Arabesques

Author : Anton Shammas
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681376938
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arabesques written by Anton Shammas and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A luminous, inventive, and deeply personal exploration of living in the liminal space between Jewish and Arab, ancient and modern, by a gifted Palestinian writer. Chosen by The New York Times as one of the best books of 1988, Arabesques is a luminous novel that engages with history and politics not as propaganda but as literature. That engagement begins with the language in which the book is written: Anton Shammas, from a Palestinian Christian family and raised in Israel, wrote in Hebrew, as no Arab novelist had before. The choice was provocative to both Arab and Jewish readers. Arabesques is divided into two sections: “The Tale” and “The Teller.” “The Tale” tells of several generations of family life in a rural village, of the interplay of past and present, of how memory intersects with history in a part of the world where different people have both lived together and struggled against each other for centuries. “The Teller” is about the writer’s voyage out of that world to Paris and the United States, as he comes into his vocation as a writer, and raises questions about the authority of the storyteller and the nature of the self. Shammas’s tour de force is both a personal and a political narrative—a reinvention of the novel as a way of envisioning and responding to historical and cultural legacies and conflicts.

Author : Anton Shammas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520228320
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arabesques written by Anton Shammas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-04-27 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Harper & Row, c1988.

Author : Nikolai Bukharin
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583679537
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Arabesques written by Nikolai Bukharin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bukharin's Philosophical Arabesques was written while he was imprisoned in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, facing trial on charges of treason, and later awaiting execution after he was found guilty. After the death of Lenin, Bukharin cooperated with Stalin for a time. Once Stalin's supremacy was assured he began eliminating all potential rivals. For Bukharin, the process was to end with his confession before the Soviet court, facing the threat that his young family would be killed along with him if he did not. While awaiting his death, Bukharin wrote prolifically. He considered Philosophical Arabesques as the most important of his prison writings. In its pages, he covers the full range of issues in Marxist philosophy--the sources of knowledge, the nature of truth, freedom and necessity, the relationship of Hegelian and Marxist dialectic. The project constitutes a defense of the genuine legacy of Lenin's Marxism against the use of his memory to legitimate totalitarian power. Consigned to the Kremlin archives for a half-century after Bukharin's execution, this work is now being published for the first time in English. It will be an essential reference work for scholars of Marxism and the Russian revolution and a landmark in the history of prison writing.

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Publisher : Art Creation Realisation
ISBN 13 : 2867701244
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arabesques written by and published by Art Creation Realisation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides keys to the understanding of Moroccan architecture and geometical arabesques.

Author : Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 178661412X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Arabesques written by Gray Kochhar-Lindgren and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Arabesques examines philosophy as an event of the city and the city as an event of philosophy and how the intertwining of the two generates an urban imaginary. This critique-in-motion of creative figures and conceptual personae from (non) philosophy illuminates the emergence of sense in the city, shows how “transcendental empiricism” operates within it, and how the everyday life of the streets—the ordinariness of experience as well as the screen/projector of urban surfaces—uncovers new pathways for politics, experience, and relationalities. Using Hong Kong as the primary site of thinking yet recognizing that thinking incessantly moves beyond any particular location, the book opens up cities within the city. Traversing Hong Kong reveals how the corners, the money, the trees and the water are involved in philosophy. Combining the linguistic approach found in Heidegger and Derrida, with the more materialist analysis of Serres and Deleuze, the objective of this book is to retheorize the urban and its imaginary—its virtuality, irreality, phantasmicity—with an emphasis on signs, images and rhythms, resonating through philosophy, and beyond.

Author : Claude Debussy
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457423796
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deux Arabesques for the Piano written by Claude Debussy and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debussy was not referring to "arabesque" in the form of a ballet term but rather to the meaning of "arabesque" as a piece with exquisite detail and clear repetitions of ideas and artistic balance. These pieces were written in 1888 during Debussy's earliest compositional period.

Author : Ken Jacobson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Odalisques and Arabesques written by Ken Jacobson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken Jacobson shows that the history of Orientalist photography begins weeks after the invention of photography itself. Jacobson is not an academic, but has conducted a great deal of scholarly research on the often obscure careers of photographers and the intertwined histories of the Levantine studios. He demonstrates that many of the past criticisms of Orientalist photography are based on ignorance either of chronology or technology.

Author : Aprilynne Pike
Publisher : Imaginary Properties LLC
ISBN 13 : 1941855032
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arabesque written by Aprilynne Pike and published by Imaginary Properties LLC. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Dessaix
Publisher : Xou Pty Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1925589013
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arabesques written by Robert Dessaix and published by Xou Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the 20th-century French writer Andre Gide spent his childhood. Recalling the excitement he felt when he first read Gide as a teenager, Dessaix sets off to recapture what it was that once drew him so strongly to this enigmatic figure. On a magic carpet ride from Lisbon to the edge of the Sahara, from Paris to the south of France and Algiers, he takes us to the places where the Nobel Prize winning author, in ways still scandalous to modern sensibilities, lived out his unconventional ideas about love, marriage, sexuality and religion. Praise for Arabesques by Robert Dessaix ‘Magical and inviting … these arabesques afford the reader inordinate pleasure.’ Livres-Hebdo (France) ‘Surrender to the ravishments first, get lost, skid with thrilled indecisiveness across the mosaic tile of each page. Venture out with the author onto the roads and dizzying crossroads he negotiates as he plots a course between past and present, old haunts and new horizons, in the lands of Araby …’ The Age

Author : Yanni Petsopoulos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tulips, Arabesques & Turbans written by Yanni Petsopoulos and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses and illustrates historical Islamic motifs on pottery, metal work, textiles and the like. Does not discuss turbans or costume.