Sea Like A Mirror

Author : Wu Yi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783035803686
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sea As Mirror written by Wu Yi and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sea as Mirror traces the pressing and repressed material and symbolic presence of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean from Plato to Heidegger. To do so, Wu Yi employs the maritime as a lens to understand the drive of philosophy as both a response to and moment within the impetus of Western colonization. Yi examines how philosophy has again and again constructed itself as a genre in opposition to the movement of deterritorialization and fluidity of mimesis. She does so via the method (meta, "after" + hodos, "way, journey") of a series of essayings (in the original sense of trial, measure, attempt) across a geopolitical topography of discourses. These include philosophical texts drawn from a constellation of historical topoi at the critical moments of their encounter with the maritime: Plato and Euripedes's work from fifth-century Athens; Augustus and Plautus's writings from republican and early imperial Rome; Shakespeare's creations from Elizabethan England; Kant and Rousseau's texts from enlightenment continental Europe; and the thinking of Husserl and Heidegger from interwar Germany of the twentieth century. For each historical topos, Yi juxtaposes different representations of and responses to the maritime through the reading of a philosophical text vis-à-vis the reading of a literary text. In so doing, she lays bare the deep political and moral ambiguity attributed to the ocean in Western philosophical and literary imaginaries.

Author : W. H. Auden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691123845
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sea and the Mirror written by W. H. Auden and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-02 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the midst of World War II after its author emigrated to America, "The Sea and the Mirror" is not merely a great poem but ranks as one of the most profound interpretations of Shakespeare's final play in the twentieth century. As W. H. Auden told friends, it is "really about the Christian conception of art" and it is "my Ars Poetica, in the same way I believe The Tempest to be Shakespeare's." This is the first critical edition. Arthur Kirsch's introduction and notes make the poem newly accessible to readers of Auden, readers of Shakespeare, and all those interested in the relation of life and literature--those two classic themes alluded to in its title. The poem begins in a theater after a performance of The Tempest has ended. It includes a moving speech in verse by Prospero bidding farewell to Ariel, a section in which the supporting characters speak in a dazzling variety of verse forms about their experiences on the island, and an extravagantly inventive section in prose that sees the uncivilized Caliban address the audience on art--an unalloyed example of what Auden's friend Oliver Sachs has called his "wild, extraordinary and demonic imagination." Besides annotating Auden's allusions and sources (in notes after the text), Kirsch provides extensive quotations from his manuscript drafts, permitting the reader to follow the poem's genesis in Auden's imagination. This book, which incorporates for the first time previously ignored corrections that Auden made on the galleys of the first edition, also provides an unusual opportunity to see the effect of one literary genius upon another.

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mirror of the Sea written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783756256822
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mirror of the Sea written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bryan Lee O'Malley
Publisher : Oni Press
ISBN 13 : 1620100789
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost at Sea written by Bryan Lee O'Malley and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raleigh doesn't have a soul. A cat stole it – at least that's what she tells people – at least that's what she would tell people if she told people anything. But that would mean talking to people, and the mere thought of social interaction is terrifying. How did such a shy teenage girl end up in a car with three of her hooligan classmates on a cross-country road trip? Being forced to interact with kids her own age is a new and alarming proposition for Raleigh, but maybe it's just what she needs – or maybe it can help her find what she needs – or maybe it can help her to realize that what she needs has been with her all along. This special hardcover edition of Bryan Lee O'Malley's classic coming-of-age graphic novel includes previously uncollected shorts and extra bonus material.

Author : A.J. Mackinnon
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1743822510
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow written by A.J. Mackinnon and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truly hilarious books are rare. Even rarer are those based on real events. Join A.J. Mackinnon, your charming and eccentric guide, on an amazing voyage in a boat called Jack de Crow. Equipped with his cheerful optimism and a pith helmet, this Australian Odysseus in a dinghy travels from the borders of North Wales to the Black Sea – 4900 kilometres over salt and fresh water, under sail, at the oars, or at the end of a tow-rope – through twelve countries, 282 locks and numerous trials and adventures, including an encounter with Balkan pirates. Along the way he experiences the kindness of strangers, gets very lost, and perfects the art of slow travel.

Author : Grenville Kleiser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Similes and Their Use written by Grenville Kleiser and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mirror of the Sea written by Joseph Conrad and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1921 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For other editions, see Author Catalog.

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mirror of the Sea written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. Wallace Peach
Publisher : D. Wallace Peach
ISBN 13 : 1638770719
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ferryman and the Sea Witch written by D. Wallace Peach and published by D. Wallace Peach. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The merrow rule the sea. Slender creatures, fair of face, with silver scales and the graceful tails of angelfish. Caught in a Brid Clarion net, the daughter of the sea witch perishes in the sunlit air. The queen of the sea bares her sharp teeth and, in a fury of wind and waves, cleanses the brine of ships and men. But she spares a boy for his single act of kindness. Callum becomes the Ferryman, and until Brid Clarion pays its debt with royal blood, only his sails may cross the Deep. Two warring nations, separated by the merrow’s trench, trade infant hostages in a commitment to peace. Now, the time has come for the heirs to return home. The Ferryman alone can undertake the exchange. Yet, animosities are far from assuaged. While Brid Clarion’s islands bask in prosperity, Haf Killick, a floating city of derelict ships, rots and rusts and sinks into the reefs. Its ruler has other designs. And the sea witch crafts dark bargains with all sides. Callum is caught in the breach, with a long-held bargain of his own which, once discovered, will shatter this life.