Publication date: 2005-12-30
Dewey code: 398.092
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Review Frances Gillmor: Aztec and Navajo Folkiorist (Native American Studies) / Edwin Mellen Press:This is a literary biography of one of the first women to travel through the Southwest and Mexico on horseback and to record firsthand traditional stories of the Aztec and Navajo cultures. The book is a literary biography of Frances Gillmor, a scholar of the native cultures of the Southwest and Mesoamerica, and a writer of regional novels. An English and humanities professor at the University of Arizona for forty-odd years, Gillmor also inspired and promoted the study of folklore in the Southwest. In the words of her University of Arizona colleague James Griffith, "Any folklorist who works here is inevitably following a path which was blazed, scraped, and smoothed by Frances Gillmor. " Frances Gillmor's life not only bridges a number of cultures, but also spans both a century (1903-1993) and a continent. From the old Scottish clan lore she learned from her mother to Mexican folk plays and dances, from the "Indien" maidens of her juvenile stories to fierce Speaker-Kings of the Aztecs, both her life and her work show a colorful breadth and variety. "Thumbcap Weir" (1929), her first novel, evokes the pioneer fishing settlements of New Brunswick; "Windsinger" (1930) takes us into the world of a Navajo chanter; and "Fruit Out of Rock" (1940) explores and foreshadows in fiction the threat of canyon erosion in terms of its characters' links to a family and regional past. "Traders to the Navajos" (1934) is a double biography of the Wetherills of Kayenta, who were not only traders but arbiters, doctors, companions, and teachers to the Navajos throughout the early part of the twentieth century. "Flute of the Smoking Mirror" (1949) follows the life of Nezahualcoytl, while "The King Danced in the Marketplace" (1964) gives us the history of Moteczuma the First: two Aztec biographies which made these kings' lives accessible to general readers for the first time and greatly impressed fellow scholars. Frances Gillmor herself was an actively practicing Christian who came to believe that religious experience need not depend on supernatural events or divine revelation, but instead that the spirit of God is revealed in the myriad beauties of nature. [+]I have looked, as it were, over her shoulder, observing her passion for spiritual matters in childhood diaries, in the stories and poems that appeared in her high school literary magazine, and in her later embrace of the process theology of Alfred North Whitehead. I have noted with great admiration her steadfast refusal to allow either personal belief or official dogma to distort her responses to the spiritual practice of non-Christian cultures - not just the Papago, Zuni, Hopi, Yaqui, and Navajo Indians, but even the bloodthirsty Aztecs. I have also attempted to show how Frances Gillmor's sense of herself as an outsider, an "orphan" (or, as post-colonial critics would say, as the "other"), foreshadowed the scholar, folklorist, and author who valued so greatly the theme of connection. Leon Edel's metaphor of "the figure under the carpet" is relevant here because it expresses so well the approach that informs my own writing. Edel suggests that the subject's life can be seen as a carpet or tapestry: place it right side up and the "life-myth" or mask of the person is visible; reverse the carpet, however, and the tangled threads beneath are exposed as the raw and naked real self of the tidy figure above. Intrigued by this notion, I have spent a good deal of time on the early experiences and predilections which structured Gillmor's life, and which shaped from beneath the social, intellectual, and professional figure who emerged. I must emphasize one final point. Unlike Frances Gillmor, who wore many scholarly hats, I wear only one: I'm a scholar of literature. This biography thus makes no claims to being either comprehensive or definitive; its primary focus is on Gillmor's role as a woman of letters. Though any account of her life must of course refer to her work as a folklorist, ethnologist, and anthropologist, I shall leave it to others to do full justice to her outstanding accomplishments in these fields.
Publication date: 1990-04
Dewey code: 327.172092
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Review Lucia Ames Mead (Studies in World Peace) / Edwin Mellen Pr:
Authors
- Lynette Hunter
- Dorothy Moore
Dewey code: 941.062092
List Price: $110.00
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Review The Letters Of Dorothy Moore 1612-64: The Friendships, Marriage, And Intellectual Life Of A Seventeenth-century Woman (The Early Modern Englishwoman 1500û1750) / Ashgate Publishing:Dorothy Moore (born circa 1612, died circa 1664), wrote a considerable number of letters on intellectual, political and domestic matters, many of which are presented in this edition. The topics on which she wrote extensively include education, religion, politics - and most of all, the position of women. The letters are interesting primarily for the light they shed on the life of a independent woman of modest means yet considerable social contacts, during the Commonwealth period. The introductory essay that accompanies this edition of Moore's letters helps the reader of the letters grasp their context in Moore's life, and also details and analyses the rhetorical skills she used. It also discusses the letters in the light of Moore's spiritual and intellectual development, attempting to give a feel for the way that her radical Christianity infused every element of her understanding from science, to education, to politics, to friendship. The edition offers biographical material with an interpretive essay, a bibliography of related texts, and the letters in chronological order with background names and places footnoted in some detail.
Publication date: 2002-10
Dewey code: 920
Price: $16.95
Review Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Family in Canada (Golden Jubilee / Stewart House Publishing (Canada):Featured are treasured photographs and stories for the archives of the Canadian Press, golden moments from 50 years of following the Queen and her family in Canada.
Creator: John Stoneburner
Publication date: 1987-06
Dewey code: 289.6088042
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Review The Influence of Quaker Women on American Society: Biographical Studies (Studies in Women and Religion, Vol 21) / Edwin Mellen Pr:
Creator: Christoper Pelling
Publication date: 1990-03-08
Dewey code: 880.9001
List Price: $210.00
Price: $132.32
Review Characterization and Individuality in Greek Literature / Oxford University Press, USA:This collection of commentaries by contributors such as Pelling, C. J. Gill, P. E. Easterling, F. S. Halliwell, D. A. F. M. [+]Russell, S. Godhill, L. Coventry, M. S. Silk, O. P. Taplin, and J. Griffin examines a range of topics including childhood and personality in Greek biography, the construction of character in Greek tragedy, ethos as rhetorical theory, characterization in Plato's dialogues, the people of Aristophanes, the role of Agamemnon in the Iliad, and characterization in Euripides.
Publication date: 2001-03
Dewey code: 920
Price: $25.00
Review Portuguese Colonial in America: Belmira Nunes Lopes : The Autobiography of a Cape Verdean-American (Discoveries) / Latin American Literary Review Press:
Creator: John A. Edens
Publication date: 1994-09-30
Dewey code: 016.973917092
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Review Eleanor Roosevelt: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Bibliographies and Indexes in American History) / Greenwood Press:This annotated bibliography of the vast collection of works by and about Eleanor Roosevelt, America's incomparable First Lady and global human rights leader, is the most comprehensive yet made available. The first part of the book is arranged chronologically with chapters on different types of her writings-guides to archival materials and bibliographies, books, chapters, introductions, and forewords in books; periodical articles; newspaper columns and important articles, addresses and remarks, and reviews of her writings. The second part deals with all types of works about her and is arranged alphabetically by author into topical chapters. These chapters feature different periods and aspects of her life-biographies, her emergence as a public figure, her life as First Lady of the United States, her role as a human rights leader in the United Nations, her work as an international social reformer, her last years, her death, and assessments thereafter. The chapters cover books, chapters in books, dissertations and theses, periodical articles, writings for young readers, fiction, songs, poetry, films, recordings, and computer software. This unique guide to over 3780 sources, with author and subject indexes and chronology, is designed for collections of all kinds and for use by students, researchers, and anyone interested in this remarkable First Lady and social reformer at a time when the role is again controversial.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1999
Review Oklahoma women in American music / Oklahoma Humanities Council:
Publication date: 2003-11-06
Dewey code: 780.92
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Review Samuel Wesley: The Man and his Music / Boydell Press:This well-documented life of Samuel Wesley gives a vivid picture of the life of a professional musician in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century London. Wesley was born in 1766, the son of the Methodist hymn-writer Charles Wesley and nephew of the preacher John Wesley. He was the finest composer and organist of his generation, but his unconventional behaviour makes him of more than ordinary interest. He lived through a crucial stage of English music from the immediately post-Handel generation to the early Romantic period, and his large output includes piano and organ music, orchestral music, church music, glees, and songs. He also taught and lectured on music, and was involved in journalism, publishing, and promoting the music of J. S. Bach. This book draws on letters, family papers, and other contemporary documents to offer a full study of Wesley, his music, and his life and times. PHILIP OLLESON is Professor of Historical Musicology at the University of Nottingham. He has edited The Letters of Samuel Wesley: Professional and Social Correspondence, 1797-1837, is the joint author (with Michael Kassler) of Samuel Wesley (1766-1837): A Source Book, and has written extensively about other aspects of music in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Creator: Lorna (Narrator)
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2009-01-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $110.00
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Review Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy (Library) / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:Lucrezia Borgia was a shrewd woman who used her beauty and intelligence to secure a key role in the political struggles of her day. Bradford brings to life the dangerous politics of the Renaissance world she helped to create.
Publication date: 1995-09-30
Dewey code: 780.92
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Review William Mathias: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music) / Greenwood Press:Taking piano lessons at three years of age and composing by five, William Mathias became one of Britain's leading 20th-century composers. (He was invited to compose the wedding anthem for the marriage of the Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer). This work provides, for the first time in one volume, up-to-date and comprehensive details of the composer's life's work. It includes a biography, a complete list of works and performances, a discography of sound recordings, and an annotated bibliography, along with useful appendixes and an index. This book will be of interest to musicologists, students, and 20th-century music buffs alike. Mathias was a prolific and versatile composer whose works included opera and music for orchestra, chamber groups, solo instruments, organ, brass ensembles, choral, church, and children's groups. His wedding anthem for Prince Charles and Lady Diana was heard by over 750 million people around the world on television-probably the largest audience for any first performance of a new work.
Publication date: 1992-07
Dewey code: 823.8
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Review Charlotte Yonge: Novelist of the Oxford Movement : A Literature of Victorian Culture and Society (1823-1901 : Novelist of the Oxford Moment : a Literature of Victorian Culture and Society) / Edwin Mellen Press:
Publication date: 2003-03
Dewey code: 940.5412730922762
Review Neshoba at War: The Story of the Men and Women of Neshoba County in World War II / Dancing Rabbit Press:
Authors
- William Worthington Fowler
Review Woman on the American frontier: A valuable and authentic history / Scranton:
Creator: Michael McVaugh
Publication date: 1997-06-01
Dewey code: 509.3
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Review Texts and Contexts in Ancient and Medieval Science: Studies on the Occasion of John E. Murdoch's Seventieth Birthday (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History) (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History) / Brill Academic Publishers:
Creator: Elizabeth A. Clark
Publication date: 1985-03
Dewey code: 270.20924
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Review The Life of Melania, the Younger (Studies in Women and Religion, Vol 14) / Edwin Mellen Pr:
Edition: Multilingu
Publication date: 2004-03
Dewey code: 920
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Review Phiem: Her Beauty Her Messages / Not Avail:
Publication date: 2002-10-03
Dewey code: 938.007202
List Price: $163.50
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Review The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison / Oxford University Press, USA:Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) was renowned for her work on Greek art and religion. In her application of anthropology to classical studies, she stirred up controversy among her academic colleagues, while, at the same time, influencing many writers, including Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf. This, the first substantial biographical study of Harrison, chronicles the life and work of the first woman in modern England to make a name as a classical scholar, her involvement in controversy throughout her life, and her remarkable influence.
Publication date: 1998-04
Dewey code: 809
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Review Charlotte Haldane: Woman Writer in a Man's World / Palgrave Macmillan:
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