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  • - Narrating Lives in Persianate Societies
     
    269,-

    Within a growing scholarly literature devoted to the topics of biography and autobiography, especially in the Arabic literary tradition, the essays in this volume explore the forms and meanings of these genres with particular reference to Persian writings, as well as to writings in Arabic and Turkish that were also composed in Persianate societies.

  • - Performance in Epic Mahabharata
    av Kevin McGrath
    189,-

    Jaya is a study of how the four poets of the Indian epic Mahabharata fuse their separate performances of the poem into a single and seamless work of art. The subtle poetics of preliteracy and literacy which are compounded in one performance are demonstrated and made distinct in both a literary and a conceptual light.

  • - Conquest and Cataclysm in the Heroic Ages of Ancient Israel
    av Brian R. Doak
    329,-

    Doak explores how the giants of the Hebrew Bible-which represent a connection to primeval chaos-offer insight into central aspects of Israel's symbolic universe. By placing biblical traditions within a broader Mediterranean context regarding giants and the end of the heroic age, Doak sheds new light on monotheism and monarchy in ancient Israel.

  • - Friendship in Epic Mahabharata
    av Kevin McGrath
    269,-

    Heroic Krsna depicts a pre-Hindu superhuman hero who became the divinity Krsna. Drawn from the epic Mahabharata, Kevin McGrath's account of the warrior-charioteer and his friendship with Arjuna explores cultural continuities from the Bronze Age Vedic world and illustrates the pre-divine life of one of the most popular Indian deities of today.

  • - Women in Epic Mahabharata
    av Kevin McGrath
    315,-

    This book is a study of heroic femininity as it appears in the epic Mahabharata, and focuses particularly on the roles of wife, daughter-in-law, and mother, on how these women speak, and on the kinship groups and varying marital systems that surround them.

  • - 16th Century to the Present
    av James T. Monroe
    285,-

    A reissue of James T. Monroe's classic study on the cultural history of al-Andalus that establishes Spanish scholars on the forefront of European scholars confronting the Orientalism and colonialism at the heart of their national projects. A new foreword by Michelle M. Hamilton and David A. Wacks examines the impact of Monroe's pathbreaking study.

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