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Book The Naivety of Youth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew Brierley
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2010-08-09
  • ISBN : 1446131866
  • Pages : 89 pages

Download or read book The Naivety of Youth written by Matthew Brierley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Naivety of Youth Matthew Brierley explores themes ranging from adolescence to spirituality. Through poems and prose, the title piece written when Matthew was just nine years old, the sensuality and mysteries of land and sea compete alongside the stresses of city and working life. This debut collection is a journey of exploration and connection: to place, language and memory. A kiwi at heart Matthew currently lives and works in the north west of Australia, with his wife and 3 young children.

Book The Distinction of the Mature and the Horror of the Naive and Other Stories of Youth in Limbo

Download or read book The Distinction of the Mature and the Horror of the Naive and Other Stories of Youth in Limbo written by Ellison Fowler and published by The Artless Dodges Press. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I started thinking that Grant was right, that we all came from too much money. Not enough to spare us any hardship, but enough to take the edge off. We were never going to really fail or really succeed. Everything was going to be blunted by a buffer of money. There would always be money. We were never going to be destitute or struggling or starving. We would have to break entirely from our parents and their money to get anywhere near an experience that was not lessened by the knowledge that we would always be protected, looked out for, and kept from anything unpleasant or dirty. It was not life at all but something else, something lived walking six inches off the ground. I had never dropped anything that could not be replaced or transgressed in a way that couldn't be corrected." - from THE DISTINCTION OF THE MATURE AND THE HORROR OF THE NAIVE A pair of teenagers live their own version of Hemingway's fiesta in Pamplona; a group of college students spends the weekend at a hotel for a friend's wedding; a young bartender at a Mexican resort flirts with a pretty tourist: the characters in the seven stories that make up Fowler's collection - his "youth in limbo" - share youth, but they also share a palpable uncertainty, a wavering and fragile becoming made all the more perilous by their awareness of it. They are characters on the brink: they are preparing to sacrifice their infinite possible futures for the singular lives they will live. While the anxiety of this phase of life is often forgotten in time, when memory has made the course of one's life seem inevitable, in Fowler's hands it becomes vividly palpable once more: these are characters staring down an impending tragedy, one made all the worse by its intangibility, by their uncertainty about it, by their inability to articulate its character, by the older world's indifference to it. It is a tragedy Fowler captures with due restraint, subtlety, art, and compassion. Written by Ellison Fowler Cover Design by Tom Maven

Book Young  Dumb  and Naive

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alicia Caldwell Henderson
  • Publisher : Walker Diaries
  • Release : 2019-01-21
  • ISBN : 9781793196095
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Young Dumb and Naive written by Alicia Caldwell Henderson and published by Walker Diaries. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After spending her middle school years playing second mom to her siblings, Azerica Christian has decided to live life for herself. She's in high school. She's a cheerleader. She's becoming popular and living life with no regrets... even if that means breaking all the rules.

Book Racial Innocence

Download or read book Racial Innocence written by Robin Bernstein and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2013 Book Award Winner from the International Research Society in Children's Literature 2012 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2012 Winner of the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association 2012 Runner-Up, John Hope Franklin Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association 2012 Honorable Mention, Distinguished Book Award presented by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Beginning in the mid nineteenth century in America, childhood became synonymous with innocence--a reversal of the previously-dominant Calvinist belief that children were depraved, sinful creatures. As the idea of childhood innocence took hold, it became racialized: popular culture constructed white children as innocent and vulnerable while excluding black youth from these qualities. Actors, writers, and visual artists then began pairing white children with African American adults and children, thus transferring the quality of innocence to a variety of racial-political projects--a dynamic that Robin Bernstein calls "racial innocence." This phenomenon informed racial formation from the mid nineteenth century through the early twentieth. Racial Innocence takes up a rich archive including books, toys, theatrical props, and domestic knickknacks which Bernstein analyzes as "scriptive things" that invite or prompt historically-located practices while allowing for resistance and social improvisation. Integrating performance studies with literary and visual analysis, Bernstein offers singular readings of theatrical productions from blackface minstrelsy to Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; literary works by Joel Chandler Harris, Harriet Wilson, and Frances Hodgson Burnett; material culture including Topsy pincushions, Uncle Tom and Little Eva handkerchiefs, and Raggedy Ann dolls; and visual texts ranging from fine portraiture to advertisements for lard substitute. Throughout, Bernstein shows how "innocence" gradually became the exclusive province of white children--until the Civil Rights Movement succeeded not only in legally desegregating public spaces, but in culturally desegregating the concept of childhood itself. Check out the author's blog for the book here.

Book Friend of My Youth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alice Munro
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2012-04-25
  • ISBN : 0307814599
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Friend of My Youth written by Alice Munro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “wickedly funny” (Newsweek) collection of ten short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). “Each of her collections demonstrates such linguistic skill, delicacy of vision, and . . . moral strength and clarity.”—Chicago Tribune A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband’s past—and instead discovering unsetting truths about a total stranger. The miraculously accomplished stories in this collection not only astonish and delight, but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. The mastery—the almost numinous ability to say the unsayable—makes Friend of My Youth a genuine literary event.

Book The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist

Download or read book The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist written by Orhan Pamuk and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red—an inspired, thoughtful, and deeply personal book of essays about reading and writing novels. In this fascinating set of essays, based on the talks he delivered at Harvard University as part of the distinguished Norton Lecture series, Pamuk presents a comprehensive and provocative theory of the novel and the experience of reading. Drawing on Friedrich Schiller’s famous distinction between “naïve” writers—those who write spontaneously—and “sentimental” writers—those who are reflective and aware—Pamuk reveals two unique ways of processing and composing the written word. He takes us through his own literary journey and the beloved novels of his youth to describe the singular experience of reading. Unique, nuanced, and passionate, this book will be beloved by readers and writers alike.

Book Songs of Innocence

Download or read book Songs of Innocence written by William Blake and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hymns of Arcanus  New Edition

Download or read book The Hymns of Arcanus New Edition written by Steven Parris Ward and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealed in a dream, the angel Arcanus observes the sufferings of mankind on Earth, and offers with its tears, hymns of condemnation and consolation. These carefully wrought poems represent a complete cycle, focusing on the spiritual, religious, environmental and political issues that have sometimes troubled the people of this planet. The angel Arcanusis the poetic representation of mankind's higher faculty- the faculty of the Imagination- the unity of love and reason, and that which is expressed in compassionate behaviour. The poet callsfor the awakening of this higher faculty, and for the human race to fulfil its realisation throughaltruistic behaviour towardsallliving creatures on this planet. The awakeningwill result in agreater unity and harmony with the cosmos as a whole, free from the limitations of the ego, and itsimpetus to dominate for its own sake; adesiretodominate, whichhas characterised the human species to date, causing suffering both to itself and other life forms.The faculty of Imagination, and the activity of compassion, represents the next stage in human evolution, and its awakening will enable mankind to develop beyond its currentmental and spiritual limitations, and the perils which plague it. The poems represent allegories addressing these issues and intimate the means by which we might continue to progress.

Book Youth in the Contemporary World

Download or read book Youth in the Contemporary World written by Y. C. Simhadri and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 2024 25 CTET Junior Level  VI VIII  Social Studies Solved Papers Child Development and Pedagogy  Languages Hindi and English

Download or read book 2024 25 CTET Junior Level VI VIII Social Studies Solved Papers Child Development and Pedagogy Languages Hindi and English written by YCT Expert Team and published by YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES. This book was released on with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2024-25 CTET Junior Level (VI-VIII) Social Studies Solved Papers Child Development and Pedagogy, Languages Hindi and English from 2022 to 2024 736 1395 E.

Book Aussie Yarns

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  • Author : John McAulay
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2011-08-04
  • ISBN : 1462849636
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book Aussie Yarns written by John McAulay and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aussie Yarns: some serious, some funny, and some philosophical. Most are about down-to-earth country folk. Some, like ‘Rusty’ and ‘A Farmer’s Wife’ have a lesson in them. Others are even a bit romantic, for example, ‘Blind Love’ and ‘Best Friends’. In a number of cases, the story is inspired by a poem already written, and in other cases, one is written specially, but in any case, all are accompanied by a poem or two and an explanation as to how it all came about. Primarily these yarns were written with an Australian readership in mind, most of whom would understand and appreciate the slang words and phrases used, particularly by unsophisticated bushies. However, I imagine some of the terms may leave non-Australians a bit perplexed. Stick with it, and by the time you’ve read Witness for the Defence you will have probably worked out what a “sheila’ is, along with all the other words and expressions that are uniquely Australian country in origin. Enjoy the adventures of the 110 characters who play some role in these yarns.

Book Christian Ethics

Download or read book Christian Ethics written by Hans Martensen and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christian Ethics  Individual ethics

Download or read book Christian Ethics Individual ethics written by Hans Martensen and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Association Monthly

Download or read book Association Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On the Naive But Honorable Self determination of Teenage Girls

Download or read book On the Naive But Honorable Self determination of Teenage Girls written by Amber Gayle and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A high school girl from the West Coast goes to Germany to spend a year as an exchange student. In detailed letters home, she recounts foreign flings, wild parties, girlfriend dramas and difficult host parents, as well as the discoveries she makes about her path in life. Amber's writing is irreverent and playful, a delightful, uncensored look into the mind of an adventurous 16-year-old. The 5th in the My Evil Twin Sister series, which has taken personal zines into a place Cometbus hasn't quite ventured. Eloquent, frighteningly personal - Bitch Magazine. All illustrated by Fly.

Book Performing the Pied Noir Family

Download or read book Performing the Pied Noir Family written by Aoife Connolly and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing the Pied-Noir Family: Constructing Narratives of Settler Memory and Identity in Literature and On-Screen sheds new light on the memory community of the pieds-noir from the Algerian War (1954-1962) as it continues to resonate in France, where the subject was initially repressed in the collective psyche. Aoife Connolly draws on theories of performativity to explore autobiographical and fictional narratives by the settlers in over thirty canonical and non-canonical works of literature and film produced from the colony’s imminent demise up to the present day. Connolly focuses on renewed attachment to the family in exile to facilitate a comprehensive analysis of settler masculinity, femininity, childhood, and adolescence and to uncover neglected representations, including homosexual and Jewish voices. Connolly argues that findings on the construction of a post-independence identity and collective memory have broader implications for communities affected by colonization and migration. Scholars of literature, film, Francophone studies, and film studies will find this book particularly useful.

Book Kierkegaard s Upbuilding Discourses

Download or read book Kierkegaard s Upbuilding Discourses written by George Pattison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Pattison provides a bold and innovative reassessment of Kierkegaard's neglected Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses and reading of his work as a whole. The first full length assessment of the discourses in English, this volume will be essential reading for philosophers and theologians, and anyone interested in Kierkegaard and the history of philosophy.