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Book Immemorial Silence

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karmen MacKendrick
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2001-03-01
  • ISBN : 9780791491102
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Immemorial Silence written by Karmen MacKendrick and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on philosophy, theology, and literature, from the early Middle Ages to the present, Immemorial Silence traces a series of intertwined ideas. Exploring silence as the absence of language, which is nonetheless inherent in language itself, and eternity as the outside of time, cutting through time itself, the book unfolds a series of connections between these temporal and linguistic themes.

Book Silence in Philosophy  Literature  and Art

Download or read book Silence in Philosophy Literature and Art written by Steven Bindeman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silence exists at the edge of the world, where words break off and meaning fades into ambiguity. The numerous treatments of silence in Steven L. Bindeman’s Silence in Philosophy, Literature, and Art question the misleading clarity of certainty, which persists in the unreflective discourse of common experience. Significant philosophical problems, such as the limits of language, the perception of sound and the construction of meaning, the dynamics of the social realm, and the nature of the human self, all appear differently as a consequence of this questioning. Silence is shown to have two modes, disruptive and healing, which work together as complementary stages within a creative process. The interaction between these two modes of silence serves as the dynamic behind the entire work.

Book The Rainbow

    Book Details:
  • Author : D. H. Lawrence
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2020-03-10
  • ISBN : 1504061667
  • Pages : 543 pages

Download or read book The Rainbow written by D. H. Lawrence and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel by the author of Sons and Lovers follows three generations of a family in rapidly changing England. One of the Modern Library’s 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century In a story ranging from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, The Rainbow explores the passions and relationships experienced by each generation of the Brangwen family as the world around them grows more urban and industrialized. Tom Brangwen is a farmer who does not venture beyond the east Midlands and makes his home with a Polish widow named Lydia. Lydia’s daughter, Anna, suffers through a troubled marriage. And her daughter, Ursula—whose story continues in Lawrence’s sequel, Women in Love—receives an advanced education and finds herself in a society far more sophisticated and fast-paced than that of her forebears. Ursula yearns for something more and seeks to sate a deep hunger in both her body and soul. A daring, sensual novel by the author of Lady Chatterley’s Lover and other modern classics, The Rainbow was banned in England for years, and is now considered one of the greatest works of twentieth-century literature.

Book The Wedding Ring

    Book Details:
  • Author : D. H. Lawrence
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2013-03-25
  • ISBN : 162558878X
  • Pages : 1456 pages

Download or read book The Wedding Ring written by D. H. Lawrence and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 1456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When D.H. Lawrence wrote The Rainbow and Women in Love he had intended for it to be a single novel. One of the names he was considering was The Wedding Ring. The publisher, however, chose to break the work into two novels. Here are the two novels once again in single form. This novel follows generations of the Brangwen family, focusing on the sexual dynamics of, and relations between, the characters. Lawrence's frank treatment of sexual desire and the power plays within relationships as a natural and even spiritual force of life caused The Rainbow to be prosecuted in an obscenity trial in late 1915, as a result of which all copies were seized and burnt. After this ban it was unavailable in Britain for 11 years.

Book Merleau Ponty and the Face of the World

Download or read book Merleau Ponty and the Face of the World written by Glen A. Mazis and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses Merleau-Ponty’s contribution to ethics as calling for a poetic interplay between perception and imagination, and between silence and solidarity, that reveals our place in the world, and our obligations to ourselves and others. Before his death in 1961, Merleau-Ponty worried about what he saw as humanity’s increasingly self-enclosed and manipulative way of experiencing self, others, and the world—the consequences of which remain apparent in our destructive inability to connect with others within and across cultures. In Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World, Glen A. Mazis provides an overall consideration of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy that brings out what he sees as a corrective prescription for ethical reorientation that is fundamental to Merleau-Ponty’s thought. Mazis begins by analyzing the key role that silence plays for Merleau-Ponty as a positive, powerful presence rather than a lack or emptiness, and then builds on this to explore the ethical significance of the face-to-face encounter in his thought as one of solidarity rather than obligation. In the last part of the book, Mazis traces the development of what he calls “physiognomic imagination” in Merleau-Ponty’s work. This understanding of imagination is not fancy or make-believe, but rather brings out the depths of perceptual meaning and leads to an appreciation of poetic language as the key to revitalizing both ethics and ontology. Drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s published works, lecture notes, unpublished writings, and the work of many phenomenologists and Merleau-Ponty scholars, Mazis also offers incisive readings of Merleau-Ponty’s work as it relates to that of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Gaston Bachelard, and Emmanuel Levinas.

Book The Rainbow  Unabriged

    Book Details:
  • Author : D. H. Lawrence
  • Publisher : BookRix
  • Release : 2019-06-15
  • ISBN : 3736804814
  • Pages : 782 pages

Download or read book The Rainbow Unabriged written by D. H. Lawrence and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rainbow is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family living in Nottinghamshire, particularly focusing on the individual's struggle to growth and fulfilment within the confining strictures of English social life. The Rainbow tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, a farm/ labouring dynasty who live in the East Midlands of England near Nottingham. The book spans a period of roughly 65 years from the 1840s to 1905, and shows how the love relationships of the Brangwens change against the backdrop of the increasing industrialisation of Britain. The first central character, Tom Brangwen, is a farmer whose experience of the world does not stretch beyond Nottinghamshire; while the last, Ursula, his granddaughter, studies at University and becomes a teacher in the progressively urbanised, capitalist and industrial world that would become our modern experience. The book starts with a description of the Brangwen dynasty, then deals with how Tom Brangwen, one of several brothers, fell in love with a Polish refugee, Lydia. The next part of the book deals with Lydia's daughter by her first husband, Anna, and her destructive, battle-riven relationship with her husband, Will, the son of one of Tom's brothers. The last and most extended part of the book, and also probably the most famous, then deals with Will and Anna's daughter, Ursula, and her struggle to find fulfilment for her passionate, spiritual and sensual nature against the confines of the increasingly materialist and conformist society around her. She experiences a lesbian relationship with a teacher, and a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with Anton Skrebensky, a British soldier of Polish ancestry. At the end of the book, having failed to find her fulfilment in Skrebensky, she has a vision of a rainbow towering over the Earth, promising a new dawn for humanity: "She saw in the rainbow the earth's new architecture, the old, brittle corruption of houses and factories swept away, the world built up in a living fabric of Truth, fitting to the over-arching heaven."

Book The Rainbow

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Herbert Lawrence
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-07-20
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 488 pages

Download or read book The Rainbow written by David Herbert Lawrence and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central characters in this 1915 D.H. Lawrence novel are the Brangwen family and in particular, Ursula, the granddaughter of Lydia Lensky. This is a story of 3 generations of one family; their loves and lives and passions.

Book The Rainbow Volume 1 of 2  EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition

Download or read book The Rainbow Volume 1 of 2 EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Essential D H  Lawrence

Download or read book The Essential D H Lawrence written by D. H. Lawrence and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 2779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the major works of English author, playwright and poet D. H. Lawrence together with an active table of contents: Aaron's Rod Amores Bay A Book of Poems England, My England Fantasia of the Unconscious Look! We Have Come Through! The Lost Girl New Poems The Prussian Officer Sons and Lovers Tortoises Touch and Go The Trespasser Twilight in Italy Women in Love

Book The Rainbow by D  H  Lawrence   Delphi Classics  Illustrated

Download or read book The Rainbow by D H Lawrence Delphi Classics Illustrated written by D. H. Lawrence and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Rainbow’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of D. H. Lawrence’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Lawrence includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Rainbow’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Lawrence’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

Book The Rainbow

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Herbert Lawrence
  • Publisher : B.W. Huebsch
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 488 pages

Download or read book The Rainbow written by David Herbert Lawrence and published by B.W. Huebsch. This book was released on 1921 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Without Authority

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert L. Perkins
  • Publisher : Mercer University Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780881460483
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Without Authority written by Robert L. Perkins and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Kierkegaard Commentary-For the first time in English the world community of scholars systematically assembled and presented the results of recent research in the vast literature of Søren Kierkegaard. Based on the definitive English edition of Kierkegaard's works by Princeton University Press, this series of commentaries addresses all the published texts of the influential Danish philosopher and theologian. This is volume 18 in a series of commentaries based upon the definitive translations of Kierkegaard's writings published by Princeton University Press, 1980ff.

Book The Rainbow

    Book Details:
  • Author : D. H. Lawrence
  • Publisher : Standard Ebooks
  • Release : 2021-05-24T02:04:40Z
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 603 pages

Download or read book The Rainbow written by D. H. Lawrence and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-05-24T02:04:40Z with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rainbow is an epic tale spanning three generations of Brangwens, a family of farmers living in Nottinghamshire around the time of the Industrial Revolution. The tale begins with Tom Brangwen, the very epitome of a rural English farmer leading the old way of life. We follow him as a youth easing in to the rhythm of rural existence. He soon falls in love with Lydia, a Polish immigrant he had hired as a housekeeper, and despite their vast cultural differences, the two marry. Their relationship is, in a word, satisfactory: the two face a language and culture barrier that prevents their minds from ever truly meeting, but they learn to be more or less content with their place in society and in raising their children. Lydia’s child by her first marriage, Anna, becomes the focus of the next part of the novel. She was born in England, and has a fiery and demanding temperament. She falls in love with Will, a nephew of Tom, and the two begin a rocky and difficult marriage. Will, a craftsman and not a farmer, is self-absorbed, and wants nothing more than for them to live their lives only for each other. But Anna wants to strike out in the world and become a part of society. The two must reconcile their clashing personalities and desires as they raise their many children. The oldest of their children, Ursula, becomes the focus of the last third—and perhaps most famous—part of the novel. Ursula is a deeply sensual being born in to the Victorian era, a time restrained in morality but exploding in energy and possibility, now worlds away from her grandfather Tom Brangwen’s quiet, traditional farming life. She leads a life unimaginable to her rural ancestors: indulging in travel abroad, waiting for marriage and pursuing her physical desires, and even taking on a career—a concept both new and frightening to her family, who are just a generation removed from the era when a woman’s life was led at home. Her unhappiness with the contradiction in this new unbridled way of living and the strict social mores of the era becomes the main theme of this last part of the book. The entire novel takes a frank approach to sexuality and physical desire, with sex portrayed unashamedly as a natural, powerful, pleasurable, and desirable force in relationships. In fact Ursula’s story is the most famous part of the novel not just because of her unrestrained physicality and lust, but because she also experiments with a candidly-realized homosexual affair with one of her teachers. This unheard-of treatment of deeply taboo topics was poorly received by Lawrence’s Edwardian contemporaries, and the book quickly became the subject of an obscenity trial that resulted in over 1,000 copies being burned and the book being banned in the U.K. for eleven years. Though its charged portrayal of sexuality is what the book is remembered for, sexuality is only one of the themes Lawrence treats. The novel stands solidly on its rich description of both rural and city life, its wide-angled view of change over generations, and its exploration of hope for the human spirit in societies that heave not gently but quickly and violently into new eras. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Book Pre State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement

Download or read book Pre State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement written by Rotem Rozental and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By entering and critically re-activating the Zionist photographic archive established by the Division of Journalism and Propaganda of the Jewish National Fund, this research examines its rippling impact on civil landscapes prior to 1948 in Palestine, and its lasting impact on the region to date. This study argues that the Zionist movement makes particular use of the machinery of the photographic archive, aiming to constitute the boundaries of Palestine as a Jewish state, claiming ownership over the land and announcing internationally the success of its enterprise, thus substantiating the image it sought to embed as the “reality” of the land. This archive was not stand-alone, as it was functioning in relation to a vast, complicated network of organizational systems and technologies, in the Middle East and across the world. Crucially, this system functioned as a national archive in future tense, for a nation-state that was not yet in existence, seeking to substantiate its regional authority and shape its cultural repository, outlining parameters for inclusion and exclusion from its civic space. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, photography history, visual culture, Jewish studies, Israel studies and Middle East studies.

Book Is Shakespeare any Good

Download or read book Is Shakespeare any Good written by Richard Bradford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Shakespeare any Good? reveals why certain literary works and authors are treated as superior to others, and questions the literary establishment’s criteria for creating an imperium of “great” writers. Enables readers to articulate and formulate their own arguments about the quality of literature – including works that convention forbids us to dislike Dismantles the claims of academic criticism – particularly Theory – to tell us anything useful about why we like or appreciate literature Challenges and shatters many longstanding beliefs about literature and its evaluation Poses serious questions about the value of literature, and studying literature, and presents these in a lively and entertainingly provocative manner

Book Nine Faces Of Kenya

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elspeth Huxley
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2011-06-30
  • ISBN : 1446484041
  • Pages : 575 pages

Download or read book Nine Faces Of Kenya written by Elspeth Huxley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this marvelous anthology, Elspeth Huxley, our best and most popular writer on Africa, has drawn on her unparalleled knowledge of Kenya and its literature to present a fully rounded portrait of one of the most fascinating countries in the world. In nine sections focusing on exploration, travel, settlement, war, hunting, wildlife, environment, life-styles, and legend and poetry, using only first-hand accounts, she guides the reader through the story of Kenya from AD100 to the present with her characteristic candour and directness.

Book Fictions of God

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dr. Frank England
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2020-06-08
  • ISBN : 1532696760
  • Pages : 139 pages

Download or read book Fictions of God written by Dr. Frank England and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction and theology share an attempt to articulate what it means to be human. They both include narrative accounts of virtue and vice, moral worth and moral failure. Through the themes of courtesy, brutality, silence, sound, and divine absence, the sacred nature and character of being human is explored in novels by Anita Brookner, Chuck Palahniuk, Anne Michaels, Richard Powers, and Iris Murdoch.