The Round Dance Of Water

Author : Sergey Kuznetsov
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628974225

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The Round-Dance of Water by Sergey Kuznetsov Pdf

From the man Arturo Pérez-Reverte has called “the most talented young Russian author” comes this extraordinary family saga, a journey into the depths of the human soul. The Round-dance of Water is a detailed portrait of three generations of a large family, but in this story there is no division into primary and secondary characters: each individual fate carries its weight and runs into the bloody river of the twentieth century. The novel drifts between years, tones, and styles, and the range of its influences is overwhelming, ranging from Rudyard Kipling to Andrei Platonov and Daniil Kharms, from gangster movies to Japanese anime.

Author : Heidi Rika Maria Pauwels
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136790010

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Krsna's Round Dance Reconsidered by Heidi Rika Maria Pauwels Pdf

Concerned with the process in Hinduism of reinterpreting classical texts and imbuing them with new inspiration. An example par excellence is Hariram Vyas's Ras-pancadhyayi, the earliest known Braj Bhasa version of the five chapters of Bhagavatapurana on Krsna's Dance with the Gopis.

Author : Carmine Abate
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781978837454

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The Round Dance by Carmine Abate Pdf

The village of Hora is a magical place that blurs the boundaries between a mythical past and the present. It is here that Costantino Avati grows alongside his impetuous and melancholic father, Francesco; his mother, Elena, who hides a secret torment; his two sisters, Orlandina and Lucrezia; and his grandfather Lissandro, the last custodian of an era and a world that are disappearing. As Costantino feels the pangs of first love with the intriguing Roman Isabella, he also discovers the romantic allure of his own village and its rich cultural heritage. In his first novel, acclaimed author Carmine Abate transforms his Italo-Albanian (Arbëresh) hometown of Carfizzi, Calabria, into a magical realist wonderland that rivals Gabriel García Márquez’s Macondo. Inspired by the oral traditions of the old Albanian bards and incorporating the poetic local dialect, The Round Dance is a unique piece of multicultural literature that was named by the publishing house Mondadori as one of the one hundred greatest Italian novels of the twentieth century.

Author : Daniel M. Fox,Marcia Meldrum,Ira Rezak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429665035

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Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology by Daniel M. Fox,Marcia Meldrum,Ira Rezak Pdf

Originally published in 1990, Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology is a biographical reference work about the recipients of Nobel Prizes in Medicine or Physiology from 1901-1989. Each article is written by an accomplished historian of medicine or science. The book is designed to be accessible to students and general readers as well as to specialists in medical science and history. Each article combines personal and scientific biography, and each has an extensive biography to guide further reading and research.

Author : Arthur Schnitzler
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780192804594

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Round Dance and Other Plays by Arthur Schnitzler Pdf

This is a unique collection of seven of Schnitzler's best known plays in a new English translation. They explore love, sexuality, and death in various guises, against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century Viennese decadence. The introduction explores the plays in relation to Schnitzler's life, to the culture of late twentieth-century Vienna, and to Modernism in general. - ;Flirtations * Round Dance * The Green Cockatoo * The Last Masks * Countess Mizzi * The Vast Domain * Professor Bernhardi The playwright Arthur Schnitzler is best known as the chronicler of fin de si--egrave--;cle Viennese decadence. Round Dance, written in the late 1890s, exposes sexual life in Vienna with such witty frankness that it could not be staged until after the First World War, when it provoked a riot in the theatre and a prosecution for indecency. The other plays in this collection explore love, sexuality, and death in various guises, always with a sharp, non-judgemental awareness of the complexity and mystery of the psyche. Acquainted with Freud and his circle, Schnitzler probes beneath the surface of his characters to uncover emotions they barely understand. And in the tragicomedyProfessor Bernhardi, Schnitzler addresses the growing anti-Semitism of the period. - ;Davies's translation once again brings us closer to a masterpiece of modern drama written before the twentieth century had even begun. - Leo A Lensing, TLS

Author : Karl von Frisch
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Bees
ISBN : MINN:31951P002600554

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The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees by Karl von Frisch Pdf

Reprint of the revered Harvard UP original of 1967, itself a translation of the German original (Springer Verlag, 1965)--with a new foreword by Thos. D. Seeley. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : William Nelson Fenton
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 080613447X

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The Little Water Medicine Society of the Senecas by William Nelson Fenton Pdf

For the Seneca Iroquois Indians, song is a crucial means of renewing both medicine and heritage. Two or three times a year, the Little Water Medicine Society of western New York meets to renew the potency of its medicine bundles through singing. These bundles have been inherited from eighteenth century Iroquois war parties, handed down from generation to generation. In this long-awaited book, William N. Fenton describes the remarkable ceremonies of one of the least recorded but most significant medicine societies of the Iroquois Indians. Most of the Senecas who were members of the Little Water Society, or Society of Shamans, have passed away, and their knowledge of ceremonial healing and spiritual renewal is fading. Fenton has written this book to preserve knowledge of the ceremonies and songs for the Iroquois people and as a contribution to anthropology, folklore, ethnomusicology, and American Indian studies. In The Little Water Medicine Society of the Senecas, he presents his original 1933 fieldwork, along with details from the published and unpublished works of other researchers, to describe rituals, poetry, and songs drawn from his more than six decades of research among the Six Nations.

Author : Timothy Rommen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520948754

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Funky Nassau by Timothy Rommen Pdf

This book examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas. Timothy Rommen analyzes Bahamian musical life as it has been influenced and shaped by the islands’ location between the United States and the rest of the Caribbean; tourism; and Bahamian colonial and postcolonial history. Focusing on popular music in the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, in particular rake-n-scrape and Junkanoo, Rommen finds a Bahamian music that has remained culturally rooted in the local even as it has undergone major transformations. Highlighting the ways entertainers have represented themselves to Bahamians and to tourists, Funky Nassau illustrates the shifting terrain that musicians navigated during the rapid growth of tourism and in the aftermath of independence.

Author : Victoria Levine Lindsay Levine,Dylan Robinson
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780819578648

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Music and Modernity Among First Peoples of North America by Victoria Levine Lindsay Levine,Dylan Robinson Pdf

In this wide-ranging anthology, scholars offer diverse perspectives on ethnomusicology in dialogue with critical Indigenous studies. This volume is a collaboration between Indigenous and settler scholars from both Canada and the United States. The contributors explore the intersections between music, modernity, and Indigeneity in essays addressing topics that range from hip-hop to powwow, and television soundtracks of Native Classical and experimental music. Working from the shared premise that multiple modernities exist for Indigenous peoples, the authors seek to understand contemporary musical expression from Native perspectives and to decolonize the study of Native American/First Nations music. The essays coalesce around four main themes: innovative technology, identity formation and self-representation, political activism, and translocal musical exchange. Related topics include cosmopolitanism, hybridity, alliance studies, code-switching, and ontologies of sound. Featuring the work of both established and emerging scholars, the collection demonstrates the centrality of music in communicating the complex, diverse lived experience of Indigenous North Americans in the twenty-first century.

Author : David Appelbaum
Publisher : Monkfish Book Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781939681812

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Notes on Water by David Appelbaum Pdf

This poetical study of water ranges from classical myth and literature to modern physics and microbiology. Because water exists in three forms or phases—liquid, solid, and gas—each needs its own constellation of ideas. Its subtle movement is the hidden source of question, questioner, and the phenomenon of life. Its power is transformation, the unspoken theme of the book.

Author : Melisande Arven
Publisher : FoxArt
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9783965085268

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Blazing Water by Melisande Arven Pdf

We need water. It is just as important for us as air. This is why we frequently live on the shores of the Ux on rafts or in houses on stilts; we live from catching fish or diving for pearls. We are the Bnaur-Dux – people who breathe water. In fact this description is not completely accurate, for we can no more breathe water than other people can. Something in our blood and the fat cells in our skin is different however and can store oxygen. So far no-one has been able to explain it properly to me. At any rate, we very seldom suffer from incidents of suffocation or run the risk of drowning. But we are not invincible in the depths of the river. The water can kill us if we are not careful. But there are some of us who are able to do much more. They have a rare gift. No-one speaks of it – unless in a whisper. It is almost like a great secret. Those who are blessed with this gift are the Ztaa-Samro – the fire swimmers. Only our men inherit this gift. There has never been a female Bnaur who has made the water sing. But it happens with me. And I am not a man! My name is Noeg. I was named after the pink blossoms of the water clover that grows in the endless meadows near the banks of the Ux and bobs up and down with each wave. I am a pearl diver. I never wanted to be anything else. But everything has changed. This is my story.

Author : Sergey Kuznetsov
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783290253

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Butterfly Skin by Sergey Kuznetsov Pdf

When a brutal and sadistic serial killer begins stalking the streets of Moscow, Xenia, an ambitious young newspaper editor, takes it upon herself to attempt to solve the mystery of the killer's identity. As her obsession with the killer grows, Xenia devises an elaborate website with the intention of ensnaring the murderer, only to discover something disturbing about herself: her own unhealthy fascination with the sexual savagery of the murders.

Author : Melissa Blanco Borelli
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199897827

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The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen by Melissa Blanco Borelli Pdf

This text offers new ways of understanding dance on the popular screen in new scholarly arguments drawn from dance studies, performance studies, and film and media studies. Through these arguments, it demonstrates how this dance in popular film, television, and online videos can be read and considered through the different bodies and choreographies being shown.

Author : C. B. Don
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 0967008484

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From Science Fiction to Science Facts by C. B. Don Pdf

"FROM SCIENCE FICTION TO SCIENCE FACTS" is the non-fiction companion study guide to the fantastic science-fiction novel, "Accused By Facet-Eyes". It is a unique teaching/learning approach, which pairs literary entertainment with fascinating life science facts. Academic enrichment for nature-loving readers, middle-, high-school and college students. Intended for mainstream, supplementary and home schooling education. Readers will learn why honeybees are endangered worldwide; their pivotal role in pollination and will better appreciate the essential, mutual interdependence with humankind. Eye-opening life science facts point out important interactions of biology, chemistry and physics with contemporary issues in ecology and human-induced environmental hazards from a global, social perspective. "From Science Fiction To Science Facts" is a great time-saver for busy educators. Over 400 easily accessed references support the science facts; an overview of the science topics shows their relevance to the National Science Education Standards categories; the analytical format and discussion questions encourage critical thought and debates; C.B. Don's original, captivating photographs bring foraging honeybees on garden flowers to life!

Author : L. Daniel Myers
Publisher : Boise State University Department of Anthropology
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123379369

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Numic Mythologies by L. Daniel Myers Pdf