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Book Jesus unser Vorbild und F  hrer auf dem Wege standesm    iger christlicher Vollkommenheit

Download or read book Jesus unser Vorbild und F hrer auf dem Wege standesm iger christlicher Vollkommenheit written by Wilhelm Hansen and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jesus unser Vorbild und F  hrer auf dem Wege standesm    iger christlicher Vollkommenheit

Download or read book Jesus unser Vorbild und F hrer auf dem Wege standesm iger christlicher Vollkommenheit written by Wilhelm Hausen and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  The Turk and Islam in the Western Eye  1450 750

Download or read book The Turk and Islam in the Western Eye 1450 750 written by JamesG. Harper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unprecedented in its range - extending from Venice to the New World and from the Holy Roman Empire to the Ottoman Empire - this collection probes the place that the Ottoman Turks occupied in the Western imaginaire, and the ways in which this occupation expressed itself in the visual arts. Individual essays in this volume examine specific images or groups of images, problematizing the 'truths' they present and analyzing the contexts that shape the presentation of Ottoman or Islamic subject matter in European art. The contributors trace the transmission of early modern images and representations across national boundaries and across centuries to show how, through processes of translation that often involved multiple stages, the figure of the Turk (and by extension that of the Muslim) underwent a multiplicity of interpretations that reflect and reveal Western needs, anxieties and agendas. The essays reveal how anachronisms and inaccuracies mingled with careful detail to produce a "Turk," a figure which became a presence to reckon with in painting, sculpture, tapestry and printmaking.

Book Elias Portolu

    Book Details:
  • Author : Grazia Deledda
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780810112513
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Elias Portolu written by Grazia Deledda and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1926 Novel Prize for Literature After serving time in mainland Italy for a minor theft, Elias Portolu returns home to Nuoro, in rural Sardinia. Lonely and vulnerable after his prison exile, he falls in love with his brother's fiancée. But he finds himself trapped by social and religious strictures, his passion and guilt winding into a spiral of anguish and paralyzing indecision. For guidance he turns first to the village priest, who advises him to resist temptation; then he turns to the pagan "father of the woods," who recognizes the weakness of human will and urges him to declare his love before it is too late.

Book Between Past and Present

Download or read book Between Past and Present written by Neil Asher Silberman and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1990 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Zaharoff

Download or read book Zaharoff written by Robert Neumann and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Only a Fiddler

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hans Christian Andersen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1870
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Only a Fiddler written by Hans Christian Andersen and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Den fattige, musikbegavede skrædderdreng Christian fra Svendborg går til grunde, fordi hans talent ikke får de rette udfoldelsesmuligheder

Book Harraga

    Book Details:
  • Author : Boualem Sansal
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2015-01-13
  • ISBN : 1620402246
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Harraga written by Boualem Sansal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grudgingly taking her absent brother's flamboyant and pregnant girlfriend into her home in Algeria, long-time recluse Lamia comes to love the rebellious teen, who she worriedly searches for when the latter runs away into a hostile, fundamentalism-driven outside world.

Book Collected Philosophical Papers

Download or read book Collected Philosophical Papers written by E. Levinas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Miracles of Antichrist

Download or read book The Miracles of Antichrist written by Selma Lagerlöf and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Miracles of Antichrist is a philosophical novel by Selma Lagerlöf. Written as a love story between a young socialist and atheist Gaetano and Donna Micaela who is a Christian, the novel in fact represents author's criticism of socialism. The plot of the novel was inspired by a Sicilian legend: "When Antichrist comes, he shall seem as Christ", and the story centers around the antichrist in the form of a statue that Micaela prays to which seems to perform apparent miracles that are indistinguishable from those of Christ.

Book The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory

Download or read book The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory written by Karin Knorr Cetina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an exciting and diverse philosophical exploration of the role of practice and practices in human activity. It contains original essays and critiques of this philosophical and sociological attempt to move beyond current problematic ways of thinking in the humanities and social sciences. It will be useful across many disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, science, cultural theory, history and anthropology.

Book The Outcast

Download or read book The Outcast written by William Winwood Reade and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Site of Petrarchism

Download or read book The Site of Petrarchism written by William J. Kennedy and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon poststructuralist theories of nationalism and national identity developed by such writers as Etienne Balibar, Emmanuel Levinas, Julia Kristeva, Antonio Negri, and Slavoj Zizek, noted Renaissance scholar William J. Kennedy argues that the Petrarchan sonnet serves as a site for early modern expressions of national sentiment in Italy, France, England, Spain, and Germany. Kennedy pursues this argument through historical research into Renaissance commentaries on Petrarch's poetry and critical studies of such poets as Lorenzo de' Medici, Joachim du Bellay and the Pléiade brigade, Philip and Mary Sidney, and Mary Wroth. Kennedy begins with a survey of Petrarch's poetry and its citation in Italy, explaining how major commentators tried to present Petrarch as a spokesperson for competing versions of national identity. He then shows how Petrarch's model helped define social class, political power, and national identity in mid-sixteenth-century France, particularly in the nationalistic sonnet cycles of Joachim Du Bellay. Finally, Kennedy discusses how Philip Sidney and his sister Mary and niece Mary Wroth reworked Petrarch's model to secure their family's involvement in forging a national policy under Elizabeth I and James I . Treating the subject of early modern national expression from a broad comparative perspective, The Site of Petrarchism will be of interest to scholars of late medieval and early modern literature in Europe, historians of culture, and critical theorists.

Book International Migration Outlook 2007

Download or read book International Migration Outlook 2007 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-06-25 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual publication analyses recent developments in migration movements and policies in these countries, with a special focus in this edition on immigration of health workers.

Book Gunnar s Daughter

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sigrid Undset
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1998-04-01
  • ISBN : 9780141180205
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Gunnar s Daughter written by Sigrid Undset and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first historical novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Kristin Lavransdatter A Penguin Classic More than a decade before writing Kristin Lavransdatter, the trilogy about fourteenth-century Norway that won her the Nobel Prize, Sigrid Undset published Gunnar’s Daughter, a brief, swiftly moving tale about a more violent period of her country’s history, the Saga Age. Set in Norway and Iceland at the beginning of the eleventh century, Gunnar's Daughter is the story of the beautiful, spoiled Vigdis Gunnarsdatter, who is raped by the man she had wanted to love. A woman of courage and intelligence, Vigdis is toughened by adversity. Alone she raises the child conceived in violence, repeatedly defending her autonomy in a world governed by men. Alone she rebuilds her life and restores her family's honor—until an unremitting social code propels her to take the action that again destroys her happiness. First published in 1909, Gunnar's Daughter was in part a response to the rise of nationalism and Norway's search for a national identity in its Viking past. But unlike most of the Viking-inspired art of its period, Gunnar's Daughter is not a historical romance. It is a skillful conversation between two historical moments about questions as troublesome in Undset's own time—and in ours—as they were in the Saga Age: rape and revenge, civil and domestic violence, troubled marriages, and children made victims of their parents' problems.

Book The English Gentleman

Download or read book The English Gentleman written by Douglas Sutherland and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally written for Debrett's Peerage, Douglas Sutherland's guide to that endangered species, the English Gentleman, was intended as an antidote to all the endless, dull little books on manners and etiquette. It offers a window on the rather perverse world of the genuine article.

Book Community and Culture in Post Soviet Cuba

Download or read book Community and Culture in Post Soviet Cuba written by Guillermina De Ferrari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the globalization of Cuban culture, along with the bankruptcy of the state, partly modified the terms of intellectual engagement. However, no significant change took place at the political level. In Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba, De Ferrari looks into the extraordinary survival of the Revolution by focusing on the personal, political and aesthetic social pacts that determined the configuration of the socialist state. Through close critical readings of a representative set of contemporary Cuban novels and works of visual art, this book argues that ethics and gender, rather than ideology, account for the intellectuals’ fidelity to the Revolution. Community and Culture does three things: it demonstrates that masculine sociality is the key to understanding the longevity of Cuba’s socialist regime; it examines the sociology of cultural administration of intellectual labor in Cuba; and it maps the emergent ethical and aesthetic paradigms that allow Cuban intellectuals to envision alternative forms of community and civil society.