Author: Dana A. Williams
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814209947
Category : African Americans in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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""In the Light of Likeness - transformed" by Dana A. Williams looks critically at the work of contemporary African American author Leon Forrest. Not only does she bring to the critical table a well-known but as yet understudied modernist author - an important endeavor in and of itself - but she also explores Forrest's novels' cultural dialogue with black ethnic culture and other African American authors, as well as provides in-depth readings of his prose and interpretations of his narrative style." "Forrest's highly experimental narrative style, his reinterpretation of modernism, and his transformations of black cultural traditions into literary aesthetics often pose challenges of interpretation for the reader and the scholar alike. As the first single-authored book-length study of Forrest's novel, this book offers readers pathways into his fiction. What this culturalist approach to the novels reveals is that Forrest's fiction was foremost concerned with investigating ways for the African American to survive in the contemporary moment. Through a variety of characters, the novels reveal the African American's art of transformation - the ability to find ways to make the wretchedness of the past work in positive ways."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: John G. Cawelti
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879727345
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Leon Forrest: Introductions and Interpretations combines biography and various methods of critical analysis to interpret the work of this important African-American novelist and essayist, who critics have compared to Joyce, Faulkner, and Tolstoy. Highly praised by Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, Forrest's four novels present a remarkably rich and engaging view of contemporary African-American urban culture and its roots in the southern past. The book includes a general introduction which surveys Forrest's life and presents an interpretation of the unity of his fiction, as well as individual essays offering different interpretations of Forrest's four major novels, three interviews with the writer, and a detailed chronology and bibliography.
Author: John Piper
Publisher: Multnomah
ISBN: 1601422911
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 401
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The author of Desiring God reveals the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him. Includes a study guide for individual and small-group use. Isn’t it true—we really don’t know someone until we understand what makes that person happy? And so it is with God! What does bring delight to the happiest Being in the universe? John Piper writes, that it’s only when we know what makes God glad that we’ll know the greatness of His glory. Therefore, we must comprehend “the pleasures of God.” Unlike so much of what is written today, this is not a book about us. It is about the One we were made for—God Himself. In this theological masterpiece—chosen by World Magazine as one of the 20th Century’s top 100 books, John Piper reveals the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him. Then we will be able to drink deeply—and satisfyingly—from the only well that offers living water. What followers of Jesus need now, more than anything else, is to know and love—behold and embrace—the great, glorious, sovereign, happy God of the Bible. “This is a unique and precious book that everybody should read more than once.” —J.I. PACKER, Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia
Author: Leon Forrest
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226257211
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Leon Forrest, acclaimed author of Divine Days, uses a remarkable verbal intensity to evoke human tragedy, injustice, and spirituality in his writing. As Toni Morrison has said, "All of Forrest's novels explore the complex legacy of Afro-Americans. Like an insistent tide this history . . . swells and recalls America's past. . . . Brooding, hilarious, acerbic and profoundly valued life has no more astute observer than Leon Forrest." All of that is on display here in two novels that give readers a breathtaking view of the human experience, filled with humor and pathos.
Author: Michael Greif
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615188699
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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In this life changing two volume series newly discovered images are presented for the first time to the world that are used to illustrate nearly 1000 Bible verses. These powerfully insightful visible keys that can be used to illustrate verses in every book of the Bible from the perspective a human's spiritual heart and soul. Volume Two uses these eye-opening images to illustrate 535 Bible verses that address the topics of God's Glory, The Holy Spirit, The Kingdom of God and the second coming of Christ. Many of these verses cannot be fully understood until a person can see them illustrated with the use of these powerful images. Understanding these visible keys has helped many to achieve enormous spiritual growth in their lives. Simply viewing the illustrated Bible verses within this series has led many people into a wonderful and powerful spiritual awakening that has filled their hearts and lives with the Spiritual Blessings and Power that is found within the Kingdom of God.
Author: Craig Hansen Werner
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252066412
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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A final sequence highlights the centrality of black music to African American writing, arguing that recognizing blues, gospel, and jazz as theoretically suggestive cultural practices rather than specific musical forms points to what is most distinctive in twentieth-century African American writing: its ability to subvert attempts to limit its engagement with psychological, historical, political, or aesthetic realities.
Author: Tana French
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670018864
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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A follow-up to In the Woods finds a traumatized detective Cassie Maddox struggling in her career and relationship with Sam O'Neill while investigating the unsettling murder of a young woman whose name matches an alias Cassie once had used as an undercover officer. 50,000 first printing.
Author: Bill Winston
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN: 1606830724
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Dr. Bill Winston, broadcast nationwide in over 100 million homes on the Believer s Walk of Faith program, helps believers renovate their thought life by focusing on who they are in Christ, building success in every area of living. In the book of Romans, the apostle Paul encourages believers to be transformed by renewing their mind. The Greek...
Author: Cardinal Nicholas (of Cusa)
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809136988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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For the first time in one volume in English are the spiritual writings of this outstanding intellectual figure (1401-1464) whose work anticipated modern problems of ecumenicity and pluralism, empowerment and reconciliation, and tolerance and individuality.
Author: Leon Forrest
Publisher: Moyer Bell
ISBN: 9781559211925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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