Barbara Goff: 4 books
Crossroads in the Black Aegean
Oedipus, Antigone, and Dramas of the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Crossroads in the Black Aegean is a compendious, timely, and fascinating study of African rewritings of Greek tragedy. It consists of detailed readings of six dramas and one epic poem, from different locations across the African diaspora. Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson ask why the plays of Sophocles'...
by Barbara Goff
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Set at the end of the Trojan war, "Euripides' Trojan Women" depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery. While choral songs recall the death-throes of the great city, the scenes between the old queen, Hekabe, and the women of her family explore the consequences of the...
An Introduction to IMS
Your Complete Guide to IBM Information Management System
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
IBM’s Definitive One-Stop Guide to IMS Versions 12, 11, and 10: for Every IMS DBA, Developer, and System Programmer Over 90% of the top Fortune® 1000 companies rely on IBM’s Information Management System (IMS) for their most critical IBM System z® data management needs: 50,000,000,000+...
Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land
Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The latest scholarship on the role of hymns in American evangelicalism. Music and song are important parts of worship, and hymns have long played a central role in Protestant cultural history. This book explores the ways in which Protestants have used and continue to use hymns to clarify their identity...