Download or read book The Laughter of Adam and Eve written by Jason Sommer and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near the beginning, just after the fall, was laughter—at least as Jason Sommer imagines it. In the title poem, Eve catches Adam’s hilarity over what passes for a tree outside of Eden, their laughter a heady combination of longing, defiance, and perhaps even relief, through which they find they now possess “a knowledge of evil that is good,” an understanding that will carry them through life after paradise. Through settings mythical, historical and biblical, through characters that range from Gunga Din to St. Kevin of Glendalough, the poems in this book often search out meaning in the tracing of origins: of a bird’s song, of laughter, of a word, of language itself. Poems explore the source of the word brouhaha, the song of the “resignation bird,” and the dangerous way a poem of Anna Akhmatova enters the world, under the eyes and ears of Stalin’s secret police, escaping the house arrest its author must endure. In The Laughter of Adam and Eve, Sommer speaks from a multitude of voices and perspectives, in short, formal lyrics as well as longer free-verse narratives. From the archetypal parents of us all, down through anonymous voices, throughout these pages, women and men speak to—and of—each other, in many roles and relations—as lover and beloved, as child and parent, as dreamer and dreamt of. The poems attempt to travel beyond the traditional binary in search of the common thread that binds us to one another. Perhaps chief among them is story: whether recasting myth so that Pygmalion and Narcissus become a single figure or using an Appalachian tale retold as a message, lover to lover, these poems narrate, while engaging deeply with those special properties that poetry can bring to story.
Download or read book And God Created Laughter written by M. Conrad Hyers and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing "a playful spirit" as part of our human makeup, Conrad Hyers shows how laughter and humor are integral to our serious study of the Bible. He opens the joy of understanding the Bible in its fullness. With the darker realities of the Bible -- sin, suffering, and death -- there coexists a lighter side -- laughter, humor, and playfulness. Competent biblical study requires both perspectives. This highly readable, preachable, and teachable work gives ministers, students, lay readers a valuable tool for recovering the spirit and offers a chance to share in the celebration of life and the divine comedy of faith, hope, and love.
Download or read book Enjoyment written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy, art criticism and popular opinion all seem to treat the aesthetics of the comic as lightweight, while the tragic seems to be regarded with greater seriousness. Why this favouring of sadness over joy? Can it be justified? What are the criteria by which the significance of comedy can be estimated vis à vis tragedy? Questions such as these underlie the present selection of studies, which casts new light on the comic, the joyful and laughter itself. This challenge to the popular attitude strikes into new territory, relating such matters to the profundity with which we enjoy life and its role in the deployment of the Human Condition. In her Introduction Tymieniecka points out that the tragic and the comic might be complementary in their respective sense-bestowing modes as well as in their dynamic functions; they might both share in the primogenital function of promoting the self-individualising progress of human existence. For the first time in philosophy, laughter, mirth, joy and the like are revealed as the modalities of the essential enjoyment of life, being brought to bear in an illumination of the human condition.
Download or read book The Adam and Eve Stories Book 2 written by Martin Smith and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 contains the next ten stories in the Adam and Eve Stories series. Adam and Eve and Dog continue to get involved in all sorts of crazy situations. And sometimes God lends a hand and sometimes he doesn't. As the stories progress Adam and Eve begin to realise that they are increasingly on their own and need to rely upon and help each other. This time Adam builds himself a canoe, there is a problem with rabbits, looking after the baby becomes troublesome, Adam tries to catch himself a moose, some ants and then some elephants get the better of him, Satan turns up, Adam makes a mess of the oysters. There are tigers and chickens and eggs and snakes and most of all there are misunderstandings and mistakes.
Download or read book The Diaries of Adam and Eve written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-13 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents two comic short stories written in the style of a diary kept by the first woman, Eve, and the first man, Adam.
Download or read book The Adam and Eve Stories Les Contes D Adam Et Eve written by Martin Smith and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1 English to French / Livre un l'Anglais au Francais. Page to page / Page a page. Illustrated by Stephanie Clark, these funny short stories are for young independent readers and for adults to share with children. They contain crazy plot twists and plays on language that will delight them both and make shared reading a pleasure. Making up different voices for the characters brings them to life. Have fun! Illustre par Stephanie Clark, ces nouvelles amusantes sont ideales pour des jeunes lecteurs independants aussi bien que pour les adultes lisant aux enfants. Elles ont des rebondissements fous et des jeux de langue qui enchanteront les deux et feront de la lecture un plaisir partage. Les lire avec des voix speciales pour chaque personnage leur donnera vie. Amusez-vous bien !"
Download or read book Diaries of Adam and Eve written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-06 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the diaries of Adam, legendary father, and Eve, mother of the human race. The relations between feminine and masculine sex were then like now? With his usual wit and talent, Mark Twain recalls the myth of Paradise or Garden of Eden using humor, sarcasm and incisive intelligence to show us the ancient weaknesses and ways of being of human nature.
Download or read book Unto Us written by Sharon Lindsay and published by Sharon Lindsay. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the historic time when the word messiah was only a whispered hope, Yeshua the Creator becomes an embryo in the womb of a girl named Mary. Lucifer is intent on destroying Mary and the baby. The Holy Spirit, along with the angelic host are equally intent on defending them.
Download or read book The Complete Diaries of Adam and Eve written by Twain M. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Марк Твен – один из самых известных американских писателей, чьи произведения отличаетс живость повествования, искромётный юмор и умение поднимать философские вопросы. «Законченные дневники Адама и Евы» – прекрасная книга сатирических заметок прародителей человечества. Ироничные, лёгкие, они показывают, насколько различны, а иногда даже противоположны, точки зрения мужчин и женщин.… Это замечательное произведение позволит вам взглянуть на мир иными глазами. Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
Download or read book The Humor of Christ written by Elton Trueblood and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1964 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Humor of Christ inspires Christians to redraw their pictures of Christ and to add a persistent biblical detail, the note of humor. Throughout the Gospels, Christ employed humor for the sake of truth and many of his teachings, when seen in this light, become brilliantly clear for the first time. Irony, satire, paradox, even laughter itself help clarify Christ's famous parables, His brief sayings, and important events in His life.
Download or read book The Genealogical Adam and Eve written by S. Joshua Swamidass and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the biblical creation account is true, with the origins of Adam and Eve taking place alongside evolution? Building on well-established but overlooked science, S. Joshua Swamidass explains how it's possible for Adam and Eve to be rightly identified as the ancestors of everyone, opening up new possibilities for understanding Adam and Eve consistent both with current scientific consensus and with traditional readings of Scripture.
Download or read book Lucifer Eve and Adam written by Peter Wilkes and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Eve and Adam refuse to mate, thereby threatening human existence, The Creator orders #1 angel Lucifer to solve the problem. But, with Lucifer's own fear of intimacy impeding any progress whatsoever, it's going to take far more than a miracle for the inept, bumbling angel to unite the seemingly incompatible and far-too-human couple.
Download or read book Lippincott s Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diary of Adam and Eve written by Mark Twain and published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Private Life of Adam and Eve written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By giving a voice to Adam and Eve and hitting all the notes on the literary scale -- from the intimate to the comical, from the journalistic to the idyllic -- this classic volume displays the brilliance and wit for which Mark Twain is rightly considered one of the greatest satirists of all time"--Publisher statement
Download or read book The Adam Chronicles written by George Youket and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the first morning in the Garden of Eden as the creatures of the forest awaken to see something beautiful and different lying among them. As all the angels in the heavenly realm watch with great anticipation, the Creator breathes into the nostrils of the still body. Suddenly, the creature begins to move. Adam, who has been given life, is the first man and is created in the very image and likeness of God. After Adam comes to understand the gift of life and love with help from the Father, God takes him by the hand and shows him the garden paradise created just for him. As Adam and God part for the night, Adam lies down to sleep, marveling at the power of his Creator and the beauty surrounding him. On the seventh day, God introduces Adam to the fruits of the garden and a woman created from his very own rib. But just as Adam and Eve realize their love for each other, a black force emerges to test everything they know and understand about God's love, life and nature. In this historical novel, actual and imagined events weave together to bring to light the meanings and truths behind the story of the first Adam. "The Adam Chronicles transports readers into a realm where they can see, feel, touch, and smell the beginning of God's mighty journey with humankind." --Mark Winheld, Author and Literary Critic
Download or read book The Diaries of Adam and Eve written by Mark Twain and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his irreverent look at conventional religion, the great American humorist presents a thoughtful argument for the equality of the sexes. Special edition, richly illustrated by F. Strothmann and Lester Ralph.
