..., benediction, and recitation of litanies have meditative qualities. All these meditative practices have the single aim of waging the “greater jihad” against selfishness and egoistic delusion. Islam ego inner jihad jihad Prophet Muhammad Qurʾan dhikr repetition of key phrases focused on God God...

.... The most notable instances of his enthusiasm for the performance of literature are his youthful prolusions and his recitations in the Italian academies to which he was admitted. This chapter will trace the contours of Milton’s evolving tastes in these three areas, and their refractions in his poetry...

... of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. This chapter begins with a discussion of the emergence of the little-known movement called Delsartism, which promoted the practices of solo posing and poetic recitation for health and personal development, as well as professional performance...

... Shira New York City Rearson Harry translation gender Hebrew Union College Manuel Peter North India voice Einhorn Roy chant Buddhist Jew minhag United States Haschel Moshe London Sokol Scott Eskin Jackie prayer Slobin Mark Torah technology oral tradition recitation laypeople...

... The Flesh of Words power bourgeois culture class migration consumerist culture Irving Henry Lemaître Frédérick objects as language Roth Philip Balzac Honoré de narrative parody of mastery Treharne Mark artisanship ventriloquizing La Revue des Deux Mondes history events as recitation...

...Palaran are elements within gamelan repertoire that are derived from the melodies used to recite texts written in Javanese poetic metres. When used as palaran within gamelan performance (rather than in their original form as poetic recitation, or macapat...

... of the recitationes of Maternus in Tacitus' Dialogus, I need to offer something in its place. Here too there is evidence, if one is prepared to look for it, which shows authors continuing to write for stage performance throughout the early principate. Ovid counters Augustus' charge...

... by legally mandating Turkish language recitation, a practice that was maintained for nearly twenty years despite strong popular opposition. Although this particular practice ended in 1950, the call to prayer has continued to engender controversy. One of the more recent debates has grown out of the practice...

...Poetic recitation was regularly heard at concerts and in “musical and literary entertainments.” Recitation anthologies designed for homes and schools provided sample programs. Music and elocution were combined outside of the conventions of notation: texts of songs were spoken...

...Texts are often taken as static entities. However, every récit, or narrative, contains an element of recitation, which in turn entails the highly physical act of recitative. Lacoue Labarthe Philippe narrative Proust Marcel recitative Sterne Laurence voice Faulkner William James Henry limit...

.... Finally, this chapter evaluates the hermeneutical solutions to the gestures that accompanied the recitation of the anthropomorphic verses in the Quran and aḥādīth al-ṣifāt. These solutions were offered by the Hadith scholars who were active between the eleventh and the thirteenth...

...This introductory chapter briefly discusses the history of verse recitation and poetry memorization in Great Britain and the United States and how their societies have come to perceive such practices, as well as the role poetry plays within both the British and American imaginary. It also provides...

...This chapter considers Hekhalot literature to show that the Sar ha-Torah narrative from this corpus responds to the Talmudic academies‘ ideology of Torah study, presenting an alternative vision for Jewish culture in which retention and recitation are central rather than...

...This book has argued that it is precisely when the Babylonian Talmud's creators seem most conservative—when they preserve traditions rather than reject or revise them—that we find their most profound break with tradition. It has examined recitation as a practice against which the Talmud's creators...

...A Shá’er, with his accompanying, Violist, and part of his Audience. This and the following two chapters look at the reciters and storytellers who would frequent the coffeehouses of Cairo and other towns in the evenings, particularly during religious festivals. This chapter focuses on the poets...

...This chapter examines an alternative conception of poetry recitation, one that modified the problematic of recitational expression by removing its defining moment from the essentialized inner world of subjective content and relocating it in the shifting configurations of performance time and space...

... and resting, clothing and vestments, food and drink, lodging and staying, or cells and residences, no activity is not written out in the instructions of the scriptures. precepts recitation transmission performance images This content is only available as a PDF. ...

...0 25 03 1993 In this chapter I describe the chief genres, forms and styles, of chant in the Roman liturgy.The main genres are arranged according to their musical type. I start with the simple recitation formulas for prayers and lessons (11.2), and then go on to psalm tones and the more...

... to it politicized the German language, and in particular its public enunciation. This political impetus coincided with a broadening audience for such performances—several generations of authors and actors had labored to establish the legitimacy of evenings of poetry recitation, a press had grown up around...

...) from whom one will gain protection. This chapter enumerates some of the measures taken to foster invulnerability, including the use of amulets, daily Pali recitation, tattoos, and organized readings of particularly powerful Pali texts. It also describes the relations some people enter into with spirits...