The Tempter's Voice

The Tempter's Voice PDF Author: Eric Jager
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801480362
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Book Description
The school of Paradise -- The genesis of hermeneutics -- The Garden of eloquence -- The Old English epic of the Fall -- The seducer and the daughter of Eve -- The carnal letter in Chaucer's earthly paradise -- Signs of the Fall: from the Middle Ages to Postmodernism.

The Tempter's Voice

The Tempter's Voice PDF Author: Eric Jager
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801480362
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Book Description
The school of Paradise -- The genesis of hermeneutics -- The Garden of eloquence -- The Old English epic of the Fall -- The seducer and the daughter of Eve -- The carnal letter in Chaucer's earthly paradise -- Signs of the Fall: from the Middle Ages to Postmodernism.

Vanishing Voices

Vanishing Voices PDF Author: Katarzyna Dudek
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152754544X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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Book Description
The nature of silence is hard to grasp. This book serves to systematize this concept and explore it in the works of three major poets of religious experience: namely, Gerard Manley Hopkins, T. S. Eliot and R. S. Thomas. Since these poets worked within a Christian framework, the “silences” they refer to are mainly those emerging in the context of the relationship between God and man in a post-Christian climate. The book’s textual analyses place special attention on the dynamics between thematic and structural manifestations of silence, and are situated at the crossroads of the poetics, philosophy and theology. In this first study bringing together the poetry of Hopkins, Eliot and Thomas, the three poets, each in his unique way, emerge as poetic ministers, practitioners, and producers of silence, who try to find a new language to talk about the Ineffable God and one’s experience of the divine.

Preaching to a Post-Everything World

Preaching to a Post-Everything World PDF Author: Zack Eswine
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 9781441201607
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Zack Eswine starts this unique pastoral resource with a captivating question: Could I now reach who I once was? Challenging the idea that today's preachers must do away with biblical or expository preaching if they are to reach non-Christian people, Eswine offers a way of preaching that embraces biblical exposition in missional terms. Recognizing all of the different cultural situations in which the gospel must be preached, he gives preachers practical advice on preaching in a global context while remaining faithful to the Bible. Pastors, seminarians, and church and ministry leaders who speak in various contexts will welcome this fresh, thoughtful examination of bringing the Word to today's multi-everything, post-everything world.

Proust, Beckett, and Narration

Proust, Beckett, and Narration PDF Author: James H. Reid
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139440845
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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This a comprehensive comparison of the narrative techniques of two of the twentieth century's most important writers of prose. Using a combination of theoretical analysis and close readings of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu and Beckett's trilogy of novels, Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable, James H. Reid compares the two novelists' use of first-person narration in constructing and demystifying fictions of consciousness. Reid focuses on the narrator's search to represent the voice that speaks the novel, a search, he argues, that structures first-person narration in the works of both novelists. He examines in detail the significant impact of Proust's writing on Beckett's own work as well as Beckett's subtle reworkings of Proust's themes and strategies. This study is an important contribution to critical literature, and offers fresh perspectives on the crucial importance of the Recherche and the trilogy in the context of the twentieth-century novel.

Intimate Reading

Intimate Reading PDF Author: Jessica Barr
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472131699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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Book Description
Intimate Reading: Textual Encounters in Medieval Women’s Visions and Vitae explores the ways that women mystics sought to make their books into vehicles for the reader’s spiritual transformation. Jessica Barr argues that the cognitive work of reading these texts was meant to stimulate intensely personal responses, and that the very materiality of the book can produce an intimate encounter with God. She thus explores the differences between mystics’ biographies and their self-presentation, analyzing as well the complex rhetorical moves that medieval women writers employ to render their accounts more effective. This new volume is structured around five case studies. Chapters consider the biographies of 13th-century holy women from Liège, the writings of Margery Kempe, Gertrude of Helfta, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Julian of Norwich. At the heart of Intimate Reading is the question of how reading works—what it means to enter imaginatively and intellectually into the words of another. The volume showcases the complexity of medieval understandings of the work of reading, deepening our perception of the written word’s capacity to signify something that lies even beyond rational comprehension.

Voice Terminal Echo (Routledge Revivals)

Voice Terminal Echo (Routledge Revivals) PDF Author: Jonathan Goldberg
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317584732
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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Book Description
First published in 1986, this title examines a set of English Renaissance texts by Shakespeare, Spenser, Herbert, Marvell and Milton, within the theoretic framework of postmodern thought. Following an opening chapter that argues for the value of this conjunction as a way of understanding literary history, subsequent chapters draw upon Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction of photocentrism and Jacques Lacan’s analysis of the agency of the letter to offer fully theorized readings. Throughout, there is a sustained concern with the transformations of such Ovidian figures as Narcissus and Echo, Perseus and Medusa, Orpheus and Eurydice, and with the echo effects of Virgilian pastoral, as paradigms for the interplay of voice and writing.

Cinema of Discontent

Cinema of Discontent PDF Author: Tomoyuki Sasaki
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438491018
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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Book Description
From the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, Japan experienced an unprecedented level of economic growth, transforming itself from a war-devastated country to a global economic power. Our image of postwar Japan has been shaped by this event, and we tend to see its history as a story of great national success. Cinema of Discontent challenges this view and details the tensions generated by massive and intense capitalist development through analyses of popular cinema produced during the era of high-speed growth. The films discussed in this book, directed by Kawashima Yūzō, Masumura Yasuzō, Inoue Akira, Ezaki Mio, and Kumashiro Tatsumi, attracted broad audiences yet remain understudied. Cinema of Discontent contextualizes these films in relation to the politics, economy, intellectual discourse, and cultural texts of the time. By doing so, it demonstrates how these films address problems immanent to Japan's postwar capitalism, including uneven development, increasing corporate control over individuals, precarious and contingent work, and militarized peace and prosperity.

Susan's Coffeebreak

Susan's Coffeebreak PDF Author: Susan Pippin
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1619044455
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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The Daily Devotions-Coffee Break began in March of 2006 and has truly been inspired by God and is now reaching across this nation and others touching the lives of both women and men. The Devotions are taken from life experiences and reveal how God's Word relates to each one. "My desire is that hearts and lives be changed by the Word of God and I pray that these Devotions will be a blessing to all. Thank you for being a part of this outreach to bring others to the saving, keeping and loving knowledge of Jesus Christ." Susan and her husband Ken reside in Tarpon Springs, Fl. and are the pastors of Highest Praise Family Church. Susan is the mother of two handsome sons, two beautiful daughters-in-law and six awesome grandchildren. She is an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God and is currently the Women's Ministries representative for the St. Pete-Clearwater area in Florida.

The Curtain

The Curtain PDF Author: David T Maddox
Publisher: Made For Success Publishing
ISBN: 1613398239
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Book Description
Two worlds – one visible, the other invisible. A shooter is on the loose in a small Midwestern suburb, chased by the FBI and local police. A credible ISIS plot brews to neutralize America on the world stage. While the forces of darkness rally a campaign to influence the hearts and minds of millions of Americans, the President of the United States works to save his country from imminent destruction. Concurrently a mysterious figure arises, The Bookseller, to speak truth into the lives of Paul and Samantha, two college students at the crossroads of an epic battle between light and darkness. The curtain which separates the visible from the invisible is suddenly opened, revealing the conflict, tactics and methods of the opposing forces – and how they continually impact our lives. Be cautioned, however, that although this is a work of fiction, it often crosses the line to truth – not in personalities or the events described, but how we might view these events if we could see everything that happened, both the visible and invisible, simultaneously. For those brave enough to search for the truth, The Curtain is an adventure behind the veil, deep into the spiritual realm.

The English Hymn

The English Hymn PDF Author: J. R. Watson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191520489
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 564

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Book Description
D.H. Lawrence, writing of the poems that had meant most to him, said that they were `still not woven so deep in me as the rather banal Nonconformist hymns that penetrated through and through my childhood'. It is not easy to account for this, and most writing about hymns has not helped because it has concentrated on their content and function in worship and liturgy. In the present book the author tries to account for feelings like Lawrence's by examining the hymn form and its progress through the centuries from the Reformation to the present day. He begins by discussing the status of a hymn text and relates it to the demands made upon it by the needs of singing. A chronological study then traces the development of the English hymn, from the metrical psalms of the Reformation, through the seventeenth century and Isaac Watts to the Wesleys, Cowper, Toplady, and others, and then to the great flood of hymn writing that occurred during the Victorian period, together with the great success of Hymns Ancient and Modern. There are chapters on American hymnody and women's hymn writing, and sections on gospel hymns and the translation of German hymnody. A final chapter takes the story into the twentieth century, with a brief postscript on the revival of hymn writing since 1960.