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Author : Linda Hutcheon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Other Solitudes written by Linda Hutcheon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh MacLennan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773553908
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Two Solitudes written by Hugh MacLennan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction Canada Reads Selection (CBC), 2013 A landmark of nationalist fiction, Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes is the story of two peoples within one nation, each with its own legend and ideas of what a nation should be. In his vivid portrayals of human drama in First World War–era Quebec, MacLennan focuses on two individuals whose love increases the prejudices that surround them until they discover that “love consists in this, that two solitudes protect, and touch and greet each other.” The novel centres around Paul Tallard and his struggles in reconciling the differences between the English identity of his love Heather Methuen and her family, and the French identity of his father. Against this backdrop the country is forming, the chasm between French and English communities growing deeper. Published in 1945, the novel popularized the use of “two solitudes” as referring to a perceived lack of communication between English- and French-speaking Canadians. Content note: This book contains racial slurs that readers may find offensive or upsetting.
Author : David Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350077879
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Philosophy of Creative Solitudes written by David Jones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is solitude, why do we crave and fear it, and how do we distinguish it properly from loneliness? It lies at the core of the lives of philosophers and their self-reflective contemplations, and it is the enabling (and disabling) condition that allows us to seriously question how to live creatively and meaningfully. David Farrell Krell is one of the decisive philosophical voices on how philosophers can creatively engage their solitudes. The scale and range of his understanding of solitudes are taken up in this book by some of the most distinguished Continental philosophers. Authors address the problem of solitude from different angles, and imagine how to face and respond creatively to it. Blending philosophical narrative and straightforward philosophical treatises, this book provides inspiration for contemplation of our own versions of solitude and their creative potentials. Some authors focus on the work of historical figures in philosophy or poetry, such as Heidegger and Hölderlin, while others deal more directly with Krell's work as exemplary of their own imaginings of creative solitudes. Other authors respond more personally and creatively in their demonstrations of how we can, and must, seek our solitudes. Including an original chapter by David Farrell Krell, this book is an invigorating meditation on the possibility of being philosophical about a life through solitude, and the meaning of this powerfully resonant and universal human experience.
Author : Robert J. Coplan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111842736X
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)
Download or read book The Handbook of Solitude written by Robert J. Coplan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work offers a comprehensive compilation of current psychological research related to the construct of solitude Explores numerous psychological perspectives on solitude, including those from developmental, neuropsychological, social, personality, and clinical psychology Examines different developmental periods across the lifespan, and across a broad range of contexts, including natural environments, college campuses, relationships, meditation, and cyberspace Includes contributions from the leading international experts in the field Covers concepts and theoretical approaches, empirical research, as well as clinical applications
Author : Winfried Siemerling
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781587292224
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (922 download)
Download or read book Cultural Difference & the Literary Text written by Winfried Siemerling and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elvi Whittaker
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077359809X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Solitudes of the Workplace written by Elvi Whittaker and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solitudes of the Workplace focuses on experiences of marginalization, uncertainty and segregation created by the hierarchical structures of categories in universities and by gendered identities. Studying a wider range of women’s roles in universities than prior research, the experiences of support staff, senior administrators, researchers, non-academic administrators, and contract teachers are added to those of faculty and students. The essays show how attempts to introduce new knowledge are manoeuvered and the resistance this process can encounter, as well as the ways in which institutional policies can blur and change identities. Addressing longstanding issues such as the entanglement of gender and the assessment of merit, attention is also given to how new identities are claimed and successfully projected. Essays presenting workers' points of view reveal the confusion that occurs when official policy and everyday knowledge conflict, when processes like tenure and other status changes create troublesome realities, and when it becomes routine to experience status denigration. Within the social order of the university and its existing boundaries, gender issues of past decades sometimes surface, but all too often remain an unspoken presence. Solitudes of the Workplace is a revealing look at the isolating experiences and inequities inherent in these institutional environments.
Author : John Crowley
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 9780575083004
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Aegypt written by John Crowley and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is more than one history of the world. Before science defined the modern age, other powers, wondrous and magical, once governed the universe. Historian Pierce Moffett moves to the New England countryside to write a book about Aegypt, driven by an idea he dare not believe: that the physical laws of the universe once changed and may change again. Yet the notion is not his alone. Something waits at the locked estate of Fellowes Kraft, something for which Pierce and those near him have long sought without knowing it: a key, perhaps, to Aegypt.
Author : Julian Stern
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350348023
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Art, Literature and Music of Solitude written by Julian Stern and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a thematic analysis of various aspects of solitude, silence and loneliness, from the ancient world to the present day, explored thematically with consideration to the links between aloneness to other social and political issues. The themes include exile (expulsion from a community), ecstasy (getting 'out of oneself') and enstasy (being comfortable within oneself), to the Romantic idea of the artist as solitary. There is work on aloneness in and through nature, especially the importance of natural settings for positive experiences of solitude. A central theme is alienation and its emotions, with the idea of loneliness and the rejected self being a more modern experience. The book explores modernism and postmodernism as presenting new forms of solitude in the twentieth century, and how, more recently, there have been attempts to 'recover' the self, through therapeutic uses of the arts. All of these types and experiences of aloneness are described through the lenses of artistic, literary and musical forms of expression, as aloneness is not only explored and articulated through these art forms, but is in many ways created through these art forms.
Author : Smaro Kamboureli
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554587174
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)
Download or read book Scandalous Bodies written by Smaro Kamboureli and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scandalous Bodies is an impassioned scholarly study both of literature by diasporic writers and of the contexts within which it is produced. It explores topics ranging from the Canadian government’s multiculturalism policy to media representations of so-called minority groups, from the relationship between realist fiction and history to postmodern constructions of ethnicity, from the multicultural theory of the philosopher Charles Taylor to the cultural responsibilities of diasporic critics such as Kamboureli herself. Smaro Kamboureli proposes no neat or comforting solutions to the problems she addresses. Rather than adhere to a single method of reading or make her argument follow a systematic approach, she lets the texts and the socio-cultural contexts she examines give shape to her reading. In fact, methodological issues, and the need to revisit them, become a leitmotif in the book. Theoretically rigorous and historically situated, this study also engages with close reading—not the kind that views a text as a sovereign world, but one that opens the text in order to reveal the method of its making. Her practice of what she calls negative pedagogy—a self-reflexive method of learning and unlearning, of decoding the means through which knowledge is produced—allows her to avoid the pitfalls of constructing a narrative of progress. Her critique of Canadian multiculturalism as a policy that advocates what she calls “sedative politics” and of the epistemologies of ethnicity that have shaped, for example, the first wave of ethnic anthologies in Canada are the backdrop against which she examines the various discourses that inform the diasporic experience in Canada. Scandalous Bodies was first published in 2000 and received the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian Criticism.
Author : Igor Maver
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739129724
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Diasporic Subjectivity and Cultural Brokering in Contemporary Post-Colonial Literatures written by Igor Maver and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diasporic writing simultaneously asserts a sense of belonging and expresses a sense of being 'ethnic' in a society of immigration. The essays in this volume explore how contemporary diasporic writers in English use their works to mediate this dissonance and seek to work through the ethical, political, and personal affiliations of diasporic identities and subjectivities. The essays call for a remapping of post-colonial literatures and a reevaluation of the Anglophone literary canon by including post-colonial diasporic literary discourses. Demonstrating that an intercultural dialogue and constant cultural brokering are a must in our post-colonial world, this volume is a valuable contribution to the ongoing discourse on post-colonial diasporic literatures and identities.
Author : María Luisa Femenías
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042022078
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Feminist Philosophy in Latin America and Spain written by María Luisa Femenías and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the vast range of philosophical approaches, regional issues and problems, perspectives, and historical and theoretical frameworks that together constitute feminist philosophy in Latin America and Spain.This is important while feminist philosophy was long dominated by Anglo-American authors. It makes available recent feminist thought in Latin America and Spain to facilitate dialogue among Latin American, North American, and European thinkers.
Author : Joseph Downing
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303016103X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book French Muslims in Perspective written by Joseph Downing and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the largest Muslim population in Western Europe, France has faced a number of critiques in its attempts to assimilate Muslims into an ostensibly secular (but predominantly Catholic) state and society. This book challenges traditional analyses that emphasise the conflict between Muslims and the French state and broader French society, by exploring the intersection of Muslim faith with other identities, as well as the central roles of Muslims in French civil society, politics and the media. The tensions created by attacks on French soil by Islamic State have contributed to growing acceptance of the Islamophobic discourse of Marine Le Pen and her far-right Front National party, and debates about issues such as headscarves and burkinis have garnered worldwide attention. Downing addresses these issues from a new angle, eschewing the traditional us-and-them narrative and offering a more nuanced account based on people’s actual lived experiences. French Muslims in Perspective will be of interest to students and scholars across sociology, politics, international relations, cultural studies, European Studies and French studies, as well as policy makers and practitioners involved in immigration, education, and media.
Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)
Download or read book One Hundred Years of Solitude written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Netflix’s series adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude premieres December 11, 2024! One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.
Author : Jessica Blank
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1423143477
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Karma for Beginners written by Jessica Blank and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 14-year old Tessa navigates adolescence, first love, and her damaged relationship with her mother, while living live on a New Age ashram in upstate New York. A hugely compelling and highly original coming-of-age story from the author of Almost Home.
Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 9780887840937
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Divisions on a Ground written by Northrop Frye and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 1982 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thirteen essays and addresses on Canadian writing, teaching, and society by one of the most influential critical thinkers of the century."
Author : Janette Dillon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349049964
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Solitary Man written by Janette Dillon and published by Springer. This book was released on 1981-06-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Kull
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1577316746
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Solitude written by Robert Kull and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years after losing his lower right leg in a motorcycle crash, Robert Kull traveled to a remote island in Patagonia's coastal wilderness with equipment and supplies to live alone for a year. He sought to explore the effects of deep solitude on the body and mind and to find the spiritual answers he'd been seeking all his life. With only a cat and his thoughts as companions, he wrestled with inner storms while the wild forces of nature raged around him. The physical challenges were immense, but the struggles of mind and spirit pushed him even further. Solitude: Seeking Wisdom in Extremes is the diary of Kull's tumultuous year. Chronicling a life distilled to its essence, Solitude is also a philosophical meditation on the tensions between nature and technology, isolation and society. With humor and brutal honesty, Kull explores the pain and longing we typically avoid in our frantically busy lives as well as the peace and wonder that arise once we strip away our distractions. He describes the enormous Patagonia wilderness with poetic attention, transporting the reader directly into both his inner and outer experiences.
