Download or read book Saints Sinners and Comedians written by Roger Sharrock and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Graham Greene's novels. Also provides concise plot summaries.
Download or read book Sinners and Saints written by Robert J. Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick, a sailor and confirmed bachelor, returns to the family home, on leave from the Navy, horrified to find his young and only brother, Andrew, has become a priest. Alice, the mother, is passionate about her need for grandchildren. Since Andrew is a priest and unable to marry, Nick is her only hope for grandchildren. Nick plots with girlfriend Darlene to have Darlene's friend, Caroline, a woman dedicated to seducing married men, seduce Andrew. Nick thinks relations with Caroline will seduce Andrew from the priesthood. Caroline enters as an immature, raw, rude, moral-less, but physically attractive young woman, then, during numerous interactions, including confessions, is transformed into a mature, caring, sensitive woman. Sometimes, after everything goes wrong, they go right. At the conclusion the audience is treated to a surprising twist and a joyful ending.
Download or read book ThirdWay written by and published by . This book was released on 1985-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.
Download or read book The Spirituality of Comedy written by Conrad Hyers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand comedy is to understand humanity, for the comic sense is central to what it means to be human. Nearly all the major issues with which human beings have exercised themselves are touched upon in some manner by the comic spirit. Yet education in the art of comedy and in comic appreciation is given little attention in most societies. The Spirituality of Comedy explores the wisdom of comedy and the comic answer to tragedy (in both popular and classical senses of the term). Tragedy is seen as a fundamental problem of human existence, while comedy is its counterweight and resolution.Conrad Hyers has taken a fresh look at comedy from the standpoint of comparative mythology and religion, and thus comedy's spiritual significance. In his unique study of the comic tradition, Hyers explains the difficulty in pinning down themes, structures, plots, or characters that are common to all comedy. Instead he argues that there is an essence of comedy in the area of pattern. He draws upon the rich historical ensemble of types of comic figures: the humorist, comedian, comic hero, rogue, trickster, clown, fool, underdog, and simpleton. He shows how each type incarnates a comic heroism in its own unique manner, offering a profound wisdom and philosophy of life.The approach of this book is broadly interdisciplinary, with materials and interpretations introduced from the various fields of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences as they illuminate both the tragic and comic sensibilities. The methodological thread that draws this all together is an analysis of the major types of comic figures in terms of the myths and legends associated with them, the rituals they produce and enact, and the symbolism of the comic figures themselves. Written in a very readable literary style, The Spirituality of Comedy will appeal to psychologists, social scientists, clergy, philosophers, and students of literature.
Download or read book The Sinner s Comedy written by John Oliver Hobbes and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lives of the Saints written by Stephen L. Bellafiore and published by Winterlight Books. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can our modern times make room for the lives of the saints when it's the sinners that dominate the news, drive the internet and fill the churches? The Lives of the Saints: A Divine Comedy meets at the crossroads of heaven and hell where real people with everyday problems come face to face with ancient saints in their failed and often comical attempts to solve modern problems.
Download or read book The Funniest People in Comedy and Relationships 500 Anecdotes written by David Bruce and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains such anecdotes as these: 1) In his Answer Man column, film critic Roger Ebert answered a question by Matt Sandler about who was the world's most beautiful woman by saying that she was Indian actress Aishwarya Rai. In a later Answer Man column, a reader stated that Mr. Ebert should have answered the question by saying, "My wife." However, Mr. Ebert had a good reason for not answering the question that way: "Matt Sandler asked about women, not goddesses." 2) To advertise its Razzles candy, Mars Candy decided to use a Cleveland, Ohio, show in which comedian Ron Sweed, aka The Ghoul, hosted several mostly bad horror movies. The Ghoul criticized the candy for weeks, and the more he criticized it, the more its sales went up. In gratitude, Mars Candy delivered a case of Razzles to The Ghoul. The case of candy remained on the set of The Ghoul's show for year--unopened.
Download or read book A north country comedy written by Matilda Betham-Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Divine Comedy written by Cecil Donald Leighton, Jr. and published by Cecil Donald Leighton, Jr.. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Divine Comedy is a compilation of the author’s novels True and its sequel One. This book is also available for purchase by Kindle device and app users in the Kindle Store on Amazon.com.
Download or read book Graham Greene written by Robert Hoskins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reveals Greene in a dual role as author, one who projects literary experience into his view of life and subsequently projects both his experience and its "literary" interpretation into his fiction; and it defines two phases of Greenes novels through the changing relationship between writer and protagonists. The first phase progresses from acutely sensitive, self-divided young men somewhat like the young Greene to embittered, alienated characters ostensibly at great distance from their creator. The second phase (1939) includes a series of "portraits of the artist" through which Greene confronts more directly the tensions and conflicts of his private life.
Download or read book Graham Greene s Conradian Masterplot written by Robert Pendleton and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-02-12 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Man Within (1929) to The Captain and the Enemy (1988), Graham Greene engaged in a lifelong dialogue with Joseph Conrad's political, psychological and melodramatic fictions. Repressing Conrad's political anxieties, his early work displaces the protagonist's existential dilemma into the form of the thriller or - alternatively -the 'Catholic' novel. After The Quiet American (1955), however, Greene's novels return to politics, introducing comic variations which transform Conrad's 'masterplot' into a mixed genre uniquely his own, a process charted in this book, the first full-length study of the subject.
Download or read book The Cosmic Comedy Or The Vital Urge written by Leonard Stuart and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plaster Saints written by Israel Zangwill and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comedy Book Three written by Patrick McGee and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-06-14 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Dante and William Blake, Secular Revelations is the third and final book of the long poem Comedy. Still in the form of a waking dream, this volume is a meditation on paradise, not as a transcendent place but as an expression of human experience and desire. It consists of poetic dialogues, some with the spirits of well-known artists and philosophers (Richard Wright, John Lennon, Norman O. Brown, Michael Cimino, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Marlon Brando), others with more personal contacts. In an autobiographical mode, this book is a journey through the places, mostly real, in which the author underwent intellectual transformations. Critical motifs in this book are references and allusions to cinema (as in Book 2) and to popular music from the blues to rock-and-roll. There are some satirical and dystopian visions of the future, but the goal of the poem is the affirmation of the power of the human multitude to continue a permanent struggle against that which subverts infinite truth procedures, such as freedom, justice, and democracy. It presupposes that every human mind incorporates the living and the dead in one immeasurable mental process.
Download or read book The Divine Comedy written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Graham Greene written by Neil Sinyard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-12-19 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new title in Palgrave Macmillan's Literary Lives series, this is a biographical narrative of Graham Greene's literary career. Among other things, it explores his motives for writing; the literary and cinematic influences that shaped his work; his writing routine and the importance of his childhood experience. Greene was elusive and enigmatic, and this book teases out the fiction from his autobiographies, the autobiography from his fictions, sharing Paul Theroux's view that you may not know Greene from his face or speech 'but from his writing, you know everything.'
Download or read book A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Dante s The Divine Comedy written by David Dean Brockman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Dean Brockman connects spirituality with psychoanalysis throughout this book as he looks at Dante’s early writings, his life story and his "polysemous" classical poem The Divine Comedy. Dante wanted to create a document that would educate the common man about his journey from brokenness to growth and a solid integration of body, self, and soul. This book draws the resemblance between Dante’s poem and the "journey" that patients experience in psychoanalytic therapy. It will be the first total treatment of Dante’s work in general, and The Divine Comedy in particular, using the psychoanalytic method. This fascinating study of Dante’s The Divine Comedy will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and psychiatrists, as well as those still in training. Academics and students of psychology, spirituality, religion, and literature may also be interested in Brockman’s in-depth study of Dante’s work.
