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Book Soul Sisters

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  • Author : Pythia Peay
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2002-05-27
  • ISBN : 1101497327
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Soul Sisters written by Pythia Peay and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-05-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique workbook to help women cultivate their full potential through the lives and lessons of the heroines of world spiritual traditions. Filled with exercises, anecdotes, quotes, and inspiration, Pythia Peay's Soul Sisters is designed to help women foster the traits that can be found in the great spiritual traditions of the world, and that are most needed in contemporary life. Each chapter shows how to cultivate the five "divine qualities": Courage, Faith, Beauty, Love, and Magic. Soul Sisters offers an abundance of examples of different female figures from the spiritual past and present who have embodied these characteristics in a distinctly feminine way. Through the road they have walked, readers can learn to discover their own individual heart-path to these strengths. Both an immensely practical workbook and an education in spiritual ideas, Soul Sisters is a companion for a lifetime.

Book A Child s Warfare  Or  The Conquest of Self

Download or read book A Child s Warfare Or The Conquest of Self written by Madeline E. Hewer and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contemporary World Fiction

Download or read book Contemporary World Fiction written by Juris Dilevko and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions. In a globalized world, knowledge about non-North American societies and cultures is a must. Contemporary World Fiction: A Guide to Literature in Translation provides an overview of the tremendous range and scope of translated world fiction available in English. In so doing, it will help readers get a sense of the vast world beyond North America that is conveyed by fiction titles from dozens of countries and language traditions. Within the guide, approximately 1,000 contemporary non-English-language fiction titles are fully annotated and thousands of others are listed. Organization is primarily by language, as language often reflects cultural cohesion better than national borders or geographies, but also by country and culture. In addition to contemporary titles, each chapter features a brief overview of earlier translated fiction from the group. The guide also provides in-depth bibliographic essays for each chapter that will enable librarians and library users to further explore the literature of numerous languages and cultural traditions.

Book Civilizing War

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  • Author : Nasser Mufti
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 2017-12-15
  • ISBN : 081013604X
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book Civilizing War written by Nasser Mufti and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, awarded by the Council of Graduate Schools Honorable Mention for the 2019 Sonya Rudikoff Prize, awarded by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association Civilizing War traces the historical transformation of civil war from a civil affair into an uncivil crisis. Civil war is today synonymous with the global refugee crisis, often serving as grounds for liberal-humanitarian intervention and nationalist protectionism. In Civilizing War, Nasser Mufti situates this contemporary conjuncture in the long history of British imperialism, demonstrating how civil war has been and continues to be integral to the politics of empire. Through comparative readings of literature, criticism, historiography, and social analysis, Civilizing War shows how writers and intellectuals of Britain’s Anglophone empire articulated a “poetics of national rupture” that defined the metropolitan nation and its colonial others. Mufti’s tour de force marshals a wealth of examples as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Benjamin Disraeli, Friedrich Engels, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, V. S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, and Michael Ondaatje to examine the variety of forms this poetics takes—metaphors, figures, tropes, puns, and plot—all of which have played a central role in Britain’s civilizing mission and its afterlife. In doing so, Civilizing War shifts the terms of Edward Said’s influential Orientalism to suggest that imperialism was not only organized around the norms of civility but also around narratives of civil war.

Book Dion and the Sybils  a Romance of the First Century

Download or read book Dion and the Sybils a Romance of the First Century written by Miles Gerald Keon and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transatlantic Women

Download or read book Transatlantic Women written by Beth Lynne Lueck and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the social and textual complexity of the transatlantic world for American women writers

Book The Play Pictorial

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book The Play Pictorial written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bystander

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 810 pages

Download or read book The Bystander written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Virgilian Identities in the French Renaissance

Download or read book Virgilian Identities in the French Renaissance written by Phillip John Usher and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2012 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Virgil's works, principally the Bucolics, the Georgics, and above all the Aeneid, were frequently read, translated and rewritten by authors of the French Renaissance. The contributors to this volume show how readers and writers entered into a dialogue with the texts, using them to grapple with such difficult questions as authorial, political and communitarian identities. It is demonstrated how Virgil's works are more than Ancient models to be imitated. They reveal themselves, instead, to be part of a vibrant moment of exchange central to the definition of literature at the time."--Back cover.

Book The Fox Plan of Photoplay Writing

Download or read book The Fox Plan of Photoplay Writing written by Charles Donald Fox and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seers  Sybils and Sages in Hellenistic Roman Judaism

Download or read book Seers Sybils and Sages in Hellenistic Roman Judaism written by John Joseph Collins and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays dealing with apocalypticism, Daniel, the Sibylline oracles, Dead Sea Scrolls and wisdom and apocalypticism. Two of the essays appear here for the first time. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

Book Locating Shakespeare in the Twenty First Century

Download or read book Locating Shakespeare in the Twenty First Century written by Gabrielle Malcolm and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first decade of the new century has certainly been a busy one for diversity in Shakespearean performance and interpretation, yielding, for example, global, virtual, digital, interactive, televisual, and cinematic Shakespeares. In Locating Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century, Gabrielle Malcolm and Kelli Marshall assess this active world of Shakespeare adaptation and commercialization as they consider both novel and traditional forms: from experimental presentations (in-person and online) and literal rewritings of the plays/playwright to televised and filmic Shakespeares. More specifically, contributors in Locating Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century examine the BBC’s ShakespeaRE-Told series, Canada’s television program Slings and Arrows, the Mumbai-based film Maqbool, and graphic novels in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series, as well as the future of adaptation, performance, digitization, and translation via such projects as National Theatre Live, the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Archive of Digital Performance, and the British Library’s online presentation of the complete Folios. Other authors consider the place of Shakespeare in the classroom, in the Kenneth Branagh canon, in Jewish revenge films (Quentin Tarantino’s included), in comic books, in Young Adult literature, and in episodes of the BBC’s popular sci-fi television program Doctor Who. Ultimately, this collection sheds light, at least partially, on where critics think Shakespeare is now and where he and his works might be going in the near future and long-term. One conclusion is certain: however far we progress into the new century, Shakespeare will be there.

Book Reveries of Community

Download or read book Reveries of Community written by Katherine Maynard and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveries of Community reconsiders the role of epic poetry during the French Wars of Religion, the series of wars between Catholics and Protestants that dominated France between 1562 and 1598. Critics have often viewed French epic poetry as a casualty of these wars, arguing that the few epics France produced during this conflict failed in power and influence compared to those of France’s neighbors, such as Italy’s Orlando Furioso, England’s Faerie Queene, and Portugal’s Os Lusíadas. Katherine S. Maynard argues instead that the wars did not hinder epic poetry, but rather French poets responded to the crisis by using epic poetry to reimagine France’s present and future. Traditionally united by une foi, une loi, un roi (one faith, one law, one king), France under Henri IV was cleaved into warring factions of Catholics and Huguenots. The country suffered episodes of bloodshed such as the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, even as attempts were made to attenuate the violence through frequent edicts, including those of St. Germain (1570) and Nantes (1598). Maynard examines the rich and often dismissed body work written during these bloody decades: Pierre de Ronsard’s Franciade, Guillaume Salluste Du Bartas’s La Judit and La Sepmaine, Sébastian Garnier’s La Henriade, Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Les Tragiques, and others. She traces how French poets, taking classics such as Virgil’s Aeneid and Homer’s Iliad as their models, reimagined possibilities for French reconciliation and unity.

Book The Family Herald

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1868
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 850 pages

Download or read book The Family Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1900
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 952 pages

Download or read book Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book    The    Athenaeum

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1850
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 714 pages

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Figures of Conversion

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  • Author : Michael Ragussis
  • Publisher : Post-Contemporary Intervention
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 358 pages

Download or read book Figures of Conversion written by Michael Ragussis and published by Post-Contemporary Intervention. This book was released on 1995 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I knew a Man, who having nothing but a summary Notion of Religion himself, and being wicked and profligate to the last Degree in his Life, made a thorough Reformation in himself, by labouring to convert a Jew." --Daniel Defoe, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) When the hero of Defoe's novel listens skeptically to this anecdote related by a French Roman Catholic priest, he little suspects that in less than a century the conversion of the Jews would become nothing short of a national project--not in France but in England. In this book, Michael Ragussis explores the phenomenon of Jewish conversion--the subject of popular enthusiasm, public scandal, national debate, and dubbed "the English madness" by its critics--in Protestant England from the 1790s through the 1870s. Moving beyond the familiar catalog of anti-Semitic stereotypes, Ragussis analyzes the rhetoric of conversion as it was reinvented by the English in sermons, stories for the young, histories of the Jews, memoirs by Jewish converts, and popular novels. Alongside these texts and the countertexts produced by English Jews, he situates such writers as Edgeworth, Scott, Disraeli, Arnold, Trollope, and Eliot within the debate over conversion and related issues of race, gender, and nation-formation. His work reveals how a powerful group of emergent cultural projects--including a revisionist tradition of the novel, the new science of ethnology, and the rewriting of European history--redefined English national identity in response to the ideology of conversion, the history of the Jews, and "the Jewish question." Figures of Conversion offers an entirely new way of regarding Jewish identity in nineteenth-century British culture and will be of importance not only to literary scholars but also to scholars of Judaic and religious studies, history, and cultural studies.