The Fortunes

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0544263782
Total Pages : 285 pages
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Book Synopsis The Fortunes by : Peter Ho Davies

Download or read book The Fortunes written by Peter Ho Davies and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Best Book of the Year: “The most honest, unflinching, cathartically biting novel I’ve read about the Chinese American experience.” —Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts Winner, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award * Winner, Chautauqua Prize *Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize * A New York Times Notable Book * A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience. Inhabiting four lives—a railroad baron’s valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor; Hollywood’s first Chinese movie star; a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes the Asian American community; and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption—this novel captures and capsizes over a century of our history, showing that even as family bonds are denied and broken, a community can survive—as much through love as blood. “Intense and dreamlike . . . filled with quiet resonances across time.” —The New Yorker “Riveting and luminous . . . Like the best books, this one haunts the reader well after the end.” —Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award-winning author of Sing, Unburied, Sing “A moving, often funny, and deeply provocative novel about the lives of four very different Chinese Americans as they encounter the myriad opportunities and clear limits of American life . . . gorgeously told.” —Chang-rae Lee, Buzzfeed “A poignant, cascading four-part novel . . . Outstanding.” —David Mitchell, The Guardian

Semiotics and Thematics in Hermeneutics

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ISBN 13 : 9780231054102
Total Pages : 242 pages
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Transforming the Hermeneutic Context

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791401354
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Book Synopsis Transforming the Hermeneutic Context by : Gayle L. Ormiston

Download or read book Transforming the Hermeneutic Context written by Gayle L. Ormiston and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents contemporary analyses of interpretation by some of the most prominent figures in contemporary philosophy and literary criticism. These essays question and transform traditional statements on the aims, methods, and techniques of interpretation. The essays demonstrate how contemporary discussions of interpretation are necessarily sent back to the hermeneutic tradition. Emphasizing the importance of Friedrich Nietzsche’s influence on the contemporary debates concerning current interpretive practices, this volume traces the differences in interpretive perspectives generated in the writings of Michel Foucault, Eric Blondel, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, Manfred Frank, Werner Hamacher, and Jean-Luc Nancy. The essays by Foucault, Blondel, Frank, Hamacher, and Nancy appear here for the first time in English.

Hermeneutics and Modern Philosophy

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438423012
Total Pages : 516 pages
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Book Synopsis Hermeneutics and Modern Philosophy by : Brice R. Wachterhauser

Download or read book Hermeneutics and Modern Philosophy written by Brice R. Wachterhauser and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1986-11-20 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermeneutics and Modern Philosophy is a collection of interpretive and critical essays on philosophical hermeneutics, focusing on the seminal work of Heidegger and Gadamer. The anthology brings together classic pieces in the field that previously were widely scattered and includes new articles that shed light on much-debated issues in contemporary hermeneutics. Along with essays by Habermas and Gadamer, it features works by Paul Ricoeur, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Richard Bernstein, David Hoy, Reiner Wiehl, Marjorie Grene, Gianni Vattimo, Merold Westphal, John Caputo, Kathleen Wright, Charles Larmore, and Brice Wachterhauser. Hermeneutics and Modern Philosophy provides both an excellent introduction to the field and a useful commentary on its current state.

The Hermeneutic Tradition

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791401361
Total Pages : 398 pages
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Download or read book The Hermeneutic Tradition written by Gayle L. Ormiston and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the major statements of the leading figures in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and French hermeneutic traditions--the major statements on the aims, methods, and techniques of interpretation. Some of these appear here for the first time in English. This book establishes the context for contemporary analyses of interpretation. Part I traces the evolution of hermeneutics from Friedrich Ast and Friedrich Schleiermacher through Wilhelm Dilthey to Martin Heidegger's placing of hermeneutics at the center of the ontological analysis of human being. Part II follows the development of the Heideggerian tradition in the writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer. Gadamer's "philosophical hermeneutics" is then located at the center of several important exchanges with more traditional, objective hermeneutical methodologists like Emilio Betti, ideology-critics like Jürgen Habermas, and linguistic-phenomenological thinkers like Paul Ricoeur.

Reading Dante

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Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739159941
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading Dante by : Jesper Hede

Download or read book Reading Dante written by Jesper Hede and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007-09-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Dante: The Pursuit of Meaning examines the problem of thematic coherence in Dante's Divina Commedia. Unlike many Dante scholars who maintain that the poem's unity is the account of a journey through the afterworld, Jesper Hede argues that a systematic parallel reading of the poem's three parts (Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise) reveals that it is the vision of divine order that provides the poem with its thematic unity.

Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300070897
Total Pages : 260 pages
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Book Synopsis Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics by : Jean Grondin

Download or read book Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics written by Jean Grondin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging historical introduction to philosophical hermeneutics, Jean Grondin discusses the major figures from Philo to Habermas, analyzes conflicts between various interpretive schools, and provides a persuasive critique of Gadamer's view of hermeneutic history, though in other ways Gadamer's Truth and Method serves as a model for Grondin's approach. Grondin begins with brief overviews of the pre-nineteenth-century thinkers Philo, Origen, Augustine, Luther, Flacius, Dannhauer, Chladenius, Meier, Rambach, Ast, and Schlegel. Next he provides more extensive treatments of such major nineteenth-century figures as Schleiermacher, Böckh, Droysen, and Dilthey. There are full chapters devoted to Heidegger and Gadamer as well as shorter discussions of Betti, Habermas, and Derrida. Because he is the first to pay close attention to pre-Romantic figures, Grondin is able to show that the history of hermeneutics cannot be viewed as a gradual, steady progression in the direction of complete universalization. His book makes it clear that even in the early period, hermeneutic thinkers acknowledged a universal aspect in interpretation--that long before Schleiermacher, hermeneutics was philosophical and not merely practical. In revising and correcting the standard account, Grondin's book is not merely introductory but revisionary, suitable for beginners as well as advanced students in the field.

Semiotics and Hermeneutics of the Everyday

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443879355
Total Pages : 315 pages
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Book Synopsis Semiotics and Hermeneutics of the Everyday by : Gregory Paschalidis

Download or read book Semiotics and Hermeneutics of the Everyday written by Gregory Paschalidis and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The linchpin of the momentous paradigm shift that produced the new hermeneutics of everyday life was a focus on people as active agents in various cultural contexts, uses and practices, the merging of the conventional distinctions between the private and the public, the local and the global, the material and the symbolic, and the bridging of the agency/structure divide marking grand historical and cultural narratives. In their place, a wealth of new kinds of narratives were produced out what ...

New Testament Semiotics

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004465766
Total Pages : 472 pages
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Book Synopsis New Testament Semiotics by : Timo Eskola

Download or read book New Testament Semiotics written by Timo Eskola and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating through different realist and nominalist traditions, Timo Eskola suggests that signs are about conditions and functions and participate in a web of relations. Questioning Derridean poststructuralism, the author reinstates Benveniste’s hermeneutics of enunciation and suggests a new approach to metatheology.

Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253203984
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language by : Umberto Eco

Download or read book Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language written by Umberto Eco and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1986-07-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into their complex nature . . . this collection can be read with pleasure by those unversed in semiotic theory." —Times Literary Supplement

Goethe, Nietzsche, and Wagner

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Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739111284
Total Pages : 406 pages
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Book Synopsis Goethe, Nietzsche, and Wagner by : T. K. Seung

Download or read book Goethe, Nietzsche, and Wagner written by T. K. Seung and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author reads Goethe's Faust as the first epic written under Spinoza's influence. He shows how its thematic development is governed by Spinoza's pantheistic naturalism. He further contends that Wagner and Nietzsche have tried to surpass their mentor Goethe's work by writing their own Spinozan epics of love and power in The Ring of the Nibelung and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. These Spinozan epics are designed to succeed the Christian epics in the Western literary tradition. Whereas the Christian epics dared to groom human beings for their destiny in the supernatural world, the Spinozan epics try to reinstate humanity as the children of Mother Nature and overcome their alienation from the natural world, which had been dictated by the long reign of Christianity. However, it has been well noted that none of these new epics seems to hang together thematically as a coherent work. By his Spinozan reading, the author not only demonstrates the thematic unity of each of them singly, but further illustrates their thematic relation with each other.

Semiotics as a Tool for Learning Mathematics

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9463003371
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Book Synopsis Semiotics as a Tool for Learning Mathematics by : Adalira Sáenz-Ludlow

Download or read book Semiotics as a Tool for Learning Mathematics written by Adalira Sáenz-Ludlow and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semiotics as a Tool for Learning Mathematics is a collection of ten theoretical and empirical chapters, from researchers all over the world, who are interested in semiotic notions and their practical uses in mathematics classrooms. Collectively, they present a semiotic contribution to enhance pedagogical aspects both for the teaching of school mathematics and for the preparation of pre-service teachers. This enhancement involves the use of diagrams to visualize implicit or explicit mathematical relations and the use of mathematical discourse to facilitate the emergence of inferential reasoning in the process of argumentation. It will also facilitate the construction of proofs and solutions of mathematical problems as well as the progressive construction of mathematical conceptions that, eventually, will approximate the concept(s) encoded in mathematical symbols. These symbols hinge not only of mental operations but also on indexical and iconic aspects; aspects which often are not taken into account when working on the meaning of mathematical symbols. For such an enhancement to happen, it is necessary to transform basic notions of semiotic theories to make them usable for mathematics education. In addition, it is also necessary to back theoretical claims with empirical data. This anthology attempts to deal with such a conjunction. Overall, this book can be used as a theoretical basis for further semiotic considerations as well as for the design of different ways of teaching mathematical concepts.

A Pentecostal Hermeneutic for the Twenty First Century

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567083678
Total Pages : 248 pages
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Book Synopsis A Pentecostal Hermeneutic for the Twenty First Century by : Kenneth Archer

Download or read book A Pentecostal Hermeneutic for the Twenty First Century written by Kenneth Archer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to present a critically informed contemporary Pentecostal hermeneutic rooted in Pentecostal identity, in its stories, beliefs and practices. As Pentecostals began entering academic communities of higher learning, their interpretive methods became both mainstream and modernistic as they adapted the historical critical methods, or the so-called scientific hermeneutic. The proposed hermeneutic contained in this book desires to move beyond the impasse created by Modernity, instead pushing Pentecostals into the contemporary context by critically re-appropriating early Pentecostal ethos and interpretive practices for a contemporary Pentecostal community. The Pentecostal hermeneutic is a three-way interaction for theological meaning between the Holy Spirit, the Pentecostal community and sacred Scripture.

A Reference Guide for English Studies

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520051614
Total Pages : 872 pages
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Book Synopsis A Reference Guide for English Studies by : Michael J. Marcuse

Download or read book A Reference Guide for English Studies written by Michael J. Marcuse and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious undertaking is designed to acquaint students, teachers, and researchers with reference sources in any branch of English studies, which Marcuse defines as "all those subjects and lines of critical and scholarly inquiry presently pursued by members of university departments of English language and literature.'' Within each of 24 major sections, Marcuse lists and annotates bibliographies, guides, reviews of research, encyclopedias, dictionaries, journals, and reference histories. The annotations and various indexes are models of clarity and usefulness, and cross references are liberally supplied where appropriate. Although cost-conscious librarians will probably consider the several other excellent literary bibliographies in print, such as James L. Harner's Literary Research Guide (Modern Language Assn. of America, 1989), larger academic libraries will want Marcuse's volume.-- Jack Bales, Mary Washington Coll. Lib., Fredericksburg, Va. -Library Journal.

Law and Semiotics

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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461307716
Total Pages : 364 pages
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Book Synopsis Law and Semiotics by : Roberta Kevelson

Download or read book Law and Semiotics written by Roberta Kevelson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: of those problems in law which we inherit and/or retrieve in order to reconstruct and interpret in the light of legal semiotics, however defined. In addition to three main areas of underlying metaphysical assumptions there are also three main areas of possible editorial focus and these should be mentioned. The three areas of focus are: 1) the state-of-the-art of legal semiotics; 2) the dynamic, intense and exceptionally interactive quality of conference participation, and 3) the content of the papers presented which is the material of this volume. My choice of this triad of focal possibilities is to exclude the last since the papers speak for themselves and need but a brief reportorial caption. I also eliminate the second possible focus as the main focus since the discussion was not taped for editing into this volume and must remain for all those who participated a quality of scholarly meetings to be remembered, savored and hoped for. My main focus is on the "state-of-the-art" of legal semiotics. II At the conclusion of the First Round Table on Law and Semiotics (1987) it was noted that there were no working paradigms, in Kuhn's sense, that thus far emerged but rather that several problematic areas were disclosed which warrant attention. Therefore the first concern of Legal Semiotics should be to address the surface, i. e.

American Literary Criticism Since the 1930s

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135218005
Total Pages : 433 pages
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Book Synopsis American Literary Criticism Since the 1930s by : Vincent B. Leitch

Download or read book American Literary Criticism Since the 1930s written by Vincent B. Leitch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Literary Criticism Since the 1930s fully updates Vincent B. Leitch’s classic book, American Literary Criticism from the 30s to the 80s following the development of the American academy right up to the present day. Updated throughout and with a brand new chapter, this second edition: provides a critical history of American literary theory and practice, discussing the impact of major schools and movements examines the social and cultural background to literary research, considering the role of key theories and practices provides profiles of major figures and influential texts, outlining the connections among theorists presents a new chapter on developments since the 1980s, including discussions of feminist, queer, postcolonial and ethnic criticism. Comprehensive and engaging, this book offers a crucial overview of the development of literary studies in American universities, and a springboard to further research for all those interested in the development and study of Literature.

Semiotics and Interpretation

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300030938
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Semiotics and Interpretation written by Robert Scholes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers . . . a clutch of examples of semiotics usefully and intelligently applied, which Scholes's patient, cheerful tone and his resolutely concrete vocabulary manage to combine into a breezily informative American confection.-Terence Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement