Material Spirit

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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823255425
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Book Synopsis Material Spirit by : Manuel Asensi

Download or read book Material Spirit written by Manuel Asensi and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection examine philosophical, religious, and literary or artistic texts using methodologies and insights that have grown out of reflection on literature and art. In them, them phrase “material spirit” becomes a point of departure for considering the continuing spectral effects of religious texts and concerns in ways that do not simply call for, or assume, new orrenewed forms of religiosity. The writers in this collection seek to examine religion beyond traditional notions of transcendence: Their topics range from early Christian religious practices to global climate change. Some of the essays explore religious themes or tones in literary texts, for example, works by Wordsworth, Hopkins, Proust, Woolf, and Teresa of Avila. Others approach—in a literarycritical mood—philosophical or para-philosophical writers such as Bataille, Husserl, Derrida, and Benjamin. Still others treat writers of a more explicitly religious orientation, such as Augustine, Rosenzweig, or Bernard of Clairvaux.

The Spirit of American Literature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
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Book Synopsis The Spirit of American Literature by : John Albert Macy

Download or read book The Spirit of American Literature written by John Albert Macy and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spirit Matters

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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824864433
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Book Synopsis Spirit Matters by : Philip Gabriel

Download or read book Spirit Matters written by Philip Gabriel and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirit Matters is a ground-breaking work, the first to explore a broad range of writings on spirituality in contemporary Japanese literature. It draws on a variety of literary works, from enormously popular fiction (Miura Ayako’s Hyôten and Shirokari Pass and the novels of Murakami Haruki) to more problematic "serious" fiction (Ôe Kenzaburô’s Somersault) to nonfiction meditations on martyrdom and miracles (Sono Ayako’s Kiseki) and the dynamics of religious cults (Murakami’s interviews with members of Aum Shinrikyô in Underground). The first half of the volume focuses on the work of two women Christian writers, Miura Ayako and Sono Ayako. Combining a decidedly evangelistic bent with the formulas of the popular novel, Miura’s 1964 novel Hyôten (Freezing Point) and its sequel are entertaining perennial bestsellers but also treat spiritual issues—like original sin—that are largely unexplored in modern Japanese literature. Sono’s Kiseki (Miracles) and Miura’s Shiokari Pass focus on the meaning of self-sacrifice and the miraculous and survey both the paths by which people come to faith and the spiritual doubts that assail them. Perhaps most striking for Western readers, Gabriel reveals how Miura’s novel shows the lingering resistance to Christianity and its oppositional nature in Japan, and how in Kiseki Sono considers the kind of spiritual struggles many Japanese Christians experience as they try to reconcile their belief in a minority faith.

Workings of the Spirit

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226035239
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (352 download)

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Book Synopsis Workings of the Spirit by : Houston A. Baker (Jr.)

Download or read book Workings of the Spirit written by Houston A. Baker (Jr.) and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, the author weighs current critical approaches to black women's writing against his own explanation of the founding, theoretical state of Afro-American intellectual history.

Spirit Things

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Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602234566
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Spirit Things by : Lara Messersmith-Glavin

Download or read book Spirit Things written by Lara Messersmith-Glavin and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays that evoke an adventurous spirit and the craving for myth, Spirit Things examines the hidden meanings of objects found on a fishing boat, as seen through the eyes of a child. Author Lara Messersmith-Glavin blends memoir, mythology, and science as she relates the uniqueness and flavor of the Alaskan experience through her memories of growing up fishing in the commercial salmon industry off Kodiak Island. “Spirit things” are those mundane objects that offer new insights into the world on closer consideration—fishing nets, a favorite knife, and the bioluminescent gleam of seawater in a twilight that never truly grows dark. Spirit Things recounts stories of fishing, family, synesthesia, storytelling, gender, violence, and meaning. Each essay takes an object and follows it through histories: personal, material, and scientific, drawing together the delicate lines that link things through their making and use, their genesis and evolution, and the ways they gain significance in an individual’s life. A contemplative take on everything from childcare to neurodivergence, comfort foods to outlaws, Spirit Things uses experiences from the human world and locates them on the edges of nature. Contact with wilderness, with wildness, be it twenty-foot seas in the ocean off Alaska’s coast or chairs flying through windows of a Kodiak bar, provides an entry point for meditations on the ways in which patterns, magic, and wonder overlap.

Alice Walker's Metaphysics

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538123983
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Book Synopsis Alice Walker's Metaphysics by : Nagueyalti Warren

Download or read book Alice Walker's Metaphysics written by Nagueyalti Warren and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catapulted to fame in 1982 with the publication of her third novel—the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Color Purple—Alice Walker has become one of America’s most celebrated and divisive authors. With books such as Meridian and The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Walker’s writing has frequently been cited for messages in support of civil rights and feminism. Above all, however, Walker is a spiritual seeker. Her works are dominated by the search for truth, wholeness, and the spirit that connects everyone and everything. In Alice Walker’s Metaphysics: Literature of Spirit, Nagueyalti Warren examines the philosophy and worldview present in all of Walker’s writing. Warren contends that Walker is a literary theologian, citing the transformative changes that take place in the author’s fictional characters. Warren also points to Walker’s bravery in approaching taboo subjects, her generosity of spirit, and her love for humanity, which are represented throughout her poems, novels, short stories, children’s books, and essays. This analysis is further supplemented by primary sources from Walker’s unpublished material, including notes and scrapbooks. By exploring the spirituality evident throughout the author’s work, this volume shows how Walker challenges readers to recognize and understand their responsibility to the earth—and to one another. Providing a fresh, accessible look at one of the twentieth century’s most prolific women writers, Alice Walker’s Metaphysics: Literature of Spirit will appeal to both academics and fans of the author’s varied literature.

Literature And Spirit

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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813161320
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Book Synopsis Literature And Spirit by : David Patterson

Download or read book Literature And Spirit written by David Patterson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If Bakhtin is right," Wayne C. Booth has said, "a very great deal of what we western critics have spent our time on is mistaken, or trivial, or both." In Literature and Spirit David Patterson proceeds from the premise that Bakhtin is right. Exploring Bakhtin's notions of spirit, responsibility, and dialogue, Patterson takes his reader from the narrow arena of literary criticism to the larger realm of human living and human loving. True to the spirit of Bakhtin, he draws the Russian into a vibrant dialogue with other thinkers, including Foucault, Berdyaev, Gide, Lacan, Levinas, and Heidegger. But he does not stop there. He engages Bakhtin in his own insightful and unique dialogue, meeting the responsibility and taking the risk summoned by dialogue. Literature and Spirit, therefore, is not a typically cool and detached exercise in academic curiosity. Instead, it is a passionate and penetrating endeavor to respond to literature and spirit as the links in life's attachment to life. The author demonstrates that in deciding something about literature, we decide something about the substance and meaning of our lives. Far from being a question of commentary or explication, he argues, our relation to literature is a matter of spiritual life and death. The reader who comes before a literary text encounters the human voice. And Patterson enables his reader to hear that voice in all its spiritual dimensions. Unique in its questions and in its quest, Literature and Spirit addresses an audience that goes beyond the ordinary academic categories. It appeals not only to students of literature, philosophy, and religion, but to anyone who seeks an understanding of spiritual presence and meaning in life. Through his affirmation of what is dear, Patterson responds to the needful question. And in his response he puts the question to his audience: Where are you? Literature and Spirit thus speaks to those who face the task of answering, "Here I am."

Spirit in the Dark

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199844933
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Book Synopsis Spirit in the Dark by : Josef Sorett

Download or read book Spirit in the Dark written by Josef Sorett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many of the most significant black intellectual movements of the second half of the twentieth century have been perceived as secular, Josef Sorett demonstrates in this book that religion was actually a fertile, fluid and formidable force within these movements. Spirit in the Dark examines how African American literary visions were animated and organized by religion and spirituality, from the New Negro Renaissance of the 1920s to the Black Arts movement of the 1960s.

There Is Some Truth in It All

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557020131
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)

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Book Synopsis There Is Some Truth in It All by : Brian Beckworth

Download or read book There Is Some Truth in It All written by Brian Beckworth and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian gives us a chance to look at ourselves and the world we've created, so that we may experience the urge to revolutionize those parts of our being that need changing. It is his intent to bring to attention the unsaid and overlooked facets of society. Within this work lays the foundation for a broader perspective on your reality and the individual involved in it. At the end of this reading you should know whether or not you are pissed with the system or your position within it.

The Essayistic Spirit

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Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780198151944
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (519 download)

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Book Synopsis The Essayistic Spirit by : Claire de Obaldia

Download or read book The Essayistic Spirit written by Claire de Obaldia and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1995 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essayistic Spirit explores this potential on the borders of philosophy, literature (especially the novel), and criticism, by referring our post-Romantic conception of literature and literary history back to Montaigne's Essais, and to a whole related tradition of philosophical scepticism. But precisely because of what is implied by 'potential', this exploration never loses sight of what de Obaldia regards as the real limits of essayism.

Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines written by and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mansions of the Spirit

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Mansions of the Spirit by : George A. Panichas

Download or read book Mansions of the Spirit written by George A. Panichas and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Force of Spirit

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Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807062975
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Book Synopsis The Force of Spirit by : Scott Russell Sanders

Download or read book The Force of Spirit written by Scott Russell Sanders and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2001-09-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott Russell Sanders reveals how the pressure of the sacred breaks through the surfaces of ordinary life-a life devoted to grown-up children and aging parents, the craft of writing, and the natural world. Whether writing to his daughter and his son as each prepares to get married, or describing an encounter with a red-tailed hawk in whose form he glimpses his dead father, or praising the disciplines of writing and carpentry and teaching, Sanders registers, in finely tuned prose, the force of spirit.

Holy Spirit and Religious Experience in Christian Literature ca. AD 90-200

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597527246
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)

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Book Synopsis Holy Spirit and Religious Experience in Christian Literature ca. AD 90-200 by : John Eifion Morgan-Wynne

Download or read book Holy Spirit and Religious Experience in Christian Literature ca. AD 90-200 written by John Eifion Morgan-Wynne and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Holy Spirit and Religious Experience' seeks to find out how far the centrality of the Holy Spirit in Christian experience during the earliest period of the church was maintained or diminished in the third to the fifth generations (ca. AD 90-200). Three themes are explored. First, the sense of encounter with the divine presence, the numinous, a sense of being caught up into the divine being or being overwhelmed by the One who is beyond us. Secondly, a sense of being illuminated in respect to the truth, given deeper understanding of God's purpose, whether for the individual or the congregation, or guided in decision-making. Thirdly, a sense of ethical empowerment, an awareness of being helped by divine power, assisted in a course of action or development of character, in grappling with temptation, or in the ultimate test of loyalty, martyrdom. This book is arranged geographically, from Syria and Asia Minor in the East to Rome and Gaul in the West, including North Africa and Egypt. Christian authors within these areas are examined chronologically, from the later New Testament writers through the second century to Clement of Alexandria and Tertullian of Carthage, for the evidence they supply. The variegated picture which emerges, it is contended, reflects second-century Christianity.

The Questing Spirit

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ISBN 13 : 9781258950736
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)

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Book Synopsis The Questing Spirit by : Halford E. Luccock

Download or read book The Questing Spirit written by Halford E. Luccock and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1947 edition.

Letter and the Spirit of Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773572317
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Letter and the Spirit of Nineteenth-Century American Literature by : Thomas Loebel

Download or read book Letter and the Spirit of Nineteenth-Century American Literature written by Thomas Loebel and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005-01-12 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving back to the trial of Anne Hutchinson in Puritan Massachusetts and the captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson in order to analyse theo-political signification, Loebel provides a new context for examining the politically performative function of language in such texts as "The Scarlet Letter," "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and "Waiting for the Verdict." He also argues, however, that a specific theo-logic manifests itself in the political rhetoric of the nation, such that the afterlife of the "New Jerusalem" resonates not just in the "Blessings of Liberty" enshrined in the Constitution but also in the shift from a religious understanding of union with Jesus to that of the Union of States as a nation. Loebel compares unionist and confederate discourse, opening up new ways of theorising representation as a political, theological, legal, and literary issue that has continued currency both in twentieth-century literature and in the political discourse of America's global vision, such as the "axis of evil" and the "new world order." Anyone interested in American literature and culture will view the relationship between ethics and justice differently after reading this book.

The Dance of Death and the Macabre Spirit in European Literature

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Publisher : Slatkine
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dance of Death and the Macabre Spirit in European Literature written by and published by Slatkine. This book was released on 1975 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: