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Book That Un Presentable Dark Scene

Download or read book That Un Presentable Dark Scene written by Tim Gilson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So, do you know the other side of the story of This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti? Do you know how things really happened in that small college town? Well, let me tell you the other side of the story of how things really happened there. Things that both worlds would rather that you didnt know. Things that could be, wellembarrassing for both the dark-side as well as the light. Prepare yourself for, That Un-Presentable Dark Scene

Book Other Voices  Hidden Histories of Liverpool s Popular Music Scenes  1930s 1970s

Download or read book Other Voices Hidden Histories of Liverpool s Popular Music Scenes 1930s 1970s written by Michael Brocken and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At times it appears that a whole industry exists to perpetuate the myth of origin of the Beatles. There certainly exists a popular music (or perhaps 'rock') origin myth concerning this group and the city of Liverpool and this draws in devotees, as if on a pilgrimage, to Liverpool itself. Once 'within' the city, local businesses exist primarily to escort these pilgrims around several almost iconic spaces and places associated with the group. At times it all almost seems 'spiritual'. One might argue however that, like any function myth, the music history of the Liverpool in which the Beatles grew and then departed is not fully represented. Beatles historians and businessmen-alike have seized upon myriad musical experiences and reworked them into a discourse that homogenizes not only the diverse collective articulations that initially put them into place, but also the receptive practices of those travellers willing to listen to a somewhat linear, exclusive narrative. Other Voices therefore exists as a history of the disparate and now partially hidden musical strands that contributed to Liverpool's musical countenance. It is also a critique of Beatles-related institutionalized popular music mythology. Via a critical historical investigation of several thus far partially hidden popular music activities in pre- and post-Second World War Liverpool, Michael Brocken reveals different yet intrinsic musical and socio-cultural processes from within the city of Liverpool. By addressing such 'scenes' as those involving dance bands, traditional jazz, folk music, country and western, and rhythm and blues, together with a consideration of partially hidden key places and individuals, and Liverpool's first 'real' record label, an assemblage of 'other voices' bears witness to an 'other', seldom discussed, Liverpool. By doing so, Brocken - born and raised in Liverpool - asks questions about not only the historicity of the Beatles-Liverpool narrative, but also about the absence o

Book Representing the Unpresentable

Download or read book Representing the Unpresentable written by Negar Mottahedah and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering book, Negar Mottahedeh explores the central issues of vision and visibility in Iranian culture. She focuses on historical and literary texts to understand the use of visual culture and performance traditions in the production of the contemporary nation. Tracing the historical mediation and dissemination of ideas for national reform in the modern period of Iran, the book examines the various discourses that have constituted the image of the unpresentable “Babi” as the figure of Iran’s Other. In her exploration of gender and Iranian cinema, the author powerfully argues that this unpresentable image continues to haunt contemporary Iranian cinema’s representations of the nation. As cinema began to displace other forms of representation in Iran, Islamic culture attempted to keep the motion picture industry free from what it perceived to be the taint of foreign values and intervention. With insight and detail, Mottahedeh looks at the revealing ways in which contemporary Iranian cinema has dealt with representing an unpresentable national modernity articulated through traversals in time and space. These deeply national tropes of traversal shaped the image of the “Babi,” against which nineteenth-century Iran produced its own modernity. This highly original work, signaling a paradigmatic shift in Iranian studies and gender studies, will be an invaluable resource for scholars in cultural, Iranian, or film studies.

Book An Unpresentable Glory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eleanor K. Gustafson
  • Publisher : Ambassador International
  • Release : 2018-09-19
  • ISBN : 1620208539
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book An Unpresentable Glory written by Eleanor K. Gustafson and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I trusted you, and some day, you may know just how much you hold in your hands.” Linda Jensen leads a relatively quiet life in Westchester County, New York, as the owner of a highly-acclaimed garden. Inherited from her parents, the garden is her pride and joy. What is not so joyful is finding a strange man sprawled near her delphiniums! The mysterious man is sick, unable to do anything more than drink water—and beg for secrecy. Ignoring all alarm bells, Linda sees to his needs, but her caring act takes on unexpected significance, an unpresentable glory. Seeds of trust, and perhaps love, are planted in Linda’s garden haven. But as secrets are revealed and scandal hits the headlines, the act of caring for this man threatens to tarnish both of their reputations. Like weeds in Linda’s garden, circumstances threaten to choke out their fledgling relationship, and small moments prove to be the biggest influencers—on a national scale.

Book The Dark Gaze

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  • Author : Kevin Hart
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2004-11-30
  • ISBN : 0226318117
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book The Dark Gaze written by Kevin Hart and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Book Judaism  Philosophy  and Psychoanalysis in Heidegger   s Ontology

Download or read book Judaism Philosophy and Psychoanalysis in Heidegger s Ontology written by Federico Dal Bo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Federico Dal Bo analyzes the question of Heidegger’s anti-Semitism from a deconstructive point of view, appealing not only to philosophy but also to psychoanalysis, gender studies, and critical studies. Deconstruction famously discourages simplistic oppositions whilst encouraging a more careful analysis of cultural and philosophical complexities of a semantic field. In the present case, a deconstructive analysis of Heidegger’s anti-Semitism rejects both a stern condemnation of his oeuvre and a simplistic acquittal from this infamous accusation. It rather suggests that the question of his anti-Semitism shall be examined from the broader perspective—from the end of metaphysics.

Book White Vanishing

Download or read book White Vanishing written by Elspeth Tilley and published by Brill. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the vulnerable white person vanishing without trace into the harsh Australian landscape is a potent and compelling element in multiple genres of mainstream Australian culture. It has been sung in “Little Boy Lost,” brought to life on the big screen in Picnic at Hanging Rock, immortalized in Henry Lawson’s poems of lost tramps, and preserved in the history books’ tales of Leichhardt or Burke and Wills wandering in mad circles. A world-wide audience has also witnessed the many-layered and oddly strident nature of Australian disappearance symbolism in media coverage of contemporary disappearances, such as those of Azaria Chamberlain and Peter Falconio. White Vanishing offers a revealing and challenging re-examination of Australian disappearance mythology, exposing the political utility at its core. Drawing on wide-ranging examples of the white-vanishing myth, the book provides evidence that disappearance mythology encapsulates some of the most dominant and durable categories at the heart of white Australian culture, and that many of those ideas have their origin in colonial mechanisms of inequality and oppression. White Vanishing deliberately (and perhaps controversially) reminds readers that, while power is never absolute or irresistible, some narrative threads carry a particularly authoritative inheritance of ideas and power-relations through time.

Book Diaspora Criticism

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  • Author : Sudesh Mishra
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2006-10-27
  • ISBN : 0748629335
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Diaspora Criticism written by Sudesh Mishra and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first introduction to the field of Diaspora criticism that serves both as a timely guide and a rigorous critique. Diaspora criticism takes the concept 'diaspora' as its object of inquiry and provides a framework for discussing displaced communities in a way that takes contemporary social, cultural and economic pressures into account. It also offers an alternative to Postcolonial Studies. This book is the first to provide an accessible overview of the critical trends in Diaspora criticism and to critically evaluate the major Diaspora critics and their models, with the aim of adding to the debate on methodology.

Book The Subject of Philosophy

Download or read book The Subject of Philosophy written by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Subject of Philosophy" presents a sustained examination of the relation between literature and philosophy with special emphasis on the problem of the subject and of representation. Spanning the history of philosophy from Plato and Aristotle to Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger, and addressing such major moments in the history of literature as Greek tragedy and German romanticism, The book repeatedly raises the question whether philosophy's very attempts to distinguish itself from literature are not conditioned and exceeded by a fundamental inextricability of the two. In these readings, Lacoue-Labarthe focuses on such issues as the nature of fiction and of figurative language, the fate of the "work", the status of the author, the question of madness, and the definition of gender. He broaches as well the analysis of mimesis, the most important concept of his later work and one that already gives to his persistent aesthetic preoccupations an ethical and political resonance. Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe is the author of many books, including "Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics", "Heidegger, Art and Politics", and, with Jean-Luc Nancy, "The Literary Absolute". This book is intended for those in the fields of literary theory, philosophy.

Book Hopes and Fears   Or Scenes from the Life of a Spinster

Download or read book Hopes and Fears Or Scenes from the Life of a Spinster written by Charlotte Mary Yonge and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hopes and Fears  Or  Scenes from the Life of a Spinster

Download or read book Hopes and Fears Or Scenes from the Life of a Spinster written by Yonge and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hopes and Fears or  scenes from the life of a spinster

Download or read book Hopes and Fears or scenes from the life of a spinster written by Charlotte Yonge and published by Litres. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Representing the Unpresentable

Download or read book Representing the Unpresentable written by Negar Mottahedeh and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hopes and Fears or  scenes from the life of a spinster

Download or read book Hopes and Fears or scenes from the life of a spinster written by Charlotte M. Yonge and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster" by Charlotte M. Yonge Being a spinster has long been a lifestyle that's sparked intrigue and questions. In this book, readers are able to sink into the mind of these complex women. When one lives alone, hopes and fears change. This book humanizes spinsterhood in a way that's not often done and the result is a charming and simple book that's intrigued readers for years.

Book The Constructivist Moment

Download or read book The Constructivist Moment written by Barrett Watten and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the American Comparative Literature Association's Rene Wellek Prize (2004) As one of the founding poets and editors of the Language School of poetry and one of its central theorists, Barrett Watten has consistently challenged the boundaries of literature and art. In The Constructivist Moment, he offers a series of theoretically informed and textually sensitive readings that advance a revisionist account of the avant-garde through the methodologies of cultural studies. His major topics include American modernist and postmodern poetics, Soviet constructivist and post-Soviet literature and art, Fordism and Detroit techno—each proposed as exemplary of the social construction of aesthetic and cultural forms. His book is a full-scale attempt to place the linguistic turn of critical theory and the self-reflexive foregrounding of language by the avant-garde since the Russian Formalists in relation to the cultural politics of postcolonial studies, feminism, and race theory. As such, it will provide a crucial revisionist perspective within modernist and avant-garde studies.

Book Schelling s Philosophy

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  • Author : G. Anthony Bruno
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2020-03-26
  • ISBN : 0192542052
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Schelling s Philosophy written by G. Anthony Bruno and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current wave of critical and historical engagement with idealist texts affords an unprecedented opportunity to discover the richness and value of the thought of F. W. J. Schelling. In this volume leading scholars offer compelling reasons to regard Schelling as one of Kant's most incisive interpreters, a pioneering philosopher of nature, a resolute philosopher of human finitude and freedom, a nuanced thinker of the bounds of logic and self-consciousness, and perhaps Hegel's most effective critic. The volume provides a wide-ranging presentation of Schelling's original contribution to, and internal critique of, the basic insights of German idealism, his role in shaping the course of post-Kantian thought, and his sensitivity and innovative responses to questions of lasting metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, aesthetic, and theological importance.

Book Cultural Techniques

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  • Author : Jörg Dünne
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2020-08-24
  • ISBN : 3110645343
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book Cultural Techniques written by Jörg Dünne and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the preliminary results of the work carried out by the interdisciplinary cultural techniques research lab at the University of Erfurt. Taking up an impulse from media studies, its contributions examine —from a variety of disciplinary perspectives—the interplay between the formative processes of knowledge and action outlined within the conceptual framework of cultural techniques. Case studies in the fields of history, literary (and media) studies, and the history of science reconstruct seemingly fundamental demarcations such as nature and culture, the human and the nonhuman, and materiality and the symbolical order as the result of concrete practices and operations. These studies reveal that particularly basic operations of spatialization form the very conditions that determine emergence within any cultural order. Ranging from manual and philological "paper work" to practices of opening up and closing off spaces and collective techniques of assembly, these case studies replace the grand narratives of cultural history focusing on micrological examinations of specific constellations between human and nonhuman actors.