Post-tribal epics : the native American novel between tradition and modernity
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Post-tribal epics : the native American novel between tradition and modernity
(Native American studies, v. 3)
E. Mellen Press, c1996
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Bibliography: p. [233]-250
Includes index
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Description
An analysis of some influential Native American novels published between 1969 and 1992, examining them as post-tribal epics. Novels discussed include: Momaday's House Made of Dawn; Silko's Ceremony and Almanac of the Dead; and Welch's Winter in the Blood and The Death of Jim Loney.
Table of Contents
- Part One: Overview
- Thomas Hyde, Steinschneider, Van Der Linde, and Murray. Part Two: Introduction to Talmud, Texts and Commentaries
- Where and When did Chess start
- Alexander's Game
- An Enigmatic Board Game
- 2 Exegetic Curiosities. Part Three: The Spanish Period of the golden ages of Hebrew and Arabic early chess writings
- Arab and Jew
- Moses Cohen, Disciplina Clericalis
- Judah Halevi, Ha Kuzari
- Chess in Verse, Abraham Ibn Ezra
- Bonsenior Ibn Yehia
- Chess, society and gambling
- Jewish translators and authors of Alfonso manuscript
- Abi Zakaria Yahya Ibn Ibrahim Al-Hakim
- the new Chess, Luis de Lucena
- Ruy Lopez
- Shlomo Ben Mazel Tov. Part Four: Anonymous treatise, the King's Delight
- Views and Judgments
- Two stories from Mas'aseh Book
- Moses Mendelssohn & Lessing's Nathan the Wise
- Sevi Uri Rubinstein
- Leon Hallandaerski, Delecies Royales
- Jacob Eichenbaur, The Struggle.
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