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With 600 signed, alphabetically organized articles covering the
entirety of folklore in South Asia, this new resource includes
countries and regions, ethnic groups, religious concepts and
practices, artistic genres, holidays and traditions, and many other
concepts. A preface introduces the material, while a comprehensive
index, cross-references, and black and white illustrations round
out the work. The focus on south Asia includes Afghanistan,
Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, with short survey
articles on Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, and various diaspora
communities. This unique reference will be invaluable for
collections serving students, scholars, and the general public.
Yeats's Mask, Yeats Annual No. 19 is a special issue in this
renowned research-level series. Fashionable in the age of Wilde,
the Mask changes shape until it emerges as Mask in the system of A
Vision. Chronologically tracing the concept through Yeats's plays
and those poems written as 'texts for exposition' of his occult
thought which flowers in A Vision itself (1925 and 1937), the
volume also spotlights 'The Mask before The Mask' numerous plays
including Cathleen Ni-Houlihan, The King's Threshold, Calvary, The
Words upon the Window-pane, A Full Moon in March and The Death of
Cuchulain. There are excurses into studies of Yeats's friendship
with the Oxford don and cleric, William Force Stead, his radio
broadcasts, the Chinese contexts for his writing of 'Lapis Lazuli'.
His self-renewal after The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, and the key
occult epistolary exchange 'Leo Africanus', edited from MSS by
Steve L. Adams and George Mills Harper, is republished from the
elusive Yeats Annual No. 1 (1982). The essays are by David
Bradshaw, Michael Cade-Stewart, Aisling Carlin, Warwick Gould,
Margaret Mills Harper, Pierre Longuenesse, Jerusha McCormack, Neil
Mann, Emilie Morin, Elizabeth Muller and Alexandra Poulain, with
shorter notes by Philip Bishop and Colin Smythe considering Yeats's
quatrain upon remaking himself and the pirate editions of The Land
of Heart's Desire. Ten reviews focus on various volumes of the
Cornell Yeats MSS Series, his correspondence with George Yeats, and
numerous critical studies. Yeats Annual is published by Open Book
Publishers in association with the Institute of English Studies,
University of London.
A collection of scholarly articles and essays by dancers and
scholars of ethnochoreology, dance studies, drama studies, cultural
studies, literature, and architecture, Dance and Modernism in Irish
and German Literature and Culture: Connections in Motion explores
Irish-German connections through dance in choreographic processes
and on stage, in literary texts, dance documentation, film, and
architecture from the 1920s to today. The contributors discuss
modernism, with a specific focus on modern dance, and its impact on
different art forms and discourses in Irish and German culture.
Within this framework, dance is regarded both as a motif and a
specific form of spatial movement, which allows for the
transgression of medial and disciplinary boundaries as well as
gender, social, or cultural differences. Part 1 of the collection
focuses on Irish-German cultural connections made through dance,
while part 2 studies the role of dance in Irish and German
literature, visual art, and architecture.
With 600 signed, alphabetically-organized articles covering the entirety of folklore in south Asia, this new resource includes countries and regions, ethnic groups, religious concepts and practices, artistic genres, holidays and traditions, and many other concepts. A preface introduces the material, while a comprehensive index, cross-references, and black and white illustrations round out the work. The focus on south Asia includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, with short survey articles on Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim and various diaspora communities. This unique reference will be invaluable for collections serving students, scholars, and the general reader.
Georgie Hyde Lees, who married W. B. Yeats in the autumn of 1917,
has for many years occupied a secondary or even marginal position
in most studies of her famous husband. She has been depicted as a
poor choice for romantic partner, political comrade, or literary
collaborator. While often thanked in acknowledgments pages and
regarded as a minor editor or secretary, she usually receives only
footnote status in literary analyses. Most often, she has been cast
as an amateur spirit medium or, less generously, as a manipulative
perpetrator of an elaborate mystical and sexual hoax out of which
arose Yeats's philosophical treatise A Vision and a raft of poetry,
plays, and other literary works. Yet George Yeats co-wrote the
automatic script and co-created the "system" of cosmic geometry,
based on a dialectics of desire. Coming to terms with the "system"
is vital to understanding the late work of the poet, yet a thorough
critical study of the Yeatses' "incredible experience" has never
been written. Harper, one of few scholars who is intimately
familiar with the large mass of documents, provides the first such
study. She analyzes the thousands of pages of published and
unpublished papers, the particularities of their unusual
composition, the finished literary works that depend upon them, and
historical contexts such as the spiritualist movement, automatism
(including its relation to communications technology), sexual
politics, and war. Wisdom of Two airs critical and theoretical
issues that are vital to understanding the Yeatses' spiritual,
literary, and dramatic collaboration.
A collection of scholarly articles and essays by dancers, scholars
of ethnochoreology, dance studies, drama studies, cultural studies,
literature, and architecture, Dance and Modernism in Irish and
German Literature and Culture: Connections in Motion explores
Irish-German connections through dance in choreographic processes
and on stage, in literary texts, photography, dance documentation,
film, and architecture from the 1920s to today. The contributors
discuss modernism, with a specific focus on modern dance, and its
impact on different art forms and discourses in Irish and German
culture. Within this framework, dance is regarded both as a motif
and a specific form of spatial movement, which allows for the
transgression of medial and disciplinary boundaries as well as
gender, social, or cultural differences. Part 1 of the collection
focuses on Irish-German cultural connections made through dance,
while part 2 studies the role of dance in Irish and German
literature, visual art, and architecture.
The third volume of a three volume edition of the collected papers
and notebooks which comprise the "automatic writing" of W.B.Yeats.
The material presented here is taken from the writings known as
"the sleep and dreams" notebooks, the "vision" notebooks one and
two and from Yeats' card files.
The cheetah, the fastest terrestrial animal, has widespread appeal
amongst wildlife biologists and enthusiasts alike. However, like
all all large carnivores, it is increasingly threatened by habitat
loss and its status is now classified as 'Vulnerable' by the IUCN.
This is the first comprehensive study of cheetah biology in an arid
environment, a major component of its current distribution range.
The book brings together results from an intensive six year study
of the cheetah by the authors in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
in South Africa and Botswana. It documents a wealth of detailed and
direct observations of cheetah population biology and behavioural
ecology, adopting an evolutionary approach and providing a
conceptual framework for future research and applied management in
the context of global environmental change. Kalahari Cheetahs
covers topics such as optimal foraging theory, hunting strategies
and predator prey relations, mating systems and reproductive
strategies and success, inter-specific competition, demography,
social organisation, and population limitation. Comparisons with
previous cheetah studies reveal the variability of ecological
determinants on behaviour, and the behavioural flexibility and
ability of these carnivores to adapt to different environments.
This advanced textbook is suitable for graduate level students as
well as professional researchers in felid behavioural ecology and
conservation biology. It will also be of relevance and use to
conservationists, wildlife managers, and African wildlife
enthusiasts.
Adolescents with developmental disabilities are a complex
population who require specialised treatment and care. This
interdisciplinary text examines the processes involved in working
with this client group in forensic settings, and explores the ways
in which their needs differ from those of other young people who
engage in high risk behaviour or offending. The book covers
assessment, intervention and treatment options for adolescents with
a wide range of developmental disabilities, including autism
spectrum disorders, acquired brain injury, developmental
traumatology, and complex comorbidities. It describes the
obstacles, challenges and opportunities to consider when working
with this population, and the role played by various professionals,
including forensic psychiatry and psychology, occupational therapy,
physiotherapy, education, art psychotherapy and social work. The
book also outlines the issues to consider when working in secure
and community settings as well as the legal aspects of working with
this client group, and the complex issues surrounding risk
assessment. The first comprehensive account of forensic issues in
adolescents with developmental disabilities, this book will be an
indispensible primary resource for a wide range of professionals,
including child and adolescent psychiatrists, community psychiatric
nurses, developmental paediatricians, social workers and youth
workers, lawyers and advocates.
The cheetah, the fastest terrestrial animal, has widespread appeal
amongst wildlife biologists and enthusiasts alike. However, like
all all large carnivores, it is increasingly threatened by habitat
loss and its status is now classified as 'Vulnerable' by the IUCN.
This is the first comprehensive study of cheetah biology in an arid
environment, a major component of its current distribution range.
The book brings together results from an intensive six year study
of the cheetah by the authors in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
in South Africa and Botswana. It documents a wealth of detailed and
direct observations of cheetah population biology and behavioural
ecology, adopting an evolutionary approach and providing a
conceptual framework for future research and applied management in
the context of global environmental change. Kalahari Cheetahs
covers topics such as optimal foraging theory, hunting strategies
and predator prey relations, mating systems and reproductive
strategies and success, inter-specific competition, demography,
social organisation, and population limitation. Comparisons with
previous cheetah studies reveal the variability of ecological
determinants on behaviour, and the behavioural flexibility and
ability of these carnivores to adapt to different environments.
This advanced textbook is suitable for graduate level students as
well as professional researchers in felid behavioural ecology and
conservation biology. It will also be of relevance and use to
conservationists, wildlife managers, and African wildlife
enthusiasts.
A special issue in this renowned research-level series. Fashionable
in the age of Wilde, the Mask changes shape until it emerges as
Mask in the system of A Vision. Chronologically tracing the concept
through Yeats's plays and those poems written as 'texts for
exposition' of his occult thought which flowers in A Vision itself
(1925 and 1937), the volume also spotlights 'The Mask before The
Mask' numerous plays including Cathleen Ni-Houlihan, The King's
Threshold, Calvary, The Words upon the Window-pane, A Full Moon in
March and The Death of Cuchulain. There are excurses into studies
of Yeats's friendship with the Oxford don and cleric, William Force
Stead, his radio broadcasts, the Chinese contexts for his writing
of 'Lapis Lazuli'. His self-renewal after The Oxford Book of Modern
Verse, and the key occult epistolary exchange 'Leo Africanus',
edited from MSS by Steve L. Adams and George Mills Harper, is
republished from the elusive Yeats Annual No. 1 (1982).
"The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume XIII: A Vision" is part
of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent
Yeats scholar George Bornstein and formerly the late Richard J.
Finneran and George Mills Harper. One of the strangest works of
literary modernism, "A Vision" is Yeats's greatest occult work.
Edited by Yeats scholars Catherine E. Paul and Margaret Mills
Harper, the volume presents the "system" of philosophy, psychology,
history, and the life of the soul that Yeats and his wife George
(nee Hyde Lees) received and created by means of mediumistic
experiments from 1917 through the early 1920s. Yeats obsessively
revised the book, and the revised 1937 version is much more widely
available than its predecessor. The original 1925 version of "A
Vision," poetic, unpolished, masked in fiction, and close to the
excitement of the automatic writing that the Yeatses believed to be
its supernatural origin, is presented here in a scholarly edition
for the first time.
The text, minimally corrected to retain the sense of the original,
is extensively annotated, with particular attention paid to the
relationship between the published book and its complex genetic
materials. Indispensable to an understanding of the poet's late
work and entrancing on its own merit, "A Vision" aims to be, all at
once, a work of theoretical history, an esoteric philosophy, an
aesthetic symbology, a psychological schema, and a sacred book. It
is as difficult as it is essential reading for any student of
Yeats.
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