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Book The Wanderer and His Charts

Download or read book The Wanderer and His Charts written by Kenneth White and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays from one of Scotland's leading intellectuals that shows Kenneth White on his tracks outside Scotland, before zooming in on his return.

Book The Wanderer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sharon Creech
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2009-10-06
  • ISBN : 0061972525
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book The Wanderer written by Sharon Creech and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newbery Honor Book * ALA Notable Children's Book “A beautifully written and imaginatively constructed novel that speaks to the power of survival and the delicacy of grief.” —School Library Journal (starred review) This acclaimed bestselling Newbery Honor Book from multi-award-winning author Sharon Creech is a classic and moving story of adventure, self-discovery, and one girl's independence. Thirteen-year-old Sophie hears the sea calling, promising adventure and a chance for discovery as she sets sail for England with her three uncles and two cousins. Sophie’s cousin Cody isn’t so sure he has the strength to prove himself to the crew and to his father. Through Sophie’s and Cody’s travel logs, we hear stories of the past and the daily challenges of surviving at sea as The Wanderer sails toward its destination—and its passengers search for their places in the world. “Sophie is a quietly luminous heroine, and readers will rejoice in her voyage.” —BCCB (starred review) "Like Creech's Walk Two Moons and Chasing Redbird, this intimate novel poetically connects journey with self-discovery.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Book Intercultural Geopoetics in Kenneth White s Open World

Download or read book Intercultural Geopoetics in Kenneth White s Open World written by Mohammed Hashas and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work introduces Kenneth White’s geopoetics as a radical, postmodern interdisciplinary and intercultural project that reclaims the return to communication with the earth, nature, wo-man, and the self as part of a cosmic unity approach. It traces geopoetics’ beginnings, key concepts, territories and trajectories, aims, and perspectives. Geopoetics is shown here to be a cosmopolitan project for a more open and harmonious world, which buries narrow-mindedness and offers new horizons.

Book Secret Sharers  Melville  Conrad and Narratives of the Real

Download or read book Secret Sharers Melville Conrad and Narratives of the Real written by Paweł Jędrzejko and published by M-Studio. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book explores a variety of fundamental questions that all of us secretly share. Its twenty-one chapters, written by some of the world’s leading Melville and Conrad scholars, indicate possible directions of comparativist insight into the continuity and transformations of western existentialist thought between the 19th and 20th centuries. The existential philosophy of participation—so mistrustful of analytical categories—is epitomized by the lives and oeuvres of Melville and Conrad. Born in the immediacy of experience, this philosophy finds its expression in uncertain tropes and faith-based actions; rather than muffle the horror vacui with words, it plunges head first into liminality, where logos dissolves into a “positive nothing.” Unlike analytical philosophers, both Melville and Conrad refrain from talking about reality: they expose those who would listen to a first-hand experience of participation in an interpretive act. Employing literary tropes to denude the essence of the human condition, they allow their readers to transgress the limitations of language. Mistrustful of language, they accept the necessity of discourse which, to make sense, must be actively reshaped, endlessly questioned, and constantly revised. And if uncertainty is the only certainty available to us, our lowly human condition also necessitates compassion: an existential cure against the liquid, capricious reality we are afforded.

Book The Wanderer  Or  Memoirs of Charles Searle  Esq  Containing His Adventures by Sea and Land  Etc

Download or read book The Wanderer Or Memoirs of Charles Searle Esq Containing His Adventures by Sea and Land Etc written by Charles SEARLE (Hero of Romance.) and published by . This book was released on 1766 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pilot  or Sailors  magazine   Continued as  The Chart and compass

Download or read book The Pilot or Sailors magazine Continued as The Chart and compass written by British and foreign sailors' society and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dictionary of Writers and their Works

Download or read book A Dictionary of Writers and their Works written by Christopher Riches and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 1431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.

Book Nietzsche  Freud  Benn  and the Azure Spell of Liguria

Download or read book Nietzsche Freud Benn and the Azure Spell of Liguria written by Martina Kolb and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mediterranean region of Liguria, where the Maritime Alps sweep down to the coasts of northwest Italy and southeast France, the Riviera, marks the intersection of two of Europe's major cultural landscapes. Remote, liminal, compact, and steep, the terrain has influenced many international authors and artists. In this study, Martina Kolb traces Liguria's specific impact on the works of three seminal German-writing modernists – Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Gottfried Benn – whose encounters with Ligurian lands and seas led to an innovative geopoetic fusion of word and world. Kolb examines each of these authors' acquired affinities with Ligurian and Provençal landscapes and seascapes, revisiting and reassessing the long tradition of northern longing for a Mediterranean south. She also shows how Freud and Benn followed in the footsteps of Nietzsche in his most prolific years, a topic which has received little critical attention to date. Nietzsche, Freud, Benn, and the Azure Spell of Liguria offers a fresh approach to these writers' groundbreaking literary achievements and profound interest in poetic expression as cathartic self-liberation.

Book Thinking in the World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jill Bennett
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2019-12-26
  • ISBN : 1350069205
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Thinking in the World written by Jill Bennett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging with contemporary issues responsibly and creatively can become a very abstract activity. We can sometimes find ourselves talking in terms of theories and philosophies which bear very little resemblance to how life is actually lived and experienced. In Thinking in the World, Jill Bennett and Mary Zournazi curate writings and conversations with some of the most influential thinkers in the world and ask them not just why we should engage with the world ,but also how we might do this. Rather than simply thinking about the world, the authors examine the ways in which we think in and with the world. Whether it's how to be environmentally responsible, how to think in film, or how to dance with a non-human, the need to engage meaningfully in a lived way is at the forefront of this collection. Thinking in the World showcases some of the most compelling arguments for a philosophy in action. Including wholly original, never-before-released material from Michel Serres, Alphonso Lingis, and Mieke Bal, the different chapters in this book constitute dialogues and approachable essays, as well as impassioned arguments for a particular way of approaching thinking in the world.

Book Migration  Modernity and Transnationalism in the Work of Joseph Conrad

Download or read book Migration Modernity and Transnationalism in the Work of Joseph Conrad written by Kim Salmons and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the notion of migration and transnationalism within the life and work of Joseph Conrad, this book situates the multicultural and transnational characters that comprise his fiction while locating Conrad as a subject of the Russian state whose provenance is Polish, but whose identity is that of a merchant sailor and English country gentleman. Conrad's characters are often marked by crossings – changes of nation, changes of culture, changes of identity – which refract Conrad's own cultural transitions. These crossings not only subjectivise the experience of the migrant through the modern complexities of technology and speed, but also through cross-cultural encounters of food and language. Collectively, these essays explore the experience of the migrant as exile; the inescapable intermeshing of migration, modernity and transnationalism as well as Conrad's own global and multicultural outlook. Conrad's work writes across historical, political and ethnic borders speaking to a transnational reality that continues to have relevance today.

Book Reading Matters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ulrich Marzolph
  • Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
  • Release : 2023
  • ISBN : 3863955846
  • Pages : 421 pages

Download or read book Reading Matters written by Ulrich Marzolph and published by Universitätsverlag Göttingen. This book was released on 2023 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book is a special gift for a special colleague and friend. Defined as an “Unfestschrift,” it gives colleagues, students, and friends of Regina Bendix an opportunity to express their esteem for Regina’s inspiration, cooperation, leadership, and friendship in an adequate and lasting manner. The title of the present book, Reading Matters, is as close as possible to an English equivalent of the beautiful German double entendre Erlesenes (meaning both “something read/a reading” and “something exquisite”). Presenting “matters for reading,” the Unfestschrift unites short contributions about “readings” that “mattered” in some way or another for the contributors, readings that had an impact on their understanding of whatever they were at some time or presently are interested in. The term “readings” is understood widely. Since most of the invited contributors are academics, the term implies, in the first place, readings of an academic or scholarly nature. In a wider notion, however, “readings” also refer to any other piece of literature, the perception of a piece of art (a painting, a sculpture, a performance), listening to music, appreciating a “folkloric” performance or a fieldwork experience, or just anything else whose “reading” or individual perception has been meaningful for the contributors in different ways. Contrary to a strictly scholarly treatment of a given topic in which the author often disappears behind the subject, the presentations unveil and highlight the contributor’s personal involve¬ment, and thus a dimension of crucial importance for ethnographers such as the dedicatee.

Book An Ocean Tragedy

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Clark Russell
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2019-12-11
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book An Ocean Tragedy written by William Clark Russell and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ocean Tragedy" by William Clark Russell William Clark Russell was best known for his nautical novels, of which "Ocean Tragedy" is one of his most popular. Recounting adventures on the sea, readers will be transported right into the book from the first to the very last word. Sailors and sailors at heart will find exactly what they're looking for even during modern times, when the sea carries promises of adventure and romance.

Book An Ocean Tragedy

    Book Details:
  • Author : W. Clark Russell
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2018-05-15
  • ISBN : 3732670384
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book An Ocean Tragedy written by W. Clark Russell and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: An Ocean Tragedy by W. Clark Russell

Book The Thoughts and Dreams of a Wanderer

Download or read book The Thoughts and Dreams of a Wanderer written by and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Templar s Chart  Or Hieroglyphic Monitor  Containing All the Emblems and Hieroglyphics Explained in the Valiant and Magnanimous Orders of Knights of the Red Cross  Knights Templars  and Knights of Malta  Or Order of St  John of Jerusalem     To which are Added  Lessons     Songs  c  With Plates

Download or read book The Templar s Chart Or Hieroglyphic Monitor Containing All the Emblems and Hieroglyphics Explained in the Valiant and Magnanimous Orders of Knights of the Red Cross Knights Templars and Knights of Malta Or Order of St John of Jerusalem To which are Added Lessons Songs c With Plates written by Jeremy L. CROSS and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Southern Literature  Historical side lights  50 reading courses  chart  bibliography and index

Download or read book Library of Southern Literature Historical side lights 50 reading courses chart bibliography and index written by Edwin Anderson Alderman and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 80s Chart Toppers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sharon Davis
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2012-01-06
  • ISBN : 1780574118
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book 80s Chart Toppers written by Sharon Davis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The '80s were a decade of musical change. As the '70s disco stranglehold was broken, rock, gay, dance and pop music competed with funk and soul, romantic ballads and political protest, computerised music and controversy. The glamour of costume, greasepaint and cross-dressing was put to good use by New Romantic groups like Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Soft Cell, Culture Club and the Human League, while the world also looked to Britain for the most exciting pop acts such as the multi-million-selling Wham!, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Eurythmics and the Pet Shop Boys. Mainstream dance music was at its peak, spearheaded by Stock, Aitken and Waterman, and their stable of artists, including Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Rick Astley, were all chart-topping names. From the USA came the artist of the decade, Michael Jackson, while Madonna and Whitney Houston provided the 'Girl Power' of the '80s. The decade also saw the philanthropic side of the music industry as the stars responded to famine in Ethiopia with the charity records 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' and 'We Are The World'. The'80s catered for all musical tastes, no matter how bizarre, and was far more eclectic than any other decade. From bubble-gum pop with Bucks Fizz to the stadium rock of Simple Minds,'80s Chart-Toppers brings a comprehensive year-by-year, month-by-month guide to the hottest sounds of the decade.