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Old Demons, New Deities

Author : Tenzin Dickie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944869519
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (695 download)

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Download or read book Old Demons, New Deities written by Tenzin Dickie and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language anthology of contemporary Tibetan fiction available in the West, Old Demons, New Deities brings together the best Tibetan writers from both Tibet and the diaspora, who write in Tibetan, English and Chinese. Modern Tibetan literature is just under forty years old: its birth dates to 1980, when the first Tibetan language journal was published in Lhasa. Since then, short stories have become one of the primary modern Tibetan art forms. Through these sometimes absurd, sometimes strange, and always moving stories, the English-reading audience gets an authentic look at the lives of ordinary, secular, modern Tibetans navigating the space between tradition and modernity, occupation and exile, the personal and the national. The setting may be the Himalayas, an Indian railway, or a New York City brothel, but the insights into an ancient culture and the lives and concerns of a modern people are real, and powerful. For this anthology, editor and translator Tenzin Dickie has collected 21 short stories by 16 of the most respected and well known Tibetan writers working today, including Pema Bhum, Pema Tseden, Tsering Dondrup, Woeser, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Kyabchen Dedrol, and Jamyang Norbu.

Stories Old and New

Author :
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029580128X
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Stories Old and New written by and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories Old and New is the first complete translation of Feng Menglong’s Gujin xiaoshuo (also known as Yushi mingyan, Illustrious Words to Instruct the World), a collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China. This is considered the best of Feng’s three such collections and was a pivotal work in the development of vernacular fiction. The stories are valuable as examples of early fiction and for their detailed depiction of daily life among a broad range of social classes. The stories are populated by scholars and courtesans, spirits and ghosts, Buddhist monks and nuns, pirates and emperors, and officials both virtuous and corrupt. The streets and abodes of late-Ming China come alive in Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang’s smooth and colorful translation of these entertaining tales. Stories Old and New has long been popular in China and has been published there in numerous editions. Although some of the stories have appeared in English translations in journals and anthologies, they have not previously been presented sequentially in thematic pairs as arranged by Feng Menglong. This unabridged translation, illustrated with a selection of woodcuts from the original Ming dynasty edition and including Feng’s interlinear notes and marginal comments, as well as all of the verse woven throughout the text, allows the modern reader to experience the text as did its first audience nearly four centuries ago. For other titles in the collection go to http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/books/ming.html

New Stories for Old

Author : H. Fisch
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230502350
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book New Stories for Old written by H. Fisch and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold Fisch explores the biblical influence on the style and structure of landmark works by Fielding, Defoe, George Eliot, Kafka, Dostoevsky and others. Whilst the great novelists could not manage without the Bible, at the same time 'it would not do'. The book concludes with two chapters on the Israeli novelists S.Y. Agnon and A.B. Yehoshua.

A Very Old Man

Author : Italo Svevo
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 168137594X
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book A Very Old Man written by Italo Svevo and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newly translated collection of fiction by the influential Italian modernist, continuing on his landmark work Zeno's Conscience. A Very Old Man collects five linked stories, parts of an unfinished novel that the great Triestine Italo Svevo wrote at the end of his life, after the international success of Zeno’s Conscience in 1923. Here Svevo revisits with new vigor and agility themes that fascinated him from the start—aging, deceit, and self-deception, as well as the fragility, fecklessness, and plain foolishness of the bourgeois paterfamilias—even as memories of the recent, terrible slaughter of World War I and the contemporary rise of Italian fascism also cast a shadow over the book’s pages. It opens with “The Contract,” in which Zeno’s manager, the hardheaded young Olivi, expresses, like the war veterans who were Mussolini’s early followers, a sense of entitlement born of fighting in the trenches. Zeno, by contrast, embodies the confusion and paralysis of the more decorous, although sleepy, way of life associated with the onetime Austro-Hungarian Empire which for so long ruled over Trieste but has now been swept away. As always, Svevo is attracted to the theme of how people fail to fit in. It is they, he suggests, who offer a recognizably human countenance in a world ravaged by the ambitions and fantasies of its true believers.

Old Stories, New Ways

Author : Vivian Manasc
Publisher : Brush Education
ISBN 13 : 1550598627
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Old Stories, New Ways written by Vivian Manasc and published by Brush Education. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivian Manasc, one of the founders of Manasc Isaac Architects, has pioneered sustainable architecture in Canada. Her work in partnership with Indigenous communities has been her greatest inspiration, and it has transformed the very nature of her practice. Through the profound lessons of the seven Grandfather Teachings, Vivian came to understand that the process of planning and designing a building should be a circle, with the beginning and end of the story linked together. The stories Vivian tells in Old Stories, New Ways are also framed by these teachings of Courage, Love, Wisdom, Respect, Truth, Humility and Honesty, with each teaching illuminating an aspect of how working with Dene, Cree, Saulteaux, Métis, Inuit and Inuvialuit communities has influenced her design practice.

Old Stories, New Insights

Author : Julie Warren Hawkins
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1613797516
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Old Stories, New Insights written by Julie Warren Hawkins and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an in-depth look at the lives of 13 women of the Bible, this devotional takes you step-by-step on a journey of healing, self-discovery, and affirmation through 90 daily readings. Although separated by centuries, each woman's experience contains deeply embedded timeless truths applicable to us and our experiences today. In their stilled yet still living voices, we hear them testify that God was to them personal and loving, concerned and involved, as well as intimate and powerful. They challenge us to walk back along their paths of old and to search for hidden marks that point out where we can pause to gather strength, dig for encouragement, pick up insight, collect understanding, and harvest hope. I accepted their challenge and can now testify that all they say is true. . . Judith Warren Hawkins, founder of Gaza Road Ministries, has served as a county court judge since 1996 in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida. Gaza Road Ministries is her calling modeled after Philip's encounter with the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8. Judge Hawkins is a gifted teacher of Bible truths making plain the word of God so that "none need err" in the way of understanding and wisdom. She is a frequent speaker and presenter and has participated in numerous international mission programs. Judge Hawkins is married, the mother of one adult son, and grandmother of two young girls. http: //www.gazaroadministries.com/

Appropriation and Representation

Author : Yang Shuhui
Publisher : U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
ISBN 13 : 0472038109
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Appropriation and Representation written by Yang Shuhui and published by U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feng Menglong (1574–1646) was recognized as the most knowledgeable connoisseur of popular literature of his time. He is known today for compiling three famous collections of vernacular short stories, each containing forty stories, collectively known as Sanyan. Appropriation and Representation adapts concepts of ventriloquism and dialogism from Bakhtin and Holquist to explore Feng’s methods of selecting source materials. Shuhui Yang develops a model of development in which Feng’s approach to selecting and working with his source materials becomes clear. More broadly, Appropriation and Representation locates Feng Menglong’s Sanyan in the cultural milieu of the late Ming, including the archaist movement in literature, literati marginality and anxieties, the subversive use of folk works, and the meiren xiangcao tradition—appropriating a female identity to express male frustration. Against this background, a rationale emerges for Feng’s choice to elevate and promote the vernacular story while stepping back form an overt authorial role.

Sanyan Stories

Author :
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295805692
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Sanyan Stories written by and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented here are nine tales from the celebrated Ming dynasty Sanyan collection of vernacular stories compiled and edited by Feng Menglong (1574–1646), the most knowledgeable connoisseur of popular literature of his time in China. The stories he collected were pivotal to the development of Chinese vernacular fiction, and their importance in the Chinese literary canon and world literature has been compared to that of Boccaccio’s Decameron and the stories of One Thousand and One Nights. Peopled with scholars, emperors, ministers, generals, and a gallery of ordinary men and women in their everyday surroundings—merchants and artisans, prostitutes and courtesans, matchmakers and fortune-tellers, monks and nuns, servants and maids, thieves and imposters—the stories provide a vivid panorama of the bustling world of imperial China before the end of the Ming dynasty. The three volumes constituting the Sanyan set—Stories Old and New, Stories to Caution the World, and Stories to Awaken the World, each containing forty tales—have been translated in their entirety by Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang. The stories in this volume were selected for their popularity with American readers and their usefulness as texts in classes on Chinese and comparative literature. These unabridged translations include all the poetry that is scattered throughout the original stories, as well as Feng Menglong’s interlinear and marginal comments, which point out what seventeenth-century readers of the stories were being asked to appreciate.

Old Stories, New Readings

Author : Miriam López-Rodríguez
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443875716
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Old Stories, New Readings written by Miriam López-Rodríguez and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether imaginary or based on real events, stories are at the core of any culture. Regardless of their length, their rhetoric strategies, or their style, humans tell stories to each other to express their innermost fears and needs, to establish a point within an argument, or to engage their listeners in a fabricated composition. Stories can also serve other purposes, such as being used for entertainment, for education or for the preservation of certain cultural traits. Storytelling is at the heart of human interaction, and, as such, can foster a dialogic narrative between the person creating the story and their audience. In literature, this dialogue has been traditionally associated with narrative in general, and with the novel in particular. However, other genres also make use of storytelling, including drama. This volume explores the ways in which American theatre from all eras deals with this: how stories are told onstage, what kinds of stories are recorded in dramatic texts, and how previously neglected realities have gained attention through the American playwright’s telling, or retelling, of an event or action. The stories unfolded in American drama follow recent narratology theories, particularly in the sense that there is a greater preference for those so-called small stories over big stories. Despite the increase in the production of this type of texts and the growing interest in them in the field of narratology, small stories are literary episodes that have been granted less critical attention, particularly in the analysis of drama. As such, this volume fills a void in the study of the stories presented on the American stage.

In the Beginning

Author : Frederic Boyer
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452166706
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book In the Beginning written by Frederic Boyer and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Genesis to the Book of Daniel, this ebook recounts 35 stories from the Old Testament in a modern and inviting way, combining spirited illustrations with spare, eloquent prose. Acclaimed illustrator Serge Bloch expertly captures the many scenes in these beloved tales, conveying extraordinary breadth of emotion and action in his seemingly simple drawings. Biblical expert Frédéric Boyer and poet and translator Cole Swensen contribute accessible and enlightening text, further illuminating the stories with notes on their history and symbolism. Full of contemporary resonance, here are universal stories of love, anger, betrayal, faith, and courage—revealed in a way that encourages readers of all ages and faiths to engage with them anew.

Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans

Author : Jeanne deLavigne
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807152935
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans written by Jeanne deLavigne and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “He struck a match to look at his watch. In the flare of the light they saw a young woman just at Pitot’s elbow—a young woman dressed all in black, with pale gold hair, and a baby sleeping on her shoulder. She glided to the edge of the bridge and stepped noiselessly off into the black waters.”—from Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans Ghosts are said to wander along the rooftops above New Orleans’ Royal Street, the dead allegedly sing sacred songs in St. Louis Cathedral, and the graveyard tomb of a wealthy madam reportedly glows bright red at night. Local lore about such supernatural sightings, as curated by Jeanne deLavigne in her classic Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans, finds the phantoms of bitter lovers, vengeful slaves, and menacing gypsies haunting nearly every corner of the city, from the streets of the French Quarter to Garden District mansions. Originally printed in 1944, all forty ghost stories and the macabre etchings of New Orleans artist Charles Richards appear in this new edition. Drawing largely on popular legend dating back to the 1800s, deLavigne provides vivid details of old New Orleans with a cast of spirits that represent the ethnic mélange of the city set amid period homes, historic neighborhoods, and forgotten taverns. Combining folklore, newspaper accounts, and deLavigne’s own voice, these phantasmal tales range from the tragic—brothers, lost at sea as children, haunt a chapel on Thomas Street in search of their mother—to graphic depictions of torture, mutilation, and death. Folklorist and foreword contributor Frank A. de Caro places the writer and her work in context for modern readers. He uncovers new information about deLavigne’s life and describes her book’s pervasive lingering influence on the Crescent City’s culture today.

Dragons at Crumbling Castle

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544466594
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book Dragons at Crumbling Castle written by Terry Pratchett and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times best-selling author Terry Pratchett's irreverent and irresistible tales for children in a lavishly designed and extensively illustrated volume.

Be Kind

Author : Pat Zietlow Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1626723214
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Be Kind written by Pat Zietlow Miller and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful picture book illustrating the power of small acts of kindness, from the award-winning author of Sophie's Squash.

My First Old Testament Stories

Author : Deanna Draper Buck
Publisher : Bookcraft, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781573459600
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book My First Old Testament Stories written by Deanna Draper Buck and published by Bookcraft, Incorporated. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Home for Christmas

Author : Garry Fleming
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781875875283
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (752 download)

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Download or read book Home for Christmas written by Garry Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's almost Christmas, and a small hopping mouse is hurrying to get home with presents for his children. But he's been away so long. Can he find his way?

Grimms' Tales for Young and Old

Author : Brothers Grimm
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307788067
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Grimms' Tales for Young and Old written by Brothers Grimm and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of all ages, two hundred and ten tales of the Brothers Grimm, including "Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," "Snow White," and "Hansel and Gretel," translated by Ralph Manheim, the highly acclaimed and prize-winning translator. Manheim has rediscovered in the original German Grimms’ editions of the tales the unadorned, direct rhythm of the oral form in which they were first recorded. He has retained their ageless magic and mythology and restored the extraordinary vitality and wit, the acute perceptions of human strength and facility mirrored in the facets of these small gems. “The best modern translation of the complete Brothers Grimm.”--Choice

Favorite Stories Old and New

Author : Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Favorite Stories Old and New written by Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1955 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains realistic and fanciful stories, folk tales, myths, fables and Bible stories.