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Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture

Author : Jonathan Dollimore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135773203
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture written by Jonathan Dollimore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture is a rich testament to our ubiquitous preoccupation with the tangled web of death and desire. In these pages we find nuanced analysis that blends Plato with Shelley, Hölderlin with Foucault. Dollimore, a gifted thinker, is not content to summarize these texts from afar; instead, he weaves a thread through each to tell the magnificent story of the making of the modern individual.

The Philosophy of Desire in the Buddhist Pali Canon

Author : David Webster
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415346528
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Desire in the Buddhist Pali Canon written by David Webster and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Webster explores the notion of desire as found in the Buddhist Pali Canon. Beginning by addressing the idea of a 'paradox of desire', whereby we must desire to end desire, the varieties of desire that are articulated in the Pali texts are examined. A range of views of desire, as found in Western thought, are presented as well as Hindu and Jain approaches. An exploration of the concept of ditthi(view or opinion) is also provided, exploring the way in which 'holding views' can be seen as analogous to the process of desiring. Other subjects investigated include the mind-body relationship, the range of Pali terms for desire, and desire's positive spiritual value. A comparative exploration of the various approaches completes the work.

The Uncanny

Author : Nicholas Royle
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719055614
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book The Uncanny written by Nicholas Royle and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important concept for contemporary thinking and debate across a range of disciplines and discourses, including literature, film, architecture, cultural studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and queer theory. Much of this importance can be traced back to Freud's essay of 1919, "The uncanny," where he was perhaps the first to foreground the distinctive nature of the uncanny as a feeling of something not simply weird or mysterious but, more specifically, as something strangely familiar. As a concept and a feeling, however, the uncanny has a complex history going back to at least the Enlightenment. Nicholas Royle offers a detailed historical account of the emergence of the uncanny, together with a series of close readings of different aspects of the topic. Following a major introductory historical and critical overview, there are chapters on the death drive, déjà-vu, "silence, solitude and darkness," the fear of being buried alive, doubles, ghosts, cannibalism, telepathy, and madness, as well as more "applied" readings concerned, for example, with teaching, politics, film, and religion. This is a major critical study that will be welcomed by students and academics but will also be of interest to the general reader.

Shakespeare Studies

Author : Leeds Barroll
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838638712
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Studies written by Leeds Barroll and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annual publication including essays and reviews of new books which deal with Shakespeare and his age

Intensities

Author : Katharine Sarah Moody
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317114825
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Intensities written by Katharine Sarah Moody and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the affirmation or intensification of life a value in itself? Can life itself be thought? This book breaks new ground in religious and philosophical thinking on the concept of life. It captures a moment in which such thinking is regaining its force and attraction for scholars, and the relevance of thought to social, cultural, political and religious dilemmas about how and why to live. Bringing together original contributions by highly distinguished authors in the field of Continental philosophy of religion, including John D. Caputo, Pamela Sue Anderson, Philip Goodchild, Alison Martin and Don Cupitt, this book has a distinctiveness based on its refusal to sit easily within either secular philosophical or theological approaches. The concept of life mobilizes a thinking that crosses narrow disciplinary boundaries, whilst retaining philosophical rigour. Three sections explore the various dimensions of the question of life: The Politics of Life'; 'Life and the Limits of Thinking'; and 'Life and Spirituality'. This book will be of interest to a broad range of readers in the humanities, particularly to philosophers, theologians, cultural theorists and all those interested in philosophical or theological debates on the concept of life.

The Ethics of Mourning

Author : R. Clifton Spargo
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801879777
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Mourning written by R. Clifton Spargo and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-11-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

‘Bethinke Thy Selfe’ in Early Modern England

Author : Ulrike Tancke
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9042028092
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book ‘Bethinke Thy Selfe’ in Early Modern England written by Ulrike Tancke and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern women writers are typically studied as voices from the margin, who engage in a counter-discourse to patriarchy and whose identities prefigure postmodern notions of fragmented selfhood. Studying a variety of literary forms – autobiographical writings, diaries, mothers’ advice books, poetry and drama – this innovative book approaches early modern women’s strategies of identity formation from an alternative angle: their self-writings should be understood as attempts to establish a coherent, stable and convincing subjectivity in spite of the constraints they encountered. While the authors acknowledge contradiction and ambiguity, they consistently strive to compromise and achieve balance. Drawing on social and cultural history, feminist theory, psychoanalysis and the study of discourses, the close reading of the women’s texts and other, literary and non-literary sources reveals that the female writers seek to reconcile the affective, corporeal, social, economic and ideological dimensions of their identities and thereby question both the modern idea of the unified self and its postmodern, fragmented variant. The women’s identities as writers, mothers, spouses, household members and economic agents testify to their acceptance of contradictions, their adherence to patriarchal norms and simultaneous self-assertion. Their pragmatic stances suggest that their simultaneous confidence and anxiety should be taken seriously, as tentative, precarious, yet ultimately workable and convincing expressions of identity.

Death, Culture & Leisure

Author : Matt Coward-Gibbs
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839090391
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Death, Culture & Leisure written by Matt Coward-Gibbs and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death, Culture and Leisure: Playing Dead is an inter- and multi-disciplinary volume that engages with the diverse nexuses that exist between death, culture and leisure. At its heart, it is a playful exploration of the way in which we play with both death and the dead.

Christianity and Confucianism

Author : Christopher Hancock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567657698
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Confucianism written by Christopher Hancock and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity and Confucianism: Culture, Faith and Politics, sets comparative textual analysis against the backcloth of 2000 years of cultural, political, and religious interaction between China and the West. As the world responds to China's rise and China positions herself for global engagement, this major new study reawakens and revises an ancient conversation. As a generous introduction to biblical Christianity and the Confucian Classics, Christianity and Confucianism tells a remarkable story of mutual formation and cultural indebtedness. East and West are shown to have shaped the mind, heart, culture, philosophy and politics of the other - and far more, perhaps, than either knows or would want to admit. Christopher Hancock has provided a rich and stimulating resource for scholars and students, diplomats and social scientists, devotees of culture and those who pursue wisdom and peace today.

On Being At Work

Author : Nancy Harding
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136763953
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book On Being At Work written by Nancy Harding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the work of the philosopher Judith Butler, influenced by Marx’s theory of alienation and intrigued by theories of death, this book develops an anti-methodological approach to studying working lives. Distinctions are drawn between labour (the tasks we do in our jobs) and work (self-making activities that are carried out at the workplace): between the less than human, zombie-like laborer and the working human self. Nancy Harding argues that the experience of being at work is one in which the insistence on practising one’s humanity always provides a counter-point to organisational demands.

The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets

Author : John S. Garrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198857713
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets written by John S. Garrison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets uses Shakespeare's poetry as a case study for the mutually formative relationship between desire and recollection. Through a series of close readings that are both historically situated and informed by recent theory, it traces how the speaker of the poems strives for a more agential relationship to his own memory by treating recollection as a form of narrative. Drawing together insights from cognitive science, the early modern memory arts, and psychoanalysis, John S. Garrison connects the Sonnets to the larger Renaissance project of conceiving memory as a faculty to be developed and managed through self-discipline and rhetoric. In doing so, he reveals how early modern thought presaged many theories that have emerged in contemporary neuroscientific and psychoanalytic understandings of the self and its longing for pleasure. The Sonnets emerge as a collection that contemplates the affective dimensions and conceptual overlaps that bind anticipation to retrospection in the fraught pursuit of erotic pleasure. Indispensable for students and scholars working on Shakespeare's poetry, this study appeals also to a broader audience of readers interested in affect, memory, and sexuality studies. Shakespeare's most beloved sonnets are discussed, as well as less familiar ones, alongside contemporary adaptations of the poems. Garrison brings the Sonnets further into the present by comparing them with treatments of pleasure and memory by modern authors such as C.P. Cavafy, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and Michael Ondaatje.

Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature

Author : Kathryn James
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135891192
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature written by Kathryn James and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the trope of woman/death, the eroticizing of death, and the ways in which the gendered subject is represented in dialogue with the processes of death, dying, and grief, James shows how representations of death in young adult literature are invariably associated with issues of sexuality, gender, and power.

Shakespeare’s Suicides

Author : Marlena Tronicke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351213172
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare’s Suicides written by Marlena Tronicke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare’s Suicides: Dead Bodies That Matter is the first study in Shakespeare criticism to examine the entirety of Shakespeare’s dramatic suicides. It addresses all plays featuring suicides and near-suicides in chronological order from Titus Andronicus to Antony and Cleopatra, thus establishing that suicide becomes increasingly pronounced as a vital means of dramatic characterisation. In particular, the book approaches suicide as a gendered phenomenon. By taking into account parameters such as onstage versus offstage deaths, suicide speeches or the explicit denial of final words, as well as settings and weapons, the study scrutinises the ways in which Shakespeare appropriates the convention of suicide and subverts traditional notions of masculine versus feminine deaths. It shows to what extent a gendered approach towards suicide opens up a more nuanced understanding of the correlation between gender and Shakespeare’s genres and how, eventually, through their dramatisation of suicide the tragedies query normative gender discourse.

Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars

Author : Heidi Craig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009224042
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars written by Heidi Craig and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the production and reception of drama during the theatre closures of 1642 to 1660, Heidi Craig shows how the 'death' of contemporary theatre in fact gave birth to English Renaissance drama as a critical field. While the prohibition on playing in many respects killed the English stage, drama thrived in print, with stationers publishing unprecedented numbers of previously unprinted professional plays, vaunting playbooks' ties to the receding theatrical past. Marketed in terms of novelty and nostalgia, plays unprinted before 1642 gained new life. Stationers also anatomized the whole corpus of English drama, printing the first anthologies and comprehensive catalogues of drama. Craig captures this crucial turning-point in English theatre history with chapters on royalist nostalgia, clandestine theatrical revivals, dramatic compendia, and the mysteriously small number of Shakespeare editions issued during the period, as well as a new incisive reading of Beaumont and Fletcher's A King and No King.

Ecclesiastes

Author : Craig G. Bartholomew
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 0801026911
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Ecclesiastes written by Craig G. Bartholomew and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world-renowned Old Testament scholar provides a careful exegetical reading of Ecclesiastes with theological insights for serious students of the Bible.

Law and the Dead

Author : Marc Trabsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351240390
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Law and the Dead written by Marc Trabsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The governance of the dead in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to a new arrangement of thanato-politics in the West. Legal, medical and bureaucratic institutions developed innovative technologies for managing the dead, maximising their efficacy and exploiting their vitality. Law and the Dead writes a history of their institutional life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With a particular focus on the technologies of the death investigation process, including place-making, the forensic gaze, bureaucratic manuals, record-keeping and radiography, this book examines how the dead came to be incorporated into legal institutions in the modern era. Drawing on the writings of philosophers, historians and legal theorists, it offers tools for thinking through how the dead dwell in law, how their lives persist through the conduct of office, and how coroners assume responsibility for taking care of the dead. This historical and interdisciplinary book offers a provocative challenge to conventional thinking about the sequestration of the dead in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It asks the reader to think through and with legal institutions when writing a history of the dead, and to trace the important role assumed by coroners in the governance of the dead. This book will be of interest to scholars working in law, history, sociology and criminology.

Death in Supernatural

Author : Amanda Taylor
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476635854
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Death in Supernatural written by Amanda Taylor and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 14 seasons, television's Supernatural has developed a devoted following of both fans and scholars. The show has addressed big issues, including perhaps the biggest--death. This collection of new essays examines how death is represented and personified in the series, and how grief is processed in American society. Contributors discuss the show's explorations of the ultimate mystery, with topics covering American traditions and attitudes, folklore and mythology, resurrection, and grief and grieving.