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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This book clarifies the advent of Liangzhu Culture and analyses the
morphology, structure and internal social organization of
grass-root settlements, medium-size settlements and the ancient
city of Liangzhu, as well as the religious beliefs, ideology and
power mechanisms represented by jade. Further, the book explains
how the low-lying location and humid environment in the water-net
plain area prompted the creation of man-made platforms or pillars,
forming small and densely settled residential areas, and ultimately
the water villages of southern China. Developments between man and
nature accelerated the process of civilization, leading to the
polarization of social classes and pyramid-shaped residential
structures containing cities, towns and villages. Offering unique
insights into the social vitality and structure of Liangzhu
society, the book is one of the most important academic works on
interpreting the origins of Liangzhu Civilization and investigating
Chinese Civilization.
Most scholars of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament recognize Ruth's
simplicity and beauty, yet there has been little consensus in
critical scholarship related to the book's origin and purpose.
Opinions on the text's date range from the early monarchic period
down to the Post-Exilic period, and interpreters argue over whether
the narrative served to whitewash David's lineage, or if it held
Ruth out as a positive example of Gentile inclusion in the Judean
community. With an eclectic approach drawing on traditional
exegesis, analysis of inner-biblical allusions, comparisons of
legal and linguistic data, and modern refugee research, Edward
Allen Jones III argues that Ruth is, indeed, best understood as a
call for an inclusive attitude toward any Jew or Gentile who
desired to join the Judean community in the early Post-Exilic
period. Within the narrative's world, only Boaz welcomes Ruth into
the Bethlehemite community, yet the text's re-use of other biblical
narratives makes it clear that Ruth stands on par with Israel's
great matriarchs. Though certain segments of the Judean community
sought to purify their nation by expelling foreign elements in the
Restoration period, Yhwh's loving-kindness in Ruth's life
demonstrates his willingness to use any person to build up his
people.
The media ecology of North America has long fascinated historians
and literary scholars, but what does verse have to tell us about
the way sound has evolved? What did it mean for modernist poets to
make the mechanics of sound their business? And in what sense did
their contriving ways to intervene in the culture of recording and
transmission enable the articulation of a more or less 'authentic'
voice than the kind earlier generations of poets had cultivated?
For the writers considered in this study - Robert Frost, Wallace
Stevens, Marianne Moore, and Langston Hughes - such questions were
not always easy to resolve, but rather called for a kind of
creative troubleshooting, a will to think laterally about the ways
a lyric poem might accommodate or become entangled in the most
ordinary of technological effects and processes, from telephony to
radio waves, phonography to movie-going.
A collection of essays on Dylan Thomas, reading culture and his
place in modernist studies Reclining quietly with a book; an ear
glued to the Hi-Fi; sifting a library stack; the TV flickering; a
website gone live ... Few poets have inspired such remarkable
scenes and modes of interpretation as Dylan Thomas. Our means of
access and response to his work have never been more eclectic, and
this collection sheds new light on what it means to 'read' such a
various art. In thinking beyond the parameters of life writing and
lingering interpretative communities, Reading Dylan Thomas attends
in detail to the problems and pleasures of deciphering Thomas in
the twenty-first century, teasing out his debts and effects,
tracing his influence on later artists, and suggesting ways to
understand his own idiosyncratic reading practices. From short
stories to memoirs, poems to broadcasts, letters to films,
manuscripts to paintings, the material considered in this volume
lays the ground for a new consideration of Thomas's formal
versatility, and his distinctive relation to literary modernism.
Key Features Evaluates the breadth of Thomas's creative practice,
from short stories to memoirs, poems to broadcasts, letters to
films, manuscripts to paintings Draws on recently discovered
manuscripts and archival material in Britain and North America A
distinctive combination of cultural history, close reading, and
critical theory
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