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cover of Advanced Standard Arabic through Authentic Texts and Audiovisual Materials: Part One, Textual Materials

Advanced Standard Arabic through Authentic Texts and Audiovisual Materials

Part One, Textual Materials

Raji M. Rammuny

University of Michigan Press, 1994

A linguistic smorgasbord of real-life Arabic texts
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cover of Songs Ascending: The Book of Psalms in a New Translation with Textual and Spiritual Commentary

Songs Ascending

The Book of Psalms in a New Translation with Textual and Spiritual Commentary

Rabbi Richard N. Levy

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2017

A beautiful, poetic translation of the Book of Psalms, Songs Ascending includes textual commentary and insights into the translation process, illuminating the choices of the original composers and the choices facing us in the 21st century as we try to make each psalm our own. The spiritual commentary asks: To what events, struggles, and triumphs in our lives might this psalm speak? How might this psalm articulate an aspect of our own sacred existence, or how might it help us celebrate a special day in our lives? How might it provide comfort when we are bereft and most in need of consolation, or how might it help us provide comfort for someone else? Songs Ascending explores all this and more, engaging the reader in dialogue that will inform and inspire.

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cover of Textual and Theatrical Shakespeare: Questions of Evidence

Textual and Theatrical Shakespeare

Questions of Evidence

Edward Pechter

University of Iowa Press, 1996

Shakespeare commentary and performance today present us with a multiplicity of interpretations constructed and reconstructed from such diverse origins that the underlying evidence has become hidden by layers of reconceptualized meanings. What can or should count as evidence for the claims made by scholars and performers, and how should this evidence by organized? In Textual and Theatrical Shakespeare ten essayists answer these stimulating questions by exploring the possibilities for and the constraints upon useful communication among critics who come to Shakespeare from so many different directions.

Bridging the stage-versus-page gap between actors, critics, and scholars, the contributors in this carefully crafted yet energizing book reflect upon the many kinds of evidence available to us from Shakespeare's various incarnations as historical subject and as “our contemporary” as well as from his amphibious occupation of both stage and study. The constraints become arbitrary as each essayist clarifies the sources of this evidence; the seemingly rigid boundaries of scholarly and creative disciplines are crossed and redrawn.
From “How Good Does Evidence Have to Be?” to “Invisible Bullets, Violet Beards: Reading Actors Reading,” the essays in Textual and Theatrical Shakespeare illuminate the long and complex development of our diverse engagements with Shakespeare. Textual and literary scholars, performance critics, social historians, cultural theorists, actors, and theatre historians will appreciate and benefit from this generous spirit of cross-cultural communication.
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