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Conspiracy and Romance

Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville

Robert Levine examines the American romance in a new historical context. His book offers a fresh reading of the genre, establishing its importance to American culture between the founding of the Republic and the Civil War. With convincing historical and literary detail, Levine shows that anxieties about foreign elements--French revolutionaries, secret societies, Catholic immigrants, African slaves--are central to the fictional worlds of Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne and Melville. Ormond, The Bravo, The Blithedale Romance, and Benito Cereno are persuasively explicated by Levine to demonstrate that the romance dramatized the same conflicts and ideals that gave rise to the American Republic. Americans conceived "America" as a historical romance, and their romances dramatize the historical conditions of the culture. The fear that reputed conspiracies would subvert the order and integrity of the new nation were recurrent and widespread; Levine illuminates the influence of such fears on the works of major romance writers during this period.

Villainy and Vulnerability in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond We are
frequently in most danger when we deem ourselves most safe, and our fortress is
taken sometimes through a point, whose weakness nothing, it should seem, but
the blindest stupidity, could overlook. Brown, Memoirs ofCarwin Charles
Brockden Brown's novels abound with mysterious villains who for a variety of
reasons have fled Europe and emigrated to America. Wanderers in the shifting
terrain of his fiction, they ...

Theatricalities of Power

The Cultural Politics of Noh

Through an extended reading of the noh play Aoi ne Ue, as well as briefer examinations of several other plays, this book sheds new light on the circulation of power and desire in the middle and late medieval periods in Japan. It argues that these plays constituted an active force in the theater of the medieval cultural imaginary by engaging specific sociopolitical issues and problems.

The Cultural Politics of Noh Steven T. Brown. CHAPTER I. Instituting. Noh.
Although noh is thought to have derived, in part, from various forms of
entertainment performed at court, such as Chinese dance (gigaku,] bugaku) and
music (gagaku), imported into Japan in the seventh and eighth centuries, its
beginnings were more popular than courtly. The early popular dramatic forms
that seem to have exerted the greatest influence on the development of noh
include various sacred and ...

Active Listening: Building Skills for Understanding Cassettes (2)

This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities. Two Audio Cassettes are provided to supplement the listening tasks found in the Student's Book. The listening program is also available on Audio CDs.

This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities. Two Audio Cassettes are provided to supplement the listening tasks found in the Student's Book.

Active Listening with Speaking 2(CD 1장 포함)

Steven Brown, Dorolyn Smith. feeling .healthy. to. talk. prepare £\ Think of two
health habits you would like to change. What are some techniques you can use
to change the habits? Complete the chart. Health. habit. sleep better. Technique.
drink herbal tea before bed don't exercise in the evening PRACTICE 1. \'j Listen
and practice. Notice the pronunciation of Don't you and Why don't you. Don't you
= /dontfa/ Why don't you = /wai dontjb/ Don't you enjoy exercising? Why don't you
try ...

A History of Islamic Spain

This comprehensive introduction to the history of Islamic Spain takes thereader through the events, people and movements from 711 to 1492.

A survey essential to anyone seeking a more complete knowledge of European or Islamic history, the volume also includes sections on literature and philology by Pierre Cachia.

To Nation by Revolution

Indonesia in the 20th Century

The twelve chapters of this book all derive from the reflections of a prominent historian on the nature of modern Indonesian history, over a 40-year time span. A central thread running through the book is the importance of the fact that Indonesia entered the modern community of nation-states through political revolution. This revolution has often been denied or downplayed as a failure because it did not have a communist outcome like those of China and Vietnam. A much better analogy is the French revolution - a profound breaking with and discrediting of the ancien regime but without the guiding hand of a disciplined party intent on power. Like other revolutions, it demanded a huge price in violence, human suffering, and the loss of cultural traditions; like them too, it offered a glittering prize. The prize turned out not to be the freedom and equality of which the revolutionaries had dreamt, but a previously inconceivable unity enforced by a state of a completely new kind. The Faustian bargain in by which Indonesia was created in the 1940s is at the heart of this book. All the chapters save one have been revised and updated for this publication, with the injection of some additional optimism called for by post-1998 democracy. The exception is the earliest paper, from 1967, on the paroxysm of violence that punctuated Indonesia's independent history from 1965-1966. This piece has been left unchanged as a document in the early quest for understanding of those horrific events.

The twelve chapters of this book all derive from the reflections of a prominent historian on the nature of modern Indonesian history, over a 40-year time span.

Reading Contemporary Indonesian Muslim Women Writers

Representation, Identity and Religion of Muslim Women in Indonesian Fiction

A study that discusses the construction of gender and Islamic identities in literary writing by four prominent Indonesian Muslim women writers: Titis Basino P I, Ratna Indraswari Ibrahim, Abidah El Kalieqy and Helvy Tiana Rosa.

Representation, Identity and Religion of Muslim Women in Indonesian Fiction
Diah Ariani Arimbi. Larif-Beatrix, A. 'Islamic Reform, Muslim Law and the Shari'a
State'. Shari'a Law and the Modern Muslim State, Norani Othman (ed.), Sisters in
Islam, Kuala Lumpur, 1994, pp. 27- 32. Liddle, R.W. 'Media Dakwah Scripturalism
: One Form of Islamic Political Thought and Action in New Order Indonesia'.
Toward a ... Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1998, vol. 23, no. 2,
pp.

When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty

The Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet

In the fifteenth century, the princess Chokyi Dronma was told by the leading spiritual masters of her time that she was the embodiment of the ancient Indian tantric deity Vajravarahi, known in Tibetan as Dorje Phagmo, the Thunderbolt Female Pig. After suffering a great personal tragedy, Chokyi Dronma renounced her royal status to become a nun, and, in turn, the tantric consort of three outstanding religious masters of her era. After her death, Chokyi Dronma's masters and disciples recognized a young girl as her reincarnation, the first in a long, powerful, and influential female lineage. Today, the twelfth Samding Dorje Phagmo leads the Samding monastery and is a high government cadre in the Tibet Autonomous Region. Hildegard Diemberger builds her book around the translation of the first biography of Chokyi Dronma recorded by her disciples in the wake of her death. The account reveals an extraordinary phenomenon: although it had been believed that women in Tibet were not allowed to obtain full ordination equivalent to monks, Chokyi Dronma not only persuaded one of the highest spiritual teachers of her era to give her full ordination but also established orders for other women practitioners and became so revered that she was officially recognized as one of two principal spiritual heirs to her main master. Diemberger offers a number of theoretical arguments about the importance of reincarnation in Tibetan society and religion, the role of biographies in establishing a lineage, the necessity for religious teachers to navigate complex networks of political and financial patronage, the cultural and social innovation linked to the revival of ancient Buddhist civilizations, and the role of women in Buddhism. Four introductory, stage-setting chapters precede the biography, and four concluding chapters discuss the establishment of the reincarnation lineage and the role of the current incarnation under the peculiarly contradictory communist system.

“One Plus One Makes Three: Buddhist Gender, Monasticism, and the Law of the
Nonexcluded Middle.” History of Religions 43(2): 89–115. Gyatso, J. and H.
Havnevik. 2005. Women in Tibet. New York: Columbia University Press.
Hamayon, R. 1990. La chasse à l'âme. ... Islamic Technology: An Illustrated
History. Cambridge and Paris: Cambridge University Press and UNESCO.
Havnevik, H. 1990. Tibetan Buddhist Nuns. Oslo: Norwegian University Press. —
—. 1994. “The Role of ...

Woman Versus Man

Socio-legal Gender Inequality in Pakistan

Extrait de la couverture . "The book is set against a backdrop of the everyday cycle of happiness and sorrow experienced by the common people of Pakistan, in particular its women. The laws and legal confrontation between the sexes have been ably portrayed. The author discusses gender disputes, economic disparities, legal and social inequalities. The culture of violence and crimes against women is illustrated with real cases. Quotations from the Quran are used to illustrate the just and equitable spirit of Islamic laws, but along with this the author discusses the ways in which these laws have been misinterpreted and distorted. Recommandations and remedies with a road map for change in the economic, social and legal environment of the country add to the value of the book. Eminently readable and containing several case studies and real life examples the book is essential reading for all thinking women in Pakistan."

Extrait de la couverture . "The book is set against a backdrop of the everyday cycle of happiness and sorrow experienced by the common people of Pakistan, in particular its women.