Download or read book Fortune s Faces written by Daniel Heller-Roazen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably the single most influential literary work of the European Middle Ages, the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun has traditionally posed a number of difficulties to modern critics, who have viewed its many interruptions and philosophical discussions as signs of a lack of formal organization and a characteristically medieval predilection for encyclopedic summation. In Fortune's Faces, Daniel Heller-Roazen calls into question these assessments, offering a new and compelling interpretation of the romance as a carefully constructed and far-reaching exploration of the place of fortune, chance, and contingency in literary writing. Situating the Romance of the Rose at the intersection of medieval literature and philosophy, Heller-Roazen shows how the thirteenth-century work invokes and radicalizes two classical and medieval traditions of reflection on language and contingency: that of the Provençal, French, and Italian love poets, who sought to compose their "verses of pure nothing"in a language Dante defined as "without grammar," and that of Aristotle's discussion of "future contingents" as it was received and refined in the logic, physics, theology, and epistemology of Boethius, Abelard, Albert the Great, and Thomas Aquinas.Through a close analysis of the poetic text and a detailed reconstruction of the logical and metaphysical concept of contingency, Fortune's Faces charts the transformations that literary structures (such as subjectivity, autobiography, prosopopoeia, allegory, and self-reference) undergo in a work that defines itself as radically contingent. Considered in its full poetic and philosophical dimensions, the Romance of the Rose thus acquires an altogether new significance in the history of literature: it appears as a work that incessantly explores its own capacity to be other than it is.

Download or read book Your Face Is Your Fortune written by Evelyn Lip and published by Cavendish Square Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese believe that an individual's characteristics and personality traits are all etched onto one's face. Broken down into chapters, focusing on a particular aspect of the face. Illustrated examples. Charts and tables for easy reference Chinese face reading is deeply rooted in Chinese culture and evidence of its importance and use has been recorded as far back as during China's Warring States Period (481-221 BC). The Chinese believe that an individual's characteristics and personality traits are all etched onto one's face. Not only can one gain insight into another's personality, one's past and future is written onto his or her face. Understanding and being able to read facial features and marks (such as moles and wrinkles) means that a person is able to prepare him or herself for what destiny might bring. Filled with illustrations and examples and written in an easy-to-understand manner, this updated book is an essential read for anyone who seeks to know how an ancient art is still relevant for contemporary times. Dr. Evelyn Lip studied and trained in London as an architect. She holds a PhD and Masters in Architecture, and a Diploma in Interior Design. She was one of the first few authors to pen a book in the English language on feng shui in the 70s, when the subject was still relatively unknown in many parts of the world. Today, she is a well-regarded feng shui consultant, and also an accomplished artist and Chinese opera singer.

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Download or read book Brakespeare Or The Fortunes of a Free Lance written by George Alfred Lawrence and published by London : Tinsley Brothers. This book was released on 1869 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Fortune Hunters Shewing how People May Improve Their Fortunes and Raise Themselves in London Being a Guide to Such as are Strangers to the Ways and Customs of London written by John BREUES and published by . This book was released on 1754 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Fortunes of the Faradays written by Amanda M. Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Shakespeare Lexicon written by Alexander Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Beng l Reader written by Duncan Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jet Her Face Or Her Fortune written by Annie Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of Pendennis His Fortunes and Misfortunes His Friends and His Greatest Enemy written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Merger of Fortunes written by Peggy Moreland and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wealthy and powerful CEO Case Fortune was accustomed to getting his way. Now he had his sights set on merging his company, Dakota Fortune, with Reynolds Refining. But when the deal started heading south, the charismatic corporate shark's only recourse was to sweep Gina Reynolds off her feet to acquire her father's company. At first the beautiful heiress rebuffed his romantic gestures, though before long Case had her burning for him. By the time the dashing billionaire popped the question, Gina was all his. But when Case actually began to fall for his fiancée, he realized his foolproof plan could be blown sky-high….

Download or read book Every Summer After written by Carley Fortune and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A radiant debut."—Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Named One of the Hottest Reads of Summer 2022 by Today ∙ Parade ∙ PopSugar ∙ USA Today ∙ SheReads ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ BookBub ∙ Bustle ∙ and more! Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right. They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without. For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart. When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past. Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic story of love and the people and choices that mark us forever.

Download or read book Physiognomy in Ming China Fortune and the Body written by Xing Wang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body, Xing Wang investigates the intellectual and technical contexts in which the knowledge of physiognomy (xiangshu) was produced and transformed in Ming China (1368-1644 C.E.). Known as a fortune-telling technique via examining the human body and material objects, Xing Wang shows how the construction of the physiognomic body in many Ming texts represent a unique, unprecedented ‘somatic cosmology’. Applying an anthropological reading to these texts and providing detailed analysis of this technique, the author proves that this physiognomic cosmology in Ming China emerged as a part of a new body discourse which differs from the modern scholarly discourse on the body.