The Shade Of The Saguaro La Sombra Del Saguaro Essays On The Literary Cultures Of The American Southwest Ensayos Sobre Las Culturas Literarias Del Suroeste Norteamericano

Author : Annamaria Pinazzi
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9788866553939

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The Shade of the Saguaro / La sombra del saguaro. Essays on the Literary Cultures of the American Southwest / Ensayos sobre las culturas literarias del suroeste norteamericano by Annamaria Pinazzi Pdf

This volume springs from that fruitful project of scientific cooperation between the humanities departments of Università di Firenze and University of Arizona which was the Forum for the Study of the Literary Cultures of the Southwest (2000-2007). Tri-cultural, at least (Native, Hispanic and Anglo-American), and multi-lingual, today's Southwest presents a complex coexistence of different cultures, the equal of which would be hard to find elsewhere in the United States. Of this virtually inexhaustible object of study, the essays here collected tackle an ample range of themes. While the majority of them are concerned with the literatures of the Southwest, still a good third falls into the fields of history, art history, ethnography, sociology or cultural studies. They are partitioned in four sections, the first three reflecting the chronology of the stratification of the three major cultures and the fourth highlighting one of the most sensitive topics in and about contemporary Southwest - the borderlands/la frontera

Author : Esther G. Belin,Jeff Berglund,Connie A. Jacobs,Anthony K. Webster
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780816540990

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The Diné Reader by Esther G. Belin,Jeff Berglund,Connie A. Jacobs,Anthony K. Webster Pdf

The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature is a comprehensive collection of creative works by Diné poets and writers. This anthology is the first of its kind.

Author : Rhiannon Mathias
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429577154

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The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Work in Music by Rhiannon Mathias Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Work in Music presents a unique collection of core research by academics and music practitioners from around the world, engaging with an extraordinarily wide range of topics on women’s contributions to Western and Eastern art music, popular music, world music, music education, ethnomusicology as well as in the music industries. The handbook falls into six parts. Part I serves as an introduction to the rich variety of subject matter the reader can expect to encounter in the handbook as a whole. Part II focuses on what might be termed the more traditional strand of feminist musicology – research which highlights the work of historical and/or neglected composers. Part III explores topics concerned with feminist aesthetics and music creation and Part IV focuses on questions addressing the performance and reception of music and musicians. The narrative of the handbook shifts in Part V to focus on opportunities and leadership in the music professions from a Western perspective. The final section of the handbook (Part VI) provides new frames of context for women’s positions as workers, educators, patrons, activists and promoters of music. This is a key reference work for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in music and gender.

Author : Brian Zuccala,Samuele Grassi
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788855185974

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Rewriting and Rereading the XIX and XX-Century Canons by Brian Zuccala,Samuele Grassi Pdf

The book takes its lead from academic Annamaria Pagliaro’s experience straddling Australia and Italy over a thirty-year period. As both former colleagues and collaborators of Pagliaro, we editors intend to open a kaleidoscope of perspectives on the international research landscape in the fields of Italian and Anglophone studies, starting from Pagliaro’s own contribution to the creation of relations between the two cultures in the period that saw her work transnationally as Director of the Monash University Prato Centre (2005-2008).

Author : Dal Pozzo, Lena
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788866558705

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New information subjects in L2 acquisition: evidence from Italian and Finnish by Dal Pozzo, Lena Pdf

Recent work on second language acquisition within the generative framework has pointed out interfaces (syntax-discourse, syntax-semantics, etc.) as a residual domain of vulnerability in L2. Rather than in core syntax, it is at the interface level that the divergence between native and non-native grammars has been shown to be more prominent. In this book the investigation of answering strategies and the focalization of new information subjects, which require access to the syntax-discourse interface, will be pursued. Data is collected through an oral elicitation task on Finnish and Italian, a rather unexplored language pair, in various stages of language development: advanced and intermediate L2 acquisition, L1 under L2 attrition, early bilingualism, child monolingual L1 development.

Author : Civardi, Antonio
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788864533261

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Linguistic Variation Issues: Case and Agreement in Northern Russian Participial Constructions by Civardi, Antonio Pdf

This study offers a novel approach to a longstanding problem in Slavic Linguistics, the formal representation of the Northern Russian participial constructions in -n(o)/-t(o). Unlike previous works, the methodological stance adopted by the author focuses on singling out all the relevant patterns of variation and on pursuing a unified explanation for them. The key to the solution of the puzzle is the idea that the participial affix -n-/-t- and the agreement inflections are not just pieces of morphology inserted post-syntactically, but true heads that enter the computation and are able to manipulate the argumental roles of the verb and to check the EPP. The author’s proposal is properly framed in the context of current debate on interlanguage variation.

Author : Natali, Ilaria
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788864533193

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«Remov'd from human eyes»: Madness and Poetry 1676-1774 by Natali, Ilaria Pdf

The years 1676 and 1774 marked two turning points in the social and legal treatment of madness in England. In 1676, London’s Bethlehem Hospital expanded in grand new premises, and in 1774 the Madhouses Act attempted to limit confinement of the insane. This study explores almost a century of the English history of madness through the texts of five poets who were considered mentally troubled according to contemporary standards: James Carkesse, Anne Finch, William Collins, Christopher Smart and William Cowper were hospitalized, sequestered or exiled from society. Their works cope with representations of insanity, medical definitions or practices, imputed illness, and the judging eye of the ‘sane other’, shedding new light on the dis/continuities in the notion of madness of this period.

Author : Ioana Both,Ayşe Saraçgil,Angela Tarantino
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Group identity
ISBN : 9788866554172

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Storia, identità e canoni letterari by Ioana Both,Ayşe Saraçgil,Angela Tarantino Pdf

This volume collects the interventions of the post-doctoral fellows and PhD students of the University of Cluj Napoca, the University of Bucharest and the University of Florence (Mediterranean Cultures; Doctoral School of Comparative Languages, Literatures and Cultures, specialisation in Language, Literature, Philology: Intercultural Perspectives) presented in occasion of the seminar Storia, identit e canoni letterari ("History, identity and literary canons", Florence, 22-23 November 2011). The contributions are centred on the idea of canon, as a cultural construct founding modern national identities. Another trace is the literary and cultural hybridisations between different geographies. For the Romanian context, the contributions pay particular attention to the movements of the avant-garde of the early 1900s. Some contributions account for the most problematic aspects of the contemporary world using interdisciplinary approaches.

Author : Gaetano Prampolini,Annamaria Pinazzi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8892735055

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The Shade of the Saguaro by Gaetano Prampolini,Annamaria Pinazzi Pdf

This volume springs from that fruitful project of scientific cooperation between the humanities departments of Università di Firenze and University of Arizona which was the Forum for the Study of the Literary Cultures of the Southwest (2000-2007). Tri-cultural, at least (Native, Hispanic and Anglo-American), and multi-lingual, today's Southwest presents a complex coexistence of different cultures, the equal of which would be hard to find elsewhere in the United States. Of this virtually inexhaustible object of study, the essays here collected tackle an ample range of themes. While the majority of them are concerned with the literatures of the Southwest, still a good third falls into the fields of history, art history, ethnography, sociology or cultural studies. They are partitioned in four sections, the first three reflecting the chronology of the stratification of the three major cultures and the fourth highlighting one of the most sensitive topics in and about contemporary Southwest - the borderlands/la frontera.

Author : Michael Nudel,Eva Nudel
Publisher : Bio-Energy System Services
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Alternative medicine
ISBN : 0967751403

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Health by Bio-Energy and Mind by Michael Nudel,Eva Nudel Pdf

Author : Anja Dreschke,Martin Zillinger
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780823253821

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Trance Mediums and New Media by Anja Dreschke,Martin Zillinger Pdf

Ongoing debates about the “return of religion” have paid little attention to the orgiastic and enthusiastic qualities of religiosity, despite a significant increase in the use of techniques of trance and possession around the globe. Likewise, research on religion and media has neglected the fact that historically the rise of mediumship and spirit possession was closely linked to the development of new media of communication. This innovative volume brings together a wide range of ethnographic studies on local spiritual and media practices. Recognizing that processes of globalization are shaped by mass mediation, the volume raises questions such as: How are media like photography, cinema, video, the telephone, or television integrated in seances and healing rituals? How do spirit mediums connect with these media? Why are certain technical media shunned in these contexts?

Author : Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste,Pablo Vila
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780822354338

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Cumbia! by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste,Pablo Vila Pdf

Cumbia is a musical form that originated in northern Colombia and then spread throughout Latin America and wherever Latin Americans travel and settle. It has become one of the most popular musical genre in the Americas. Its popularity is largely due to its stylistic flexibility. Cumbia absorbs and mixes with the local musical styles it encounters. Known for its appeal to workers, the music takes on different styles and meanings from place to place, and even, as the contributors to this collection show, from person to person. Cumbia is a different music among the working classes of northern Mexico, Latin American immigrants in New York City, Andean migrants to Lima, and upper-class Colombians, who now see the music that they once disdained as a source of national prestige. The contributors to this collection look at particular manifestations of cumbia through their disciplinary lenses of musicology, sociology, history, anthropology, linguistics, and literary criticism. Taken together, their essays highlight how intersecting forms of identity—such as nation, region, class, race, ethnicity, and gender—are negotiated through interaction with the music. Contributors. Cristian Alarcón, Jorge Arévalo Mateus, Leonardo D'Amico, Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste, Alejandro L. Madrid, Kathryn Metz, José Juan Olvera Gudiño, Cathy Ragland, Pablo Semán, Joshua Tucker, Matthew J. Van Hoose, Pablo Vila

Author : Manuel Peña
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780292787933

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The Texas-Mexican Conjunto by Manuel Peña Pdf

A history of conjunto music and musicians.

Author : Arnold Krupat
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803277865

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The Turn to the Native by Arnold Krupat Pdf

The Turn to the Native is a timely account of Native American literature and the critical writings that have grown up around it. Arnold Krupat considers racial and cultural “essentialism,” the ambiguous position of non-Native critics in the field, cultural “sovereignty” and “property,” and the place of Native American culture in a so-called multicultural era. Chapters follow on the relationship of Native American culture to postcolonial writing and postmodernism. Krupat comments on the recent work of numerous Native writers. The final chapter, “A Nice Jewish Boy among the Indians,” presents the author’s effort to balance his Jewish and working-class heritage, his adherence to Western “critical” ideals, and his ongoing loyalty to the values of Native cultures.

Author : Gustavo Pérez Firmat
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Cuban literature
ISBN : 0822306581

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Literature and Liminality by Gustavo Pérez Firmat Pdf

Recent literary studies and related disciplines have given much attention to phenomena that seem to occupy more or less permanently eccentric positions in our experience. Gustavo Perez Firmat examines three of these marginal or liminal phenomena—paying particular attention to the distinction between "center" and "periphery"—as they appear in Hispanic literature. Carnival (the traditional festival in which normal behavior is overturned),choteo(an insulting form of humor), and disease are three liminal entities discussed. Less an attempt to frame a general theory of such "liminalities" than an effort to demonstrate the interpretive power of the liminality concept, this work challenges conventional boundaries of critical sense and offers new insights into a variety of questions, among them the notion of convertability in psychoanalysis and the relation of New World culture to its European forebears.