Dreams Of Decay

Author : Shelby Martinez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692825860
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dreams of Decay written by Shelby Martinez and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look in the closet and check under the bed; lay down to sleep and pull the covers up to your chin as you drift off into the whimsical world of dreams. But sometimes dreams decay, becoming nightmares, black and frightening. Journey into the darker realms where the fantastical meets the horrific. From deep within the terrifying imagination of S. Alessandro Martinez, this collection delves into the darkly amusing, the strange, and the eerie; poems guaranteed to send shivers down your spine and make your skin crawl.

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307834336
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Decay of the Angel written by Yukio Mishima and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final installment of the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, finds Shigekuni Honda an elderly wealthy man in the 1960s, adopting a teenage orphan whom he is convinced is the reincarnation of his childhood friend. • "One of the best final scenes in the history of the novel.” —David Mitchell, The New York Times Book Review Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, once more encounters a person he believes to be a reincarnation of his friend, Kiyoaki Matsugae—this time restored to life as a teenage orphan, Tōru. Adopting the boy as his heir, Honda quickly finds that Tōru is a force to be reckoned with. The final novel of this celebrated tetralogy weaves together the dominant themes of the previous three novels in the series: the decay of Japan’s courtly tradition; the essence and value of Buddhist philosophy and aesthetics; and, underlying all, Mishima’s apocalyptic vision of the modern era.

Author : Jennifer M. Windt
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262028670
Total Pages : 825 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dreaming written by Jennifer M. Windt and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive proposal for a conceptual framework for describing conscious experience in dreams, integrating philosophy of mind, sleep and dream research, and interdisciplinary consciousness studies. Dreams, conceived as conscious experience or phenomenal states during sleep, offer an important contrast condition for theories of consciousness and the self. Yet, although there is a wealth of empirical research on sleep and dreaming, its potential contribution to consciousness research and philosophy of mind is largely overlooked. This might be due, in part, to a lack of conceptual clarity and an underlying disagreement about the nature of the phenomenon of dreaming itself. In Dreaming, Jennifer Windt lays the groundwork for solving this problem. She develops a conceptual framework describing not only what it means to say that dreams are conscious experiences but also how to locate dreams relative to such concepts as perception, hallucination, and imagination, as well as thinking, knowledge, belief, deception, and self-consciousness. Arguing that a conceptual framework must be not only conceptually sound but also phenomenologically plausible and carefully informed by neuroscientific research, Windt integrates her review of philosophical work on dreaming, both historical and contemporary, with a survey of the most important empirical findings. This allows her to work toward a systematic and comprehensive new theoretical understanding of dreaming informed by a critical reading of contemporary research findings. Windt's account demonstrates that a philosophical analysis of the concept of dreaming can provide an important enrichment and extension to the conceptual repertoire of discussions of consciousness and the self and raises new questions for future research.

Author : Marie-Luise von Franz
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Dreams and Death written by Marie-Luise von Franz and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1986 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aleksandra Prica
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022681159X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decay and Afterlife written by Aleksandra Prica and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering 800 years of intellectual and literary history, Prica considers the textual forms of ruins. Western ruins have long been understood as objects riddled with temporal contradictions, whether they appear in baroque poetry and drama, Romanticism’s nostalgic view of history, eighteenth-century paintings of classical subjects, or even recent photographic histories of the ruins of postindustrial Detroit. Decay and Afterlife pivots away from our immediate, visual fascination with ruins, focusing instead on the textuality of ruins in works about disintegration and survival. Combining an impressive array of literary, philosophical, and historiographical works both canonical and neglected, and encompassing Latin, Italian, French, German, and English sources, Aleksandra Prica addresses ruins as textual forms, examining them in their extraordinary geographical and temporal breadth, highlighting their variability and reflexivity, and uncovering new lines of aesthetic and intellectual affinity. Through close readings, she traverses eight hundred years of intellectual and literary history, from Seneca and Petrarch to Hegel, Goethe, and Georg Simmel. She tracks European discourses on ruins as they metamorphose over time, identifying surprising resemblances and resonances, ignored contrasts and tensions, as well as the shared apprehensions and ideas that come to light in the excavation of these discourses.

Author : Cristina García
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307798003
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dreaming in Cuban written by Cristina García and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post

Author : Kathryn White
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441112952
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beckett and Decay written by Kathryn White and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word 'decay' is often used by critics in general reference to Beckett's thematic emphasis and philosophical outlook. However, this book explores the idea of decay as the fundamental core of Beckett's work, dominating it thematically, linguistically and artistically. Kathryn White explores Beckett's representation of physical decay, mental and spiritual deterioration and finally the idea that 'decay' is to be found in language itself. This study explores the importance of both theme and form in Beckett's work and considers whether Beckett will, in future generations, be remembered both for his representation of existence and his innovations in language.

Author : Kari Hohne
Publisher : Way of Tao Books
ISBN 13 : 098197791X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mind's Mirror written by Kari Hohne and published by Way of Tao Books. This book was released on 2009-05-13 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tap the wisdom of your dreams to discover how dreams guide you toward success and fulfillment in this comprehensive dream dictionary. Kari Hohne, popular radio dream analyst, shares her 30 years of experience in this newly revised and updated edition. You spend one third of your life exploring who you are in the topsy turvy world of dreams and symbols. As if you have entered a world of mirrors, nothing is as it appears to be and all you encounter becomes a reflection of you. When you are lost, dreams reveal the way through crisis as if some aspect of your mind knows you better than you know yourself. Filled with the symbolic treasures that can offer insight into your real identity, this Dream Dictionary and Translation Guide allows you to retrace your steps into you nightly adventures to discover how dreams actively lead you to fulfill your destiny.

Author : Holger M. Zellentin
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161506475
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature written by Holger M. Zellentin and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2011 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D. - Princeton) under the title: Late Antiquity Upside Down: Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature.

Author : Gardner Eeden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692891988
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucid written by Gardner Eeden and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucid: Awake in the World and the Dream is a primer for the evolution of human consciousness. A biconscious writer, Gardner Eeden, lays the groundwork for how to live simultaneously in the world and the dream world, relating his unique experience as well as dissecting the current scientific and spiritual notions of what dreams are. This is a provocative, often irreverent work that blends fiction, science, real experience and metaphysical ideas that will guide readers to new possibilities in their own consciousness and will have readers wondering what they are truly capable of in the world and the dream.