Author: Steven Wier
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 129136403X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Dieses Buch ist sehr kontrovers zu betrachten. Auf der einen Seite, wird dem Leser durch die unkonventionelle Schreibweise einiges abverlangt und anderen Seite, wird dem Leser alle Freiheit zu eigenen Interpretationen. Ein wirrer Geist verweigert alle Ordnungsversuche und findet neue Wege um sich auszudrücken.
Author: Robert Blankenship
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 157113574X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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The many fictional suicides in the literature of the German Democratic Republic have been greatly misunderstood. The common assumption is that authoritarian oppression in East Germany led to an anomalous abundance of real suicides, so that fictional suicides in GDR literature constitute a simple, realistic reflection of East German society. Robert Blankenship challenges this assumption by providing both a history of suicide in GDR literature and close readings of individual texts, revealing that suicides in GDR literature, rather than simply reflecting historical suicides, contain rich literary attributes such as intertextuality, haunting, epistolarity, and unorthodox narrative strategies. Such literariness offered subversive potential beyond suggesting that real people killed themselves in a communist country. This first book-length study of fictional suicides in East German literature provides insight into the complex and dynamic rhetoric of the GDR. Blankenship's underlying claim is that GDR literature ought to be read as literature, with literary methodology, not despite the country's politically and rhetorically charged nature, but precisely because of it. Suicide in East German Literature will be of interest to scholars of GDR literature, humanities-oriented scholars of suicide, and those who are interested in the complex relationship between literature and history. ROBERT BLANKENSHIP is Assistant Professor of German at California State University, Long Beach.
Author: Jacqueline Romilly
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600044219
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Author: Peter Dové
Publisher: Schwabe Verlag (Basel)
ISBN: 3796534724
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
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Literatur als Seismograph gesellschaftlichen Lebens lässt spüren, wie weit dieses Leben von religiösen Vorstellungen durchtränkt ist. Verschiedene Islamwissenschaftler gehen in ihren Beiträgen der Frage nach, wie 'der Islam' oder 'Islamisches' im literarischen Schaffen arabischer, türkischer und persischer Autoren sichtbar wird. In literaturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive untersuchen sie den Einfluss der Religion auf die Gestaltung des täglichen Lebens in den fiktionalen Lebensgeschichten. Unter sprachwissenschaftlichem Gesichtspunkt befassen sie sich mit religiös assoziierten Metaphern und generell der sprachlichen Präsenz des Religiösen in den Texten. Es dreht sich um die Frage, in welchem Ausmass 'Islamisches' sozusagen 'automatisch' in literarischen Werken auftaucht, weil das dargestellte Leben eben durch eine 'islamische' Lebensführung bestimmt oder beeinflusst ist und weil das verfügbare sprachliche Instrumentarium 'islamisch' unterlegt ist.
Author: Haim Hazan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000411591
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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Through an ethnohistorical chronicling of the emotionally-laden treatment of selected suicide media-events, this book offers a neo-Durkheimean account of suicide, addressing its social-moral threat and the ensuing need to gloss over its unsettling incomprehensibility. An analysis of the social dramas, cultural performances, and suicide talk aired in the Israeli public sphere, it suggests that such public glossing practices atone for and bring about the symbolic rectification of the socially detrimental effects of suicide. Drawing on Durkheim’s thought on the social significance of suicide and the sacred cohesive power of society’s self-representations through rituals and commemorations, the authors revamp the contemporary pertinence of these cultural devices, showing how, in the process of reconstituting and redressing the disrupted order, suicide talk constitutes a revival mechanism of communal ‘life giving’. A rekindling of the Durkheimian approach to suicide that examines how society deals with suicide’s shattering of normative we-feelings, Suicide Social Dramas: Moral Breakdowns in the Israeli Public Sphere will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and anthropology with interests in social theory, Israel studies, suicide studies, and the interpretation of societal and cultural processes.
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 184888219X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. It is all too easy to begin the introduction of a book examining suicide by citing statistics on rates of death around the world. The vast majority of research seeks to make sense of suicide through quantitative analysis; however, this does not begin to do justice to the lived experience. While we do not wish to suggest there is one ‘right’ lens through which to study suicide, we must recognize that there are myriad lenses though which to examine it. There are many voices, many stories that must be heeded, and these stories are not just of the people who have themselves died by suicide, but also those who are or have been suicidal and those who have been bereaved by suicide. By examining cultural perspectives, different media, memory and place, as well as loss, this book aims to tell stories of suicide and working and living with the suicidal.
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
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Author: J.R. Hamilton
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 035920662X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Suicide Poetry is a short novel exploring the dark side, the tragic side, of desperately passionate people with vices in a bankrupt city in a country selling sanitized love and hustling their own people for money; like Atlantic City-- the money never hits the streets; the wheel never really stops turning; and even once you've won, you'll have to spin again. Jake, like a small percentage of late adolescents or new adults, finds himself acting rather strangely, under pressure and new stresses, and he breaks, having a psychotic episode and feeling as though he has ruined his reputation, lost the love of his life (young people are stupid), and find himself with no friends to speak of or to. He finds himself taking the last of his money and escaping, right into a desperate love with a woman leading a drinking life struggling to keep herself together in Atlantic City.
Author: Brianne Keith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440599696
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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From poetry to fiction to essays, American Lit 101 leaves no page unturned! Edgar Allan Poe. Willa Cather. Henry David Thoreau. Mark Twain. The list of important American writers goes on and on. These voices played a vital role in shaping the scope of American literature, and the United States itself. But too often, textbooks reduce this storied history to dry text that would put even a tenured professor to sleep. American Lit 101 is an engaging and comprehensive guide through the major players in American literature. From colonialism to postmodernism and every literary movement in between, this primer is packed with hundreds of entertaining tidbits and concepts, along with easy-to-understand explanations on why each author's work was important then and still relevant now. So whether you're looking for a refresher course on key American literature or want to learn about it for the first time, American Lit 101 has all the answers--even the ones you didn't know you were looking for.
Author: Robert Petkovsek
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643907737
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 187
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Truth and Compassion offers an integral and inter-disciplinary view on truth and compassion, their mutual connectedness, the meaning of their cultivation, and the devastating consequences of their neglect and destruction. The authors analyze their various forms, their origins, and concrete ways and attempts of their repression. Essays focus on the attention to truth and compassion under communism, but this is only one of its segments. As a whole, topics range from basic theological and philosophical analysis to concrete historiographic treatments of particular cases. The central message is that speaking about grievances, communication, dialogue, empathy, and solidarity are necessary for living in truth and compassion. (Series: Theology East-West / Theologie Ost-West, Vol. 20) [Subject: Philosophy, Ethics Studies]~
