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Pages: 310
Authors: Leela Prasad
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Leela Prasad's riveting book presents everyday stories on subjects such as deities, ascetics, cats, and cooking along with stylized, publicly delivered ethical
The Poetics of the Everyday
Language: en
Pages: 335
Authors: Siobhan Phillips
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Wallace Stevens once described the "malady of the quotidian," lamenting the dull weight of everyday regimen. Yet he would later hail "that which is always begin
Poetics of Liveliness
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Ada Smailbegović
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-29 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Can poetry act as an aesthetic amplification device, akin to a microscope, through which we can sense minute or nearly imperceptible phenomena such as the foldi
Sound and Sentiment
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Steven Feld
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-02 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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A new, thirtieth-anniversary edition of the landmark ethnography that introduced the anthropology, or the cultural study, of sound.
The Poetics of Gender
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Nancy K. Miller
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Does gender have a poetics: What difference does gender make? How does it affect writing, reading, and the functions of text in society? The Poetics of Gender i