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Book Synopsis Confronting Life's Realistic Illusions by : David Gayden
Download or read book Confronting Life's Realistic Illusions written by David Gayden and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence, drugs, teen pregnancies, suicides and other unlawful and negative activities warranted the writing of this book. It contains methods for defending ourselves against the world system as we fight for the future of our youth.
Book Synopsis Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume XIV: Coping with Life and Death: Jewish Families in the Twentieth Century by :
Download or read book Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume XIV: Coping with Life and Death: Jewish Families in the Twentieth Century written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts by : Tomáš Koblížek
Download or read book The Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts written by Tomáš Koblížek and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of aesthetic illusion relates to a number of art forms and media. Defined as a pleasurable mental state that emerges during the reception of texts and artefacts, it amounts to the reader's or viewer's sense of having entered the represented world while at the same time keeping a distance from it. Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts is an in-depth study of the main questions surrounding this experience of art as reality. Beginning with an introduction providing historical background to modern discussions of illusion, it deals with a wide range of theoretical issues. The collection explores the nature and function of the aesthetic illusion as well as the role of affect and emotion, the implications of aesthetic illusion for the theory of fiction, the variable forms of aesthetic illusion and its relationship to other components of aesthetic response. Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts brings together a team of scholars from philosophy, literature and art and presents an interdisciplinary examination of a concept lying at the heart of contemporary aesthetics.
Book Synopsis The Vital Lie by : Anthony S. Abbott
Download or read book The Vital Lie written by Anthony S. Abbott and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2003-08-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwrights, Abbott seeks to discover if modern playwrights treat illusions as helpful or necessary to life, or as signals of sicknesses from which human beings need to be cured. What happens to characters when they are forced to face the truth about themselves and their worlds without the protection of their illusions? The author develops a three-part historical analysis of the use of the reality-illusion theme, from its origins as a metaphysical search to its current elaborations as a theatrical game.
Book Synopsis Grand Illusion of Tomorrow by : Julie S. Ross
Download or read book Grand Illusion of Tomorrow written by Julie S. Ross and published by DIGITAL BOOK INFORMATION. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grand Illusion of Tomorrow is a story of love and life. Filled with intrigue, romance and suspense, based on real life events that you can relate to with laughter and tears. This story will deepen your appreciation of the life you now enjoy and increase your determination for more fulfillment. This is about the unforgettable efforts of several individuals striving to find what we are all desperately seek every day, long lasting happiness Our drama begins in a village near Madrid, Spain, where we find our protagonist; Sunita Franco. Sunita is a beautiful young woman, blessed with a kind and gentle nature. She comes from a typical loving family household. During her university studies, Sunita unwittingly meets her Prince Charming-Ronnie Waddell. Ronnie was born in Chicago, USA. He is an extremely handsome man, and an architect by profession, completing his master’s degree in Madrid. There; they fall hopeless in love with each other; however, time did not afford them the opportunity to change their previous obligations. Sadly, Ronnie returns to Chicago and Sunita continues with her career. The separation was longingly painful, and sorrowful. Years later and by incredible coincidence, destiny reunites Sunita and Ronnie. At this time, as before, their love and desire for each other was as passionate as when they first met. Together, they promised with all their hearts, mind and soul to never separate again…but will they be able to keep their promise? Will they be strong enough to fight destiny? The end of the story will leave you with a sense of peace, and joy, making this a literacy adventure well worth your time. The reader will feel a profound difference in their lives, as they will realize that happiness exists, and with a little help… it can be found!
Book Synopsis Madness, Love and Tragedy in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spain by : Marta Manrique Gomez
Download or read book Madness, Love and Tragedy in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spain written by Marta Manrique Gomez and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do Spanish writers of the 19th and 20th century define and represent madness, a basic and controversial aspect of world culture, and how do the different conceptions of madness intersect with love, religion, politics, and other literary themes in Spanish society? This multi-author book analyzes the theme of madness in formative masterpieces of Spanish literature of the 19th and 20th century through the use of relevant critical and theoretical approaches. In this context, authors studied in this book include Juan Valera, Leopoldo Alas Clarín, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Caterina Albert, Benito Pérez Galdós, Miguel de Unamuno, and Juan Goytisolo, among others.
Book Synopsis Facing the Pacific by : Jeffrey A. Geiger
Download or read book Facing the Pacific written by Jeffrey A. Geiger and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enduring popularity of Polynesia in western literature, art, and film attests to the pleasures that Pacific islands have, over the centuries, afforded the consuming gaze of the west—connoting solitude, release from cares, and, more recently, self-renewal away from urbanized modern life. Facing the Pacific is the first study to offer a detailed look at the United States’ intense engagement with the myth of the South Seas just after the First World War, when, at home, a popular vogue for all things Polynesian seemed to echo the expansion of U.S. imperialist activities abroad. Jeffrey Geiger looks at a variety of texts that helped to invent a vision of Polynesia for U.S. audiences, focusing on a group of writers and filmmakers whose mutual fascination with the South Pacific drew them together—and would eventually drive some of them apart. Key figures discussed in this volume are Frederick O’Brien, author of the bestseller White Shadows in the South Seas; filmmaker Robert Flaherty and his wife, Frances Hubbard Flaherty, who collaborated on Moana; director W. S. Van Dyke, who worked with Robert Flaherty on MGM’s adaptation of White Shadows; and Expressionist director F. W. Murnau, whose last film, Tabu, was co-directed with Flaherty.
Book Synopsis The Romance of Real Life by : Steven Watts
Download or read book The Romance of Real Life written by Steven Watts and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1994. The Romance of Real Life aims to reconstruct historically the life and writings of Charles Brockden Brown in terms of their cultural connection. Watts examines in detail Brown's early and later writings. By looking at these often-neglected works more closely, he offers a new perspective on the well-known novels from the late 1790s. Watts's synthetic look at genre as well as chronology reveals broader connections between Brown's literature and American society and culture in the decades of the early republic. Furthermore, Watts situates Brown's writings in terms of the interplay of text, context, and the self, with each factor recognized as mutually shaping the others. The Romance of Real Life incorporates sensitivity to the "social history of ideas," in which both the form and content of language remain rooted in the material experience of real life.
Book Synopsis Facing the Truth of Your Life by : Merle Yost, LMFT
Download or read book Facing the Truth of Your Life written by Merle Yost, LMFT and published by Merle Yost. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the messages that fly in the face of the usual feel-good sentiments of self-help books, Yost offers readers real challenges to their belief systems: • People “download” much of what their parents have programmed them with, consciously or unconsciously, over generations. Much of it is no longer useful, and is in fact destructive for relationships in today’s world. • Forgiveness is too often used as a cure-all that will make pain go away. It won’t. • Confronting and working through emotional pain is the path to healing and happiness. • Outdated religious mores can actually prevent victims from healing. About the Book Facing the Truth of Your Life will help the reader reframe their view of themselves and their place in life, creating the space to explore and question what they think they know: in short, to face their real truth. With short life stories, exercises and chapters covering spirituality, being a victim, how to parent healthy children, the many faces of shame and how it complicates all of our relationships, Facing the Truth of Your Life challenges the reader to address many of the things we do to prevent our feelings and keep from knowing ourselves. Facing the Truth of Your Life is about walking through your pain. It is about understanding how you became you, how to discard what you were taught about yourself, and how to find out who you really are.
Book Synopsis Life Crises and Experiences of Loss in Adulthood by : Leo Montada
Download or read book Life Crises and Experiences of Loss in Adulthood written by Leo Montada and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A result of a conference at the University of Trier, Germany, this volume mirrors its goals: * to provide an overview of recent advances in research on critical life events and the losses associated with them * to collect and stimulate new perspectives for the analysis of these events * to compare the psychology of victims experiencing stress and losses with the psychology of observers in their reactions to victims. Designed to prevent developmental psychological myths in the area of life crises, this collection questions, on an empirical basis, the adequacy of several widespread generalizations. At the same time its contributors attempt to draw paths to conceptualizations and theories in general psychology and social psychology which promise to be helpful in analyzing and interpreting phenomena in the field of life crises.
Download or read book A Life Veracity written by Sourabh Sewani and published by Educreation Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with a story of a common man who faces a lot of ups and downs in his life. Gaurav, the protagonist in first narrative puts forward the details of his experiences and that how he sacrificed his life, for his love. How he didn't get much to expel his feelings to her. In the same way, a lot of people commit suicide or take help of abuses for pleasures of relief without realising how either the first ends it all in one go or the second is just a temporary means. Sourabh here, in his attempt tries to let people know that they aren't the only one’s suffering, that, life is so much more beyond these obstacles. Rather than quitting, one should face whatever comes his way and rise because there is always someone waiting for them. Their home!
Download or read book Facing Facts written by David E. Shi and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Facing Facts, David Shi provides the most comprehensive history to date of the rise of realism in American culture. He vividly captures the character and sweep of this all-encompassing movement - ranging from Winslow Homer to the rise of the Ash Can school, from Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Dreiser. He begins with a look at the antebellum years, when idealistic themes were considered the only fit subject for art (Hawthorne wrote that "the grosser life is a dream, and the spiritual life is a reality"). Whitman's assault on these otherworldly standards coincided with sweeping changes in American society: the bloody Civil War, the aggressive advance of a modern scientific spirit, the emergence of photography and penny newspapers, the expansion of cities, capitalism, and the middle class - all worked to shake the foundations of genteel idealism and sentimental romanticism. The public developed an ever-expanding appetite for concrete facts and for art that accurately depicted them. As Shi proceeds through the nineteenth century, he traces the realist impulse in each major area of arts and letters, combining an astute analysis of the movement's essential themes with incisive portraits of its leading practitioners. Here we see Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., shaken to stern realism by the horrors of the Civil War; the influence of Walt Whitman on painter Thomas Eakins and architect Louis Sullivan, a leader of the Chicago school; the local-color verisimilitude of Louisa May Alcott and Sarah Orne Jewett; and the impact of urban squalor on intrepid young writers such as Stephen Crane. In the process of surveying nineteenth-century cultural history, Shi provides fascinating insights into thespecific concerns of the realist movement - in particular, the nation's growing obsession with gender roles. Realism, he observes, was in part an effort to revive masculine virtues in the face of effeminate sentimentality and decorous gentility. By the end of the nineteenth century, realism had displaced idealism as the dominant approach in thought and the arts. During the next two decades, however, a new modernist sensibility challenged the fact-devouring emphasis of realism: "Is it not time", one critic asked, "that we renounce the heresy that it is the function of art to record a fact?" Shi examines why so many Americans answered yes to this question, under influences ranging from psychoanalysis to the First World War. Nuanced, detailed, and comprehensive, Facing Facts provides the definitive account of the realist phenomenon, revealing its essential causes, explaining why it played so great a role in American cultural history, and suggesting why it retains its perennial fascination.
Book Synopsis My Life Is Our Illusion by : Marshall Walker
Download or read book My Life Is Our Illusion written by Marshall Walker and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Political Illusion by : Jacques Ellul
Download or read book The Political Illusion written by Jacques Ellul and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is politization? . . . (It is that) all problems have, in our time, become political." --J. Ellul, from the Introduction Jacques Ellul, the author of The Technological Society and Propaganda, here examines modern man's passion for politics, the roles he plays in them, and his place in the modern state. He holds that everything having now been "politized," anything not directly political fails to arouse widespread interest among contemporary men--and in fact might be said not to exist. He shows that political activity is now a kaleidoscope of interlocking illusions, among which the most basic and damaging are those of popular participation in government, popular control of elected and other officials, and popular solution of public problems. This domination by the political illusion, Ellul demonstrates, explains why men now turn to the state for the solution of all problems--most of them problems that the state could not solve if it tried. This close-reasoned, brilliant diagnosis and prognosis is, like Jacques Ellul's earlier books, an alarming analysis of present-day life.
Book Synopsis Vision, Mental Imagery and the Christian Life by : Zoltán Dörnyei
Download or read book Vision, Mental Imagery and the Christian Life written by Zoltán Dörnyei and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uniquely explores how the notion of vision is presented in modern science and the Bible, and how it can be applied to contemporary Christian contexts. The word "vision", our ability to see, has been described by an increasing body of scholarship in the social sciences as our capacity for mental imagery and imagination. As such, this unique cognitive capability has been utilised in many fields for a variety of purposes, from arts and psychotherapy to politics and business management, and even for performance enhancement in sports. The current book argues that a better understanding of vision can have far-reaching practical implications for Christian life and ministry by helping people to align themselves with God’s specific purposes. After a theoretical overview that integrates scientific and theological insights, the final chapters present a variety of strategies that can help believers to discern God’s call through the use of mental imagery and then to develop and cultivate the perceived vision. The book examines the scientific and biblical principles of vision in a comprehensive manner, with a special emphasis on the practical implications of the issue. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of Theology, Biblical Studies and Church Growth/Leadership, as well as Organisational Behaviour, Business Management and Psychology.
Book Synopsis Real Healing, Real Awakening by : Phil Golding
Download or read book Real Healing, Real Awakening written by Phil Golding and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to be free of fear, confusion and suffering? Do you want to gain peace of mind, fulfillment and empowerment? Do you want to be able to give something positive back to this world as a part of expressing your unique potential? This book is designed to help you achieve these goals and to make a real difference to your life. It will do this by fundamentally changing the way you see yourself and the world around you. This change will both awaken and realign your consciousness to where it is in harmony with the Universal Laws of Consciousness. The Universal Laws of Consciousness determine the healing and enlightening of the human mind and its governing Soul. All that is needed is your desire to be free and a solid commitment to pursue the ideal of Love as a healing and awakening force in your life. Love, along with the limitless wisdom that it contains, is right with you, like your closest companion. You may not know this yet. You may not be able to feel it yet, but you will, so long as you don’t give up. You are on a quest to find your true Self, beyond what you can perhaps imagine right now. Just know that what you will inevitably find is beautiful beyond description, no matter what, in your present state of confusion, you think you are at this moment. The treasure of all treasures awaits you and it has your name on it. Real Healing, Real Awakening is forged from genuine experience and universal truth. It is a guide to awakening to new, more expansive levels of consciousness.
Book Synopsis Readings in Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine Volume 2 by : Santosh Krinsky
Download or read book Readings in Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine Volume 2 written by Santosh Krinsky and published by Lotus Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readings in Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine Volume 2 There is probably no other book [Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine] that I know of which so well, completely, rationally and intuitively addresses the questions of our existence and the meaning of life, and provides a cogent answer rooted in the highest spiritual realization and yogic experience that can be adapted by all, regardless of their particular background or inclinations. Santosh Krinsky, a life long student of Sri Aurobindo, with great devotion, dedication and attention has served this crucial role of providing a bridge to help us enter more deeply into the vast universe of consciousness that Aurobindo holds open for humanity today. He leads the reader through each page of The Life Divine by extracting its essence. In this way, he makes the book easier to access, with no loss of its broader meaning. - from the Foreword by Dr. David Frawley, author of Yoga and Ayurveda
