Unmanly Grief

Author : Jess Williard
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610756622
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unmanly Grief written by Jess Williard and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, 2019 Miller Williams Poetry Prize “Poems that lead us to striking insights and strange destinations.” —Billy Collins The men who recur as characters throughout Jess Williard’s Unmanly Grief perform their masculinity in a variety of ways: boxing, theater, brotherhood, labor, and familial and romantic love. Marked by a sharp nostalgia, Williard’s poems move from Wisconsin to New York City and back, tracing the geographic movement of the speaker and his family: a teenage sister who disappears and returns, changed irrevocably; an older brother dismantled in adulthood; an ever-sacrificing father. Woven through the musculature of this varied and exciting collection, music appears as readily in dexterous formal verse as in lean, scrappy storytelling. What results is a crooning celebration of struggle and tenderness in this world, “where to be small and furious is enough.” Finalist, 2020 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award from the Binghamton Center for Writers

Author : Robert C. Solomon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199725601
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True to Our Feelings written by Robert C. Solomon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live our lives through our emotions, writes Robert Solomon, and it is our emotions that give our lives meaning. What interests or fascinates us, who we love, what angers us, what moves us, what bores us--all of this defines us, gives us character, constitutes who we are. In True to Our Feelings, Solomon illuminates the rich life of the emotions--why we don't really understand them, what they really are, and how they make us human and give meaning to life. Emotions have recently become a highly fashionable area of research in the sciences, with brain imaging uncovering valuable clues as to how we experience our feelings. But while Solomon provides a guide to this cutting-edge research, as well as to what others--philosophers and psychologists--have said on the subject, he also emphasizes the personal and ethical character of our emotions. He shows that emotions are not something that happen to us, nor are they irrational in the literal sense--rather, they are judgements we make about the world, and they are strategies for living in it. Fear, anger, love, guilt, jealousy, compassion--they are all essential to our values, to living happily, healthily, and well. Solomon highlights some of the dramatic ways that emotions fit into our ethics and our sense of the good life, how we can make our emotional lives more coherent with our values and be more "true to our feelings" and cultivate emotional integrity. The story of our lives is the story of our passions. We fall in love, we are gripped by scientific curiosity and religious fervor, we fear death and grieve for others, we humble ourselves in envy, jealousy, and resentment. In this remarkable book, Robert Solomon shares his fascination with the emotions and illuminates our passions in an exciting new way.

Author : Rochelle Almeida
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838640272
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Mourning written by Rochelle Almeida and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does one's gender, race, skin color, nationality, cultural upbringing, or religious background have any impact upon the manner in which people from varying cultural environments choose to mourn their loss and resolve grief?"

Author : Jess Williard
Publisher : Miller Williams Poetry Prize
ISBN 13 : 1682260933
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unmanly Grief written by Jess Williard and published by Miller Williams Poetry Prize. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, 2019 Miller Williams Poetry Prize "Poems that lead us to striking insights and strange destinations." --Billy Collins The men who recur as characters throughout Jess Williard's Unmanly Grief perform their masculinity in a variety of ways: boxing, theater, brotherhood, labor, and familial and romantic love. Marked by a sharp nostalgia, Williard's poems move from Wisconsin to New York City and back, tracing the geographic movement of the speaker and his family: a teenage sister who disappears and returns, changed irrevocably; an older brother dismantled in adulthood; an ever-sacrificing father. Woven through the musculature of this varied and exciting collection, music appears as readily in dexterous formal verse as in lean, scrappy storytelling. What results is a crooning celebration of struggle and tenderness in this world, "where to be small and furious is enough."

Author : Katharine Goodland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351936646
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama written by Katharine Goodland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grieving women in early modern English drama, this study argues, recall not only those of Classical tragedy, but also, and more significantly, the lamenting women of medieval English drama, especially the Virgin Mary. Looking at the plays of Shakespeare, Kyd, and Webster, this book presents a new perspective on early modern drama grounded upon three original interrelated points. First, it explores how the motif of the mourning woman on the early modern stage embodies the cultural trauma of the Reformation in England. Second, the author here brings to light the extent to which the figures of early modern drama recall those of the recent medieval past. Finally, Goodland addresses how these representations embody actual mourning practices that were viewed as increasingly disturbing after the Reformation. Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama synthesizes and is relevant to several areas of recent scholarly interest, including the performance of gender, the history of emotion, studies of death and mourning, and the cultural trauma of the Reformation.

Author : Robert C. Solomon
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 019514550X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Defense of Sentimentality written by Robert C. Solomon and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This defence of the emotions and sentimentality against the background of what is perceived as a long history of abuse in social thought and literary criticism argues that our emotions are the essence of a well-lived life. They can be virtues, features of the human condition without which civilized life would be unimaginable.

Author : David Sterling Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009384139
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's White Others written by David Sterling Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the racially white 'others' whom Shakespeare creates in characters like Richard III, Hamlet and Tamora – figures who are never quite 'white enough' – this bold and compelling work emphasises how such classification perpetuates anti-Blackness and re-affirms white supremacy. David Sterling Brown offers nothing less here than a wholesale deconstruction of whiteness in Shakespeare's plays, arguing that the 'white other' was a racialized category already in formation during the Elizabethan era – and also one to which Shakespeare was himself a crucial contributor. In exploring Shakespeare's determinative role and strategic investment in identity politics (while drawing powerfully on his own life experiences, including adolescence), the author argues that even as Shakespearean theatrical texts functioned as engines of white identity formation, they expose the illusion of white racial solidarity. This essential contribution to Shakespeare studies, critical whiteness studies and critical race studies is an authoritative, urgent dismantling of dramatized racial profiling.

Author : Mitchell Robert Breitwieser
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299126544
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning written by Mitchell Robert Breitwieser and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary White Rowlandwon, a New England Congregationalist minister's wife, was held captive by the Algonquin Indians during King Philip's War in 1676. Several years after she was ransomed and living among the British again she wrote a narrative of the captivity chronicling her experience in grief, love, resentment, and ethnic trauma. Breitwieser argues that this narrative undercuts the Puritan values Rowlandson attempted to uphold. He reveals where and how Rowlandson breaks with Puritan conventions. He points out that in American Puritan religious practice, real experiences were seen as siogns or emblems of moral abstractions. American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning will be essential reading for all who study early American literature and culture.

Author : John Bartlett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1072 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakespeare Phrase Book written by John Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: