Gale Researcher Guide for: Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Poems of Trauma, Grief, and Consolation
Title | Gale Researcher Guide for: Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Poems of Trauma, Grief, and Consolation PDF eBook |
Author | Sonja Mayrhofer |
Publisher | Gale, Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | 9 |
Release | |
Genre | Study Aids |
ISBN | 1535851198 |
Gale Researcher Guide for: Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Poems of Trauma, Grief, and Consolation is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature
Title | Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature PDF eBook |
Author | David A. Wacks |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 2015-05-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0253015766 |
The year 1492 has long divided the study of Sephardic culture into two distinct periods, before and after the expulsion of Jews from Spain. David A. Wacks examines the works of Sephardic writers from the 13th to the 16th centuries and shows that this literature was shaped by two interwoven experiences of diaspora: first from the Biblical homeland Zion and later from the ancestral hostland, Sefarad. Jewish in Spain and Spanish abroad, these writers negotiated Jewish, Spanish, and diasporic idioms to produce a uniquely Sephardic perspective. Wacks brings Diaspora Studies into dialogue with medieval and early modern Sephardic literature for the first time.
Exodus and Daniel
Title | Exodus and Daniel PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Adelbert Blackburn |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | English poetry |
ISBN |
White Women's Rights
Title | White Women's Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Michele Newman |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 274 |
Release | 1999-02-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198028865 |
This study reinterprets a crucial period (1870s-1920s) in the history of women's rights, focusing attention on a core contradiction at the heart of early feminist theory. At a time when white elites were concerned with imperialist projects and civilizing missions, progressive white women developed an explicit racial ideology to promote their cause, defending patriarchy for "primitives" while calling for its elimination among the "civilized." By exploring how progressive white women at the turn of the century laid the intellectual groundwork for the feminist social movements that followed, Louise Michele Newman speaks directly to contemporary debates about the effect of race on current feminist scholarship. "White Women's Rights is an important book. It is a fascinating and informative account of the numerous and complex ties which bound feminist thought to the practices and ideas which shaped and gave meaning to America as a racialized society. A compelling read, it moves very gracefully between the general history of the feminist movement and the particular histories of individual women."--Hazel Carby, Yale University
Death in Jewish Life
Title | Death in Jewish Life PDF eBook |
Author | Stefan C. Reif |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 2014-08-27 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3110377489 |
Jewish customs and traditions about death, burial and mourning are numerous, diverse and intriguing. They are considered by many to have a respectable pedigree that goes back to the earliest rabbinic period. In order to examine the accurate historical origins of many of them, an international conference was held at Tel Aviv University in 2010 and experts dealt with many aspects of the topic. This volume includes most of the papers given then, as well as a few added later. What emerges are a wealth of fresh material and perspectives, as well as the realization that the high Middle Ages saw a set of exceptional innovations, some of which later became central to traditional Judaism while others were gradually abandoned. Were these innovations influenced by Christian practice? Which prayers and poems reflect these innovations? What do the sources tell us about changing attitudes to death and life-after death? Are tombstones an important guide to historical developments? Answers to these questions are to be found in this unusual, illuminating and readable collection of essays that have been well documented, carefully edited and well indexed.
The Seafarer
Title | The Seafarer PDF eBook |
Author | Ida L. Gordon |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 84 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN | 9780719007781 |
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics
Title | Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Scheper-Hughes |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 418 |
Release | 2001-01-03 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0520224809 |
"Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics, in its original form--now integrally reproduced in the new edition--is a most important seminal study of an Irish community."—Conor Cruise O'Brien