Download or read book Imperfection and Defeat written by Virgil Nemoianu and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature is defined in a challenging way as the "science" of imperfection and defeat, or else as a type of discourse that deals with defeat, loss, uncertainty in social life, by contrast with virtually all disciplines (hard sciences or social sciences) that affirm certainties and wish to convince us of truths. If in real history most constructive attempts end up in failure, it follows that we ought to have also a field of research that examines this diversity of failures and disappointments, as well as the alternative options to historical evolution and progress. Thus literature serves an indispensable role: that of gleaning the abundance of past existence, the gratuitous and the rejected being placed here on an equal level with the useful and the successful.This provocative and unusual approach is illustrated in chapters that deal with the dialectics between literary writing and such fields as historical writing, or religious discourses, and is also illustrated by the socio-historical development of East-Central Europe.
Download or read book The Spectre of Defeat in Post War British and US Literature written by David Owen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a commonplace belief that history is written by the victorious. However, less recognised but equally common is the idea that the defeated also write history, even if their particular account is rather different. This collection looks at these matters from a novel and distinct perspective. It essentially presents the idea that victors often perceive themselves as defeated, by examining the ways in which the idea of defeat comes to dominate the victors’ own sense of superiority and achievement, thereby undermining the certainties that victory is conventionally thought to create. The contributions here discuss fiction (mostly UK and US) published since the First World War. Through the frameworks of experience, memory and post-memory, they examine this subliminal defeat, basically as seen in conflict itself, in the societies that it affects, and in the individual lives of those who it destroys. The result is an innovative literary account of the victorious-yet-somehow-defeated.
Download or read book Imperfection written by Patrick Grant and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... aspirations to perfection awaken us to our actual imperfection." It is in the space between these aspirations and our inability to achieve them that Grant reflects upon imperfection. Grant argues that an awareness of imperfection, defined as both suffering and the need for justice, drive us to an unrelenting search for perfection, freedom, and self-determination. The twenty-one brief chapters of Imperfection develop this governing idea as it relates to the present situation of the God debate, modern ethnic conflicts, and the pursuit of freedom in relation to the uncertainties of personal identity and the quest for self-determination.
Download or read book Postmodernism and Cultural Identities written by Virgil Nemoianu and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *An examination of the survival of cultural values in a postmodern environment*
Download or read book Optimal Imperfection written by George Downs and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Domestic politics matters" has become a rallying cry for international relations scholars over the past decade, yet the question still remains: Just how does it matter? In this book, George Downs and David Rocke argue that an important part of the international impact of domestic politics springs from the institutional responses to its many uncertainties. This impact is due not so much to the errors in judgment these uncertainties can cause as to the strategic and institutional consequences of knowing that such errors are possible. The heart of the book is its formal analysis of how three kinds of domestic uncertainty have shaped international relations through their influence on three very different institutions. One chapter deals with the decision rules that citizens create to cope with uncertainty about the quality of their representation, and how these can lead to the paradoxical "gambling for resurrection" effect. Another chapter describes the extent to which the weak enforcement provisions of GATT can be understood as a mechanism to cope with uncertain but intermittent interest group demands for protection. The third chapter looks at the impact of uncertainty on the creation, survival, and membership of multilateral regulatory institutions, such as the Montreal Protocol and EU, when some states question the capacity of other states to meet their treaty obligations.
Download or read book The Incredible Hulk written by Peter David and published by Marvel Comics Group. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A harrowing new adventure featuring one of Marvel Comics' most enduring characters. Hounded by the U.S. Army for crimes he did not commit, the Hulk seeks refuge in an experimental procedure that will permanently transform him back to his human incarnation of Dr. Robert Bruce Banner--and be rid of his green-skinned alter ego forever. Chapter opening illustrations.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language To which is prefixed a grammar of the English language The eighth edition written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book An Imperfect God written by Henry Wiencek and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-11-15 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When George Washington wrote his will, he made the startling decision to set his slaves free; earlier he had said that holding slaves was his "only unavoidable subject of regret". In this groundbreaking new biography, based on private papers, court records, and the voluminous Washington archives, National Book Critics Circle winning historian Henry Wiencek explores the founding father's engagement with slavery at every stage of his life-as a planter, soldier, politician, president and statesman.
Download or read book An Explanatory and Phonographic Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language written by William Bolles and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language This Edition Contains a Correct Standard of Pronunciation and an Historical Account of the Author s Life by Arthur Murphy Not in Any Former One The Eighth Edition written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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