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Teaching World Epics
Av Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi, Brenda E. F. Beck m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
526 kr
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Essays for teaching ancient and recent epic narratives from around the world.Cultures across the globe have embraced epics: stories of memorable deeds by heroic characters whose actions have significant consequences for their lives and their communities. Incorporating narrative elements also found …
On the Wonders of Land and Sea
Persianate Travel Writing
Av Roberta Micallef, Sunil Sharma
Häftad, 2013
204 kr
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On the Wonders of Land and Sea: Persianate Travel Writing initiates a comparative study of non-European travel writers in the eastern Islamic or Persianate world from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. The essays in this volume discuss travel narratives by male and female Muslim and …
Illusion and Disillusionment
Travel Writing in the Modern Age
Häftad, 2018
183 kr
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Illusion and Disillusionment: Travel Writing in the Modern Age seeks to understand, expand, and challenge the boundaries of the modern travelogue across several literary traditions. Through an engaging cast of characters—China-bound missionaries, an Indo-Persian diplomat, a Turkish exile in India, …
Teaching World Epics
Av Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi, Brenda E. F. Beck m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1367 kr
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Essays for teaching ancient and recent epic narratives from around the world.Cultures across the globe have embraced epics: stories of memorable deeds by heroic characters whose actions have significant consequences for their lives and their communities. Incorporating narrative elements also found …
Turkic Epics and the Nation Builders' Ideal Man
A Manual for Masculinity Through the Ages
Inbunden, 2027
1239 kr
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Focusing on two foundational Turkic epics, the Kyrgyz Manas and the Anatolian Köroğlu, this study offers a comparative analysis of masculine ideals and generational authority and the uses to which they were put by nation-builders and rebels.