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Literary Studies

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The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess

Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashu

By Edward Kamens
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Religion
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Provides new translations and sensitive readings of the devotional Buddhist poems of Senshi, the Great Kamo Priestess of the Heian period

Robert Hayden in Verse

New Histories of African American Poetry and the Black Arts Era

By Derik Smith
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, African American Studies, Religion, American Studies

Remaps Robert Hayden’s proper place within African American poetry, and traces his legacy

Having Once Paused

Poems of Zen Master Ikkyu (1394-1481)

By Ikkyu Sojun, Sarah Messer, and Kidder Smith
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Asian Studies, Religion

A volume of selected poems by Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun (1394–1481), translated into English

The Real and the Sacred

Picturing Jesus in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

By Jefferson J. A. Gatrall
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, History, European History, Religion, Art, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, American Literature

A cultural history of representations of Jesus in nineteenth-century European and American fiction and visual art

Nimble Believing

Dickinson and the Unknown

By James McIntosh
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Religion

A groundbreaking exploration of the themes of faith and doubt in Emily Dickinson's poetry

Jewish in America

Edited by Sara B. Blair & Jonathan E. Freedman
Subjects: American Studies, Cultural Studies, Religion, Literary Studies, American Literature

The Narcissus and the Pomegranate

An Archaeology of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter

By Ann Suter
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature, Religion

Examines in detail the two myths in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and the relation of the hymn to historic cult activities at Eleusis

The Key to The Name of the Rose

Including Translations of All Non-English Passages

By Adele J. Haft, Jane G. White, and Robert J. White
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, History, Religion

Unravels Umberto Eco's classic mystery novel

The Meaning of Consciousness

By Andrew Lohrey
Subjects: Philosophy, Psychology, Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Religion
Series: Studies in Literature and Science

Advances a bold new theory of consciousness and meaning by means of subjective, holistic analysis

Rethinking Sorrow

Revelatory Tales of Late Medieval Japan

By Margaret Childs
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Religion, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Provides fresh translations and readings of a small, coherent subgroup of short stories that describe how people were inspired to religious commitment

Galileo, Science and the Church

Third Edition

By Jerome J. Langford
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, Religion, Philosophy
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

The Lives of the Buddha in the Art and Literature of Asia

By Mary Cummings
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Art, Architecture, Religion, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Twenty-seven Jataka tales and Life-of-the-Buddha episodes are compared with depictions of these stories in Asian art.

The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold

Volume VIII. Essays Religious and Mixed

By Matthew Arnold
Edited by R. H. Super
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Religion

Devotions

Upon Emergent Occasions, Together with Death's Duel

By John Donne
Subjects: Religion, Philosophy, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 16th and 17th Century Literature
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks
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