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Book Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man

Download or read book Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man written by marquis de Sade and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man

Download or read book Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man written by marquis de Sade and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man  by Marquis de Sade    Edited    by Maurice Heine

Download or read book Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man by Marquis de Sade Edited by Maurice Heine written by Donatien Alphonse François de Sade and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man  by Mis de Sade    Edited    by Maurice Heine  Translated by Samuel Putnam

Download or read book Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man by Mis de Sade Edited by Maurice Heine Translated by Samuel Putnam written by Donatien Alphonse François de Sade and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man  by Marquis de Sade    Edited    by Maurice Heine  Translated by Samuel Putnam

Download or read book Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man by Marquis de Sade Edited by Maurice Heine Translated by Samuel Putnam written by Donatien Alphonse François de Sade and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dialogue Entre Un Pr  tre Et Un Moribond  Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man     With an Introduction and Notes by Maurice Heine  Translated by Samuel Putnam

Download or read book Dialogue Entre Un Pr tre Et Un Moribond Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man With an Introduction and Notes by Maurice Heine Translated by Samuel Putnam written by Donatien Alphonse François de Marquis SADE and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Habits of Mind

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  • Author : Antonio T. De Nicolás
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 0595126669
  • Pages : 582 pages

Download or read book Habits of Mind written by Antonio T. De Nicolás and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stimulating new work is based on a highly-successful--and extremely popular--course which Professor De Nicolas has taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook for over 15 years. In "Habits of Mind," De Nicolas reveals that the most important achievement of education is to develop in students those skills that enable them to participate fully in the life of humankind. He calls these skills the "inner technologies", and intends by the phrase something very different from congnitive skills. Education, he claims, must nurture the capacity for fantasy and imagination. In "Habits of Mind," he traces the relative importance of these capacities through the history and philosophy of education from Plato onward. The habits of intellectual discourse are treated as an organic thread from the ancient past to the present.

Book The Dismemberment of Orpheus

Download or read book The Dismemberment of Orpheus written by Ihab Hassan and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the first edition of which was published in 1971 by Oxford University Press, Ihab Hassan takes Orphic dismemberment and regeneration as his metaphor for a radical crisis in art and language, culture and consciousness, which prefigures postmodern literature. The modern Orpheus, he writes, "sings on a lyre without strings." Thus, his sensitive critique traces a hypothetical line from Sade through four modern authors--Hemingway, Kafka, Genet, and Beckett--to a literature still to come. But the line also breaks into two Interludes, one concerning 'Pataphysics, Dada, and Surrealism, and the other concerning Existentialism and Aliterature. Combining literary history, brief biography, and critical analysis, Hassan surrounds these authors with a complement of avant-garde writers whose works also foreshadow the postmodern temper. These include Jarry, Apollinaire, Tzara, Breton, Sartre, Camus, Nathalie Sarraute, Robbe-Grillet, and in America, Cage, Salinger, Ginsberg, Barth, and Burroughs. Hassan takes account also of related contemporary developments in art, music, and philosophy, and of many works of literary theory and criticism. For this new edition, Hassan has added a new preface and postface on the developing character of postmodernism, a concept which has gained currency since the first edition of this work, and which he himself has done much to theorize.

Book Lautr  amont and Sade

Download or read book Lautr amont and Sade written by Maurice Blanchot and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Blanchot forcefully distinguishes his critical project from the major intellectual currents of his day, surrealism and existentialism.

Book The Marquis de Sade and Atheism

Download or read book The Marquis de Sade and Atheism written by Dorothy Grossman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Searching for Faith

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  • Author : W. Ross Winterowd
  • Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
  • Release : 2004-08-20
  • ISBN : 1932559329
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Searching for Faith written by W. Ross Winterowd and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2004-08-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for Faith: A Skeptic’s Journey is intended for the general reader. It is not a scholarly book; however, it is the result of a decades-long interest in how readers read and how texts convey their meaning, leavened by a very personal commitment to the quest for faith. It explores timely questions that must concern anyone who thinks about faith, particularly insofar as faith is based on the Bible.

Book An End To Murder

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  • Author : Colin Wilson
  • Publisher : Robinson
  • Release : 2015-09-24
  • ISBN : 1780335288
  • Pages : 640 pages

Download or read book An End To Murder written by Colin Wilson and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creatively and intellectually there is no other species that has ever come close to equalling humanity’s achievements, but nor is any other species as suicidally prone to internecine conflict. We are the only species on the planet whose ingrained habit of conflict constitutes the chief threat to our own survival. Human history can be seen as a catalogue of cold-hearted murders, mindless blood-feuds, appalling massacres and devastating wars, but, with developments in forensic science and modern psychology, and with raised education levels throughout the world, might it soon be possible to reign in humanity’s homicidal habits? Falling violent crime statistics in every part of the world seem to indicate that something along those lines might indeed be happening. Colin and Damon Wilson, who between them have been covering the field of criminology for over fifty years, offer an analysis of the overall spectrum of human violence. They consider whether human beings are in reality as cruel and violent as is generally believed and they explore the possibility that humankind is on the verge of a fundamental change: that we are about to become truly civilised. As well as offering an overview of violence throughout our history – from the first hominids to the twenty-first century, touching on key moments of change and also indicating where things have not changed since the Stone Age – they explore the latest psychological, forensic and social attempts to understand and curb modern human violence. To begin with, they examine questions such as: Were the first humans cannibalistic? Did the birth of civilisation also lead to the invention of war and slavery? Priests and kings brought social stability, but were they also the instigators of the first mass murders? Is it in fact wealth that is the ultimate weapon? They look at slavery and ancient Roman sadism, but also the possibility that our own distaste for pain and cruelty is no more than a social construct. They show how the humanitarian ideas of the great religious innovators all too quickly became distorted by organised religious structures. The book ranges widely, from fifteenth-century Baron Gilles de Rais, ‘Bluebeard’, the first known and possibly most prolific serial killer in history, to Victorian domestic murder and the invention of psychiatry and Sherlock Holmes and the invention of forensic science; from the fifteenth-century Taiping Rebellion in China, in which up to 36 million died to the First and Second World Wars and more recent genocides and instances of ‘ethnic cleansing’, and contemporary terrorism. They conclude by assessing the very real possibility that the internet and the greater freedom of information it has brought is leading, gradually, to a profoundly more civilised world than at any time in the past.

Book Sade

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  • Author : Annie Le Brun
  • Publisher : City Lights Books
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780872862500
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Sade written by Annie Le Brun and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary adventure of D.A.F. (1740-1814) is unique and paradoxical. He was widely read in the nineteenth century, but his books disappeared almost completely from circulation in the century. Meanwhile the exegesis of Sade poured from the presses of the Western world in a flood of words in which the writer, the novelist, and the exceptional pet disappeared. In France today, J. J. Pauvert, who considers Sade "the greatest French writer," is publishing a new edition of the complete works with a new introduction by Annie Le Brun. Sade: A Sudden Abyss is the translation of this introduction, which shows Sade as the inventor of an entirely new language through which he fathoms human nature, desire, and relationships of power. In this fresh and authoritative survey of Sade's work as a whole, Le Brun frees it from such critics as Bataille, Blanchot, Klossowski, and Barthes (who see Sade's language as a metaphor for history, society, or writing itself). She asks, Where is Sade himself in these texts? What exactly does Sade tell us? What is obscured when Sade's writing is placed in a "universe of discourse" rather than understood as a manifestation of a life spent in eleven prisons over twenty-seven years? Like a powerful laser beam, her reflections cut through two centuries of intellectual hide-and-seek and let Sade for the first time be seen and read in his own light. Annie Le Brun is a French poet and literary theorist. Her books include Lachez tout, a critique of the French neofeminist movement; A distance; and Les chateaux de la subversion, a study of the Gothic tradition.

Book Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era  1760   1850

Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era 1760 1850 written by Christopher John Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 850 analytical articles, this two-volume set explores the developments that influenced the profound changes in thought and sensibility during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The Encyclopedia provides readers with a clear, detailed, and accurate reference source on the literature, thought, music, and art of the period, demonstrating the rich interplay of international influences and cross-currents at work; and to explore the many issues raised by the very concepts of Romantic and Romanticism.

Book The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales

Download or read book The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales written by Marquis de Sade and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revered by Enlightenment and Victorian thinkers, de Sade was recognized as a founding father by the Surrealists, and holds a prominent place in the history of modernism and post-modernism. This selection of his early writings, some appearing in English translation for the first time, revealsthe full range of his sobering moods and considerable talents.

Book Everything in Its Place

Download or read book Everything in Its Place written by Thomas F. Anderson and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything in Its Place: The Life and Works of Virgilio Pinera: is a seminal book that fills a major gap in Cuban and Latin American literary criticism. In addition to being the most comprehensive study to date of the life and work of Virgilio Pinera, this is the first book in English on this major twentieth-century Cuban author. In this study Thomas F. Anderson draws extensively on unpublished manuscripts and diverse critical writings, bringing new insights into how Pinera's works responded to key literary influences as well as events in his life and in Cuban political and cultural history.

Book Kafka  Gothic and Fairytale

Download or read book Kafka Gothic and Fairytale written by Patrick Bridgwater and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kafka, Gothic and Fairytale is an original comparative study of the novels and some of the related shorter punishment fantasies in terms of their relationship to the Gothic and fairytale conventions. It is an absorbing subject and one which, while keeping to the basic facts of his life, mind-set and literary method, shows Kafka’s work in a genuinely new light. The contradiction between his persona with its love of fairytale and his shadow with its affinity with Gothic is reflected in his work, which is both Gothic and other than Gothic, both fairytale-like and the every denial of fairytale. Important subtexts of the book are the close connexion between Gothic and fairytale and between both of these and the dream. German text is quoted in translation unless the emphasis is on the meaning of individual words or phrases, in which case the words in question are quoted and their English meanings discussed. This means that readers without German can, for the first time, begin to understand the underlying ambiguity of Kafka’s major fictions. The book is addressed to all who are interested in the meaning of his work and its place in literary history, but also to the many readers in the English and German-speaking worlds who share the author’s enthusiasm for Gothic and fairytale.