Author: Dana A. Williams
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814209947
Category : African Americans in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
""In the Light of Likeness - transformed" by Dana A. Williams looks critically at the work of contemporary African American author Leon Forrest. Not only does she bring to the critical table a well-known but as yet understudied modernist author - an important endeavor in and of itself - but she also explores Forrest's novels' cultural dialogue with black ethnic culture and other African American authors, as well as provides in-depth readings of his prose and interpretations of his narrative style." "Forrest's highly experimental narrative style, his reinterpretation of modernism, and his transformations of black cultural traditions into literary aesthetics often pose challenges of interpretation for the reader and the scholar alike. As the first single-authored book-length study of Forrest's novel, this book offers readers pathways into his fiction. What this culturalist approach to the novels reveals is that Forrest's fiction was foremost concerned with investigating ways for the African American to survive in the contemporary moment. Through a variety of characters, the novels reveal the African American's art of transformation - the ability to find ways to make the wretchedness of the past work in positive ways."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
"In the Light of Likeness-transformed"
Author: Dana A. Williams
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814209947
Category : African Americans in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
""In the Light of Likeness - transformed" by Dana A. Williams looks critically at the work of contemporary African American author Leon Forrest. Not only does she bring to the critical table a well-known but as yet understudied modernist author - an important endeavor in and of itself - but she also explores Forrest's novels' cultural dialogue with black ethnic culture and other African American authors, as well as provides in-depth readings of his prose and interpretations of his narrative style." "Forrest's highly experimental narrative style, his reinterpretation of modernism, and his transformations of black cultural traditions into literary aesthetics often pose challenges of interpretation for the reader and the scholar alike. As the first single-authored book-length study of Forrest's novel, this book offers readers pathways into his fiction. What this culturalist approach to the novels reveals is that Forrest's fiction was foremost concerned with investigating ways for the African American to survive in the contemporary moment. Through a variety of characters, the novels reveal the African American's art of transformation - the ability to find ways to make the wretchedness of the past work in positive ways."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814209947
Category : African Americans in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
""In the Light of Likeness - transformed" by Dana A. Williams looks critically at the work of contemporary African American author Leon Forrest. Not only does she bring to the critical table a well-known but as yet understudied modernist author - an important endeavor in and of itself - but she also explores Forrest's novels' cultural dialogue with black ethnic culture and other African American authors, as well as provides in-depth readings of his prose and interpretations of his narrative style." "Forrest's highly experimental narrative style, his reinterpretation of modernism, and his transformations of black cultural traditions into literary aesthetics often pose challenges of interpretation for the reader and the scholar alike. As the first single-authored book-length study of Forrest's novel, this book offers readers pathways into his fiction. What this culturalist approach to the novels reveals is that Forrest's fiction was foremost concerned with investigating ways for the African American to survive in the contemporary moment. Through a variety of characters, the novels reveal the African American's art of transformation - the ability to find ways to make the wretchedness of the past work in positive ways."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Freedom to Remember
Author: Angelyn Mitchell
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813530697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The Freedom to Remember examines contemporary literary revisions of slavery in the United States by black women writers. The narratives at the center of this book include: Octavia E. Butler's Kindred, Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose, Toni Morrison's Beloved, J. California Cooper's Family, and Lorene Cary's The Price of a Child. Recent studies have investigated these works only from the standpoint of victimization. Angelyn Mitchell changes the conceptualization of these narratives, focusing on the theme of freedom, not slavery, defining these works as "liberatory narratives." These works create a space to problematize the slavery/freedom dichotomy from which contemporary black women writers have the "safe" vantage point to reveal aspects of enslavement that their ancestors could not examine. The nineteenth-century female emancipatory narrative, by contrast, was written to aid the cause of abolition by revealing the unspeakable realitiesof slavery. Mitchell shows how the liberatory narrative functions to emancipate its readers from the legacies of slavery in American society: by facilitating a deeper discussion of the issues and by making them new through illumination and interrogation.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813530697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The Freedom to Remember examines contemporary literary revisions of slavery in the United States by black women writers. The narratives at the center of this book include: Octavia E. Butler's Kindred, Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose, Toni Morrison's Beloved, J. California Cooper's Family, and Lorene Cary's The Price of a Child. Recent studies have investigated these works only from the standpoint of victimization. Angelyn Mitchell changes the conceptualization of these narratives, focusing on the theme of freedom, not slavery, defining these works as "liberatory narratives." These works create a space to problematize the slavery/freedom dichotomy from which contemporary black women writers have the "safe" vantage point to reveal aspects of enslavement that their ancestors could not examine. The nineteenth-century female emancipatory narrative, by contrast, was written to aid the cause of abolition by revealing the unspeakable realitiesof slavery. Mitchell shows how the liberatory narrative functions to emancipate its readers from the legacies of slavery in American society: by facilitating a deeper discussion of the issues and by making them new through illumination and interrogation.
Leon Forrest
Author: John G. Cawelti
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879727345
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Leon Forrest: Introductions and Interpretations combines biography and various methods of critical analysis to interpret the work of this important African-American novelist and essayist, who critics have compared to Joyce, Faulkner, and Tolstoy. Highly praised by Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, Forrest's four novels present a remarkably rich and engaging view of contemporary African-American urban culture and its roots in the southern past. The book includes a general introduction which surveys Forrest's life and presents an interpretation of the unity of his fiction, as well as individual essays offering different interpretations of Forrest's four major novels, three interviews with the writer, and a detailed chronology and bibliography.
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879727345
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Leon Forrest: Introductions and Interpretations combines biography and various methods of critical analysis to interpret the work of this important African-American novelist and essayist, who critics have compared to Joyce, Faulkner, and Tolstoy. Highly praised by Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, Forrest's four novels present a remarkably rich and engaging view of contemporary African-American urban culture and its roots in the southern past. The book includes a general introduction which surveys Forrest's life and presents an interpretation of the unity of his fiction, as well as individual essays offering different interpretations of Forrest's four major novels, three interviews with the writer, and a detailed chronology and bibliography.
There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden
Author: Leon Forrest
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226257211
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Leon Forrest, acclaimed author of Divine Days, uses a remarkable verbal intensity to evoke human tragedy, injustice, and spirituality in his writing. As Toni Morrison has said, "All of Forrest's novels explore the complex legacy of Afro-Americans. Like an insistent tide this history . . . swells and recalls America's past. . . . Brooding, hilarious, acerbic and profoundly valued life has no more astute observer than Leon Forrest." All of that is on display here in two novels that give readers a breathtaking view of the human experience, filled with humor and pathos.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226257211
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Leon Forrest, acclaimed author of Divine Days, uses a remarkable verbal intensity to evoke human tragedy, injustice, and spirituality in his writing. As Toni Morrison has said, "All of Forrest's novels explore the complex legacy of Afro-Americans. Like an insistent tide this history . . . swells and recalls America's past. . . . Brooding, hilarious, acerbic and profoundly valued life has no more astute observer than Leon Forrest." All of that is on display here in two novels that give readers a breathtaking view of the human experience, filled with humor and pathos.
Fire and Light
Author: James MacGregor Burns
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250024900
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian explores history’s most daring and transformational intellectual movement, the European and American Enlightenment. In this engaging, provocative history, James MacGregor Burns illuminates the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, when audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Europe and the New World. They transformed thought, overturned governments, and inspired visionary political experiments. Fire and Light brings to life the revolutionary leaders who, armed with a new sense of human possibility, created the modern world. Burns traces the origins of a distinctive American Enlightenment to men like Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, and their early encounters with incendiary European ideas about liberty and equality. It was these thinker-activists who framed the United States as a grand and continuing experiment in Enlightenment principles. Today the same principles have taken on new urgency around the world: in the turmoil of the Arab world, in the former Soviet Union, and in China, as well as in the United States itself. What should a nation be? What should citizens expect from their government? Who should lead, and how can leadership be made both effective and accountable? What is happiness, and what can the state contribute to it? Burns’s exploration of the ideals and arguments that formed the bedrock of our modern world shines a new light on these ever-important questions. Praise for Fire and Light “With this profound and magnificent book, Burns takes us into the fire’s center. . . . Essential for deciphering the challenges of the world we will live in tomorrow.” —Michael Beschloss, New York Times–bestselling author of Presidential Courage “James MacGregor Burns is a national treasure, and Fire and Light is the elegiac capstone to a career devoted to understanding the seminal ideas that made America—for better and for worse—what it is.” —Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author of Revolutionary Summer “[A] captivating tale. . . . Briskly and beautifully told. . . . Superb.” —Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250024900
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian explores history’s most daring and transformational intellectual movement, the European and American Enlightenment. In this engaging, provocative history, James MacGregor Burns illuminates the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, when audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Europe and the New World. They transformed thought, overturned governments, and inspired visionary political experiments. Fire and Light brings to life the revolutionary leaders who, armed with a new sense of human possibility, created the modern world. Burns traces the origins of a distinctive American Enlightenment to men like Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, and their early encounters with incendiary European ideas about liberty and equality. It was these thinker-activists who framed the United States as a grand and continuing experiment in Enlightenment principles. Today the same principles have taken on new urgency around the world: in the turmoil of the Arab world, in the former Soviet Union, and in China, as well as in the United States itself. What should a nation be? What should citizens expect from their government? Who should lead, and how can leadership be made both effective and accountable? What is happiness, and what can the state contribute to it? Burns’s exploration of the ideals and arguments that formed the bedrock of our modern world shines a new light on these ever-important questions. Praise for Fire and Light “With this profound and magnificent book, Burns takes us into the fire’s center. . . . Essential for deciphering the challenges of the world we will live in tomorrow.” —Michael Beschloss, New York Times–bestselling author of Presidential Courage “James MacGregor Burns is a national treasure, and Fire and Light is the elegiac capstone to a career devoted to understanding the seminal ideas that made America—for better and for worse—what it is.” —Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author of Revolutionary Summer “[A] captivating tale. . . . Briskly and beautifully told. . . . Superb.” —Publishers Weekly
The VISIBLE KEYS: Newly Discovered Images that Spiritually Illustrate the Bible, Volume Two
Author: Michael Greif
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615188699
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
In this life changing two volume series newly discovered images are presented for the first time to the world that are used to illustrate nearly 1000 Bible verses. These powerfully insightful visible keys that can be used to illustrate verses in every book of the Bible from the perspective a human's spiritual heart and soul. Volume Two uses these eye-opening images to illustrate 535 Bible verses that address the topics of God's Glory, The Holy Spirit, The Kingdom of God and the second coming of Christ. Many of these verses cannot be fully understood until a person can see them illustrated with the use of these powerful images. Understanding these visible keys has helped many to achieve enormous spiritual growth in their lives. Simply viewing the illustrated Bible verses within this series has led many people into a wonderful and powerful spiritual awakening that has filled their hearts and lives with the Spiritual Blessings and Power that is found within the Kingdom of God.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615188699
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
In this life changing two volume series newly discovered images are presented for the first time to the world that are used to illustrate nearly 1000 Bible verses. These powerfully insightful visible keys that can be used to illustrate verses in every book of the Bible from the perspective a human's spiritual heart and soul. Volume Two uses these eye-opening images to illustrate 535 Bible verses that address the topics of God's Glory, The Holy Spirit, The Kingdom of God and the second coming of Christ. Many of these verses cannot be fully understood until a person can see them illustrated with the use of these powerful images. Understanding these visible keys has helped many to achieve enormous spiritual growth in their lives. Simply viewing the illustrated Bible verses within this series has led many people into a wonderful and powerful spiritual awakening that has filled their hearts and lives with the Spiritual Blessings and Power that is found within the Kingdom of God.
Vision de Dieu Lecture Course - BOGOVIDENIE
Author: Vladimir Lossky
Publisher: Vladimir Djambov
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
“Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html Abstract: Vladimir Nikolayevich Lossky is one of those few Orthodox theologians of the 20th century who engaged in dialogue with the Christian West, preserving the integrity of Orthodoxy. This explains the fact that most of the theological works of Vl. Lossky are written in French: this gave him the opportunity to show, addressing directly to Western Christians, that Orthodoxy is not a historical form of Eastern Christianity, but an enduring universal truth - the universal truth. The course of lectures "The Vision of God " , was read at the Sorbonne, in 1945-1946, and is a patristic introduction to " Palamism " , the theologian - Viy Saint Gregory Palamas and other hesychasts. The author traces the history of Eastern Christian theology (directly associated with asceticism ) , starting from the first centuries of Christianity, through the teachings of the Cappadocian Fathers, various ascetic and theological schools of the Syro-Palestinian East and Byzantium, to the one developed in the Areopagitics and developed in the writings of the monk Maximus the Confessor to the theological system adopted and further transformed by the Hesychasts. For pupils and students of theological educational institutions, students and graduate students of theological universities and faculties, for specialists engaged in research in the field of dogmatic theology , patristics, as well as for everyone interested in the doctrine of the Orthodox Church.
Publisher: Vladimir Djambov
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
“Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html Abstract: Vladimir Nikolayevich Lossky is one of those few Orthodox theologians of the 20th century who engaged in dialogue with the Christian West, preserving the integrity of Orthodoxy. This explains the fact that most of the theological works of Vl. Lossky are written in French: this gave him the opportunity to show, addressing directly to Western Christians, that Orthodoxy is not a historical form of Eastern Christianity, but an enduring universal truth - the universal truth. The course of lectures "The Vision of God " , was read at the Sorbonne, in 1945-1946, and is a patristic introduction to " Palamism " , the theologian - Viy Saint Gregory Palamas and other hesychasts. The author traces the history of Eastern Christian theology (directly associated with asceticism ) , starting from the first centuries of Christianity, through the teachings of the Cappadocian Fathers, various ascetic and theological schools of the Syro-Palestinian East and Byzantium, to the one developed in the Areopagitics and developed in the writings of the monk Maximus the Confessor to the theological system adopted and further transformed by the Hesychasts. For pupils and students of theological educational institutions, students and graduate students of theological universities and faculties, for specialists engaged in research in the field of dogmatic theology , patristics, as well as for everyone interested in the doctrine of the Orthodox Church.
The Secret to Holy Spirit Authority
Author: David Charles Craley
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467041092
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
________How did He do it?______ How did Jesus do it? How did He heal the sick, open the eyes of the blind, and set the captives free at every opportunity? And how did His disciples do it after He ascended into heaven? Some may say, Jesus could do it because He was God. But that point of view, suggesting that we cannot do it because we are not God, falls short of what Jesus promised His disciples in the Gospel of John: Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father [John 14:12, NKJV]. If the Lords promise to His disciples is true--that we can and should be doing the same works He did--and greater, then there must be answers in the word of God, there must be keys to help us understand how. With revolutionary prophetic insight, The Secret to Holy Spirit Authority: In the Power of the Spirit reveals step by step how Jesus did it, how His disciples did it, and how Christian believers today can rise up spiritually to walk in His steps and set the captives free. revolutionary prophetic insight ____________________________________ David Charles Craley is a writer, editor and, for more than four decades, a researcher and teacher of the Bible. The Secret to Holy Spirit Authority: In the Power of the Spirit is his second book. His first was The Hope of Glory: In Search of the Light, a memoir, (1979). He lives in Austin, Texas. __________________www.holyspiritsecret.com_____
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467041092
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
________How did He do it?______ How did Jesus do it? How did He heal the sick, open the eyes of the blind, and set the captives free at every opportunity? And how did His disciples do it after He ascended into heaven? Some may say, Jesus could do it because He was God. But that point of view, suggesting that we cannot do it because we are not God, falls short of what Jesus promised His disciples in the Gospel of John: Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father [John 14:12, NKJV]. If the Lords promise to His disciples is true--that we can and should be doing the same works He did--and greater, then there must be answers in the word of God, there must be keys to help us understand how. With revolutionary prophetic insight, The Secret to Holy Spirit Authority: In the Power of the Spirit reveals step by step how Jesus did it, how His disciples did it, and how Christian believers today can rise up spiritually to walk in His steps and set the captives free. revolutionary prophetic insight ____________________________________ David Charles Craley is a writer, editor and, for more than four decades, a researcher and teacher of the Bible. The Secret to Holy Spirit Authority: In the Power of the Spirit is his second book. His first was The Hope of Glory: In Search of the Light, a memoir, (1979). He lives in Austin, Texas. __________________www.holyspiritsecret.com_____
The Church of England magazine [afterw.] The Church of England and Lambeth magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 1108
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Pages : 1108
Book Description
2 Corinthians: The Christian Standard Commentary
Author: David E. Garland
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1087730678
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
2 Corinthians is part of The Christian Standard Commentary (CSC) series. This commentary series focuses on the theological and exegetical concerns of each biblical book, while paying careful attention to balancing rigorous scholarship with practical application. This series helps the reader understand each biblical book's theology, its place in the broader narrative of Scripture, and its importance for the church today. Drawing on the wisdom and skills of dozens of evangelical authors, the CSC is a tool for enhancing and supporting the life of the church.
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1087730678
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
2 Corinthians is part of The Christian Standard Commentary (CSC) series. This commentary series focuses on the theological and exegetical concerns of each biblical book, while paying careful attention to balancing rigorous scholarship with practical application. This series helps the reader understand each biblical book's theology, its place in the broader narrative of Scripture, and its importance for the church today. Drawing on the wisdom and skills of dozens of evangelical authors, the CSC is a tool for enhancing and supporting the life of the church.