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Time in Exile

Author : Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438478178
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Time in Exile written by Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposes a theoretically rich treatment of temporality within exile as “gerundive” time. This book is a philosophical reflection on the experience of time from within exile. Its focus on temporality is unique, as most literature on exile focuses on the experience of space, as exile involves dislocation, and moods of nostalgia and utopia. Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback proposes that in exile, time is experienced neither as longing back to the lost past nor as wanting a future to come but rather as a present without anchors or supports. She articulates this present as a “gerundive” mode, in which the one who is in exile discovers herself simply being, exposed to the uncanny experience of having lost the past and not having a future. To explore this, she establishes a conversation among three authors whose work has exemplified this sense of gerundive time: the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, the French writer and essayist Maurice Blanchot, and the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. The book does not aim to discuss how these authors understand the relation between time and exile, but presents a conversation with them in relation to this question that reflects new aspects in their work. Attempting to think and express this difficult sense of time from within exile, Time in Exile engages with the relation between thought and language, and between philosophy and literature. Departing from concrete existential questions, Sá Cavalcante Schuback reveals new philosophical and theoretical modes to understand what it means to be present in times of exile. “It is very rare that one can find in philosophy a book that has been written neither as a commentary, nor as an exegesis of the authors in question, but rather as an original and thought-provoking reflection in which the author is the main philosophical voice in the book.” — María del Rosario Acosta López, coeditor of Aesthetic Reason and Imaginative Freedom: Fredrich Schiller and Philosophy

Ecstasy and Terror

Author : Daniel Mendelsohn
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681374099
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Ecstasy and Terror written by Daniel Mendelsohn and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The role of the critic,” Daniel Mendelsohn writes, “is to mediate intelligently and stylishly between a work and its audience; to educate and edify in an engaging and, preferably, entertaining way.” His latest collection exemplifies the range, depth, and erudition that have made him “required reading for anyone interested in dissecting culture” (The Daily Beast). In Ecstasy and Terror, Mendelsohn once again casts an eye at literature, film, television, and the personal essay, filtering his insights through his training as a scholar of classical antiquity in illuminating and sometimes surprising ways. Many of these essays look with fresh eyes at our culture’s Greek and Roman models: some find an arresting modernity in canonical works (Bacchae, the Aeneid), while others detect a “Greek DNA” in our responses to national traumas such as the Boston Marathon bombings and the assassination of JFK. There are pieces on contemporary literature, from the “aesthetics of victimhood” in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life to the uncomfortable mixture of art and autobiography in novels by Henry Roth, Ingmar Bergman, and Karl Ove Knausgård. Mendelsohn considers pop culture, too, in essays on the feminism of Game of Thrones and on recent films about artificial intelligence—a subject, he reminds us, that was already of interest to Homer. This collection also brings together for the first time a number of the award-winning memoirist’s personal essays, including his “critic’s manifesto” and a touching reminiscence of his boyhood correspondence with the historical novelist Mary Renault, who inspired him to study the Classics.

This Our Exile

Author : James Martin
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1570759235
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book This Our Exile written by James Martin and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American Jesuit combines spiritual writing, travel narrative, history, and humor to describe his time working with refugees in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya.

The Agony And The Ecstasy

Author : Irving Stone
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473505704
Total Pages : 787 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Agony And The Ecstasy written by Irving Stone and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irving Stone's powerful and passionate biographical novel of Michelangelo. His time: the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring popes, the all-powerful Medici family, the fanatic monk Savonarola. His loves: the frail and lovely daughter of Lorenzo de Medici; the ardent mistress of Marco Aldovrandi; and his last love - his greatest love - the beautiful, unhappy Vittoria Colonna. His genius: a God-driven fury from which he wrested the greatest art the world has ever known. Michelangelo Buonarotti, creator of David, painter of the Sistine ceiling, architect of the dome of St Peter's, lives once more in the tempestuous, powerful pages of Irving Stone's marvellous book.

Exile's Return

Author : Malcolm Cowley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101662670
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Exile's Return written by Malcolm Cowley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-12-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "The Lost Generation" are brought to life here by one of the group's most notable members. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Crowley, and many other writers "escaped" to Europe, some forever, some as temporary exiles. As Cowley details in this intimate, anecdotal portrait, in renouncing traditional life and literature, they expanded the boundaries of art.

The Art, Literature and Music of Solitude

Author : Julian Stern
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350348023
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Art, Literature and Music of Solitude written by Julian Stern and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a thematic analysis of various aspects of solitude, silence and loneliness, from the ancient world to the present day, explored thematically with consideration to the links between aloneness to other social and political issues. The themes include exile (expulsion from a community), ecstasy (getting 'out of oneself') and enstasy (being comfortable within oneself), to the Romantic idea of the artist as solitary. There is work on aloneness in and through nature, especially the importance of natural settings for positive experiences of solitude. A central theme is alienation and its emotions, with the idea of loneliness and the rejected self being a more modern experience. The book explores modernism and postmodernism as presenting new forms of solitude in the twentieth century, and how, more recently, there have been attempts to 'recover' the self, through therapeutic uses of the arts. All of these types and experiences of aloneness are described through the lenses of artistic, literary and musical forms of expression, as aloneness is not only explored and articulated through these art forms, but is in many ways created through these art forms.

The Night Sky

Author : Ann Lauterbach
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101201185
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Night Sky written by Ann Lauterbach and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scintillating collection of essays on language from one of literature's most supple minds In The Night Sky, her first work of essays, acclaimed poet Ann Lauterbach writes of the ways in which art and poetry are integral and necessary to human conversation. At the center of the book is a series of seven essays, by turns meditative and polemical, that articulate the interstices between Lauterbach's poetics and her experience. She advocates an active encounter with language, at once imaginative and practical, and argues for the importance of art to the well- being of a democratic society. Lauterbach's "nimble and glittering" (Booklist) writings bring us to a new understanding of the relationship between self-knowledge and cultural meaning, as well as demonstrating the ways in which contemporary philosophy and theory might be integrated with practical knowledge.

Three Rings

Author : Daniel Mendelsohn
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681376393
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Three Rings written by Daniel Mendelsohn and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir, biography, work of history, and literary criticism all in one, this moving book tells the story of three exiled writers—Erich Auerbach, François Fénelon, and W. G. Sebald—and their relationship with the classics, from Homer to Mimesis. In a genre-defying book hailed as “exquisite” (The New York Times) and “spectacular” (The Times Literary Supplement), the best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own—works that pondered the nature of narrative itself: Erich Auerbach, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler’s Germany and wrote his classic study of Western literature, Mimesis, in Istanbul; François Fénelon, the seventeenth-century French archbishop whose ingenious sequel to the Odyssey, The Adventures of Telemachus—a veiled critique of the Sun King and the best-selling book in Europe for a hundred years—resulted in his banishment; and the German novelist W.G. Sebald, self-exiled to England, whose distinctively meandering narratives explore Odyssean themes of displacement, nostalgia, and separation from home. Intertwined with these tales of exile and artistic crisis is an account of Mendelsohn’s struggle to write two of his own books—a family saga of the Holocaust and a memoir about reading the Odyssey with his elderly father—that are haunted by tales of oppression and wandering. As Three Rings moves to its startling conclusion, a climactic revelation about the way in which the lives of its three heroes were linked across borders, languages, and centuries forces the reader to reconsider the relationship between narrative and history, art and life.

Someone to Remember Me

Author : Brendan A. Mancilla
Publisher : Brendan Mancilla
ISBN 13 : 0985001607
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Someone to Remember Me written by Brendan A. Mancilla and published by Brendan Mancilla. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In our future is our past…” A young man named Seven awakens on a deserted street, stricken by an amnesia that he can’t explain. When he discovers other survivors that share his affliction, among them a woman who stirs his dormant memories, they embark on a deadly journey across a ruined landscape. Haunted by the mystery of their city’s apocalyptic demise and hunted by a malevolent beast, Seven and his companions discover the dark truth of their past. What awaits the survivors at the crux of myth and legacy is a story of love, loss, and triumph that defies even death itself.

A Dictionary of the English Language ...

Author : Robert Sullivan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language ... written by Robert Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ecstasy: The Complete Guide

Author : Julie Holland
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9780892818570
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Ecstasy: The Complete Guide written by Julie Holland and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the world's leading experts on MDMA, "Ecstasy: The Complete Guide" takes the first unbiased look at the risks and the benefits of this unique drug, including the science of how it works; its promise as a treatment for depression, post-traumatic stress disorders, and other mental illnesses; and how to minimize the risks of use.

Dictionary of the English Language

Author : Robert Sullivan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of the English Language written by Robert Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Dictionary of the English Language. To which are added, a Vocabulary of Scripture Proper Names, and a concise Classical Dictionary

Author : Robert SULLIVAN (LL.D.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language. To which are added, a Vocabulary of Scripture Proper Names, and a concise Classical Dictionary written by Robert SULLIVAN (LL.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sullivans' School Series

Author : Sullivan, Brothers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sullivans' School Series written by Sullivan, Brothers and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

High Culture

Author : Anna Alexander
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079148758X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book High Culture written by Anna Alexander and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive text to address addiction and its multiple effects on and extensions into art, literature, philosophy, and psychology. Most research into addiction has taken place within the disciplines of medicine, criminology, politics, and social psychology. When seen from a broad cultural perspective, however, addiction emerges directly alongside modernity, haunting its various discourses of digression, dissent, and the transcendence of the commonplace. Who could even imagine modern writing without the addictive, visionary excesses of writers like Baudelaire, DeQuincey, Poe, Burroughs, or Artaud? Or, for that matter, modern culture without its "outsiders," its incorrigible addicts, its defaced subjects: smokers, users, overeaters, alcoholics, the insane? Taking a cultural studies approach to addiction, High Culture offers a readable and accessible collection of essays on these socially marginalized practices and discourses so central to modernity.

English Benedictine nuns in exile in the seventeenth century

Author : Laurence Lux-Sterritt
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526110059
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book English Benedictine nuns in exile in the seventeenth century written by Laurence Lux-Sterritt and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of English Benedictine nuns is based upon a wide variety of original manuscripts, including chronicles, death notices, clerical instructions, texts of spiritual guidance, but also the nuns' own collections of notes. It highlights the tensions between the contemplative ideal and the nuns' personal experiences, illustrating the tensions between theory and practice in the ideal of being dead to the world. It shows how Benedictine convents were both cut-off and enclosed yet very much in touch with the religious and political developments at home, but also proposes a different approach to the history of nuns, with a study of emotions and the senses in the cloister, delving into the textual analysis of the nuns' personal and communal documents to explore aspect of a lived spirituality, when the body which so often hindered the spirit, at times enabled spiritual experience.

The Making of Exile Cultures

Author : Hamid Naficy
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145290197X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Exile Cultures written by Hamid Naficy and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Iranian television as a case study, The Making of Exile Cultures explores the seemingly contradictory way in which immigrant media and cultural productions serve as the source both of resistance and opposition to domination by host and home country's social values while simultaneously acting as vehicles for personal and cultural transformation and the assimilation of those values.