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The Divine And Human Comedy Of Andrew M Greeley
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Book Synopsis The Divine and Human Comedy of Andrew M. Greeley by : Allienne R. Becker
Download or read book The Divine and Human Comedy of Andrew M. Greeley written by Allienne R. Becker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-08-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume approaches Greeleys novels by comparing him to the 19th-century French writer Honoré de Balzac. A prolific and popular author, Balzac recorded his milieu in tremendous detail, created a fictional universe peopled by hundreds of characters, and explored the role of Catholicism in his world. Because of his training as a sociologist, Greeley brings to his novels a thorough knowledge of popular culture and social theory. And because of his experience as a Roman Catholic priest, he has gained special knowledge of vice, virtue, and the workings of the Church. Like Balzac—now a major canonical author—Greeley has created a world of numerous fictional persons, mapped the details of his culture, and explored the place of Catholicism in contemporary life.
Book Synopsis Andrew M. Greeley by : Allienne R. Becker
Download or read book Andrew M. Greeley written by Allienne R. Becker and published by Allienne Becker. This book was released on 2002-04-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew M. Greeley's Blackie Ryan stories are reviewed and explicated in this study of the author's novels featuring the delightful and leprechaun like detective. The book surveys detective fiction in which the unique, irrestible, and sometimes irrepressible Blackie Ryan, who is sometimes, but not always, a persona for the author, appears. A composite portrait of Blackie is drawn for the reader. The themes—both sociological and religious—that occur in the fiction are highlighted and explored, as are the various literary devices that the author employs to create his stories. The book includes a "Foreword" written by Andrew M. Greeley, world renowned sociologist, priest, and Professor of Social Science at the university of Chicago.
Book Synopsis The Post-Utopian Imagination by : M. Keith Booker
Download or read book The Post-Utopian Imagination written by M. Keith Booker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-01-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In America, the long 1950s were marked by an intense skepticism toward utopian alternatives to the existing capitalist order. This skepticism was closely related to the climate of the Cold War, in which the demonization of socialism contributed to a dismissal of all alternatives to capitalism. This book studies how American novels and films of the long 1950s reflect the loss of the utopian imagination and mirror the growing concern that capitalism brought routinization, alienation, and other dehumanizing consequences. The volume relates the decline of the utopian vision to the rise of late capitalism, with its expanding globalization and consumerism, and to the beginnings of postmodernism. In addition to well-known literary novels, such as Nabokov's Lolita, Booker explores a large body of leftist fiction, popular novels, and the films of Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney. The book argues that while the canonical novels of the period employ a utopian aesthetic, that aesthetic tends to be very weak and is not reinforced by content. The leftist novels, on the other hand, employ a realist aesthetic but are utopian in their exploration of alternatives to capitalism. The study concludes that the utopian energies in cultural productions of the long 1950s are very weak, and that these works tend to dismiss utopian thinking as na^Dive or even sinister. The weak utopianism in these works tends to be reflected in characteristics associated with postmodernism.
Book Synopsis An Andrew Greeley Reader by : Andrew M. Greeley
Download or read book An Andrew Greeley Reader written by Andrew M. Greeley and published by Thomas More. This book was released on 1987 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Midamerica written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Contemporary Authors New Revision Series by : Tracey Watson
Download or read book Contemporary Authors New Revision Series written by Tracey Watson and published by Contemporary Authors New Revis. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical and bibliographical guide to current writers in all fields including poetry, fiction and nonfiction, journalism, drama, television and movies. Information is provided by the authors themselves or drawn from published interviews, feature stories, book reviews and other materials provided by the authors/publishers.
Download or read book Bibliographic Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis John Steinbeck by : Stephen K. George
Download or read book John Steinbeck written by Stephen K. George and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-11-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years after his birth, this volume presents a stimulating range of perspectives on Steinbeck's life and work, with over a dozen pieces written by sons, wives, and close friends such as Arthur Miller and Tom Wolfe and 15 more written by critics, scholars, biographers, and enthusiasts from around the world. Includes about a dozen b&w photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Book Synopsis Word, Birth, and Culture by : Daneen Wardrop
Download or read book Word, Birth, and Culture written by Daneen Wardrop and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson form an engaging triad of poets who, considered together, enrich the poetics of each other; the works of the three poets address language, birth, and scientific aspects of culture in ways that frame new perceptions of sex roles. Exacerbating 19th-century American expectations for sexually-constructed experience, they employ tactics that disrupt patriarchal signification. The first book to group these three poets together, this volume examines the daring language experiments in which they engage. It explores their use of pseduoscientific and scientific studies of alchemy, hydropathy, and botany to inform their understanding of language and birth and to discover expressions that challenge expectations for 19th-century poetry. The rising awareness of women's rights, which concurred with the antebellum call for a new American literature, also informed the emerging sense of the feminine that prompts the poets to use the maternal in their poetry. While they do not address the woman question of the 19th century in concrete ways, they nonetheless relied upon the female experience of birthing to create a new relationship with language and to question the nature of signification.
Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis God in the Movies by : Andrew M. Greeley
Download or read book God in the Movies written by Andrew M. Greeley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The religious imagination is alive and well in the movies. Contrary to those who criticize Hollywood, popular movies very often have metaphorically represented God on the screen. From Clint Eastwood as an avenging angel in Pale Rider and Nicolas Cage as a lovesick angel in City of Angels to Jessica Lange as an angel of death in All That Jazz, and from George Burns as God in Oh, God! to Audrey Hepburn in Always to pure white light in Fearless and Flatliners, God is very much present in the movies.
Book Synopsis The Great Mysteries by : Andrew M. Greeley
Download or read book The Great Mysteries written by Andrew M. Greeley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Mysteries responds with passion and skill to the growing concerns of spiritual seekers and teachers of the Catholic faith. In radical, refreshing fashion, Greeley explores 12 essential questions of faith and grounds them in human experience. With the skill of a master storyteller and the passion of a deep believer, Greeley contemplates questions at the heart of human life--is there any purpose in my life? Are there any grounds for hope? Why is there evil in the world?--and reveals how the symbols, rituals, teachings and mysteries of Catholicism both shape and respond to these profound uncertainties.
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Book Synopsis The Mary Myth by : Andrew M. Greeley
Download or read book The Mary Myth written by Andrew M. Greeley and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1977 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers new perceptions, new insights, a new structuring of experiences of the Virgin symbolism.
Book Synopsis As Leaven in the World by : Thomas M. Landy
Download or read book As Leaven in the World written by Thomas M. Landy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers illuminating essays by passionate and well-recognized American Catholic intellectuals on the interaction between faith and work. By envisioning Catholicism as a cultural force that shapes morality, the arts, creativity, cultural conversation, social justice, spirituality and vocation, the authors invite educational leaders and intellectuals to take seriously their holy work -- of teaching others how to understand and engage the world from a Catholic perspective. Stemming from nearly a decade of conferences sponsored by Collegium, a consortium of sixty Catholic colleges and universities, this book offers new ways of connecting the content and concerns of Catholic faith to intellectual life across academic disciplines. This book helps form a community of inquiry around the issues central to Catholic intellectual enterprise.
Book Synopsis Thy Brother's Wife by : Andrew M. Greeley
Download or read book Thy Brother's Wife written by Andrew M. Greeley and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The direction of Paul and Sean Cronin's lives was shaped the day their father, a self-made multimillionaire, decided that one of his boys would grow up to be a cardinal while the other would become president of the United States. For his elder son, Paul, the father had even chosen a wife—the beautiful Nora, who had come to the Cronin home as an orphan child years before. Obediently, and with a genuine vocation, the younger son, Sean, went into the priesthood. With a more cynical view, Paul went to Notre Dame to prepare for a life in politics until the Korean War intervened. Then came the news—Paul Cronin was missing in action. "If he dies," Sean's father told him, "you must leave the seminary and marry Nora." The words sang in Sean's head. Could he renounce his sacred calling—and marry the girl he had always loved? Long out of print, Thy Brother's Wife is a classic tale by one of America's most loved storytellers. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Why Study History? written by John Fea and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the purpose of studying history? How do we reflect on contemporary life from a historical perspective, and can such reflection help us better understand ourselves, the world around us, and the God we worship and serve? Written by an accomplished historian, award-winning author, public evangelical spokesman, and respected teacher, this introductory textbook shows why Christians should study history, how faith is brought to bear on our understanding of the past, and how studying the past can help us more effectively love God and others. John Fea shows that deep historical thinking can relieve us of our narcissism; cultivate humility, hospitality, and love; and transform our lives more fully into the image of Jesus Christ. The first edition of this book has been used widely in Christian colleges across the country. The second edition provides an updated introduction to the study of history and the historian's vocation. The book has also been revised throughout and incorporates Fea's reflections on this topic from throughout the past 10 years.
