Download or read book Cain a Soliloquy written by Henry and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Footsteps of Fate written by Louis Couperus and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poems Chiefly Philosophical written by James Henry and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Curse of the Self written by Mark R. Leary and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the capacity for self-awareness is an essential aspect of human nature, self-reflection comes at a high price. Self-awareness and its accompanying egoism profoundly affect people's lives, interfering with their success, polluting their relationships with other people, and undermining their happiness. Drawing from work in psychology and other behavioral sciences, in The Curse of the Self, Mark Leary explores personal and social problems that are created by the human capacity for self-reflection and offers insights regarding how these problems may be minimized.

Download or read book Footsteps Of Fate written by Louis Couperus and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book "Footsteps of Fate" (also referred to as "Eline Vere") changed into written with the aid of the famous Dutch creator Louis Couperus in the late 1800s and early 1900s. People consider the book as a masterpiece of naturalism and a conventional of Dutch writing. The tale is about Eline Vere, the identify person, who's a young, touchy lady from The Hague's top elegance. Eline struggles with what society expects of her, her love relationships, and her very own internal turmoil. Eline's psychological adventure will become a shifting take a look at the human situation as she deals with the complicated relationships in her existence and the stifling norms of her time. Couperus shows Eline's internal life with ardour and sensitivity by way of understanding loads about human psychology and social norms. The book is a mirrored image of the naturalist movement because it suggests how genetic and environmental factors have an effect on the lives of the characters. "Footsteps of Fate" is well-known for its brilliant writing, deep characters, and practical portrayal of the social pressures that people inside the Dutch bourgeoisie in the late 1800s had to cope with. People nevertheless like Louis Couperus's work because it explores human nature in a way that never goes out of favor and because it has a place in the literary canon.

Download or read book German Tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment written by Robert R. Heitner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Blood Curse written by Brekke Elle and published by BE Creative Media. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An untrained healer apprentice. The love she sends away to war. And a curse that could swallow them whole. Rini MacIllroy chafes at the responsibilities of being an apprentice healer to her shifter wolf pack. They have stayed safe by keeping separate from humankind, but the American Civil War surges up the mountain to their isolated village. When her friends and lover are sent down the mountain to fight, Rini must stay behind. In an act of desperation, Rini unleashes an ancient curse upon her Pack –a shadow that feeds on blood and violence. As the curse tightens its hold, calling not just for bloodlust but to claim souls, Rini struggles to keep her own inner wolf at bay. Neighbor turns against neighbor, friends betray friends, and the Pack threatens to rip itself apart at the seams. Can Rini defeat the curse in her own blood, or will she and the Pack she loves be consumed by the beast within? Blood Curse is a lush historical paranormal fantasy weaving the folklore of the Scottish Highlands with New World magic. Perfect for fans of strong female friendships, and slow burn, fated mates romance.

Download or read book Abraham s Curse written by Bruce Chilton and published by Image. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When they arrived at the place which God had indicated to him, Abraham built an altar there, and arranged the wood. Then he bound his son and put him on the altar on top of the wood. Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to kill his son..." --The Book of Genesis The story of Abraham's acceptance of God's command to sacrifice his son Isaac is one of the most disturbing of all biblical stories. Isaac is spared only at the last moment, when an angel stops Abraham's hand. Theologians and scholars have wrestled with the question of why God asked Abraham to kill his beloved son, why Abraham acquiesced, and why in some interpretations he actually killed his son. In Abraham's Curse, Bruce Chilton traces the impact of the story of Abraham and Isaac on the beliefs and teachings of Judaism (where Abraham is regarded as the forefather of Israel), Islam (where he provides the role model for Muhammad), and Christianity (where he is the ancestor of King David, whose lineage culminates in Jesus). As Chilton examines the story's significance, he makes the case that, far from only reflecting the violence of an ancient, unenlightened time, the sacrifice of children in the name of religion is still a fundamental part of our lives and culture -- from Islamist suicide bombings to militant Zionism and graphic glorifications of the Crucifixion of Christ.

Download or read book Adam s Curse written by Denis Donoghue and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2001-04-23 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking its title from a poem of William Butler Yeats, this collection of essays focuses on "Adam’s Curse"—the burdens and harsh conditions that, as Denis Donoghue underscores throughout, make any human achievement difficult. As he says, those "conditions include at various levels of reference the Fall of Man, categorical failure, loss, the limitations inscribed so insistently in human life that they seem to be in the nature of things, like death and weather." But hope is never ruled out, as Donoghue reminds us of "the possibility of putting up with the conditions and turning them to some account." It is the "putting up with the conditions and turning them to some account"—a post-lapsarian struggle fraught with religious questions—that most interests Donoghue. These essays, which are explorations of both faith and literary works that engage faith, address a dazzling range of texts and writers: Yeats, Milton, Larkin, Heaney, Emmanuel Levinas, Alasdair MacIntyre, John Crowe Ransom, Henry Adams, William Lynch’s Christ and Apollo, and Robert Bellah’s Beyond Belief, among others. Common to all is an alertness to the social bearing of literature and the role it plays in relation to politics, religion, and especially ethics. What emerges, for Donoghue, is the need to restore the primacy of theology and church doctrine without evading the "dark parts" of the Old and New Testaments. Through his probing, reflective encounters with philosophical and religious issues, we witness a magisterial intelligence at work.

Download or read book Shamanic Dialogues with the Invisible Dark in Tuva Siberia written by Konstantinos Zorbas and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intentional acts of “assault sorcery”, involving operations of extracting the souls of unsuspecting victims or eliminating one’s antagonists, are central to the perceived proliferation of occult threats and shamanic assassins in Tuva, Siberia. Following the restoration of shamanism as an official religion in the region, indigenous spiritual practitioners have propagated a vindictive strand of rituals, associated with supernatural retaliation and political assassination. This book probes the unforeseen implications of state-sanctioned appropriations of religious revival, through an unsettling context of encounters with various agencies embodying “dark shamanism”. The invisible presence of this shamanic complex is manifested in the book’s presentation of a shaman’s thoughts about an epidemic of curses, his counter-cursing rituals for Russians and ethnic Tuvans, and his dialogues with dead shamanic ancestors and spectres experiencing ideological tensions.

Download or read book Cursed Objects written by J. W. Ocker and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beware...this book is cursed! These strange but true stories of the world’s most infamous items will appeal to true believers as well as history buffs, horror fans, and anyone who loves a good spine-tingling tale. They’re lurking in museums, graveyards, and private homes. Their often tragic and always bizarre stories have inspired countless horror movies, reality TV shows, novels, and campfire tales. They’re cursed objects, and all they need to unleash a wave of misfortune is . . . you. Many of these unfortunate items have intersected with some of the most notable events and people in history, leaving death and destruction in their wake. But never before have the true stories of these eerie oddities been compiled into a fascinating and chilling volume. Inside, readers will learn about: • Annabelle the Doll, a Raggedy Ann doll that featured in the horror franchise The Conjuring • The Unlucky Mummy, which is rumored to have sunk the Titanic and kick-started World War I • The Dybbuk box, which was sold on eBay and spawned the horror film The Possession • The Conjured Chest, which has been blamed for fifteen deaths within a single family • The Ring of Silvianus, a Roman artifact believed to have inspired J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit • And many more!

Download or read book The Curse of Frankenstein written by Marcus Harmes and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics abhorred it, audiences loved it, and Hammer executives where thrilled with the box office returns: The Curse of Frankenstein was big business. The 1957 film is the first to bring together in a horror movie the 'unholy two', Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, together with the Hammer company, and director Terence Fisher, combinations now legendary among horror fans. In his Devil's Advocate, Marcus Harmes goes back to where the Hammer horror production started, looking at the film from a variety of perspectives: as a loose literaryadaptation of Mary Shelley's novel; as a film that had, for legal reasons, to avoid adapting from James Whale's 1931 film for Universal Pictures; and as one which found immediate sources of inspiration in the Gainsborough bodice rippers of the 1940s and the poverty row horrors of the 1950s. Later Hammer horrors may have consolidated the reputation of the company and the stars, but these works had their starting point in the creative and commercial choices made by the team behind The Curse of Frankenstein. In the film sparks fly, new life is created and horrors unleashed but the film itself was a jolt to 1950s cinema going that has never been entirely surpassed.

Download or read book The Nutmeg s Curse written by Amitav Ghosh and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-09-07 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment. A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh’s new book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. The Nutmeg’s Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh’s narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice nutmeg. The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation—of both human life and the natural environment. In Ghosh’s hands, the story of the nutmeg becomes a parable for our environmental crisis, revealing the ways human history has always been entangled with earthly materials such as spices, tea, sugarcane, opium, and fossil fuels. Our crisis, he shows, is ultimately the result of a mechanistic view of the earth, where nature exists only as a resource for humans to use for our own ends, rather than a force of its own, full of agency and meaning. Writing against the backdrop of the global pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests, Ghosh frames these historical stories in a way that connects our shared colonial histories with the deep inequality we see around us today. By interweaving discussions on everything from the global history of the oil trade to the migrant crisis and the animist spirituality of Indigenous communities around the world, The Nutmeg’s Curse offers a sharp critique of Western society and speaks to the profoundly remarkable ways in which human history is shaped by non-human forces.

Download or read book The Volatility Curse written by Daniela Campello and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic voting is common around the world, but in many developing countries economic performance is dependent on exogenous international factors.