Author: Scott O. Jones
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 055704412X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Book Three - The Aryis Chronicles.After many years of war and upheaval, it seemed as if the wounds of the past could finally heal. To begin that process, the Protectorate Authority rushes to crown its heroes. Chief among those to be honored, Daric Konan is quickly promoted to a significant position that places him close to the highest levels within the Protectorate system. Unfortunately for him and his people, the past would once again reach out to plunge them into the violence of war. After sending his friends and new love on a suicide mission through the vortex, Daric leads the Authority forces against an indestructible, alien foe. Facing certain annihilation, a coalition of forces fights savagely while those across the vortex pray for a miracle. The final chapter is just the beginning...
Author: Wendy L. Blood
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 9781432766863
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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A woman's dangerous and suspenseful journey in her deadly quest for revenge.Lisa Black, a woman with a tragic childhood, lives for revenge. From witnessing her mother's rape to learning that her grandfather had molested her mother when she was growing up. She was abused as a child and felt unloved and abandoned. She began living in her own deadly reality in order to survive. Her heart grows cold and her soul turns black as she grows into a young woman. She turns to gruesome murder to ease the pain caused by others, especially men. She searches for happiness but can't escape the demons of her past.Jake Damino, once a good man with a loving heart, is now a selfish man with no ambition and a passion for sex and drugs. When he and Lisa move to Las Vegas, he turns into a man she no longer recognizes. She thought he would love her forever until his ultimate betrayal. When he and her friend ripped her world apart, she began to live for the day she could destroy them both completely. Michael Wagner, a devastatingly handsome Hollywood movie producer, grew up with the ideal childhood and two loving parents. He becomes hugely successful, and women everywhere desire him. He isn't looking for love; he's too busy with his career, until he unexpectedly meets the one woman who will change his life forever. After months of working on his latest blockbuster movie, he goes on a Hawaiian cruise where he meets Lisa, the woman of his dreams with a past that would become his nightmare. She captivates him in everyway, and it's love at first sight. These three people's lives become intertwined and collide with deadly force. Each brings with them the ghosts from their past, and the fear and insecurities of their future. Life is full of irony, CRUEL IRONY!!!
Author: Richard Rorty
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521367813
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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In this 1989 book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. This ironic perspective on the human condition is valuable on a private level, although it cannot advance the social or political goals of liberalism. In fact Rorty believes that it is literature not philosophy that can do this, by promoting a genuine sense of human solidarity. A truly liberal culture, acutely aware of its own historical contingency, would fuse the private, individual freedom of the ironic, philosophical perspective with the public project of human solidarity as it is engendered through the insights and sensibilities of great writers. The book has a characteristically wide range of reference from philosophy through social theory to literary criticism. It confirms Rorty's status as a uniquely subtle theorist, whose writing will prove absorbing to academic and nonacademic readers alike.
Author: Joseph A. Dane
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820338087
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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An ambitious theoretical work that ranges from the age of Socrates to the late twentieth century, this book traces the development of the concepts of irony within the history of Western literary criticism. Its purpose is not to promote a universal definition of irony, whether traditional or revisionist, but to examine how such definitions were created in critical history and what their use and invocation imply. Joseph A. Dane argues that the diverse, supposed forms of irony--Socratic, rhetorical, romantic, dramatic, to name a few--are not so much literary elements embedded in texts, awaiting discovery by critics, as they are notions used by critics of different eras and persuasions to manipulate those texts in various, often self-serving ways. The history of irony, Dane suggests, runs parallel to the history of criticism, and the changing definitions of irony reflect the changing ways in which readers and critics have defined their own roles in relation to literature. Probing and provocative, The Critical Mythology of Irony will appeal to a broad spectrum of critics and scholars, particularly those concerned with the historical basis of critical language and its political and educational implications.
Author: John A. McClorey
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Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Author: James L. Kugel
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801495687
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Author: G. R. F. Ferrari
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192519352
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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G. R. F. Ferrari offers a new framework for understanding different ways in which we communicate with each other. He explores the idea of "intimations": social interactions that approach outright communication but do not quite reach it. The metaphor from which he starts is that of a communicative scale or switch, which goes from "off" (no communication intended) to fully "on" (outright communication). Intimations lie in between. Three intermediate positions are identified: quarter-on, half-on, and three-quarters-on. Progression along the communicative scale is determined by the extent to which what comes across in the transmission is required to come across by recognition of the intention of the transmitting party. At a quarter-on, it is required not to; at half-on, it is neither required to nor required not to; at three-quarters-on, it is required to, but only partially; at full-on, it is required to, and the recognition is complete. The half-on intimation is primarily used for impression-management in social life. To illustrate it, the book concentrates on fashion and the "messages" we send with our clothes. With the quarter-on and three-quarters-on intimation, the focus of argument is on the fact that transmissions at the same position of the communicative scale have the same underlying structure, whether they are made in the formal arts or in daily life outside the arts. For the quarter-on intimation, the formal art is lyric poetry; for the three-quarters-on intimation, it is storytelling. The book discusses storytelling at length, and at the end investigates its connection to situational irony.
Author: Erica Weitzman
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810129833
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Irony's Antics marks a major intervention into the underexplored role of the comic in German letters. At the book's heart is the relationship between the comic and irony. Weitzman argues that in the early twentieth century, irony, a key figure for the German Romantics, reemerged from its relegation to "nonsense" in a way that both rethought Romantic irony and dramatically extended its reach.
Author: Marta Dynel
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027256144
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 389
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Brings together a range of contributions on the linguistics of humour. This title elucidates the whole gamut of humorous forms and mechanisms, such as surrealist irony, incongruity in register humour, mechanisms of pun formation, as well as interpersonal functions of conversational humour
Author: Sarah Wilson
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Aus.
ISBN: 1760552437
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 165
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"Probably the best book on living with anxiety that I've ever read" Mark Manson, bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Sarah Wilson is a New York Times and Amazon #1 bestselling author, entrepreneur and philanthropist. She's the founder of IQuitSugar.com, whose 8-Week Program has been completed by 1.5 million people in 133 countries. A former news journalist and editor of Cosmopolitan, she was the host of the first series of MasterChef Australia and is the author of the international bestsellers first, we make the beast beautiful, I Quit Sugar: Simplicious, I Quit Sugar and I Quit Sugar For Life. Her latest book is I Quit Sugar: Simplicious Flow. She is ranked as one of the top 200 most influential authors in the world. Sarah blogs in an intimate fashion - on philosophy, anxiety, minimalism and anti-consumerism - at sarahwilson.com, lives in Sydney, Australia, rides a bike everywhere, is a compulsive hiker and is eternally curious. In first, we make the beast beautiful, Sarah directs her intense focus and fierce investigatory skills onto this lifetime companion of hers, looking at the triggers and treatments, the fashions and fads. She reads widely and interviews fellow sufferers, mental health experts, philosophers, and even the Dalai Lama, processing all she learns through the prism her own experiences. Sarah pulls at the thread of accepted definitions of anxiety, and unravels the notion that it is a difficult, dangerous disease that must be medicated into submission. Ultimately, she re-frames anxiety as a spiritual quest rather than a burdensome affliction, a state of yearning that will lead us closer to what really matters. Practical and poetic, wise and funny, this is a small book with a big heart. It will encourage the myriad sufferers of the world's most common mental illness to feel not just better about their condition, but delighted by the possibilities it offers for a richer, fuller life. MORE PRAISE FOR FIRST, WE MAKE THE BEAST BEAUTIFUL "at once a nomadic journey, a cri de coeur and a compendium of hard-won wisdom ..." Professor Patrick McGorry AO MD PhD FRCP FRANZCP FAA FASSA, 2010 Australian of the Year "A witty, well-researched and often insightful book about negotiating a new relationship with anxiety." Andrew Solomon, Professor of Clinical Psychology and author of The Noonday Demon: An Anatomy of Depression
