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Paul Friedrich

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Connection to Illinois: Paul Friedrich taught at the University of Chicago for many years.

Biography: Paul Friedrich grew up and was educated in New England; has lived in Europe, India and Mexico; and has taught languages, literature, linguistics and anthropology at many universities. His poetic publications include four chapbooks (e.g., Bastard Moons and Handholds) and two books of poems and translations (old and new): From Root to Flower and Harmony in Babel: Selected Poems and Translations. Other publications include ''The Meaning of Aphrodite'', ''The Gita within Walden'', and ''Agrarian Revolt in a Mexican Village''. He has seven children and has commuted by car between Chicago and Lexington, Virginia for 19 years.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction; Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Website: http://paulfriedrichpoetry.wordpress.com/
Paul Friedrich on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=paul+friedrich


Selected Titles

A goldfinch instant :
ISBN: 9780981989891 OCLC: 761364618

Virtual Artists Collective, La Vergne, TN : ©2010.

Agrarian revolt in a Mexican village :
ISBN: 9780226226934 OCLC: 904134440

Agrarian Revolt in a Mexican Village deals with a Taráscan Indian village in southwestern Mexico which, between 1920 and 1926, played a precedent-setting role in agrarian reform. As he describes forty years in the history of this small pueblo, Paul Friedrich raises general questions about local politics and agrarian reform that are basic to our understanding of radical change in peasant societies around the world. Of particular interest is his detailed study of the colorful, violent, and psychologically complex leader, Primo Tapia, whose biography bears on the theoretical issues of the polit.

Agrarian revolt in a Mexican village :
ISBN: 0226264815 OCLC: 3476304

University of Chicago Press, Chicago : 1977.

Agrarian Revolt in a Mexican Village deals with a Taráscan Indian village in southwestern Mexico (Naranja, Michoacán) which, between 1920 and 1926, played a precedent-setting role in agrarian reform. As he describes forty years in the history of this small pueblo, Paul Friedrich raises general questions about local politics and agrarian reform that are basic to our understanding of radical change in peasant societies around the world. Of particular interest is his detailed study of the colorful, violent, and psychologically complex leader, Primo Tapia, whose biography bears on the theoretical issues of the "political middleman" and the relation between individual motivation and socioeconomic change. Friedrich's evidence includes massive interviewing, personal letters, observations as an anthropological participant (e.g., in fiesta ritual), analysis of the politics and other village culture during 1955-56, comparison with other Taráscan villages, historical and prehistoric background materials, and research in legal and government agrarian archives.

From root to flower :
ISBN: 097729742X OCLC: 65520647

Virtual Artists Collective, [New York, N.Y.] : 2006.

Harmony in Babel :
ISBN: 9780979882517 OCLC: 178049921

Virtual Artists Collective, [Chicago?] : ©2007.

Music in Russian poetry /
ISBN: 0820433470 OCLC: 34553493

Peter Lang, New York : ©1998.

This innovative work from Paul Friedrich surveys the Russian lyric scene from the mid-eighteenth century through the Modern period, in terms of the poets' own ideas as well as the author's interpretations.

  Proto-Indo-European trees :
ISBN: 0226264807 OCLC: 188381

The language parallax :
ISBN: 0292746504 OCLC: 12236734

University of Texas Press, Austin : 1986.

Argues that the locus and focus of differences among languages lies not so much in practical or rational aspects as in the complexity and richness of more poetic dimensions--in the nuances of words, or the style and voice of an author. This poetic reformulation of what has been called linguistic relativism is grounded in the author's theory of the imagination as a main source of poetic indeterminacy and, ultimately, disorder and chaos.

  The meaning of Aphrodite
ISBN: 0226264823 OCLC: 4907857

University of Chicago Press, Chicago : 1978.

The Meaning of Aphrodite /
ISBN: 0226264831 OCLC: 803182983

The University of Chicago Press, Chicago : ©1978.

The princes of Naranja :
ISBN: 9780292762534 OCLC: 570168182

University of Texas Press, Austin : 1986.

The princes of Naranja :
ISBN: 0292765029 OCLC: 13823251

 

 

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