If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Finding Common GroundDrawing upon the narratives of Africa, Australia, Europe and North America, this collection of essays explores the relationships between territories, peoples and the stories and songs that give meaning to our lives. |
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Page 77
History , as the great nineteenth - century French historian Ernest Renan once
said , specializes in forgetting . In many ways , home is an image home is an
image for the power of stories . . With both , we need to live in them if they are to
take ...
History , as the great nineteenth - century French historian Ernest Renan once
said , specializes in forgetting . In many ways , home is an image home is an
image for the power of stories . . With both , we need to live in them if they are to
take ...
Page 130
Northrop Frye once suggested that “ the appearance of a ghost in Hamlet
presents the hypothesis ' let there be a ghost in Hamlet . ' It has nothing to do with
whether ghosts exist or not , or whether Shakespeare or his audience thought
they did ...
Northrop Frye once suggested that “ the appearance of a ghost in Hamlet
presents the hypothesis ' let there be a ghost in Hamlet . ' It has nothing to do with
whether ghosts exist or not , or whether Shakespeare or his audience thought
they did ...
Page 131
John Henry Newman once said that “ forms are the food of faith . ” Soul food . Just
as we learn how to eat properly — those table manners once again — so we
learn how to believe properly . It is hardly surprising that we do so differently in ...
John Henry Newman once said that “ forms are the food of faith . ” Soul food . Just
as we learn how to eat properly — those table manners once again — so we
learn how to believe properly . It is hardly surprising that we do so differently in ...
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| Title | If this is Your Land, where are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground |
| Author | J. Edward Chamberlin |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Carcanet, 2006 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 2 Jul 2009 |
| ISBN | 1857548493, 9781857548495 |
| Length | 271 pages |
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