Author: Jörn Rüsen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845453046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is time to rehabilitate utopian thought. The political concept of Utopia that has given its name to these transcendental projections onto the world has been too narrow to describe and analyze the moving forces of the mind perceiving human existence beyond reality. By broadening the perspectives of utopian studies, these essays enable the reader to reconstruct scholarly paradigms and strategies of utopian, complex and holistic thinking in modern cosmology, philosophy, sociology, in literary, historical and political sciences, and to compare traditions and ways of Western utopian thought to the practice in the East.
Thinking Utopia
Author: Jörn Rüsen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845453046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is time to rehabilitate utopian thought. The political concept of Utopia that has given its name to these transcendental projections onto the world has been too narrow to describe and analyze the moving forces of the mind perceiving human existence beyond reality. By broadening the perspectives of utopian studies, these essays enable the reader to reconstruct scholarly paradigms and strategies of utopian, complex and holistic thinking in modern cosmology, philosophy, sociology, in literary, historical and political sciences, and to compare traditions and ways of Western utopian thought to the practice in the East.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845453046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is time to rehabilitate utopian thought. The political concept of Utopia that has given its name to these transcendental projections onto the world has been too narrow to describe and analyze the moving forces of the mind perceiving human existence beyond reality. By broadening the perspectives of utopian studies, these essays enable the reader to reconstruct scholarly paradigms and strategies of utopian, complex and holistic thinking in modern cosmology, philosophy, sociology, in literary, historical and political sciences, and to compare traditions and ways of Western utopian thought to the practice in the East.
Instant Messaging with Immortals
Author: Can LanDiGua
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1649559259
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Li Yunfan had bought a second-hand computer with an ordinary 'Three Sans Sans Diaos'. It was actually a communication device used by deities! His life had undergone a tremendous change! If you have nothing to do, do it with a fairy! Take advantage of Chang'e when you're bored! Since he didn't have the money to buy immortal pills, he might as well sell a bag of spicy gluten! King of Hell, Jade Emperor heard Li Yunfan's name and started trembling, crying as he hugged Li Yunfan's leg. "Brother Li, give me another packet of spicy gluten!"
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1649559259
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Li Yunfan had bought a second-hand computer with an ordinary 'Three Sans Sans Diaos'. It was actually a communication device used by deities! His life had undergone a tremendous change! If you have nothing to do, do it with a fairy! Take advantage of Chang'e when you're bored! Since he didn't have the money to buy immortal pills, he might as well sell a bag of spicy gluten! King of Hell, Jade Emperor heard Li Yunfan's name and started trembling, crying as he hugged Li Yunfan's leg. "Brother Li, give me another packet of spicy gluten!"
Allegoresis
Author: Longxi Zhang
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801443695
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Zhang Longxi examines the rise and development of allegorical readings, discussing them from a broad perspective that bridges the east/west divide and looking at their social and political implications.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801443695
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Zhang Longxi examines the rise and development of allegorical readings, discussing them from a broad perspective that bridges the east/west divide and looking at their social and political implications.
Realm of the Immortals
Author: Stephen Little
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Immortals; Or, Glimpses of Paradise. A Poem
Author: Nicholas Michell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Mortals and Immortals
Author: Jean-Pierre Vernant
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691019314
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Jean-Pierre Vernant has profoundly transformed our perceptions of ancient Greece. Published in 1991, this collection of nineteen essays probes deeply into themes of enduring interest--death, the body, the soul, the individual, and relations between mortals and immortals; the mask, the mirror, the image, and the imagination; the self and the other, and, more broadly, the concept of otherness itself, or "alterity."
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691019314
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Jean-Pierre Vernant has profoundly transformed our perceptions of ancient Greece. Published in 1991, this collection of nineteen essays probes deeply into themes of enduring interest--death, the body, the soul, the individual, and relations between mortals and immortals; the mask, the mirror, the image, and the imagination; the self and the other, and, more broadly, the concept of otherness itself, or "alterity."
Literati Lenses
Author: Mia Yinxing Liu
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824859871
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Chinese cinema has a long history of engagement with China’s art traditions, and literati (wenren) landscape painting has been an enduring source of inspiration. Literati Lenses explores this interplay during the Mao era, a time when cinema, at the forefront of ideological campaigns and purges, was held to strict political guidelines. Through four films—Li Shizhen (1956), Stage Sisters (1964), Early Spring in February (1963), and Legend of Tianyun Mountain (1979)—Mia Liu reveals how landscape offered an alternative text that could operate beyond political constraints and provide a portal for smuggling interesting discourses into the film. While allusions to pictorial traditions associated with a bygone era inevitably took on different meanings in the context of Mao-era cinema, cinematic engagement with literati landscape endowed films with creative and critical space as well as political poignancy. Liu not only identifies how the conventions and aesthetics of traditional literati landscape art were reinvented and mediated on multiple levels in cinema, but also explores how post-1949 Chinese filmmakers configured themselves as modern intellectuals in the spaces forged among the vestiges of the old. In the process, she deepens her analysis, suggesting that landscape be seen as an allegory of human life, a mirror of the age, and a commentary on national affairs.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824859871
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Chinese cinema has a long history of engagement with China’s art traditions, and literati (wenren) landscape painting has been an enduring source of inspiration. Literati Lenses explores this interplay during the Mao era, a time when cinema, at the forefront of ideological campaigns and purges, was held to strict political guidelines. Through four films—Li Shizhen (1956), Stage Sisters (1964), Early Spring in February (1963), and Legend of Tianyun Mountain (1979)—Mia Liu reveals how landscape offered an alternative text that could operate beyond political constraints and provide a portal for smuggling interesting discourses into the film. While allusions to pictorial traditions associated with a bygone era inevitably took on different meanings in the context of Mao-era cinema, cinematic engagement with literati landscape endowed films with creative and critical space as well as political poignancy. Liu not only identifies how the conventions and aesthetics of traditional literati landscape art were reinvented and mediated on multiple levels in cinema, but also explores how post-1949 Chinese filmmakers configured themselves as modern intellectuals in the spaces forged among the vestiges of the old. In the process, she deepens her analysis, suggesting that landscape be seen as an allegory of human life, a mirror of the age, and a commentary on national affairs.
Tuck Everlasting
Author: Natalie Babbitt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
ISBN: 9781526615251
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Winnie Foster is in the woods, thinking of running away from home, when she sees a boy drinking from a spring. Winnie wants a drink too, but before she can take a sip, she is kidnapped by the boy, Jesse Tuck, and his family. She learns that the Tuck family are blessed with o or doomed to o eternal life since drinking from the spring, and they wander from place to place trying to live as inconspicuously as they can. Now Winnie knows their secret. But what does immortality really mean? And can the Tucks help her understand before it's too late? A beautiful paperback edition of the unforgettable classic of children's writing about what it truly means to live forever. Featuring illustrations by Melissa Castrillon.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
ISBN: 9781526615251
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Winnie Foster is in the woods, thinking of running away from home, when she sees a boy drinking from a spring. Winnie wants a drink too, but before she can take a sip, she is kidnapped by the boy, Jesse Tuck, and his family. She learns that the Tuck family are blessed with o or doomed to o eternal life since drinking from the spring, and they wander from place to place trying to live as inconspicuously as they can. Now Winnie knows their secret. But what does immortality really mean? And can the Tucks help her understand before it's too late? A beautiful paperback edition of the unforgettable classic of children's writing about what it truly means to live forever. Featuring illustrations by Melissa Castrillon.
Libretto of the Fairy Operetta of the Naiad Queen, Or the Mission of Justice, Faith and Mercy
Author: OyamO.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Songs and Ballads of Li He Changji
Author: Jean Elizabeth, Poet Laureate Ward
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435718674
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
This book is an Introduction to Tang Dynasty Poet Li He Chang-ji, with English Translations of The Chinese Songs and Ballads of Li He Chang-ji. An American Female paying an Homage to a Chinese Tang Dynasty Poet. With an introduction to Han Yu included. A few illustrations are within this charming, First Edition, alphabetized book, which will capture your heart and soul. NOT A TRANSLATION but an introduction to a most interesting poet.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435718674
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
This book is an Introduction to Tang Dynasty Poet Li He Chang-ji, with English Translations of The Chinese Songs and Ballads of Li He Chang-ji. An American Female paying an Homage to a Chinese Tang Dynasty Poet. With an introduction to Han Yu included. A few illustrations are within this charming, First Edition, alphabetized book, which will capture your heart and soul. NOT A TRANSLATION but an introduction to a most interesting poet.