Author: Donovan Daniel Thompson
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1457555735
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Presented inside is a creative collection of my personal poetry, alluring articles, and savvy songs that I’ve conjured up to capture your curiosity. My book provides a powerful message to readers of all ages. The context of my writing is surprisingly simple to read and relate to, therefore one doesn’t have to be a literature scholar to comprehend it. This wide variety of little ditties mostly consist of my true to life experiences and personal feelings based on drugs, love, religion, and nature. My approach is to write about what people particularly feel uncomfortable talking about. My goal is to provide the reader with a profound knowledge of how my uniquely assembled collage of writing reflects on the psyche of today’s society. I truly believe that this book will educate, intrigue, and inspire the readers intellect. I’ve also included an additional bonus feature which reveals my perspective on how to live a successful life, and how one person alone can make a significant difference in this world. Which I believe is our purpose for living. Half of the proceeds from this astonishing book will be donated towards a fantastic foundation that I’m creating called A Hand Up, Not A Hand Out. It’s a non profit organization designed to help people who have creative minds obtain the interest free funding for starting a small business, invention patents, publishing a book, song writing or things of that nature. I know we all can agree that it takes money to make money and I personally feel that it’s wrong to deprive people of their dreams because of financial difficulties. So please help me help us all by purchasing this one of a kind, everlasting book of keepsakes. I encourage every person to pursue their dreams because I believe that’s what being a free American is all about.
Modern Times Reality Rhymes
Author: Donovan Daniel Thompson
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1457555735
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Presented inside is a creative collection of my personal poetry, alluring articles, and savvy songs that I’ve conjured up to capture your curiosity. My book provides a powerful message to readers of all ages. The context of my writing is surprisingly simple to read and relate to, therefore one doesn’t have to be a literature scholar to comprehend it. This wide variety of little ditties mostly consist of my true to life experiences and personal feelings based on drugs, love, religion, and nature. My approach is to write about what people particularly feel uncomfortable talking about. My goal is to provide the reader with a profound knowledge of how my uniquely assembled collage of writing reflects on the psyche of today’s society. I truly believe that this book will educate, intrigue, and inspire the readers intellect. I’ve also included an additional bonus feature which reveals my perspective on how to live a successful life, and how one person alone can make a significant difference in this world. Which I believe is our purpose for living. Half of the proceeds from this astonishing book will be donated towards a fantastic foundation that I’m creating called A Hand Up, Not A Hand Out. It’s a non profit organization designed to help people who have creative minds obtain the interest free funding for starting a small business, invention patents, publishing a book, song writing or things of that nature. I know we all can agree that it takes money to make money and I personally feel that it’s wrong to deprive people of their dreams because of financial difficulties. So please help me help us all by purchasing this one of a kind, everlasting book of keepsakes. I encourage every person to pursue their dreams because I believe that’s what being a free American is all about.
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1457555735
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Presented inside is a creative collection of my personal poetry, alluring articles, and savvy songs that I’ve conjured up to capture your curiosity. My book provides a powerful message to readers of all ages. The context of my writing is surprisingly simple to read and relate to, therefore one doesn’t have to be a literature scholar to comprehend it. This wide variety of little ditties mostly consist of my true to life experiences and personal feelings based on drugs, love, religion, and nature. My approach is to write about what people particularly feel uncomfortable talking about. My goal is to provide the reader with a profound knowledge of how my uniquely assembled collage of writing reflects on the psyche of today’s society. I truly believe that this book will educate, intrigue, and inspire the readers intellect. I’ve also included an additional bonus feature which reveals my perspective on how to live a successful life, and how one person alone can make a significant difference in this world. Which I believe is our purpose for living. Half of the proceeds from this astonishing book will be donated towards a fantastic foundation that I’m creating called A Hand Up, Not A Hand Out. It’s a non profit organization designed to help people who have creative minds obtain the interest free funding for starting a small business, invention patents, publishing a book, song writing or things of that nature. I know we all can agree that it takes money to make money and I personally feel that it’s wrong to deprive people of their dreams because of financial difficulties. So please help me help us all by purchasing this one of a kind, everlasting book of keepsakes. I encourage every person to pursue their dreams because I believe that’s what being a free American is all about.
The Contemporary Narrative Poem
Author: Steven P. Schneider
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609381254
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Over the past thirty years, narrative poems have made a comeback against the lyric approach to poetry that has dominated the past century. Drawing on a decade of conferences and critical seminars on the topic, The Contemporary Narrative Poem examines this resurgence of narrative and the cultural and literary forces motivating it. Gathering ten essays from poet-critics who write from a wide range of perspectives and address a wide range of works, the collection transcends narrow conceptions of narrative, antinarrative, and metanarrative. The authors ask several questions: What formal strategies do recent narrative poems take? What social, cultural, and epistemological issues are raised in such poems? How do contemporary narrative poems differ from modernist narrative poems? In what ways has history been incorporated into the recent narrative poetry? How have poets used the lyric within narrative poems? How do experimental poets redefine narrative itself through their work? And what role does consciousness play in the contemporary narrative poem? The answers they supply will engage every poet and student of poetry.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609381254
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Over the past thirty years, narrative poems have made a comeback against the lyric approach to poetry that has dominated the past century. Drawing on a decade of conferences and critical seminars on the topic, The Contemporary Narrative Poem examines this resurgence of narrative and the cultural and literary forces motivating it. Gathering ten essays from poet-critics who write from a wide range of perspectives and address a wide range of works, the collection transcends narrow conceptions of narrative, antinarrative, and metanarrative. The authors ask several questions: What formal strategies do recent narrative poems take? What social, cultural, and epistemological issues are raised in such poems? How do contemporary narrative poems differ from modernist narrative poems? In what ways has history been incorporated into the recent narrative poetry? How have poets used the lyric within narrative poems? How do experimental poets redefine narrative itself through their work? And what role does consciousness play in the contemporary narrative poem? The answers they supply will engage every poet and student of poetry.
The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times
Author: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812208862
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The wide-ranging portrayal of modern Jewishness in artistic terms invites scrutiny into the relationship between creativity and the formation of Jewish identity and into the complex issue of what makes a work of art uniquely Jewish. Whether it is the provenance of the artist, as in the case of popular Israeli singer Zehava Ben, the intention of the iconography, as in Ben Shahn's antifascist paintings, or the utopian ideals of the Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair, clearly no single formula for defining Jewish art in the diaspora will suffice. The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times is the first work to analyze modern Jewry's engagement with the arts as a whole, including music, theater, dance, film, museums, architecture, painting, sculpture, and more. Working with a broad conception of what counts as art, the book asks the following questions: What roles have commerce and politics played in shaping Jewish artistic agendas? Who determines the Jewishness of art and for what purposes? What role has aesthetics played in reshaping religious traditions and rituals? This richly illustrated volume illuminates how the arts have helped Jews confront the various challenges of modernity, including cultural adaptation and self-preservation, economic diversification, and ritual transformation. There truly is an art to being Jewish in the modern world—or, alternatively, an art to being modern in the Jewish world—and this collection fully captures its range, diversity, and historical significance.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812208862
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The wide-ranging portrayal of modern Jewishness in artistic terms invites scrutiny into the relationship between creativity and the formation of Jewish identity and into the complex issue of what makes a work of art uniquely Jewish. Whether it is the provenance of the artist, as in the case of popular Israeli singer Zehava Ben, the intention of the iconography, as in Ben Shahn's antifascist paintings, or the utopian ideals of the Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair, clearly no single formula for defining Jewish art in the diaspora will suffice. The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times is the first work to analyze modern Jewry's engagement with the arts as a whole, including music, theater, dance, film, museums, architecture, painting, sculpture, and more. Working with a broad conception of what counts as art, the book asks the following questions: What roles have commerce and politics played in shaping Jewish artistic agendas? Who determines the Jewishness of art and for what purposes? What role has aesthetics played in reshaping religious traditions and rituals? This richly illustrated volume illuminates how the arts have helped Jews confront the various challenges of modernity, including cultural adaptation and self-preservation, economic diversification, and ritual transformation. There truly is an art to being Jewish in the modern world—or, alternatively, an art to being modern in the Jewish world—and this collection fully captures its range, diversity, and historical significance.
Rebuilding Cities from Medieval to Modern Times
Author: Percy Johnson-Marshall
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351494538
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Unique in the literature of planners, architects, and urban officials, Rebuilding Cities is a compendium and analysis of the achievements of city planning from the ""Ideal City"" of Palmanova in 1593 to the innovative achievements of planners and designers of the twentieth century. As such, it is vital reading for anyone concerned with the problem of rebuilding and revitalizing cities after disasters--either of a human or physical decimation. Rebuilding Cities covers and includes medieval nuclei to urban sprawl; physical, economic, and social factors in planning; and the changing nature of components of cities incorporating elements from different periods in a single visual scheme. Also included are analysis of planning schemes from Indian and Greek visionaries; legislative and administrative changes needed for successful planning; the massive redevelopment that happened in London after World War Two; renewal schemes; and urban design and work throughout the world. The remarkable clarity and thoroughness of the book and its abundant illustrations clearly demonstrate the successes and failures of planning schemes and lays a solid groundwork for intelligent assessment of the goals and practical possibilities of city planning. Teachers and students of planning and architecture, professionals actively engaged in the field, and all who visualize a truly civilized urban environment will find this book immensely helpful and satisfying.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351494538
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Unique in the literature of planners, architects, and urban officials, Rebuilding Cities is a compendium and analysis of the achievements of city planning from the ""Ideal City"" of Palmanova in 1593 to the innovative achievements of planners and designers of the twentieth century. As such, it is vital reading for anyone concerned with the problem of rebuilding and revitalizing cities after disasters--either of a human or physical decimation. Rebuilding Cities covers and includes medieval nuclei to urban sprawl; physical, economic, and social factors in planning; and the changing nature of components of cities incorporating elements from different periods in a single visual scheme. Also included are analysis of planning schemes from Indian and Greek visionaries; legislative and administrative changes needed for successful planning; the massive redevelopment that happened in London after World War Two; renewal schemes; and urban design and work throughout the world. The remarkable clarity and thoroughness of the book and its abundant illustrations clearly demonstrate the successes and failures of planning schemes and lays a solid groundwork for intelligent assessment of the goals and practical possibilities of city planning. Teachers and students of planning and architecture, professionals actively engaged in the field, and all who visualize a truly civilized urban environment will find this book immensely helpful and satisfying.
The Chances of Rhyme
Author: Donald Wesling
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520327527
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520327527
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.
Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times
Author: Roelof van den Broek
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791497666
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This volume introduces what has sometimes been called "the third component of western culture." It traces the historical development of those religious traditions which have rejected a world view based on the primacy of pure rationality or doctrinal faith, emphasizing instead the importance of inner enlightenment or gnosis: a revelatory experience which was typically believed to entail an encounter with one's true self as well as with the ground of being, God. The contributors to this book demonstrate this perspective as fundamental to a variety of interconnected traditions. In Antiquity, one finds the gnostics and hermetics; in the Middle Ages several Christian sects. The medieval Cathars can, to a certain extent, be considered part of the same tradition. Starting with the Italian humanist Renaissance, hermetic philosophy became of central importance to a new religious synthesis that can be referred to as Western Esotericism." The development of this tradition is described from Renaissance hermeticists and practitioners of spiritual alchemy to the emergence of Rosicrucianism and Christian theosophy in the seventeenth century, and from post-enlightenment aspects of Romanticism and occultism to the present-day New Age movement.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791497666
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This volume introduces what has sometimes been called "the third component of western culture." It traces the historical development of those religious traditions which have rejected a world view based on the primacy of pure rationality or doctrinal faith, emphasizing instead the importance of inner enlightenment or gnosis: a revelatory experience which was typically believed to entail an encounter with one's true self as well as with the ground of being, God. The contributors to this book demonstrate this perspective as fundamental to a variety of interconnected traditions. In Antiquity, one finds the gnostics and hermetics; in the Middle Ages several Christian sects. The medieval Cathars can, to a certain extent, be considered part of the same tradition. Starting with the Italian humanist Renaissance, hermetic philosophy became of central importance to a new religious synthesis that can be referred to as Western Esotericism." The development of this tradition is described from Renaissance hermeticists and practitioners of spiritual alchemy to the emergence of Rosicrucianism and Christian theosophy in the seventeenth century, and from post-enlightenment aspects of Romanticism and occultism to the present-day New Age movement.
East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Author: Albrecht Classen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110321513
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
This new volume explores the surprisingly intense and complex relationships between East and West during the Middle Ages and the early modern world, combining a large number of critical studies representing such diverse fields as literary (German, French, Italian, English, Spanish, and Arabic) and other subdisciplines of history, religion, anthropology, and linguistics. The differences between Islam and Christianity erected strong barriers separating two global cultures, but, as this volume indicates, despite many attempts to 'Other' the opposing side, the premodern world experienced an astonishing degree of contacts, meetings, exchanges, and influences. Scientists, travelers, authors, medical researchers, chroniclers, diplomats, and merchants criss-crossed the East and the West, or studied the sources produced by the other culture for many different reasons. As much as the theoretical concept of 'Orientalism' has been useful in sensitizing us to the fundamental tensions and conflicts separating both worlds at least since the eighteenth century, the premodern world did not quite yet operate in such an ideological framework. Even though the Crusades had violently pitted Christians against Muslims, there were countless contacts and a palpitable curiosity on both sides both before, during, and after those religious warfares.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110321513
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
This new volume explores the surprisingly intense and complex relationships between East and West during the Middle Ages and the early modern world, combining a large number of critical studies representing such diverse fields as literary (German, French, Italian, English, Spanish, and Arabic) and other subdisciplines of history, religion, anthropology, and linguistics. The differences between Islam and Christianity erected strong barriers separating two global cultures, but, as this volume indicates, despite many attempts to 'Other' the opposing side, the premodern world experienced an astonishing degree of contacts, meetings, exchanges, and influences. Scientists, travelers, authors, medical researchers, chroniclers, diplomats, and merchants criss-crossed the East and the West, or studied the sources produced by the other culture for many different reasons. As much as the theoretical concept of 'Orientalism' has been useful in sensitizing us to the fundamental tensions and conflicts separating both worlds at least since the eighteenth century, the premodern world did not quite yet operate in such an ideological framework. Even though the Crusades had violently pitted Christians against Muslims, there were countless contacts and a palpitable curiosity on both sides both before, during, and after those religious warfares.
Rhyming Hope and History
Author: Russell Rook
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1630876291
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The subject of "culture" has provided theologians with a whole new realm of exploration. By the turn of the twentieth century and the beginning of this new milennium the subject of culture had presented itself to theologians and church leaders for vital consideration. As one of the world's leading theologians, Robert Jenson's eminent career has coincided with the pre-eminence of culture in theological and churchly discussion. Having described himself as a theologian of culture in his earliest works, culture continually informs Jenson's systematic theology, which in turn works its way out in countless cultural forms. In Rhyming Hope and History we explore the philiosophical and theological influences of Jenson's work and outline their vast and varied applications to the world of culture and the life of the church. For Jenson, the church is the cultural embodiment of the risen Christ in the fallen reality of our world. In a series of conversations between Jenson and leading thinkers, including G.W.F. Hegel, Jonathan Edwards, Wittgenstein, Richard H. Niebuhr, Kathryn Tanner, Paul Tillich, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Augustine, and Jeremy Begbie, we explore this creative and courageous proposal.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1630876291
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The subject of "culture" has provided theologians with a whole new realm of exploration. By the turn of the twentieth century and the beginning of this new milennium the subject of culture had presented itself to theologians and church leaders for vital consideration. As one of the world's leading theologians, Robert Jenson's eminent career has coincided with the pre-eminence of culture in theological and churchly discussion. Having described himself as a theologian of culture in his earliest works, culture continually informs Jenson's systematic theology, which in turn works its way out in countless cultural forms. In Rhyming Hope and History we explore the philiosophical and theological influences of Jenson's work and outline their vast and varied applications to the world of culture and the life of the church. For Jenson, the church is the cultural embodiment of the risen Christ in the fallen reality of our world. In a series of conversations between Jenson and leading thinkers, including G.W.F. Hegel, Jonathan Edwards, Wittgenstein, Richard H. Niebuhr, Kathryn Tanner, Paul Tillich, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Augustine, and Jeremy Begbie, we explore this creative and courageous proposal.
The Rhyme and Reason of Politics in Early Modern Europe
Author: C.E. Harline
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401127220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Herbert Rowen has always insisted that historians don't need biographers. Outside "a small circle of family, friends and students," what matters most is not the individual but his or her work.' Thus the main purpose of the present volume is to highlight Professor Rowen's contributions to the political history of early modem Europe. Part I includes assessment of his work by others, while Parts ll-V contain examples of his best articles, papers, and reviews, some published here for the first time, most previously hard-to-get. These essays not only add substantively to our understanding of early modem politics, but treat both implicitly and explicitly the historian's task per se. Hence, this is not biography, much less "innocuous laudation" or hagiography, which Herb would not forgive. Yet it is only fitting that someone who lays so much stress on the human side of History should by way of introduction have something said about his person as well as his work.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401127220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Herbert Rowen has always insisted that historians don't need biographers. Outside "a small circle of family, friends and students," what matters most is not the individual but his or her work.' Thus the main purpose of the present volume is to highlight Professor Rowen's contributions to the political history of early modem Europe. Part I includes assessment of his work by others, while Parts ll-V contain examples of his best articles, papers, and reviews, some published here for the first time, most previously hard-to-get. These essays not only add substantively to our understanding of early modem politics, but treat both implicitly and explicitly the historian's task per se. Hence, this is not biography, much less "innocuous laudation" or hagiography, which Herb would not forgive. Yet it is only fitting that someone who lays so much stress on the human side of History should by way of introduction have something said about his person as well as his work.
A History of English Literature: Modern times (1660-1914) by Louis Cazamian, tr. from the French by W. D. MacInnes, and the author
Author: Emile Legouis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description