Persona And Paradox

Author : Suzanne Bray
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443845574
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persona and Paradox written by Suzanne Bray and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although certain aspects of C.S. Lewis’s work have been studied in great detail, others have been comparatively neglected. This collection of essays looks at Lewis’s life and work, and those of his friends and associates, from many different angles, but all connected through a common theme of identity. Questions of identity are essential to the understanding of any writer. The ways authors perceive themselves and who they are, the communities they belong to by birth or choice, inevitably influence their work. The way they present other people, real or fictional, are also rooted in their own conception of identity. In this volume, scholars from several countries examine gender and family roles; national, regional, racial and professional identities; membership of a particular church; ideological attachments and personal descriptions, either with regard to Lewis and those who knew him and influenced him, or in a study of their writings. Authors studied here include J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy L. Sayers, Charles Williams, George MacDonald and T.S. Eliot.

Author : Derek Parfit
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191622443
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reasons and Persons written by Derek Parfit and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1986-01-23 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the conclusions will often be disturbing. He concludes that moral non-religious moral philosophy is a young subject, with a promising but unpredictable future.

Author : David M. Pozza
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820463308
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bedrock and Paradox written by David M. Pozza and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rarely does an author so thoroughly entertain and anger his readers as Edward Abbey does. This book focuses on Abbey's aesthetic and philosophy of paradox as they are reflected in his writings, and explores his literary technique of blurring traditional genres regarding fiction and nonfiction. Until now, no study has sufficiently treated the full complexity of Abbey's writing throughout his career - making this particular work not only original, but important.

Author : Melanie Kennedy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788316630
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tweenhood written by Melanie Kennedy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful female, pre-adolescent, consumer demographic has emerged in tandem with girls becoming more visible in popular culture since the 1990s. Yet the cultural anxiety that this has caused has received scant academic attention. In Tweenhood, Melanie Kennedy rectifies this and examines mainstream, pre-adolescent girls' films, television programmes and celebrities from 2004 onwards, including A Cinderella Story (2004), Hannah Montana (2006) and Camp Rock (2008). Her book forges a dialogue between post-feminism, film and television, celebrity and most importantly; the figure of the tween. Kennedy examines how these media texts, which are so key to tween culture, address and construct their target audience by helping them to 'choose' an appropriately feminine identity. Tweenhood then, she argues, is transient and a discursive construct whose unpacking highlights the deification of celebrity and femininity within its culture.

Author : Anthony D. Cousins
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441195602
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catholic Religious Poets written by Anthony D. Cousins and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1991-07-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While so much has been written about the English Protestant religious poets of the late 16th and earlier 17th centuries, there is relatively little study on the Catholic religious poets. Cousins fills this gap with his critical history of the Catholic religious poets major phase in the English Renaissance. In studying the Catholic religious poets from Southwell to Crashaw, this book focuses on the interplay in their verse between natively English and Counter-Reformation devotional literary traditions. Cousins puts forward particularly two arguments: that most of the more important Catholic poets write verse which expresses a Christ-centred vision of reality; that the divine agape receives almost as much attention in the Catholic poets' verse as does devout eros. In The Catholic Religious Poets Cousins defends the work of the Catholic religious poets arguing that this literary tradition deserves closer examination and higher valuation than it has usually been given.

Author : Andrzej Jarczewski
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527545458
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Verbal Philosophy of Real Time written by Andrzej Jarczewski and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines reality using verbs in their real time, which, like a segment of clock time, runs from the occurrence of the cause to the inevitable effect. As argued here, errors in our decisions often result from a ‘noun approach’ to the problem. A good decision depends on whether it is made on the basis of real premises and whether the decision-maker is able to define what is ‘good’. These two eternal issues, ‘truth’ and ‘goodness’ are the subject of inquiry here. The findings presented in this book invalidate the paradigm of ‘noun philosophy’ of the 20th century. It will appeal to philosophers, as well as managers and decision makers.

Author : Leigh H. Edwards
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253220610
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity written by Leigh H. Edwards and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his career, Johnny Cash has been depicted—and has depicted himself—as a walking contradiction: social protestor and establishment patriot, drugged wildman and devout Christian crusader, rebel outlaw hillbilly thug and elder statesman. Leigh H. Edwards explores the allure of this paradoxical image and its cultural significance. She argues that Cash embodies irresolvable contradictions of American identity that reflect foundational issues in the American experience, such as the tensions between freedom and patriotism, individual rights and nationalism, the sacred and the profane. She illustrates how this model of ambivalence is a vital paradigm for American popular music, and for American identity in general. Making use of sources such as Cash's autobiographies, lyrics, music, liner notes, and interviews, Edwards pays equal attention to depictions of Cash by others, such as Vivian Cash's publication of his letters to her, documentaries and music journalism about him, Walk the Line, and fan club materials found in the archives at the Country Music Foundation in Nashville, to create a full portrait of Cash and his significance as a cultural icon.

Author : John Donne
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253111814
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 7, Part 1 written by John Donne and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for previous volumes: "This variorum edition will be the basis of all future Donne scholarship." -- Chronique This is the 4th volume of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne to appear. This volume presents a newly edited critical text of the Holy Sonnets and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's time through 1995. The editors identify and print both an earlier and a revised authorial sequence of sonnets, as well as presenting the scribal collection -- which contains unique authorial versions of several of the sonnets -- inscribed by Donne's friend Rowland Woodward in the Westmoreland manuscript.

Author : Amy Cook
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472053760
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Character written by Amy Cook and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating look into the cognitive processes at play when we cast theatrical and political figures--as well as everyday people--as characters

Author : Daniël P. Veldsman
Publisher : AOSIS
ISBN 13 : 1928396631
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debating Otherness with Richard Kearney: Perspectives from South Africa written by Daniël P. Veldsman and published by AOSIS. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Kearney is one of the leading global thinkers in both Continental philosophy and post-metaphysical philosophy of religion, as well as an esteemed Irish professor in philosophy, currently teaching at Boston College, Massachusetts, USA. Professor Kearney first visited South Africa in May as joint visiting academic of the Universities of Stellenbosch, Pretoria and North-West. The visit prompted the publication of this scholarly collected work, authored by South African and international scholars. These specialists in philosophy and religious studies analysed Kearney’s influential work and brought his scholarly perspectives into dialogue with other leading thinkers in the field, both from Africa and abroad. This publication will be the first collective attempt to engage his work from the perspective of the African continent. This collected work contributes significantly in an interdisciplinary way to Ricoeurdian studies. The target audience of the book is peers and specialists in the field of Continental philosophy and philosophy of religion.