Writers And Rulers

Author : Louise Marlow
Publisher : Dr Ludwig Reichert
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writers and Rulers written by Louise Marlow and published by Dr Ludwig Reichert. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed papers presented in the Colloquium "Literature and Rulership in Medieval Islam" held at Yale University's Center for International and Area Studies in April 1999.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004690611
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rulers as Authors in the Islamic World written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How widespread was authorship among rulers in the premodern Islamic world? The writings of different types of rulers in different regions and periods are analyzed in this book, from the early centuries in the central lands of Islam to 19th century Sudan. The composition of poetry appears as the most fertile area for authorship among rulers. Prose writings show a wide variety, from astrology to bookmaking, from autobiography to creeds. Some of the rulers made claims to special knowledge, but in all cases authorship played a special role in the construction of the rulers' authority and legitimacy. Contributors: Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk, Sean W. Anthony, María Luisa Ávila†, Teresa Bernheimer, Philip Bockholt, Sonja Brentjes, Christiane Czygan, David Durand-Guédy, Anne-Marie Eddé, Sinem Eryılmaz, Maribel Fierro, Adam Gaiser, Angelika Hartmann†, Livnat Holtzman, Maher Jarrar, Robert S. Kramer, Christian Mauder, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Letizia Osti, Jürgen Paul, Petra Schmidl, Tilman Seidensticker.

Author : Mahshid Mayar
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469667290
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizens and Rulers of the World written by Mahshid Mayar and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By delving into the complex, cross-generational exchanges that characterize any political project as rampant as empire, this thought-provoking study focuses on children and their ambivalent, intimate relationships with maps and practices of mapping at the dawn of the "American Century." Considering children as students, map and puzzle makers, letter writers, and playmates, Mahshid Mayar interrogates the ways turn-of-the-century American children encountered, made sense of, and produced spatial narratives and cognitive maps of the United States and the world. Mayar further probes how children's diverse patterns of consuming, relating to, and appropriating the "truths" that maps represent turned cartography into a site of personal and political contention. To investigate where in the world the United States imagined itself at the end of the nineteenth century, this book calls for new modes of mapping the United States as it studies the nation on regional, hemispheric, and global scales. By examining the multilayered liaison between imperial pedagogy and geopolitical literacy across a wide range of archival evidence, Mayar delivers a careful microhistorical study of U.S. empire.

Author : Stephen King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781627152846
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Writing written by Stephen King and published by . This book was released on 2014-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Morrell
Publisher : Mulholland Books
ISBN 13 : 0316307920
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruler of the Night written by David Morrell and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notorious Opium-Eater returns in the sensational climax to David Morrell's acclaimed Victorian mystery trilogy. 1855. The railway has irrevocably altered English society, effectively changing geography and fueling the industrial revolution by shortening distances between cities: a whole day's journey can now be covered in a matter of hours. People marvel at their new freedom. But train travel brings new dangers as well, with England's first death by train recorded on the very first day of railway operations in 1830. Twenty-five years later, England's first train murder occurs, paralyzing London with the unthinkable when a gentleman is stabbed to death in a safely locked first-class passenger compartment. In the next compartment, the brilliant opium-eater Thomas De Quincey and his quick-witted daughter, Emily, discover the homicide in a most gruesome manner. Key witnesses and also resourceful sleuths, they join forces with their allies in Scotland Yard, Detective Ryan and his partner-in-training, Becker, to pursue the killer back into the fogbound streets of London, where other baffling murders occur. Ultimately, De Quincey must confront two ruthless adversaries: this terrifying enemy, and his own opium addiction which endangers his life and his tormented soul. Ruler of the Night is a riveting blend of fact and fiction which, like master storyteller David Morrell's previous De Quincey novels, "evokes Victorian London with such finesse that you'll hear the hooves clattering on cobblestones, the racket of dustmen, and the shrill calls of vendors" (Entertainment Weekly).

Author : Felice Lifshitz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367632526
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Normandy written by Felice Lifshitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Normandy brings together eighteen articles by historian Felice Lifshitz, some of which are published here for the first time. The book will appeal to scholars and students of cultural history and medieval history, as well as those interested in manuscript studies.

Author : Harriet Fertik
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421432897
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ruler's House written by Harriet Fertik and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining political culture and thought in early imperial Rome, The Ruler's House confronts the fragility of one-man rule.

Author : Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100020605X
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rulers of Literary Playgrounds written by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children’s Literature offers multifaceted reflection on interdependences between children and adults as they engage in play in literary texts and in real life. This volume brings together international children’s literature scholars who each look at children’s texts as key vehicles of intergenerational play reflecting ideologies of childhood and as objects with which children and adults interact physically, emotionally, and cognitively. Each chapter applies a distinct theoretical approach to selected children’s texts, including individual and social play, constructive play, or play deprivation. This collection of essays constitutes a timely voice in the current discussion about the importance of children’s play and adults’ contribution to it vis-à-vis the increasing limitations of opportunities for children’s playful time in contemporary societies.

Author : Dušan Hamšík
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780394711690
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writers Against Rulers written by Dušan Hamšík and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carol Any
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810142770
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Writers' Union and Its Leaders written by Carol Any and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies The Soviet Writers’ Union offered writers elite status and material luxuries in exchange for literature that championed the state. This book argues that Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin chose leaders for this crucial organization, such as Maxim Gorky and Alexander Fadeyev, who had psychological traits he could exploit. Stalin ensured their loyalty with various rewards but also with a philosophical argument calculated to assuage moral qualms, allowing them to feel they were not trading ethics for self‐interest. Employing close textual analysis of public and private documents including speeches, debate transcripts, personal letters, and diaries, Carol Any exposes the misgivings of Writers’ Union leaders as well as the arguments they constructed when faced with a cognitive dissonance. She tells a dramatic story that reveals the interdependence of literary policy, communist morality, state‐sponsored terror, party infighting, and personal psychology. This book will be an important reference for scholars of the Soviet Union as well as anyone interested in identity, the construction of culture, and the interface between art and ideology.