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Latest Readings

Author : Clive James
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300216394
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Latest Readings written by Clive James and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] collection of Clive James’s essays on a variety of literary topics . . . This is sanity, humor and acuity in the face of death” (The Wall Street Journal). In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that “if you don’t know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do,” James moved his library to his Cambridge house, where he would “live, read, and perhaps even write.” James is the award-winning author of dozens of works of literary criticism, poetry, and history, and this volume contains his reflections on what may well be his last reading list. A look at some of James’s old favorites as well as some of his recent discoveries, this book also offers a revealing look at the author himself, sharing his evocative musings on literature and family, and on living and dying. As thoughtful and erudite as the works of Alberto Manguel, and as moving and inspiring as Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture and Will Schwalbe’s The End of Your Life Book Club, this valediction to James’s lifelong engagement with the written word is a captivating valentine from one of the great literary minds of our time. “These essays and poems are death-haunted but radiant with the felt experience of what it means to be alive, even when mortally sick, especially when mortally sick.” —Financial Times “Latest Readings is a plain demonstration that Mr. James remains as learned and as funny as any critic on earth.” —The New York Times

On Rereading

Author : Patricia Meyer Spacks
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674267478
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book On Rereading written by Patricia Meyer Spacks and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After retiring from a lifetime of teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favorites, fiction first encountered in young adulthood and never before revisited, books frequently reread, canonical works of literature she was supposed to have liked but didn’t, guilty pleasures (books she oughtn’t to have liked but did), and stories reread for fun vs. those read for the classroom. On Rereading records the sometimes surprising, always fascinating, results of her personal experiment. Spacks addresses a number of intriguing questions raised by the purposeful act of rereading: Why do we reread novels when, in many instances, we can remember the plot? Why, for example, do some lovers of Jane Austen’s fiction reread her novels every year (or oftener)? Why do young children love to hear the same story read aloud every night at bedtime? And why, as adults, do we return to childhood favorites such as The Hobbit, Alice in Wonderland, and the Harry Potter novels? What pleasures does rereading bring? What psychological needs does it answer? What guilt does it induce when life is short and there are so many other things to do (and so many other books to read)? Rereading, Spacks discovers, helps us to make sense of ourselves. It brings us sharply in contact with how we, like the books we reread, have both changed and remained the same.

Neulektüren – New Readings

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9042028750
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Neulektüren – New Readings written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Einsicht in die Polyvalenz poetischer Texte zähmt die noch jeder Form diskursiver Analyse von Kunstwerken eigene Tendenz, Sinn und Bedeutung festzuschreiben. Im Spannungsfeld zwischen der anarchischen “Lust am Text“ (Roland Barthes) und der “Wut des Verstehens“ (Jochen Hörisch) behaupten sich die ‘Lektüren’, die als Verstehensangebote der Vieldeutigkeit literarischer Werke durch Analysen von Form und Inhalt zur Sichtbarkeit verhelfen wollen, ohne ihnen den Atem abzuschnüren. Ihr Ziel ist es nicht, das “Rätsel“ (Adorno) literarischer Kunstwerke zu lösen, sondern es als “Rätsel“ in seinen vielfältigen Bedeutungsdimensionen erfahrbar zu machen. Von hier aus versammelt der vorliegende Band ’neue’ Lektüren als Angebot zum Gespräch und Herausforderung, Texte als Mittel intensiver Blicköffnungen zu begreifen, was nichts anderes heißt als: immer wieder aufs Neue zu lesen. Der Band enthält Studien zu Medea-Bildern (Anna Chiarloni), Marie von Ebner-Eschenbachs Das Schädliche (Erika Tunner), der Figur des Juden in romantischen Märchen (Martha B. Helfer), der Reitergeschichte Hugo von Hofmannsthals (Heinz-Peter Preußer), der frühen Romantikerinnenrezeption (Anke Gilleir), Franz Kafkas Das Urteil (Gerhard P. Knapp), Robert Walsers Tobold II (Jaak De Vos), Lion Feuchtwangers Moskau 1937 (Anne Hartmann), der Exilerfahrung im Werk Franz Werfels (Hans Wagener), Erich Frieds Nachdichtung von Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood (Jörg Thunecke), der Raumkonzeption in Erzähltexten Volker Brauns (Hans-Christian Stillmark), Eli Amirs Roman Nuri (Heidy Margrit Müller), Christa Wolfs Sommerstück (Roswitha Skare), Urs Widmers Der blaue Siphon (Henk Harbers), Christoph Marthalers Stunde Null (Christopher B. Balme), der Lyrik Heinz Czechowskis (Anthonya Visser), Erzähltexten von Judith Hermann und Susanne Fischer (Monika Shafi), Werner Fritschs Grabungen (Norbert Otto Eke) und zum Wissen um den Autor bei Neulektüren (Elrud Ibsch).

Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians

Author : John F. Runciman
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians written by John F. Runciman and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians" is a collection of essays on the greatest musicians of all times and their creations. The book is full of interesting details about different moments in the lives of the great masters. It contains a professional analysis of some of the greatest music works, such as "Lohengrin" or "Tristan and Isolda."

New Readings for the Motto of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and for His Plume of Ostrich Feathers; on the Occasion of His Royal Highness Entering His Twenty-first Year, Etc. (New Readings for the Motto and Armorial Bearings of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Etc.).

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Author : William BELL (Phil. Dr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book New Readings for the Motto of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and for His Plume of Ostrich Feathers; on the Occasion of His Royal Highness Entering His Twenty-first Year, Etc. (New Readings for the Motto and Armorial Bearings of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Etc.). written by William BELL (Phil. Dr.) and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Readings & New Renderings of Shakespeare's Tragedies: King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, pt. I-II

Author : Henry Halford Vaughan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Readings & New Renderings of Shakespeare's Tragedies: King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, pt. I-II written by Henry Halford Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Passages

Author : Gail Sheehy
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307763765
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book New Passages written by Gail Sheehy and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Millions of readers literally defined their lives through Gail Sheehy's landmark bestseller Passages. Seven years ago she set out to write a sequel, but instead she discovered a historic revolution in the adult life cycle. . . People are taking longer to grow up and much longer to die. A fifty-year-old woman--who remains free of cancer and heart disease-- can expect to see her ninety-second birthday. Men, too, can expect a dramatically lengthened life span. The old demarcations and descriptions of adulthood--beginning at twenty-one and ending at sixty-five--are hopelessly out of date. In New Passages, Gail Sheehy discovers and maps out a completely new frontier--a Second Adulthood in middle life. "Stop and recalculate," Sheehy writes. "Imagine the day you turn forty-five as the infancy of another life." Instead of declining, men and women who embrace a Second Adulthood are progressing through entirely new passages into lives of deeper meaning, renewed playfulness, and creativity--beyond both male and female menopause. Through hundreds of personal and group interviews, national surveys of professionals and working-class people, and fresh findings extracted from fifty years of U.S. Census reports, Sheehy vividly dramatizes these newly developing stages. Combining the scholar's ability to synthesize data with the novelist's gift for storytelling, she allows us to make sense of our own lives by understanding others like us. New Passages tells us we have the ability to customize our own life cycle. This groundbreaking work is certain to awaken and permanently alter the way we think about ourselves. "SHEEHY CLEARLY STATES IDEAS ABOUT LIFE THAT HAVE NEVER BEFORE BEEN AS CLEARLY STATED." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "AN OPTIMISTIC ANALYSIS OF ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN PESSIMISTIC TIMES. . . It is grounded in the economic and psychological realities that make adult life so complex today." --The New York Times Book Review

The New American Bible

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1311 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The New American Bible written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Raising the Dead

Author : Sharon Patricia Holland
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822380382
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Raising the Dead written by Sharon Patricia Holland and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-29 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death’s relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland, travelling through “the space of death” gives us, as cultural readers, a nuanced and appropriate metaphor for understanding what is at stake when bodies, discourses, and communities collide. Holland argues that the presence of blacks, Native Americans, women, queers, and other “minorities” in society is, like death, “almost unspeakable.” She gives voice to—or raises—the dead through her examination of works such as the movie Menace II Society, Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead, Randall Kenan’s A Visitation of Spirits, and the work of the all-white, male, feminist hip-hop band Consolidated. In challenging established methods of literary investigation by putting often-disparate voices in dialogue with each other, Holland forges connections among African-American literature and culture, queer and feminist theory. Raising the Dead will be of interest to students and scholars of American culture, African-American literature, literary theory, gender studies, queer theory, and cultural studies.

The Perfect Theory

Author : Pedro G. Ferreira
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547554907
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Theory written by Pedro G. Ferreira and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the best popular accounts of how Einstein and his followers have been trying to explain the universe for decades” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Physicists have been exploring, debating, and questioning the general theory of relativity ever since Albert Einstein first presented it in 1915. This has driven their work to unveil the universe’s surprising secrets even further, and many believe more wonders remain hidden within the theory’s tangle of equations, waiting to be exposed. In this sweeping narrative of science and culture, an astrophysicist brings general relativity to life through the story of the brilliant physicists, mathematicians, and astronomers who have taken up its challenge. For these scientists, the theory has been both a treasure trove and an enigma. Einstein’s theory, which explains the relationships among gravity, space, and time, is possibly the most perfect intellectual achievement of modern physics—yet studying it has always been a controversial endeavor. Relativists were the target of persecution in Hitler’s Germany, hounded in Stalin’s Russia, and disdained in 1950s America. Even today, PhD students are warned that specializing in general relativity will make them unemployable. Still, general relativity has flourished, delivering key insights into our understanding of the origin of time and the evolution of all the stars and galaxies in the cosmos. Its adherents have revealed what lies at the farthest reaches of the universe, shed light on the smallest scales of existence, and explained how the fabric of reality emerges. Dark matter, dark energy, black holes, and string theory are all progeny of Einstein’s theory. In the midst of a momentous transformation in modern physics, as scientists look farther and more clearly into space than ever before, The Perfect Theory exposes the greater relevance of general relativity, showing us where it started, where it has led—and where it can still take us.

Mark's Gospel

Author : John Painter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134828985
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Mark's Gospel written by John Painter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark's 'biography' of Jesus is the earliest of the four gospels, and influenced them all. The distinctive feature of this biography is the quality of 'good news', which presupposes a world dominated by the forces of evil. John Painter shows how the rhetorical and dramatic shaping of the book emphasises the conflict of good and evil at many levels - between Jesus and the Jewish authorities, Jesus and the Roman authorities, and the conflict of values within the disciples themselves. These matters of content are integral to this original approach to Mark's theodicy, while the stylistic issue raises the question of Mark's intended readership. John Painter's succinct yet thorough treatment of Mark's gospel opens up not only these rhetorical issues, but the social context of the gospel, which Painter argues to be that of the Pauline mission to the nations.

Being Christian: New Devotional Readings

Author : Jim Wilson
Publisher : Canon Press & Book Service
ISBN 13 : 1591281903
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Being Christian: New Devotional Readings written by Jim Wilson and published by Canon Press & Book Service. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Christian: New Devotional Readings has St. Paul's ambitious goal: to present every person perfect in Christ. With that in mind, this wide-ranging devotional is full of strong texts and short teaching, all organized into bite-size readings. You will find applicable wisdom on every page, as Being Christian is the product of Jim Wilson's practical advice and scriptural meditation over the past thirty-five years. Throughout every chapter you will read a huge variety of powerful, concentrated Scriptures, covering fundamental topics like prayer, evangelism, everyday holiness, joy, love, family, and (of course) what it means to be a Christian. "Strong teaching makes strong Christians. And it makes soft-hearted, tender, loving Christians. But soft teaching makes hard, callused Christians. Soft teaching is for people who have itching ears. They do not wish to have their lives interfered with." ~ Jim Wilson, from the Preface

The New Third Rome

Author : Jardar Østbø
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 3838268709
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book The New Third Rome written by Jardar Østbø and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on theories of political myth and concepts of nationalism, Jardar Østbø analyzes the content and ideological function of the myth of Russia as a Third Rome. Through case studies of four prominent nationalist intellectuals, Østbø shows how this messianic myth was used to reinvent Russia and its allegedly rightful place in the world after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Though it exists in many radically different versions, the Third Rome myth in general embodies particularism and rabid anti-Westernism. At best, it portrays Russia as an essentially isolationist country. At worst, it casts the country as superior to all other nations, divinely elected to rule the world.

ReJoycing

Author : Rosa Bollettieri Bosinelli
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813182794
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book ReJoycing written by Rosa Bollettieri Bosinelli and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this volume, the contributors—a veritable Who's Who of Joyce specialists—provide an excellent introduction to the central issues of contemporary Joyce criticism."

Hazon Gabriel

Author : Matthias Henze
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589835417
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Hazon Gabriel written by Matthias Henze and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2011 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays include the papers of a conference hosted by the Program in Jewish Studies at Rice University, Houston, Tex., in Feb. 2009.

New Readings & New Renderings of Shakespeare's Tragedies

Author : Henry Halford Vaughan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Readings & New Renderings of Shakespeare's Tragedies written by Henry Halford Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Empire and the Christian Tradition

Author : Don H. Compier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0800662156
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Empire and the Christian Tradition written by Don H. Compier and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The radically altered situation today in religion, politics, and global communication-what can broadly be characterized as postmodern and postcolonial-necessitates close rereading of Christianity's classical sources, especially its theologians. In this groundbreaking textbook anthology, twenty-nine distinguished scholars scrutinize the relationship between empire and Christianity from Paul to the liberation theologians of our time. The contributors discuss how the classical theologians in different historical periods dealt with their own contexts of empire and issues such as center and margin, divine power and social domination, war and violence, gender hierarchy, and displacement and diaspora. Each chapter provides insights and resources drawn from the classical theological tradition to address the current political situation. Book jacket.