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Book Synopsis Crazed by Love; Cured by Revenge by : Lawrence Ianni
Download or read book Crazed by Love; Cured by Revenge written by Lawrence Ianni and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James Ferguson becomes gravely depressed by the end of his relationship with his longtime partner, Trevor Schmitz, who leaves him because a new lover has the means to further Schmitzs career as a sculptor. After several months of residential care, Ferguson becomes delusional at the facility in which his attorney sister has placed him for psychiatric care. Ferguson thinks he is the male character in a book by the author on whom he is a nationally recognized scholar. As that man, he escapes to pursue the woman whose love he has lost. His pursuit leads to Las Vegas, where several situations and actions occur that are widely out of character for the staid, gay professor. From there he goes to the annual celebration of life called Burning Man, held in the Nevada desert. There, he expects to find the woman he seeks. The unusual circumstances at the weeklong celebration result in activities that restore his sanity and give new and positive direction to his life.
Book Synopsis The World Falls Away by : Wanda Coleman
Download or read book The World Falls Away written by Wanda Coleman and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2011-09-18 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The burnings from which Coleman culls her work casts a glow and unique warmth that invites the reader to sit by her metaphorical hearth, to laugh and enjoy their "conversation." The contemplative and philosophical have entered her voice as she continues to explore the conflicts and confusions that shape the aesthetic terrain of Southern California and beyond—as she continues to grapple with cultural bias, malignant domestic neglect, poverty, and the damages of racism, yet broadening her palette of social ills to include the privacies of grief, loss and transcendence. A nominee and finalist for Poet Laureate of California, she continues to reflect the ethnic scramble of Los Angeles, where she has been honored by proclamations from the city's elected officials, including the mayor's office, the city council and the Department of Cultural Affairs.
Book Synopsis The Sketch, the Tale, and the Beginnings of American Literature by : Lydia G. Fash
Download or read book The Sketch, the Tale, and the Beginnings of American Literature written by Lydia G. Fash and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounts of the rise of American literature often start in the 1850s with a cluster of "great American novels"—Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Melville’s Moby-Dick and Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. But these great works did not spring fully formed from the heads of their creators. All three relied on conventions of short fiction built up during the "culture of beginnings," the three decades following the War of 1812 when public figures glorified the American past and called for a patriotic national literature. Decentering the novel as the favored form of early nineteenth-century national literature, Lydia Fash repositions the sketch and the tale at the center of accounts of American literary history, revealing how cultural forces shaped short fiction that was subsequently mined for these celebrated midcentury novels and for the first novel published by an African American. In the shorter works of writers such as Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lydia Maria Child, among others, the aesthetic of brevity enabled the beginning idea of a story to take the outsized importance fitted to the culture of beginnings. Fash argues that these short forms, with their ethnic exclusions and narrative innovations, coached readers on how to think about the United States’ past and the nature of narrative time itself. Combining history, print history, and literary criticism, this book treats short fiction as a vital site for debate over what it meant to be American, thereby offering a new account of the birth of a self-consciously national literary tradition.
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Book Synopsis The Religious Revolution by : Dominic Green
Download or read book The Religious Revolution written by Dominic Green and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An incisive study of the Western world’s shift from institutional religion to more personal beliefs in the second half of the 19th century . . . This is intellectual history at its most comprehensive and convincing." —Publishers Weekly, starred review The late nineteenth century was an age of grand ideas and great expectations fueled by rapid scientific and technological innovation. In Europe, the ancient authority of church and crown was overthrown for the volatile gambles of democracy and the capitalist market. If it was an age that claimed to liberate women, slaves, and serfs, it also harnessed children to its factories and subjected entire peoples to its empires. Amid this tumult, another sea change was underway: the religious revolution. In The Religious Revolution, Dominic Green charts this profound cultural and political shift, taking us on a whirlwind journey through the lives and ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman; of Éliphas Lévi and Helena Blavatsky; of Wagner and Nietzsche; of Marx, Darwin, and Gandhi. Challenged by the industrialization, globalization, and political unrest of their times, these figures found themselves connecting with the religious impulse in surprising new ways, inspiring others to move away from the strictures of religion and toward the thrill and intimacy of spirituality. The modern era is often characterized as a time of increasing secularism, but in this trenchant new work, Green demonstrates how the foundations of modern society were laid as much by spirituality as by science or reason. The Religious Revolution is a narrative tour de force that sweeps across several continents and five of the most turbulent and formative decades in history. Threading together seemingly disparate intellectual trajectories, Green illuminates how philosophers, grifters, artists, scientists, and yogis shared in a global cultural moment, borrowing one another’s beliefs and making the world we know today.
Book Synopsis The Unfinished Conversation by : Evangeline Thiessen
Download or read book The Unfinished Conversation written by Evangeline Thiessen and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought up in a strict fundamentalist household, Evangeline Thiessen, like many Christians, found herself at odds with complex dogma that kept her from a lucid understanding of her relationship with God. It was the death of her father, himself a former minister, that finally brought her troubling spiritual disconnect into sharp focus and set her on a path that would afford her a new understanding of her own faith. Stepping away from the petrified state of twenty-first century fundamentalist Christian thought, she decided to re-examine the Greco-Judeo-Christian roots from which modern Christianity has grown. What she found was that a great deal of what informs the many far flung Christian denominations has very little basis in the gospel of Christ. These other influences can, however, be explained and even understood if one is willing to look at the broader contexts from which they arose. The tone and message of the remarkable spiritual conversation started by Jesus has been shifted and stifled over the centuries, but for those willing to listen it can still be discerned. The Unfinished Conversation is at once erudite and readable. It is an invitation for Christians to reconnect with the still-vital core of faith voiced two thousand years ago....
Book Synopsis Ireland at the crossroads by : Patrick Rafroidi
Download or read book Ireland at the crossroads written by Patrick Rafroidi and published by Presses Univ. Septentrion. This book was released on 1979 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Ireland keeps eternal values, it is also a country that, yesterday economically under-developed, is now preparing, slowly but surely, its entry into the twenty-first century. This unprecedented mutation in its already turbulent history, affects Irish politics, industry, trade...
Book Synopsis Ellendale Night by : David A. Romero
Download or read book Ellendale Night written by David A. Romero and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellendale Night is the third collection of poetry from spoken word artist David A. Romero. This volume presents never-before-seen material from the poet's earlier years while studying at USC. Featuring cover photography by Tommy Su.
Download or read book Jitterbug Perfume written by Tom Robbins and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2003-06-17 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn’t conclude until nine o’clock tonight (Paris time). It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god. If the liquid in the bottle actually is the secret essence of the universe, as some folks seem to think, it had better be discovered soon because it is leaking and there is only a drop or two left.
Book Synopsis Short Trip to the Edge by : Scott Cairns
Download or read book Short Trip to the Edge written by Scott Cairns and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet and literature professor Scott Cairns ran headlong into his midlife crisis — a fairly common experience among men nearing the age of fifty—while walking on the beach with his Labrador. His was not a desperate attempt to recapture youth, filled with sports cars and younger women. Instead, Cairns realized his spiritual life was advancing at a snail's pace and time was running out. Midlife crisis for this this Baptist turned Eastern Orthodox manifested as a desperate need to seek out prayer. Originally published in 2007, this new, expanded edition of Short Trip to the Edge is the story of Scott's spiritual journey to the mystical island of Mt. Athos. With twenty monasteries and thirteen sketes scattered across its sloping terrain, the Holy Mountain was the perfect place for Scott to seek out a prayer father and discover the stillness of the true prayer life. Told with wit and exquisite prose, his narrative takes the reader from a beach in Virginia to the most holy Orthodox monasteries in the world to a monastery in Arizona and back again as Scott struggles to find his prayer path. Along the way, Cairns forged relationships with monks, priests, and fellow pilgrims. "Scott Cairns is not only one of the most vital poets of our time but also a prose writer of uncommon vision, and in Short Trip to the Edge, his account of his pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain of Athos, in northern Greece, he weaves together a personal history of faith, a wealth of learning, and the wisdom of the ages to create a book for spiritual seekers from every religious denomination. What better guide, and travel companion, than Scott Cairns? I would follow him to the edge – and beyond." — Christopher Merrill, author of Things of the Hidden God: Journey to the Holy Mountain "Mt Athos is 'the edge' in more ways than one, a place both beautiful and ruggedly challenging, alive with spiritual power that shares the same qualities. Cairns is the ideal guide — relaxed, invitingly conversational, and often amused, but always evoking the awe that these mysteries deserve." — Frederica Mathewes-Green "In Short Trip To The Edge, Scott Cairns pulls back the curtain and gives us a glimpse of the spiritual energy present on the Holy Mountain. He approaches his prose with the soul and skill of a poet. It is at once simple and profound—accessible and ineffable. Scott has the boldness to confront the deepest parts of our human nature with fierce honesty and humor. It's a place where "pilgrims are a mixed bag," holy relics make the heart race and true spirituality is an "acquired taste." The reader, (or should I say pilgrim) is invited to travel along a beautiful and potentially frightening road into the heart of silence, repentance and prayer. There is a palpable sense of being there: surrounded by a timeless chorus of voices chanting on The Holy Mountain, praying for the life of the world. One slowly loses the desire to arrive and begins to embrace the possibility of "always becoming." Scott Cairns pours out his soul in this brilliant and much needed book. It is well worth the taking this short trip to the edge!" —Jonathan Jackson, star of the hit ABC show Nashville and author of The Mystery Of Art "A Short Trip to the Edge is an exceptional and compelling book. Scott Cairns has a poet's eye and a story-tellers flair, so that mystical experience and profound theology are bodied forth in memorable images and vivid scenes, instead of being lost in abstraction. This book witnesses to the way ancient truths can become vivid, true and life-changing in the here and now. This is a short trip you will never forget." —Rev. Dr. Malcolm Guite, Girton College, Cambridge
Download or read book Journal of Asian Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sagetrieb written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Kashmir and the British Raj 1847-1947 by : Robert A. Huttenback
Download or read book Kashmir and the British Raj 1847-1947 written by Robert A. Huttenback and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a broad coverage of water resources topics and approaches to the assessment of the risks posed by chemicals and radionuclides. The papers presented concern country-specific and regional cases, studied from a practical and applied viewpoint. The book will interest scientists, regulatory decision-makers and public health professionals who have worked or plan to work in Central Asia. It is also of interest to firms whose products or services are useful in the public health, water purification, water distribution and environmental consulting fields.
Download or read book Beckon written by Gillian Conoley and published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Lady Lazarus by : Judith Shoemaker-Hill
Download or read book Lady Lazarus written by Judith Shoemaker-Hill and published by Publish America. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leigh Barnes wants only to pursue a career in journalism, but instead finds herself being pursued by the critically acclaimed columnist she exposed as a cold-blooded murderer. The life sentence of Jude Orcus abruptly ends after only two years, when he escapes and appears at her door. Kidnaped, tortured, shot, and left for dead, Leigh should not survive, yet she does. Instead of being grateful to be alive, she rails against God, who allowed her brutal abduction and the deaths of her fiancA(c) and her beloved parents. She can no longer trust God-or anyone. Not even her mentor, employer and friend, Sebastian Vanderhyde, whom she begins to suspect is a duplicitous hypocrite with a hidden agenda. Or Thrasher Cole, a heroic firefighter, a respected lawyer, and a man she could love...until she learns he may have caused the deaths of his wife and child. Although an adversary, Leif Hardaway is a powerful technology genius and the father of her good friend, Cynthia. And also a traitor to his country and to his family. All those she had once thought were friends are now strangers keeping deadly secrets. Only when there is nowhere to turn and no one to turn to does she learn that she is the key to all the secrets they have been keeping.
Book Synopsis Critical and Miscellaneous Essays by : Thomas Carlyle
Download or read book Critical and Miscellaneous Essays written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
