Author:
Publisher: J & L Books
ISBN: 9780989531108
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Elisabeth Tonnard's In This Dark Wood is a study of urban alienation in America. In a haunting, modern-gothic style, it pairs images of people walking alone in nighttime city streets with 90 different English translations, collected by Tonnard, of the famous first lines of Dante's Inferno: "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita / mi ritrovai per una selva oscura / ché la diritta via era smarrita." ("In the middle of the journey of our life / I found myself in a dark wood / for the straight way was lost"). The images were selected from the Joseph Selle collection at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, which contains over a million negatives from a company of street photographers who worked in San Francisco from the 1940s to the 70s. This edition is a reprint of a work originally self-published in 2008.
Elisabeth Tonnard
Author:
Publisher: J & L Books
ISBN: 9780989531108
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Elisabeth Tonnard's In This Dark Wood is a study of urban alienation in America. In a haunting, modern-gothic style, it pairs images of people walking alone in nighttime city streets with 90 different English translations, collected by Tonnard, of the famous first lines of Dante's Inferno: "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita / mi ritrovai per una selva oscura / ché la diritta via era smarrita." ("In the middle of the journey of our life / I found myself in a dark wood / for the straight way was lost"). The images were selected from the Joseph Selle collection at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, which contains over a million negatives from a company of street photographers who worked in San Francisco from the 1940s to the 70s. This edition is a reprint of a work originally self-published in 2008.
Publisher: J & L Books
ISBN: 9780989531108
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Elisabeth Tonnard's In This Dark Wood is a study of urban alienation in America. In a haunting, modern-gothic style, it pairs images of people walking alone in nighttime city streets with 90 different English translations, collected by Tonnard, of the famous first lines of Dante's Inferno: "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita / mi ritrovai per una selva oscura / ché la diritta via era smarrita." ("In the middle of the journey of our life / I found myself in a dark wood / for the straight way was lost"). The images were selected from the Joseph Selle collection at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, which contains over a million negatives from a company of street photographers who worked in San Francisco from the 1940s to the 70s. This edition is a reprint of a work originally self-published in 2008.
Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life
Author: Josef Jedlička
Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
ISBN: 802463127X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Written between 1954 and 1957 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakia’s postwar Communist regime, Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life flew in the face of the reigning aesthetic of socialist realism, an antiheroic novel informed by the literary theory of Viktor Shklovsky and constructed from episodes and lyrical sketches of the author and his neighbors’ everyday life in industrial north Bohemia, set against a backdrop of historical and cultural upheaval. Meditative and speculative reflections here alternate and overlap with fragmentary accounts of Josef Jedlicka’s own biography and slices of the lives of people around him, typically rendered as overheard conversations. The narrative passages range in chronology from May 1945 to the early 1950s, with sporadic leaps through time as the characters go about the business of “building a new society” and the mythology that goes with it. Due to its critical view of socialist society, Midway remained unpublished until 1966 when it emerged amid the easing of cultural control, but a complete version of this darkly comic novel did not appear in Czech until 1994.
Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
ISBN: 802463127X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Written between 1954 and 1957 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakia’s postwar Communist regime, Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life flew in the face of the reigning aesthetic of socialist realism, an antiheroic novel informed by the literary theory of Viktor Shklovsky and constructed from episodes and lyrical sketches of the author and his neighbors’ everyday life in industrial north Bohemia, set against a backdrop of historical and cultural upheaval. Meditative and speculative reflections here alternate and overlap with fragmentary accounts of Josef Jedlicka’s own biography and slices of the lives of people around him, typically rendered as overheard conversations. The narrative passages range in chronology from May 1945 to the early 1950s, with sporadic leaps through time as the characters go about the business of “building a new society” and the mythology that goes with it. Due to its critical view of socialist society, Midway remained unpublished until 1966 when it emerged amid the easing of cultural control, but a complete version of this darkly comic novel did not appear in Czech until 1994.
Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars
Author: Dante Alighieri
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241250439
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
'Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and whole!' A collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and experimental part of the Divina Commedia. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241250439
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
'Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and whole!' A collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and experimental part of the Divina Commedia. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
The Divine Comedy
Author: Dante Alighieri
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Vision of Hell
Author: Dante Alighieri
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Devil in art
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Devil in art
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Hell and Back
Author: Tim Parks
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
ISBN: 9781559706100
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A brilliant new collection of essays on writers & writing by the man Joseph Brodsky has called "the best British author writing today."
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
ISBN: 9781559706100
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A brilliant new collection of essays on writers & writing by the man Joseph Brodsky has called "the best British author writing today."
Dante Readings
Author: Eric Haywood
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Introduction to Dante's Inferno
Author: Adolphus Thomas Ennis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
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ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Dante's Inferno in Plain and Simple English
Author: BookCaps
Publisher: BookCaps Study Guides
ISBN: 1610429214
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
Taking a literary journey through hell certainly sounds intriguing enough--and it is! If you can understand it! If you don't understand it, then you are not alone. If you have struggled in the past reading the ancient classic, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation with a fresh spin. The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of the modern text. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month. Visit BookCaps.com to find out more.
Publisher: BookCaps Study Guides
ISBN: 1610429214
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 889
Book Description
Taking a literary journey through hell certainly sounds intriguing enough--and it is! If you can understand it! If you don't understand it, then you are not alone. If you have struggled in the past reading the ancient classic, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation with a fresh spin. The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of the modern text. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month. Visit BookCaps.com to find out more.
The Gospel According to Tolkien
Author: Ralph C. Wood
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664234669
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Readers have repeatedly called The Lord of the Rings the most important book of our age--absorbing all 1,500 of its pages with an almost fanatical interest and seeing the Peter Jackson movies in unprecedented numbers. Readers from ages 8 to 80 keep turning to Tolkien because here, in this magical kingdom, they are immersed in depth after depth of significance and meaning--perceiving the Hope that can be found amidst despair, the Charity that overcomes vengeance, and the Faith that springs from the strange power of weakness. The Gospel According to Tolkien examines biblical and Christian themes that are found in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. Follow Ralph Wood as he takes us through the theological depths of Tolkien's literary legacy.
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664234669
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Readers have repeatedly called The Lord of the Rings the most important book of our age--absorbing all 1,500 of its pages with an almost fanatical interest and seeing the Peter Jackson movies in unprecedented numbers. Readers from ages 8 to 80 keep turning to Tolkien because here, in this magical kingdom, they are immersed in depth after depth of significance and meaning--perceiving the Hope that can be found amidst despair, the Charity that overcomes vengeance, and the Faith that springs from the strange power of weakness. The Gospel According to Tolkien examines biblical and Christian themes that are found in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. Follow Ralph Wood as he takes us through the theological depths of Tolkien's literary legacy.