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- The Sacred Meadows is an anthropological study of the religion of Lamu, the oldest inhabited town in Kenya, originally settled in 1370, and situated on an island off the Kenyan coast. Abdul Hamid El-Zein discusses the religious impact of Islam and its place in Lamu society. He explores the structure...
- Keyword:
- History
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Abdul Hamid M. el Zein
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1974
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Dark Conceit is the first book in English to treat allegory seriously in terms of literary creation and criticism. The study explores the methods and ideas that go into the making of allegory, discusses the misconceptions that have obscured the subject, and surveys the changing concept of allegory. The greater...
- Keyword:
- Theory
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Edwin Honig
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1959
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- This Africa is both a literary history and a survey of the West African novel. Gleason explores seventeen novels in French and eight in English, developing a framework of literary criticism that includes the conqueror, the hero, city life, village life, and personal identity. Authors whose works are studied include...
- Keyword:
- Literature
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Judith Illsley Gleason
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1965
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- In D. H. Lawrence, Eliseo Vivas examines the aesthetic triumphs and failures of Lawrences major works through a literary device that he coins the constitutive symbol. Understanding how Lawrence uses the constitutive symbol provides new insight into his world views. Vivas covers a wide range of Lawrences work, including Aarons...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Eliseo Vivas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1960
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- In Reflections on Freges Philosophy, Reinhardt Grossmann investigates the most important themes in the philosophy of Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925): his distinction between objects and functions, his characterization of numbers as nonmental classes, his theory of sense and reference, and his ontology of truth-values. Grossmann examines Freges solutions to...
- Keyword:
- Analytic
- Creator:
- Reinhardt Grossmann
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- Philosophy
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1969
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Motive and Intention is a critique of certain conceptual foundations of the description and judgment of human action. Drawing on sources such as narrative history, Roy Lawrence analyzes examples of such assessments and provides and independent base for appraising familiar and tenacious theoretical presumptions. In so doing he illuminates many...
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Roy Lawrence
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1972
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- This classic ethnomusicological survey provides as a valuable guide to African music. The essays review a broad swath of genres and topics, including court songs and music history, musical instruments in different traditions, and the connection between Islam and African music. Contributors are Lois Ann Anderson, John Blacking, Philip J....
- Keyword:
- Music
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Klaus P. Wachsmann
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1971
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Literary Modernism and the Transformation of Work probes the relationship between the aesthetic structures of modernism and its political and philosophical shape. James F. Knapp exploresmodernisms engagement with and reaction to the theories and discourse of scientific management that were reshaping the workplace in the early twentieth century, and in...
- Keyword:
- Theory
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- James F. Knapp
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1988
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- This edition of Jean de La Fontaines fables includes an English translation published alongside the French text. Norman Spector adapted the French text from the 1883-85 edition by Henri Rgnier, adding four tales from the 1962 edition by Georges Couton. Spectors translation is in rhymed verse, and remains faithful to...
- Keyword:
- France
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Jean de la Fontaine and Norman B. Spector
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1988
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- This study of the novels of Nathanael West begins with the important threads of Wests life and their relationship to his works. James F. Light gives a detailed analysis of each of Wests novels, investigating in particular the works treatment of social criticism and manipulation of dream and symbol.
- Keyword:
- United States
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- James F. Light
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1971
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- This encyclopedia serves as a guide to the fifty-six stories and four novels that comprise the Sherlock Holmes canon. Arranged alphabetically, Orlando Park provides entries on all manner of people, places, and objects from Arthur Conan Doyles novels and stories, as well as thorough treatments of the traits and opinions...
- Keyword:
- England
- Subject:
- Literary Criticism
- Creator:
- Orlando Park
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1962
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- First published in German in 1917, On Emotional Presentation investigates the interrelation of emotions, values, and obligation. Alexius Meinong presents a realist theory of values in which values are given in and through emotion but are also ontologically independent of emotion or any subjective attitude. Meinongs first discusses the concept...
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- J. N. Findlay, Alexius Meinong, and Marie-Luise Schubert Kalsi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1972
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- First published in German in 1940 and widely recognized as a classic of philosophical anthropology, Laughing and Crying considers this significant pair of types of expressive behavior, considering them both in themselves and in their relation to the fundamental nature of humanity.
- Keyword:
- Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Marjorie Grene, Helmuth Plessner, and James Spencer Churchill
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 1970
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Some five years ago, during the first year of my assistantship at the Music Academy in Katowice, I required students to analyse some of Penderecki's early, so-called "sonoristic" pieces. The outcome of that assignment proved unsatisfactory, however, because the students tended to describe Penderecki's pieces as chaotic assemblages of sound...
- Keyword:
- poland and sonorism
- Subject:
- Polish people--Music and Penderecki, Krzysztof, 1933-
- Creator:
- Danuta Mirka
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/17/2019
- Date Created:
- 1997
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- This book has to do with the period in which Britain’s mandate in Palestine ended, the state of Israel was born, and the Arab refugee problem originated. Many historians have written on these matters, and many more will do so. I arrived in Haifa, Palestine, on 23 December 1947, and...
- Keyword:
- program of african studies and special papers series
- Subject:
- Isreal History, Palestine History, Biography, Great Britain Army Officers, and 20th Century
- Creator:
- Ivor Wilks
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/30/2019
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Blackboard is the official publication of For Members Only (FMO). It provides Black students at Northwestern University with news and relevant campus editorials. Currently, the publication is digitized up to 2011. However, publications from 2012 to the present are available in print at University Archives.
- Keyword:
- university archives
- Subject:
- Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), College students, Black, Periodicals, and African American college students
- Creator:
- For Members Only and Black Student Alliance
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/27/2020
- Date Modified:
- 11/02/2020
- Date Created:
- 1971
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Word from the House is a newsletter created by the Department of African American Student Affairs. It includes event announcements, tutoring schedules, faculty and staff highlights, and academic resources.
- Keyword:
- university archives
- Subject:
- Black faculty, Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), College students, Black, Periodicals, Black staff, and African American college students
- Creator:
- Department of African American Student Affairs, Northwestern University Department of African American Student Affairs, the Black Student Union at Northwestern University, Black Student Alliance , and For Members Only
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/20/2020
- Date Modified:
- 11/02/2020
- Date Created:
- 1990
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- [EXCERPT:] On April 2, 1982 a group of concerned alumni met to discuss the need for a Black Alumni Association at Northwestern University. These alumni recognized that such an organization could help serve the needs and aspirations of Black alumni and undergraduates from Northwestern. They decided it would be best...
- Keyword:
- university archives
- Subject:
- Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), College students, Black, Periodicals, Black staff, Black alumni, and African American college students
- Creator:
- Northwestern University Department of Alumni Relations and Northwestern University Black Alumni Association
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/20/2020
- Date Modified:
- 11/02/2020
- Date Created:
- 1982
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- 1984-2003 (Not complete). Blackbeat is a biweekly newsletter aimed to supplement the quarterly Blackboard magazine, the official publication of For Members Only (FMO). It includes editorials, poetry, cartoons, and announcements to Black students at Northwestern University.
- Keyword:
- university archives
- Subject:
- Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), College students, Black, Periodicals, and African American college students
- Creator:
- Black Student Alliance and For Members Only
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/24/2020
- Date Modified:
- 11/02/2020
- Date Created:
- 1984
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- First official publication of For Members Only (FMO), a precursor to Blackboard.
- Keyword:
- university archives
- Subject:
- Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.), College students, Black, Periodicals, and African American college students
- Creator:
- Black Student Alliance and For Members Only
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/24/2020
- Date Modified:
- 11/02/2020
- Date Created:
- 1968
- Resource Type:
- Book