo, she demonstrates that the most telling moments in the conceptualization of the aesthetic come in the Greeks' debates and struggles over intense models of auditory pleasure. Unlike current tendencies to treat poetry as an early, imperfect mode of meditating upon such issues, Peponi claims that Greek poetry and philosophy employed equally complex, albeit different, ways of articulating notions of aesthetic response. Her approach often leads her to partial or total disagreement with earlier interpretations of some of the most well-known Greek texts of the archaic and classical periods. Frontiers of Pleasure thus suggests an alternative mode of understanding aesthetics in its entirety, freed from some modern preconceptions that have become a hindrance within the field.
Author : Jesús-María García- Martínez
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3036513019
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials written by Jesús-María García- Martínez and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with one of the most attractive fields in material science and technology research. In fact, the concept of organic–inorganic hybrid materials is applied to a wide variety of approaches that include materials with inorganic and/or organic nature with respect to their matrices and/or dispersed phase. The present book compiles one editorial and eleven approaches to the topic, and intends to provide a transversal idea about what the field of the so-called organic–inorganic hybrid materials means in actual scientific scenarios. In any case, the role is pointed out of the interphase between the components as the critical aspect to consider, as a way to enhance and understand these components in order to design materials with "tailor-made" organized structures considering the increasing nano-, meso-, micro- and macro-scales.
Author : Naomi Weiss
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520393090
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Seeing Theater written by Naomi Weiss and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to approach the visuality of ancient Greek drama through the lens of theater phenomenology. Gathering evidence from tragedy, comedy, satyr play, and vase painting, Naomi Weiss argues that, from its very beginnings, Greek theater in the fifth century BCE was understood as a complex interplay of actuality and virtuality. Classical drama frequently exposes and interrogates potential viewing experiences within the theatron—literally, “the place for seeing.” Weiss shows how, in so doing, it demands distinctive modes of engagement from its audiences. Examining plays and pottery with attention to the instability and ambiguity inherent in visual perception, Seeing Theater provides an entirely new model for understanding this ancient art form.
Author : Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128226692
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (282 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Polymer Nanocomposites for Industrial Applications written by Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approx.770 pages Approx.770 pages
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900441259X
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry foregrounds innovative approaches to the question of genre, what it means, and how to think about it for ancient Greek poetry and performance. Embracing multiple definitions of genre and lyric, the volume pushes beyond current dominant trends within the field of Classics to engage with a variety of other disciplines, theories, and models. Eleven papers by leading scholars of ancient Greek culture cover a wide range of media, from Sappho’s songs to elegiac inscriptions to classical tragedy. Collectively, they develop a more holistic understanding of the concept of lyric genre, its relevance to the study of ancient texts, and its relation to subsequent ideas about lyric.
Author : Sarah Olsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108617328
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Solo Dance in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature written by Sarah Olsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ancient Greek dance” traditionally evokes images of stately choruses or lively Dionysiac revels – communal acts of performance. This is the first book to look beyond the chorus to the diverse and complex representation of solo dancers in Archaic and Classical Greek literature. It argues that dancing alone signifies transgression and vulnerability in the Greek cultural imagination, as isolation from the chorus marks the separation of the individual from a range of communal social structures. It also demonstrates that the solo dancer is a powerful figure for literary exploration and experimentation, highlighting the importance of the singular dancing body in the articulation of poetic, narrative, and generic interests across Greek literature. Taking a comparative approach and engaging with current work in dance and performance studies, this book reveals the profound literary and cultural importance of the unruly solo dancer in the ancient Greek world.
Author : Naomi A. Weiss
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520401441
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Music of Tragedy written by Naomi A. Weiss and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides. Naomi Weiss demonstrates that Euripides’ allusions to music-making are not just metatheatrical flourishes or gestures towards musical and religious practices external to the drama but closely interwoven with the dramatic plot. Situating Euripides’ experimentation with the dramaturgical effects of mousike within a broader cultural context, she shows how much of his novelty lies in his reinvention of traditional lyric styles and motifs for the tragic stage. If we wish to understand better the trajectories of this most important ancient art form, The Music of Tragedy argues, we must pay closer attention to the role played by both music and text.
Author : Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107067308
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Performance and Culture in Plato's Laws written by Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to an intriguing Platonic work, the Laws. Probably the last dialogue Plato wrote, the Laws represents the philosopher's most fully developed views on many crucial questions that he had raised in earlier works. Yet it remains a largely unread and underexplored dialogue. Abounding in unique and valuable references to dance and music, customs and norms, the Laws seems to suggest a comprehensive model of culture for the entire polis - something unparalleled in Plato. This exceptionally rich discussion of cultural matters in the Laws requires the scrutiny of scholars whose expertise resides beyond the boundaries of pure philosophical inquiry. The volume offers contributions by fourteen scholars who work in the broader areas of literary, cultural and performance studies.
Author : Deborah Tarn Steiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107110688
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Choral Constructions in Greek Culture written by Deborah Tarn Steiner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates the centrality of chorality in the social, religious and technological practices of individuals and communities.
Download or read book Kenya Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-06-21 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kenya Gazette is an official publication of the government of the Republic of Kenya. It contains notices of new legislation, notices required to be published by law or policy as well as other announcements that are published for general public information. It is published every week, usually on Friday, with occasional releases of special or supplementary editions within the week.
Author : David Lambkin
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0143529447
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (435 download)
Download or read book Night Jasmine Man written by David Lambkin and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed composer Richard Turnbull, grieving at his wife's slow descent into schizophrenia, is notified at this crisis point in his life that his daughter Pia has been murdered in East Africa. He travels to Kenya to investigate her death. His quest leads him to a beautiful island off the coast where he quickly becomes enmeshed in a nightmare world of hard drugs, ivory poaching and sexual intrigue. As the story moves rapidly to its apocalyptic climax, Turnbull clashes violently with the island's ruler, the charming but ruthless Sultan. On the surface a hard-paced thriller, Night Jasmine Man echoes with layer upon layer of meaning, built as it is on a bedrock of ancient myths. Orpheus and Eurydice are here, as is Theseus, and the Cretan myth of a bull-god risen from the sea. It is also shot through with reverence for the natural primal beauty of Africa - sun, sea, wind, elephant, buffalo, birds and fish. At once mystical and highly erotic, tender and sensuous, this compelling novel poses questions about the origin of good and evil and celebrates a passionate belief in the redeeming power of love.
Author : Zacharoula Petraki
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111178218
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Sculpture, weaving, and the body in Plato written by Zacharoula Petraki and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato’s Timaeus is unique in Greek Antiquity for presenting the creation of the world as the work of a divine demiurge. The maker bestows order on sensible things and imitates the world of the intellect by using the Forms as models. While the creation-myth of the Timaeus seems unparalleled, this book argues that it is not the first of Plato’s dialogues to use artistic language to articulate the relationship of the objects of the material world to the world of the intellect. The book adopts an interpretative angle that is sensitive to the visual and art-historical developments of Classical Athens to argue that sculpture, revolutionized by the advent of the lost-wax technique for the production of bronze statues, lies at the heart of Plato’s conception of the relation of the human soul and body to the Forms. It shows that, despite the severe criticism of mimēsis in the Republic, Plato’s use of artistic language rests on a positive model of mimēsis. Plato was in fact engaged in a constructive dialogue with material culture and he found in the technical processes and the cultural semantics of sculpture and of the art of weaving a valuable way to conceptualise and communicate complex ideas about humans’ relation to the Forms.
