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Download or read book The Sacred Ruins(1) written by Chen Dong and published by WWW.WEBNOVEL.COM (Cloudary Holdings Limited). This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 1556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hark as the tides ebb and flow. Watch as the moon wanes and grows. As that trail of misty haze enshrouds the earth, Behold! That once quenched fire enkindles amidst the holy ruins, And that yoke that shackles the world tardily unravels. A brave new world is on the offing, As the secrets ‘neath its cryptic cloak slowly unbosom…
Download or read book Sacred Space written by John Matthews and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The identification and positioning of sacred space within contemporary contexts has, to date, received scant attention. In reflecting upon a broad spectrum of conceptions of what constitutes sacred space, this collection of interdisciplinary essays presents a new perspective on an area that is developing into an important theological and philosophical concept.
Download or read book Sacred Ruins written by Brian J. Andrade and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ruins Lesson written by Susan Stewart and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 'The Ruins Lesson,' the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet-critic Susan Stewart explores the West's fascination with ruins in literature, visual art, and architecture, covering a vast chronological and geographical range from the ancient Egyptians to T. S. Eliot. In the multiplication of images of ruins, artists, and writers she surveys, Stewart shows how these thinkers struggled to recover lessons out of the fragility or our cultural remains. She tries to understand the appeal in the West of ruins and ruination, particularly Roman ruins, in the work and thought of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, whom she returns to throughout the book. Her sweeping, deeply felt study encompasses the founding legends of broken covenants and original sin; Christian transformations of the classical past; the myths and rituals of human fertility; images of ruins in Renaissance allegory, eighteenth-century melancholy, and nineteenth-century cataloguing; and new gardens that eventually emerged from ancient sites of disaster"--
Book Synopsis Ruin the Sacred Truths by : Harold BLOOM
Download or read book Ruin the Sacred Truths written by Harold BLOOM and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or J) writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Iliad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the Henry IV plays, Paradise Lost, Blake's Milton, Wordsworth's Prelude, and works by Freud, Kafka, and Beckett. In so doing, he uncovers the truth that all our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations. This is criticism at its best. Table of Contents: 1. The Hebrew Bible 2. From Homer to Dante 3. Shakespeare 4. Milton 5. Enlightenment and Romanticism 6. Freud and Beyond Reviews of this book: Bloom's puissance is not entirely his own; for some of it, he is indebted to Nietzsche, Freud, Schopenhauer, Gershom Scholem, and other masters. But enough of it is his own to constitute a distinctive form of splendor. --Denis Donoghue, New York Review of Books Reviews of this book: The wit, the eclecticism and the gripping paradoxes...the force of [Bloom's] intellect carries the reader from pinnacle to pinnacle, showing a new spiritual landscape from each. --Roger Scruton, Washington Times Reviews of this book: In some ways the wildest of the wild men (and women), in some ways the most traditional of the traditionalists, Harold Bloom remains serene amid the turbulence--much of it caused by him. He stands dauntless, a party of one, as thrilling to behold up on the high wire as he is (at times) throttling to read on the page...From this strong critic dealing with these strong poets comes a potent mix of insight. --Mark Feeney, Boston Globe
Download or read book Shattered Spaces written by Michael Meng and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Holocaust, the empty, silent spaces of bombed-out synagogues, cemeteries, and Jewish districts were all that was left in many German and Polish cities with prewar histories rich in the sights and sounds of Jewish life. What happened to this scarred landscape after the war, and how have Germans, Poles, and Jews encountered these ruins over the past sixty years? In the postwar period, city officials swept away many sites, despite protests from Jewish leaders. But in the late 1970s church groups, local residents, political dissidents, and tourists demanded the preservation of the few ruins still standing. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, this desire to preserve and restore has grown stronger. In one of the most striking and little-studied shifts in postwar European history, the traces of a long-neglected Jewish past have gradually been recovered, thanks to the rise of heritage tourism, nostalgia for ruins, international discussions about the Holocaust, and a pervasive longing for cosmopolitanism in a globalizing world. Examining this transformation from both sides of the Iron Curtain, Michael Meng finds no divided memory along West-East lines, but rather a shared memory of tensions and paradoxes that crosses borders throughout Central Europe. His narrative reveals the changing dynamics of the local and the transnational, as Germans, Poles, Americans, and Israelis confront a built environment that is inevitably altered with the passage of time. Shattered Spaces exemplifies urban history at its best, uncovering a surprising and moving postwar story of broad contemporary interest.
Author :Christopher A. Strathman Publisher :State University of New York Press ISBN 13 :079148324X Total Pages :218 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (914 download)
Book Synopsis Romantic Poetry and the Fragmentary Imperative by : Christopher A. Strathman
Download or read book Romantic Poetry and the Fragmentary Imperative written by Christopher A. Strathman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic Poetry and the Fragmentary Imperative locates Byron (and, to a lesser extent, Joyce) within a genealogy of romantic poetry understood not so much as imaginative self-expression or ideological case study but rather as what the German romantics call "romantische poesie"—an experimental form of poetry loosely based on the fragmentary flexibility and acute critical self-consciousness of Socratic dialogue. The book is therefore less an attempt to present yet another theory of romanticism than it is an effort to recover a more precise sense of the relationship between Byron's fragmentary or "workless" poetic and romantic poetry generally, and to articulate connections between romantic poetry and modern literature and literary theory. The book also argues that the "exigency" or "imperative" of the fragmentary works of Schlegel, Byron, Joyce, and Blanchot is not so much the expression of a style as it is an acknowledgment of what remains unthought in thinking.
Book Synopsis Gothic Antiquity by : Dale Townshend
Download or read book Gothic Antiquity written by Dale Townshend and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760-1840 provides the first sustained scholarly account of the relationship between Gothic architecture and Gothic literature (fiction; poetry; drama) in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although the relationship between literature and architecture is a topic that has long preoccupied scholars of the literary Gothic, there remains, to date, no monograph-length study of the intriguing and complex interactions between these two aesthetic forms. Equally, Gothic literature has received only the most cursory of treatments in art-historical accounts of the early Gothic Revival in architecture, interiors, and design. In addressing this gap in contemporary scholarship, Gothic Antiquity seeks to situate Gothic writing in relation to the Gothic-architectural theories, aesthetics, and practices with which it was contemporary, providing closely historicized readings of a wide selection of canonical and lesser-known texts and writers. Correspondingly, it shows how these architectural debates responded to, and were to a certain extent shaped by, what we have since come to identify as the literary Gothic mode. In both its 'survivalist' and 'revivalist' forms, the architecture of the Middle Ages in the long eighteenth century was always much more than a matter of style. Incarnating, for better or for worse, the memory of a vanished 'Gothic' age in the modern, enlightened present, Gothic architecture, be it ruined or complete, prompted imaginative reconstructions of the nation's past—a notable 'visionary' turn, as the antiquary John Pinkerton put it in 1788, in which Gothic writers, architects, and antiquaries enthusiastically participated. The volume establishes a series of dialogues between Gothic literature, architectural history, and the antiquarian interest in the material remains of the Gothic past, and argues that these discrete yet intimately related approaches to vernacular antiquity are most fruitfully read in relation to one another.
Book Synopsis The Frozen Prince by : Maxym M. Martineau
Download or read book The Frozen Prince written by Maxym M. Martineau and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark magic, mythical beasts, undying assassins, and forbidden love—this thrilling second installment in the epic Beast Charmer series is perfect for fans of Sarah J Maas and Claire Legrand I will fight—for her, for all of us—until I have nothing left to give. Noc, leader of the assassins of Cruor, may have broken the curse that's kept him trapped for so many years, but the dark magic won't be denied. If he doesn't kill Leena—the girl he can't live without—then his own life will be given as payment. To make matters worse, the truth of his past has fallen into the hands of his enemies, threatening everyone he's ever loved. And their time is running out. Leena has finally come into her own as a Charmer and would do anything to help Noc survive. When she learns of a magical creature that may be able to save him, she gathers her courage and sets out for the frozen north. But what starts as a hunt for answers quickly turns deadly, and soon Leena, Noc, and their trusted band of assassins find themselves face-to-face with an enemy more terrible, and powerful, than they could have ever imagined. Intense, compelling, and impossible to put down, The Frozen Prince is perfect for readers looking for: epic YA fantasy series a unique premise and a plot to die for books like Sarah J. Maas' Kingdom of Ash and Kalyn Josephson's Storm Crow high fantasy with paranormal and romance elements multidimensional characters and rich world-building The Beast Charmer Series Kingdom of Exiles The Frozen Prince The Shattered Crown (coming soon)
Download or read book India written by Pierre Loti and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book India written by Pierre Loti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. This book on India is by Pierre Loti, perhaps the world's most prolific, romantic and exotic travel writer, takes in the Rock Temple, the Buried City, Home of the Maharajah of Travancore, the land of the great palms in Tanjore, Bernares and the towards Hyderabad, the land he calls famished India.
Download or read book Crash Landing written by Bill Valiontis and published by Bill Valiontis. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After crash-landing behind enemy lines, a group of soldiers must band together to survive in hostile territory while fighting off enemy forces and uncovering a hidden enemy base. As they struggle to survive, the soldiers uncover a traitor in their midst who has been secretly working with the enemy, leading to a tense internal confrontation. One of the soldiers is gravely injured during a skirmish with the enemy, forcing the group to make a difficult decision about whether to risk their own safety to save their comrade.The soldiers encounter a group of local resistance fighters who are embroiled in their own battle against the enemy, sparking a debate within the group about whether to join forces or maintain their independence. A powerful storm hits the region, forcing the soldiers to seek shelter in a nearby abandoned village where they discover clues that lead them to the hidden enemy base. As they struggle to evade enemy patrols, the soldiers come across a cache of weapons and supplies left behind by a previous group of stranded soldiers, igniting hope for their survival.The group's communications equipment malfunctions, cutting them off from outside support and leaving them with no way to call for reinforcements or escape the hostile territory.A member of the group is captured by the enemy and taken to their base for interrogation, prompting a daring rescue mission to infiltrate the enemy stronghold and retrieve their comrade.Tensions rise within the group as conflicting personalities and agendas clash, threatening to undermine their unity and jeopardize their chances of survival in the enemy-infested territoryThe soldiers stumble upon a hidden underground network of tunnels that crisscross the region, offering a potential escape route but also presenting unknown dangers and mysteries to unravel.A discovery is made that the crash was not an accident but a deliberate sabotage by a rogue faction within their own military, leading the soldiers to question who they can trust and how deep the conspiracy goes.
Book Synopsis Sisters of Misery by : Megan Kelley Hall
Download or read book Sisters of Misery written by Megan Kelley Hall and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Sisters of Misery, a secret clique of the most popular, powerful girls in school, unleash their wrath on her beautiful cousin Cordelia, Maddie Crane must choose between Cordelia and the allure of this elite club.
Book Synopsis From the Skin by : Jerome Jeffery Clark
Download or read book From the Skin written by Jerome Jeffery Clark and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this edited volume, J. Jeffery Clark and Elise Boxer deploy the term practitioner-theorist to describe Indigenous studies graduates who theorize, produce, and apply knowledge within and between their nations and academia.
Download or read book The Dreaming written by Barbara Wood and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the untamed landscape of mid-nineteenth century Australia, The Dreaming is a rich and potent tale of hidden passion and broken taboo. Australia, 1871—Following her mother’s sudden death, Joanna Drury sets sail from India and arrives in Melbourne to claim the property left to her by her mother—and to trace the mysteries of her family’s past. From her first steps on shore, Joanna becomes entangled with a lost boy who leads her to the fascinating Hugh Westbrook. She agrees to look after the child in exchange for Hugh’s help in finding her inheritance. But she falls deeply in love with Hugh and with life at his sheep station, Merinda. When strange nightmares begin to plague her—the same that tormented her mother—Joanna starts to notice the Aborigines’ strange reaction to her. Delving into Australia’s past, she discovers the tragic events that have marked her family’s destiny and her own life, events that happened long ago in the time the Aborigines call “the Dreaming.” Full of intriguing historical detail, Wood’s compelling story brings the clash of immigrant and Aboriginal cultures to stunning life, capturing the danger, mystery, and romance of an emerging country.
Book Synopsis Cultus Arborum - A Description Of Phallic Tree Worship by : Anon
Download or read book Cultus Arborum - A Description Of Phallic Tree Worship written by Anon and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work combines three topics being 'Ancient and Modern Symbol Worship', 'Phallic Objects and Remains', and 'Tree Worship'. A comprehensive guide and account of Phallic Tree Worship with illustrative legends, superstitions, usages etc exhibiting its origin and development amongst the Eastern and Western nations of the World from the earliest to modern times. Includes a bibliography of works upon and referring to the phallic cultus.
Book Synopsis Vanished Halls and Cathedrals of France by : George Wharton Edwards
Download or read book Vanished Halls and Cathedrals of France written by George Wharton Edwards and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vanished Halls and Cathedrals of France" by George Wharton Edwards. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
