Category: Literature (Page 8 of 24)

In the past week 59 titles were added to the Norma Marion Alloway Library’s collection; below is a sample. Click on the link for more information.

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Aesthetic spaces: the place of art in film (ebook) /Brigitte Peucker.
Drawing on the older arts to renew cinema, the films examined deploy paintings as material: Poussin and Bruegel, Rembrandt, Hals and Klimt, and medieval illustrations and modernist abstractions are used to expand our notions of cinematic space. Peucker shows that when different media come together in film, they create effects of dissonance out of which new modes of looking may arise.

Aquinas on transubstantiation: the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist (ebook) /Reinhard Hütter.
This title interprets Aquinas’s teaching as an exercise of “holy teaching” (sacra doctrina) that intends to show theologically and back up philosophically the simple yet profound thesis that “transubstantiation” affirms nothing but the truth of Christ’s words at the Last Supper―”This is my body,” “This is my blood.”

Crafting an indigenous nation: Kiowa expressive culture in the progressive era (ebook) /Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote.
In this in-depth interdisciplinary study, the author reveals how Kiowa people drew on the tribe’s rich history of expressive culture to assert its identity at a time of profound challenge. Examining traditional forms such as beadwork, metalwork, painting, and dance, this title argues that their creation and exchange were as significant to the expression of Indigenous identity and sovereignty as formal political engagement and policymaking.

Divided politics, divided nation: hyperconflict in the Trump era (ebook) /Darrell M. West.
This title analyzes the economic, cultural, and political aspects of polarization. The author argues that societal tensions have metastasized into a dangerous tribalism that seriously threatens U.S. democracy.

How the classics made Shakespeare (ebook) /Jonathan Bate.
This tile offers new readings of a wide array of the plays and poems. At the heart of the book is an argument that Shakespeare’s supreme valuation of the force of imagination was honed by the classical tradition and designed as a defense of poetry and theater in a hostile world of emergent Puritanism.

In a pure Muslim land: Shi’ism between Pakistan and the Middle East (ebook) /Simon Wolfgang Fuchs.
This title shows how popular Pakistani preachers and scholars have boldly tapped into the esoteric potential of Shi’ism, occupying a creative and at times disruptive role as brokers, translators, and self-confident pioneers of contemporary Islamic thought. The author argues that its complex religious landscape represents how a local, South Asian Islam may open up space for new intellectual contributions to global Islam.

The life of Saint Teresa of Avila: a biography (ebook) /Carlos Eire.
This title tells the story of this spiritual masterpiece, examining its composition and reception in the 16th century, the various ways its mystical teachings have been interpreted and reinterpreted across time, and its enduring influence in our own secular age. The author Eire demonstrates, Teresa’s confession is a cry from the heart to God and a portrayal of mystical theology as a search for love.

New digital worlds: postcolonial digital humanities in theory, praxis, and pedagogy (ebook) /Roopika Risam.
This title traces the formation of postcolonial studies and digital humanities as fields, identifying how they can intervene in knowledge production in the digital age. The author examines the role of colonial violence in the development of digital archives and the possibilities of postcolonial digital archives for resisting this violence.

Women mobilizing memory (ebook) /edited by Ayşe Gül Altinay [and five others].
This title is a transnational exploration of the intersection of feminism, history and memory, shows how the recollection of violent histories can generate possibilities for progressive futures.