The Reading of Imagery in the Chinese Poetic Tradition 0691066825, 9780691066820

The English Lyric Tradition: Reading Poetic Masterpieces of the Middle Ages and Renaissance 9781476627564, 1476627568

Modern readers can sometimes be unsure about the language and the literary conventions of medieval and Renaissance verse

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Chaucer and the Country of the Stars: Poetic Uses of Astrological Imagery 9781400872077

Professor Wood examines in detail the astrological references in The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and The Com

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The Tenacity of Chinese Folk Tradition 9789814376495

A new synthesis of the work of two studies: the first (Folk Religion in an Urban Setting) investigates the religious org

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The Highest Apple: Sappho and the Lesbian poetic tradition 0933216122

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The Chinese Aesthetic Tradition 9780824837624

Li Zehou (b. 1930) has been an influential thinker in China since the 1950s. Before moving to the U.S. in the wake of th

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Chinese Poetic Modernisms 9004402896, 9789004402898

This volume explores Chinese poetic modernism from its origins in the 1920s through 21st century manifestations. Moderni

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The Poetics of Early Chinese Thought: How the Shijing Shaped the Chinese Philosophical Tradition 9780231553995

The modern imagination of classical Chinese thought has long been dominated by Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, and other “Mast

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Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition 9781501723223

An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been perf

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Reading Luke-Acts in the pentecostal tradition 9780981965178, 0981965172

In this first study of its kind, noted Pentecostal Lucan scholar Martin Mittelstadt has undertaken an extensive examinat

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The Chinese Aesthetic Tradition 0824833074, 9780824833077

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