Author: Bel Mooney
Publisher: Walker
ISBN: 9781406307276
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Set in Romania in 1989, this tells the story of a nation at the beginning of a revolution, where freedom was becoming something more than a dream - Flora is caught up in this tide and also fascinated by Daniel, the new boy at school, with his smart Western clothes and seemingly abundant money to spend - Can she trust him?
Voices of Silence
Author: Bel Mooney
Publisher: Walker
ISBN: 9781406307276
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Set in Romania in 1989, this tells the story of a nation at the beginning of a revolution, where freedom was becoming something more than a dream - Flora is caught up in this tide and also fascinated by Daniel, the new boy at school, with his smart Western clothes and seemingly abundant money to spend - Can she trust him?
Publisher: Walker
ISBN: 9781406307276
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Set in Romania in 1989, this tells the story of a nation at the beginning of a revolution, where freedom was becoming something more than a dream - Flora is caught up in this tide and also fascinated by Daniel, the new boy at school, with his smart Western clothes and seemingly abundant money to spend - Can she trust him?
Voices of Silence
Author: Frank Bianco
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385424302
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A blend of case history, anecdote, history, and spiritual quest, this intimate and fascinating look at the world's oldest and most reclusive monastic order provides a rare understanding of day-to-day Trappist existence.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385424302
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A blend of case history, anecdote, history, and spiritual quest, this intimate and fascinating look at the world's oldest and most reclusive monastic order provides a rare understanding of day-to-day Trappist existence.
The Voices of Silence
Author: André Malraux
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691099415
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
Annotation: This is a comprehensive and psychological history of art from a variety of cultures by one of the eminent thinkers of the twentieth century.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691099415
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
Annotation: This is a comprehensive and psychological history of art from a variety of cultures by one of the eminent thinkers of the twentieth century.
The Other Side of Silence
Author: Urvashi Butalia
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822324942
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Chiefly on the partition of Punjab, 1947.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822324942
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Chiefly on the partition of Punjab, 1947.
A Book of Silence
Author: Sara Maitland
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619021420
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A personal and cultural exploration of silence and its value in our lives—“[an] artful book, mixing autobiography, travel writing, meditation, and essay” (Independent, UK). In her late forties, after a noisy upbringing as one of six children and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland found herself living alone in the country and, to her surprise, falling in love with silence. In this fascinating, intelligent, and beautifully written book, Maitland describes how she began to explore this new love, spending periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Scottish hills, and a remote cottage on the Isle of Skye. Maitland also delves deep into the rich cultural history of silence, exploring its significance in fairy tale and myth, its importance to the Western and Eastern religious traditions, and its use in psychoanalysis and artistic expression. Her story culminates in her building a hermitage on an isolated moor in Galloway. “Her book is probably unique in its subject, and timely, because good, healing silence is becoming hard to find, and we may not know we need it” (Guardian, UK).
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619021420
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A personal and cultural exploration of silence and its value in our lives—“[an] artful book, mixing autobiography, travel writing, meditation, and essay” (Independent, UK). In her late forties, after a noisy upbringing as one of six children and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland found herself living alone in the country and, to her surprise, falling in love with silence. In this fascinating, intelligent, and beautifully written book, Maitland describes how she began to explore this new love, spending periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Scottish hills, and a remote cottage on the Isle of Skye. Maitland also delves deep into the rich cultural history of silence, exploring its significance in fairy tale and myth, its importance to the Western and Eastern religious traditions, and its use in psychoanalysis and artistic expression. Her story culminates in her building a hermitage on an isolated moor in Galloway. “Her book is probably unique in its subject, and timely, because good, healing silence is becoming hard to find, and we may not know we need it” (Guardian, UK).
Breaking the Silence
Author: Anees Jung
Publisher: Unesco
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher: Unesco
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Making Silence Speak
Author: André Lardinois
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691187592
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This collection attempts to recover the voices of women in antiquity from a variety of perspectives: how they spoke, where they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature and public discourse. Rather than confirming the old model of binary oppositions in which women's speech was viewed as insignificant and subordinate to male discourse, these essays reveal a dynamic and potentially explosive interrelation between women's speech and the realm of literary production, religion, and oratory. The contributors use a variety of methodologies to mine a diverse array of sources, from Homeric epic to fictional letters of the second sophistic period and from actual letters written by women in Hellenistic Egypt to the poetry of Sappho. Throughout, the term "voice" is used in its broadest definition. It includes not only the few remaining genuine women's voices but also the ways in which male authors render women's speech and the social assumptions such representations reflect and reinforce. These essays therefore explore how fictional female voices can serve to negotiate complex social, epistemological, and aesthetic issues. The contributors include Josine Blok, Raffaella Cribiore, Michael Gagarin, Mark Griffith, André Lardinois, Richard Martin, Lisa Maurizio, Laura McClure, D. M. O'Higgins, Patricia Rosenmeyer, Marilyn Skinner, Eva Stehle, and Nancy Worman.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691187592
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This collection attempts to recover the voices of women in antiquity from a variety of perspectives: how they spoke, where they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature and public discourse. Rather than confirming the old model of binary oppositions in which women's speech was viewed as insignificant and subordinate to male discourse, these essays reveal a dynamic and potentially explosive interrelation between women's speech and the realm of literary production, religion, and oratory. The contributors use a variety of methodologies to mine a diverse array of sources, from Homeric epic to fictional letters of the second sophistic period and from actual letters written by women in Hellenistic Egypt to the poetry of Sappho. Throughout, the term "voice" is used in its broadest definition. It includes not only the few remaining genuine women's voices but also the ways in which male authors render women's speech and the social assumptions such representations reflect and reinforce. These essays therefore explore how fictional female voices can serve to negotiate complex social, epistemological, and aesthetic issues. The contributors include Josine Blok, Raffaella Cribiore, Michael Gagarin, Mark Griffith, André Lardinois, Richard Martin, Lisa Maurizio, Laura McClure, D. M. O'Higgins, Patricia Rosenmeyer, Marilyn Skinner, Eva Stehle, and Nancy Worman.
Voices in the Silence
Author: Shlomo Zalman Sonnenfeld
Publisher: Feldheim Pub
ISBN: 9780873066259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher: Feldheim Pub
ISBN: 9780873066259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Between Voice and Silence
Author: Jill McLean Taylor
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674068803
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The result is a deeper and richer appreciation of girls' development and women's psychological health.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674068803
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The result is a deeper and richer appreciation of girls' development and women's psychological health.
Voices and Silence in the Contemporary Novel in English
Author: Vanessa Guignery
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443816019
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This volume examines the various processes at work in expressing silence and excessive speech in contemporary novels in English, covering the whole spectrum from effusiveness to muteness. Even if in the postmodern episteme language is deemed inadequate for speaking the unspeakable, contemporary authors still rely on voice as a mode of representation and a performative tool, and exploit silence not only as a sign of absence, block or withdrawal, but also as a token of presence and resistance. Logorrhoea and reticence are not necessarily antithetical as compulsive verbosity may work as a smokescreen to sidestep the real issues, while silences and gaps may reveal more than they hide. By submitting their texts to both expansion and retention, hypertrophy and aphasia, writers persistently test the limits of language and its ability to make sense of individual and collective stories. The present volume analyses the complex poetics of silence and speech in fiction from the 1960’s to the present, with special focus on Will Self, Graham Swift, John Fowles, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jenny Diski, Lionel Shriver, Michèle Roberts, Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Safran Foer, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Zadie Smith, Jamaica Kincaid, Ryhaan Shah and J.M. Coetzee.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443816019
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This volume examines the various processes at work in expressing silence and excessive speech in contemporary novels in English, covering the whole spectrum from effusiveness to muteness. Even if in the postmodern episteme language is deemed inadequate for speaking the unspeakable, contemporary authors still rely on voice as a mode of representation and a performative tool, and exploit silence not only as a sign of absence, block or withdrawal, but also as a token of presence and resistance. Logorrhoea and reticence are not necessarily antithetical as compulsive verbosity may work as a smokescreen to sidestep the real issues, while silences and gaps may reveal more than they hide. By submitting their texts to both expansion and retention, hypertrophy and aphasia, writers persistently test the limits of language and its ability to make sense of individual and collective stories. The present volume analyses the complex poetics of silence and speech in fiction from the 1960’s to the present, with special focus on Will Self, Graham Swift, John Fowles, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jenny Diski, Lionel Shriver, Michèle Roberts, Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Safran Foer, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Zadie Smith, Jamaica Kincaid, Ryhaan Shah and J.M. Coetzee.