The Life Of A Text

Author : Philip Lutgendorf
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1991-07-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520909342

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The Life of a Text by Philip Lutgendorf Pdf

The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text—the epic Ramcaritmanas—and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers interested in the culture of North India and the performance arts will find breadth of subject, careful scholarship, and engaging presentation in this unique and beautifully illustrated examination of Hindi culture. The most popular and influential text of Hindi-speaking North India, the epic Ramcaritmanas is a sixteenth century retelling of the Ramayana story by the poet Tulsidas. This masterpiece of pre-modern Hindi literature has always reached its largely illiterate audiences primarily through oral performance including ceremonial recitation, folksinging, oral exegesis, and theatrical representation. Drawing on fieldwork in Banaras, Lutgendorf breaks new ground by capturing the range of performance techniques in vivid detail and tracing the impact of the epic in its contemporary cultural context.

Author : Philip Lutgendorf
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Criticism, Textual
ISBN : 9780520066908

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The Life of a Text by Philip Lutgendorf Pdf

"The range of Manas performance traditions captured here is immense. What is wonderful and remarkable is that each is presented vividly, with careful ethnographic detail, so that they become living traditions to the reader."--Susan Wadley, Syracuse University

Author : James George Needham,John Thomas Lloyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Freshwater biology
ISBN : UOM:39015064406161

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The Life of Inland Waters by James George Needham,John Thomas Lloyd Pdf

Author : Danya Ruttenberg
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807010594

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On Repentance And Repair by Danya Ruttenberg Pdf

Winner NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS in Contemporary Jewish Life & Practice Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award A crucial new lens on repentance, atonement, forgiveness, and repair from harm—from personal transgressions to our culture’s most painful and unresolved issues American culture focuses on letting go of grudges and redemption narratives instead of the perpetrator’s obligations or recompense for harmed parties. As survivor communities have pointed out, these emphases have too often only caused more harm. But Danya Ruttenberg knew there was a better model, rooted in the work of the medieval philosopher Maimonides. For Maimonides, upon whose work Ruttenberg elaborates, forgiveness is much less important than the repair work to which the person who caused harm is obligated. The word traditionally translated as repentance really means something more like return, and in this book, returning is a restoration, as much as is possible, to the victim, and, for the perpetrator of harm, a coming back, in humility and intentionality, to behaving as the person we might like to believe we are. Maimonides laid out 5 steps: naming and owning harm; starting to change/transformation; restitution and accepting consequences; apology; and making different choices. Applying this lens to both our personal relationships and some of the most significant and painful issues of our day, including systemic racism and the legacy of enslavement, sexual violence and harassment in the wake of #MeToo, and Native American land rights, On Repentance and Repair helps us envision a way forward. Rooted in traditional Jewish concepts while doggedly accessible and available to people from any, or no, religious background, On Repentance and Repair is a book for anyone who cares about creating a country and culture that is more whole than the one in which we live, and for anyone who has been hurt or who is struggling to take responsibility for their mistakes.

Author : Francisco M. Couto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030138455

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Data and Text Processing for Health and Life Sciences by Francisco M. Couto Pdf

This open access book is a step-by-step introduction on how shell scripting can help solve many of the data processing tasks that Health and Life specialists face everyday with minimal software dependencies. The examples presented in the book show how simple command line tools can be used and combined to retrieve data and text from web resources, to filter and mine literature, and to explore the semantics encoded in biomedical ontologies. To store data this book relies on open standard text file formats, such as TSV, CSV, XML, and OWL, that can be open by any text editor or spreadsheet application. The first two chapters, Introduction and Resources, provide a brief introduction to the shell scripting and describe popular data resources in Health and Life Sciences. The third chapter, Data Retrieval, starts by introducing a common data processing task that involves multiple data resources. Then, this chapter explains how to automate each step of that task by introducing the required commands line tools one by one. The fourth chapter, Text Processing, shows how to filter and analyze text by using simple string matching techniques and regular expressions. The last chapter, Semantic Processing, shows how XPath queries and shell scripting is able to process complex data, such as the graphs used to specify ontologies. Besides being almost immutable for more than four decades and being available in most of our personal computers, shell scripting is relatively easy to learn by Health and Life specialists as a sequence of independent commands. Comprehending them is like conducting a new laboratory protocol by testing and understanding its procedural steps and variables, and combining their intermediate results. Thus, this book is particularly relevant to Health and Life specialists or students that want to easily learn how to process data and text, and which in return may facilitate and inspire them to acquire deeper bioinformatics skills in the future.

Author : INFJoe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781524704599

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Text, Don't Call by INFJoe Pdf

As seen in Real Simple's 2017 Gift Guide An illustrated guide to the challenges and pleasures of the introverted life Introversion is "in." But there are still many misconceptions about introverts in the world. They're shy. Anti-social. They don't want to have close relationships. They're all cat people. They don't like big parties (okay, that last one might be true). INFJoe, the cartoon persona of artist and introvert Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, is here to set the record straight. Filled with charming comic book style illustrations, this book provides invaluable insights into the introverted life with plenty of humor and wit. Full of moments that will make introverts say, "That's so me!" as well as helpful tips on surviving at parties and in the workplace, Text, Don't Call is the perfect gift for your quiet friends, or the extroverted ones who could use some help to better understand the introverts in their lives.

Author : Saskia Kersenboom
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1859730086

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Word, Sound, Image by Saskia Kersenboom Pdf

The first anthropology book to be sold with a Compact Disc Interactive (CDi) This original and radical book challenges dominant parameters of literacy by comparing the oral tradition of the Tamils in South India with the Western culture of printed text. In India, traditional texts are always performed; as a result, form and meaning can change depending on the occasion. This is the opposite of Western communication through publication which is a static representation of knowledge. The author examines the reasons for the differences between the Indian and Western textual traditions, and describes how text lives through the performing arts of words, sound and imagery. She argues that interactive multimedia is the first Western communication form to represent oral traditions effectively. A Compact Disc Interactive (CD-i) - packaged with the book - allows readers to see for themselves how multimedia can add meaning and complement traditional text-based studies. The CDi: The CDi offers a new learning experience that builds on the two-way creative process in an efficient and enjoyable way. A TV set and CDi player is all that is required to run the Philips CDi.

Author : Valérie Baisnée-Keay,Corinne Bigot,Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni,Stephanie Genty,Claire Bazin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030848750

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Text and Image in Women's Life Writing by Valérie Baisnée-Keay,Corinne Bigot,Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni,Stephanie Genty,Claire Bazin Pdf

This book examines the relationship between words and images in various life-writing works produced by nineteenth to twenty-first century American and British women. It addresses the politics of images in women’s life writing, contending that the presence or absence of images is often strategic. Including a range of different forms of life writing, chapters draw on traditional (auto)biographies, travel narratives, memoirs, diaries, autofiction, cancer narratives, graphic memoirs, artistic installations, quilts and online performances, as life writing moves from page to screen and other media. The book explores a wide range of women who have crossed the boundary between text and image: painters who have become writers, novelists who have become painters, writers who hesitate between images and words, models who seize the camera, and artists who use the frame as a page.

Author : Michael McGirr
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781925774054

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Books that Saved My Life by Michael McGirr Pdf

A profound, funny and uplifting collection of reminiscences about a life in books, now available in a smaller, competitively priced format.

Author : William J. Long
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4057664166821

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English Literature by William J. Long Pdf

"English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World" by William J. Long resents the whole splendid history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era. It's a useful and interesting guide for students as well as teachers of English literature, specially European and American, despite over a hundred years passing since the time of its first publication.

Author : Anders Pettersson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137035424

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The Concept of Literary Application by Anders Pettersson Pdf

Application is the process in which readers of literature focus on elements in a text and compare them with the outside world as they know it – an operation with cognitive and emotional consequences. This book demonstrates how and why this simple yet neglected mechanism is of profound importance for the understanding of literary art and experience.

Author : Michael McGirr
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781922459329

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Ideas to Save Your Life by Michael McGirr Pdf

A profound, uplifting and accessible introduction to key philosophical ideas and their relevance to everyday life.

Author : Nicolas Notovitch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : HARVARD:32044023308703

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The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ by Nicolas Notovitch Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017989368

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The Life of Henry the Fifth ... The Text from the Folio of 1623; with Notices of the Known Editions Previously Issued by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Marion Roach Smith
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781455501823

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The Memoir Project by Marion Roach Smith Pdf

An extraordinary "practical resource for beginners" looking to write their own memoir—​now new and revised (Kirkus Reviews)! The greatest story you could write is one you've experienced yourself. Knowing where to start is the hardest part, but it just got a little easier with this essential guidebook for anyone wanting to write a memoir. Did you know that the #1 thing that baby boomers want to do in retirement is write a book—about themselves? It's not that every person has lived such a unique or dramatic life, but we inherently understand that writing a memoir—whether it's a book, blog, or just a letter to a child—is the single greatest path to self-examination. Through the use of disarmingly frank, but wildly fun tactics that offer you simple and effective guidelines that work, you can stop treading water in writing exercises or hiding behind writer's block. Previously self-published under the title, Writing What You Know: Raelia, this book has found an enthusiastic audience that now writes with intent.