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Dark Nights, Bright Lights

Author : Susanne Bach
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110415623
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Dark Nights, Bright Lights written by Susanne Bach and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Light and darkness shape our perception of the world. This is true in a literal sense, but also metaphorically: in theology, philosophy, literature and the arts the light of day signifies life, safety, knowledge and all that is good, while the darkness of the night suggests death, danger, ignorance and evil. A closer inspection, however, reveals that things are not quite so clear cut and that light and darkness cannot be understood as simple binary opposites. On a biological level, for example, daylight and darkness are inseparable factors in the calibration of our circadian rhythms, and a lack of periodical darkness appears to be as contrary to health as a lack of exposure to sunlight. On a cultural level, too, night and darkness are far from being universally condemnable: in fiction, drama and poetry the darkness of the night allows not only nightmares but also dreams, it allows criminals to ply their trade and allows lovers to meet, it allows the pursuit of pleasure as well as deep thought, it allows metamorphoses, transformations and transgressions unthinkable in the light of day. But night is not merely darkness. The night gains significance as an alternative space, as an ‘other of the day’, only when it is at least partially illuminated. The volume examines the interconnection of night, darkness and nocturnal illumination across a broad range of literary texts. The individual essays examine historically specific light conditions in literature, tracing the symbolic and metaphoric content of darkness and illumination and the attitudes towards them.

Bright Lights, Dark Nights

Author : Stephen Emond
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1626722064
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Bright Lights, Dark Nights written by Stephen Emond and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated YA novel about first love amid racial tensions in an urban Connecticut town, from the author of Happyface.

The End of Night

Author : Paul Bogard
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316228796
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The End of Night written by Paul Bogard and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply panoramic tour of the night, from its brightest spots to the darkest skies we have left. A starry night is one of nature's most magical wonders. Yet in our artificially lit world, three-quarters of Americans' eyes never switch to night vision and most of us no longer experience true darkness. In The End of Night, Paul Bogard restores our awareness of the spectacularly primal, wildly dark night sky and how it has influenced the human experience across everything from science to art. From Las Vegas' Luxor Beam -- the brightest single spot on this planet -- to nights so starlit the sky looks like snow, Bogard blends personal narrative, natural history, science, and history to shed light on the importance of darkness -- what we've lost, what we still have, and what we might regain -- and the simple ways we can reduce the brightness of our nights tonight.

Dark Nights of the Soul

Author : Thomas Moore
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781592401338
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Dark Nights of the Soul written by Thomas Moore and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-06-16 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every human life is made up of the light and the dark, the happy and the sad, the vital and the deadening. How you think about this rhythm of moods makes all the difference. Our lives are filled with emotional tunnels: the loss of a loved one or end of a relationship, aging and illness, career disappointments or just an ongoing sense of dissatisfaction with life. Society tends to view these “dark nights” in clinical terms as obstacles to be overcome as quickly as possible. But Moore shows how honoring these periods of fragility as periods of incubation and positive opportunities to delve the soul’s deepest needs can provide healing and a new understanding of life’s meaning. Dark Nights of the Soul presents these metaphoric dark nights not as the enemy, but as times of transition, occasions to restore yourself, and transforming rites of passage, revealing an uplifting and inspiring new outlook on such topics as: • The healing power of melancholy • The sexual dark night and the mysteries of matrimony • Finding solace during illness and in aging • Anxiety, anger, and temporary Insanities • Linking creativity, spirituality, and emotional struggles • Finding meaning and beauty in the darkness

A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English

Author : Sherri L. Brown
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442277483
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English written by Sherri L. Brown and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gothic began as a designation for barbarian tribes, was associated with the cathedrals of the High Middle Ages, was used to describe a marginalized literature in the late eighteenth century, and continues today in a variety of forms (literature, film, graphic novel, video games, and other narrative and artistic forms). Unlike other recent books in the field that focus on certain aspects of the Gothic, this work directs researchers to seminal and significant resources on all of its aspects. Annotations will help researchers determine what materials best suit their needs. A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English covers Gothic cultural artifacts such as literature, film, graphic novels, and videogames. This authoritative guide equips researchers with valuable recent information about noteworthy resources that they can use to study the Gothic effectively and thoroughly.

Rethinking Darkness

Author : Nick Dunn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429521839
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Darkness written by Nick Dunn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the concept of darkness through a range of cultures, histories, practices and experiences. It engages with darkness beyond its binary positioning against light to advance a critical understanding of the ways in which darkness can be experienced, practised and conceptualised. Humans have fundamental relationships with light and dark that shape their regular social patterns and rhythms, enabling them to make sense of the world. This book ‘throws light’ on the neglect of these social patterns to emphasize how the diverse values, meanings and influences of darkness have been rarely considered. It also examines the history of our relationship with the dark and highlights how normative attitudes towards it have emerged, while also emphasising its cultural complexity by considering a contemporary range of alternative experiences and practices. Challenging notions of darkness as negative, as the antithesis of illumination and enlightenment, this book explores the rich potential of darkness to stimulate our senses and deepen our understandings of different spaces, cultural experiences and creative engagements. Offering a rich exploration of an emergent field of study across the social sciences and humanities, this book will be useful for academics and students of cultural and media studies, design, geography, history, sociology and theatre who seek to investigate the creative, cultural and social dimensions of darkness.

Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siecle Literature, Culture and the Arts

Author : Josephine M. Guy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474408931
Total Pages : 837 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siecle Literature, Culture and the Arts written by Josephine M. Guy and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first scholarly comparative analysis of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze's philosophies of difference.

A Description and List of the Lighthouses of the World, 1887

Author : Alexander G. Findlay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book A Description and List of the Lighthouses of the World, 1887 written by Alexander G. Findlay and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bright Lights, Big City

Author : Jay McInerney
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408854511
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Bright Lights, Big City written by Jay McInerney and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. All might become clear if you could just slip into the bathroom and do a little more Bolivian Marching Powder. Then again, it might not... So begins our nameless hero's trawl through the brightly lit streets of Manhattan, sampling all this wonderland has to offer yet suspecting that tomorrow's hangover may be caused by more than simple excess. Bright Lights, Big City is an acclaimed classic which marked Jay McInerney as one of the major writers of our time.

A Description and List of the Lighthouses of the World

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Description and List of the Lighthouses of the World written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Happyface

Author : Stephen Emond
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606234580
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Happyface written by Stephen Emond and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After going through traumatic times, a troubled, socially awkward teenager moves to a new school where he tries to reinvent himself

The Jagged Journey

Author : Barry L. Callen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532639759
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book The Jagged Journey written by Barry L. Callen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the most important subject in Christianity. It reveals who God is, how God works, how we mature as followers of Jesus, and how we are to conduct ourselves in this sinful world. The subject is suffering. To explore it biblically and inspirationally is to identify the basic elements of a responsible Christian theology that's more than a set of pious abstractions. This subject forces us close to where we hurt, doubt, believe, and relate to our neighbors. God suffers, Jesus cries. The tears of God are the deepest meaning of our history. God's "problem" is not that God is not able to do certain things, but that God loves. The cross of Jesus was in God's heart before it appeared on Golgatha. The pain of God is the healing of humanity. The cross, the worst of human doing and the best of divine revelation, clarifies that we must die to really live. We must share in the sufferings of Jesus.

Animals of Land and Sea

Author : Austin Hobart Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animals of Land and Sea written by Austin Hobart Clark and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Learning to Walk in the Dark

Author : Barbara Brown Taylor
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1848256175
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Learning to Walk in the Dark written by Barbara Brown Taylor and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this long awaited follow-up to the best-selling An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor explores ‘the treasures of darkness’ that the Bible speaks about. What can we learn about the ways of God when we cannot see the way ahead, are lost, alone, frightened, not in control or when the world around us seems to have descended into darkness?

The Municipal Journal and Public Works Engineer

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Municipal Journal and Public Works Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Description and List of the Lighthouses of the World. 1872. Thirteenth Edition

Author : Alexander George Findlay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book A Description and List of the Lighthouses of the World. 1872. Thirteenth Edition written by Alexander George Findlay and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tuesday Nights in 1980

Author : Molly Prentiss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501121065
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Tuesday Nights in 1980 written by Molly Prentiss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An intoxicating Manhattan fairy tale…As affecting as it is absorbing. A thrilling debut.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A vital, sensuous, edgy, and suspenseful tale of longing, rage, fear, compulsion, and love.” —Booklist (starred review) A transcendent debut novel that follows a critic, an artist, and a desirous, determined young woman as they find their way—and ultimately collide—amid the ever-evolving New York City art scene of the 1980s. Welcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty, not-yet-gentrified playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the big city. Among them: James Bennett, a synesthetic art critic for the New York Times whose unlikely condition enables him to describe art in profound, magical ways, and Raul Engales, an exiled Argentinian painter running from his past and the Dirty War that has enveloped his country. As the two men ascend in the downtown arts scene, dual tragedies strike, and each is faced with a loss that acutely affects his relationship to life and to art. It is not until they are inadvertently brought together by Lucy Olliason—a small town beauty and Raul’s muse—and a young orphan boy sent mysteriously from Buenos Aires, that James and Raul are able to rediscover some semblance of what they’ve lost. As inventive as Jennifer Egan's A Visit From The Goon Squad and as sweeping as Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings, Tuesday Nights in 1980 boldly renders a complex moment when the meaning and nature of art is being all but upended, and New York City as a whole is reinventing itself. In risk-taking prose that is as powerful as it is playful, Molly Prentiss deftly explores the need for beauty, community, creation, and love in an ever-changing urban landscape.