Author: Mark W. Dennis
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 143847797X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
An interdisciplinary dialogue with Shūsaku Endō’s last novel offering new perspectives on Japanese culture, Christian doctrine, Hindu spiritualities, and Buddhist worldviews. In Navigating Deep River, Mark W. Dennis and Darren J. N. Middleton have curated a wide-ranging discussion of Shūsaku Endō’s final novel, Deep River, in which four careworn Japanese tourists journey to India’s holy Ganges in search of spiritual as well as existential renewal. Navigating Deep River evaluates and probes Endō’s decades-long search to find the words to explain Transcendent Mystery, the difficult tension between faith and doubt, the purpose of spiritual journeys, and the challenges posed by the reality of religious pluralism in an increasingly diverse world. The contributors, including Van C. Gessel who translated Deep River into English in 1994, offer an engaged and patient exploration of this major text in world fiction, and this anthology promises to deepen academic appreciation for Endō, within and beyond the West. “This volume contextualizes, delineates, and articulates the complex religious/theological/spiritual dimensions of Deep River and its rich intertextual, interpersonal, psychosocial, and literary aspects. There are few edited volumes in which so many experts focus on a single Japanese text in this sustained manner, and this stands as a model of how to do so deftly and productively.” — David C. Stahl, author of Social Trauma, Narrative Memory and Recovery in Japanese Literature and Film
Navigating Deep River
Author: Mark W. Dennis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781438477961
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
"The power of pilgrimage permeates the world's religions, from Canterbury to Varanasi, and in April 1994, Peter Owen Publishers released Van C. Gessel's English translation of Deep River (Fukai Kawa, 1993), an emotional quest narrative in which four careworn Japanese tourists journey to India's holy Ganges in search of spiritual as well as existential renewal. The story's author, Endo Shusaku (aka Shusaku Endo [1923-1996]), had just marked his seventy-first birthday. Deep River would prove to be one of Endo's last novels. In June of 1996 he began hemodialysis, but passed away on September 29 of that year. Over 4,000 people in attendance at Endo's funeral services at the St. Ignatius Church in Tokyo placed flowers on the altar. Copies of both Silence and Deep River, the publications that meant the most to him, were placed in the casket. Today, almost twenty-five years after Endo's passing, this wide-ranging anthology offers the first, book-length discussion of Deep River. It evaluates as well as probes how Endo spent decades trying to find words to explain Transcendent Mystery, faith and doubt's difficult tension, the purpose of spiritual journeys, and the challenges posed by the reality of religious pluralism in an increasingly diverse world. Aimed at individuals working in Asian Studies, Catholic Studies, and the fields of Comparative Literature as well as Religion and the Arts, Navigating Deep River displays an engaged, patient contact with a major text in world fiction, and this interdisciplinary anthology promises to deepen academic appreciation for Endo, within and beyond the West"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781438477961
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
"The power of pilgrimage permeates the world's religions, from Canterbury to Varanasi, and in April 1994, Peter Owen Publishers released Van C. Gessel's English translation of Deep River (Fukai Kawa, 1993), an emotional quest narrative in which four careworn Japanese tourists journey to India's holy Ganges in search of spiritual as well as existential renewal. The story's author, Endo Shusaku (aka Shusaku Endo [1923-1996]), had just marked his seventy-first birthday. Deep River would prove to be one of Endo's last novels. In June of 1996 he began hemodialysis, but passed away on September 29 of that year. Over 4,000 people in attendance at Endo's funeral services at the St. Ignatius Church in Tokyo placed flowers on the altar. Copies of both Silence and Deep River, the publications that meant the most to him, were placed in the casket. Today, almost twenty-five years after Endo's passing, this wide-ranging anthology offers the first, book-length discussion of Deep River. It evaluates as well as probes how Endo spent decades trying to find words to explain Transcendent Mystery, faith and doubt's difficult tension, the purpose of spiritual journeys, and the challenges posed by the reality of religious pluralism in an increasingly diverse world. Aimed at individuals working in Asian Studies, Catholic Studies, and the fields of Comparative Literature as well as Religion and the Arts, Navigating Deep River displays an engaged, patient contact with a major text in world fiction, and this interdisciplinary anthology promises to deepen academic appreciation for Endo, within and beyond the West"--
Deep River
Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213202
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Offers a religious vision combining Christian faith with Buddhist acceptance in the story of a group of Japanese tourists who converge at the Ganges River in India.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213202
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Offers a religious vision combining Christian faith with Buddhist acceptance in the story of a group of Japanese tourists who converge at the Ganges River in India.
Finding the Deep River Within
Author: Abby Seixas
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0787997498
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
For over two decades, Abby Seixas has taught women how to slow down and reclaim their lives from the tyranny of their to-do lists. Based on the experiences of women whose lives have been transformed by her workshops, this highly anticipated first book presents her comprehensive program to nurture contact with the Deep River Within, the soul-nourishing dimension in each of us that flows beneath the busyness of daily life. With gentle encouragement, practical guidance, and compelling stories of struggle and success, Finding the Deep River Within details the three preliminary doorways and six core practices for inviting the rich resources of our deeper nature into everyday life.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0787997498
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
For over two decades, Abby Seixas has taught women how to slow down and reclaim their lives from the tyranny of their to-do lists. Based on the experiences of women whose lives have been transformed by her workshops, this highly anticipated first book presents her comprehensive program to nurture contact with the Deep River Within, the soul-nourishing dimension in each of us that flows beneath the busyness of daily life. With gentle encouragement, practical guidance, and compelling stories of struggle and success, Finding the Deep River Within details the three preliminary doorways and six core practices for inviting the rich resources of our deeper nature into everyday life.
Deep River
Author: Karl Marlantes
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 0802146198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Three Finnish siblings head for the logging fields of nineteenth-century America in the New York Times–bestselling author’s “commanding historical epic” (Washington Post). Born into a farm family, the three Koski siblings—Ilmari, Matti, and Aino—are raised to maintain their grit and resiliency in the face of hardship. This lesson in sisu takes on special meaning when their father is arrested by imperial Russian authorities, never to be seen again. Lured by the prospects of the Homestead Act, Ilmari and Matti set sail for America, while young Aino, feeling betrayed and adrift after her Marxist cell is exposed, follows soon after. The brothers establish themselves among a logging community in southern Washington, not far from the Columbia River. In this New World, they each find themselves—Ilmari as the family’s spiritual rock; Matti as a fearless logger and entrepreneur; and Aino as a fiercely independent woman and union activist who is willing to make any sacrifice for the cause that sustains her. Layered with fascinating historical detail, this novel bears witness to the stump-ridden fields that the loggers—and the first waves of modernity—leave behind. At its heart, Deep River explores the place of the individual, and of the immigrant, in an America still in the process of defining its own identity.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 0802146198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Three Finnish siblings head for the logging fields of nineteenth-century America in the New York Times–bestselling author’s “commanding historical epic” (Washington Post). Born into a farm family, the three Koski siblings—Ilmari, Matti, and Aino—are raised to maintain their grit and resiliency in the face of hardship. This lesson in sisu takes on special meaning when their father is arrested by imperial Russian authorities, never to be seen again. Lured by the prospects of the Homestead Act, Ilmari and Matti set sail for America, while young Aino, feeling betrayed and adrift after her Marxist cell is exposed, follows soon after. The brothers establish themselves among a logging community in southern Washington, not far from the Columbia River. In this New World, they each find themselves—Ilmari as the family’s spiritual rock; Matti as a fearless logger and entrepreneur; and Aino as a fiercely independent woman and union activist who is willing to make any sacrifice for the cause that sustains her. Layered with fascinating historical detail, this novel bears witness to the stump-ridden fields that the loggers—and the first waves of modernity—leave behind. At its heart, Deep River explores the place of the individual, and of the immigrant, in an America still in the process of defining its own identity.
The Museum of Eterna's Novel
Author: Macedonio Fernández
Publisher: Open Letter Books
ISBN: 1934824062
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
An anti-novel.' It opens with more than fifty prologues-including ones addressed 'To My Authorial Persona,' 'To the Critics,' and 'To Readers Who Will Perish If They Don't Know What the Novel Is About'-that are by turns philosophical, outrageous, ponderous, and cryptic. These pieces cover a range of topics from how the upcoming novel will be received to how to thwart 'skip-around readers' (by writing a book that's defies linearity!). The novel itself, is about a group of characters (some borrowed from other texts) who live on an estancia called 'la novella''
Publisher: Open Letter Books
ISBN: 1934824062
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
An anti-novel.' It opens with more than fifty prologues-including ones addressed 'To My Authorial Persona,' 'To the Critics,' and 'To Readers Who Will Perish If They Don't Know What the Novel Is About'-that are by turns philosophical, outrageous, ponderous, and cryptic. These pieces cover a range of topics from how the upcoming novel will be received to how to thwart 'skip-around readers' (by writing a book that's defies linearity!). The novel itself, is about a group of characters (some borrowed from other texts) who live on an estancia called 'la novella''
Report
Author: United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
Book Description
Report of the Chief of Engineers
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 5134
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 5134
Book Description
Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 1400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 1400
Book Description
Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 1294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 1294
Book Description
The Ancient and Present State of the Navigation of the Towns of Lyn, Wisbeach, Spalding, and Boston
Author: Charles Kinderley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description