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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Author	: Olga Tokarczuk
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2019-08-13
ISBN 10	: 9780525541356
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (413 users)

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Download or read book Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead written by Olga Tokarczuk and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." —Annie Proulx In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . . A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Author	: Olga Tokarczuk
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2019-10-18
ISBN 10	: 1913097250
Pages	: 274 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (5 users)

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Download or read book Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead written by Olga Tokarczuk and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2018 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, International Booker Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she's unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, Duszejko becomes involved in the investigation. By no means a conventional crime story, this existential thriller by 'one of Europe's major humanist writers' (Guardian) offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of madness, injustice against marginalized people, animal rights, the hypocrisy of traditional religion, belief in predestination - and caused a genuine political uproar in Tokarczuk's native Poland.

The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin

Author	: William Sloane Coffin
Publisher	: Westminster John Knox Press
Release Date	: 2008
ISBN 10	: 9780664232443
Pages	: 597 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (324 users)

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Download or read book The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin written by William Sloane Coffin and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising the sermons preached by William Sloane Coffin while he was senior minister at the prestigious Riverside Church in New York City, The Collected Sermons of William Sloane CoffinThe Riverside Years captures the renowned preacher and social activist at work: ministering to American hostages in Iran, supporting AIDS awareness, and rallying his audiences to battle poverty and nuclear proliferationall the while celebrating marriages, baptisms, and Mothers Days and mourning the loss of loved ones, including his own son. In each of these brilliant and painstakingly crafted sermons, Coffin combined his deep love of Scripture and passionate commitment to peace and justice with his unparalleled gift for the spoken word. While also revealing the personal and pastoral dimensions of ministry, each sermon provides a powerful example of lifes well-accomplished mission: to challenge the conscience of a nation. For those who knew William Sloane Coffin, these sermons will be a treasured remembrance. For those who regret not knowing him, they provide the best of introductions. And for those who as yet have escaped Coffins influence, they are superb testimony to the great potential of ministry, the possibilities of hope and determination, and the remarkable power of one human voice.

Posthumanist Perspectives on Literary and Cultural Animals

Author	: Krishanu Maiti
Publisher	: Springer Nature
Release Date	: 2021-09-11
ISBN 10	: 9783030761592
Pages	: 188 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (615 users)

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Download or read book Posthumanist Perspectives on Literary and Cultural Animals written by Krishanu Maiti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers Posthumanist readings of animal-centric literary and cultural texts. The contributors put the precepts and premises of humanism into question by seriously considering the animal presence in texts. The essays collected here focus primarily on literary and cultural texts from varied theoretically informed interdisciplinary perspectives advanced by critical approaches such as Critical Animal Studies and Posthumanism. Contributors select texts that cut across geographical and period boundaries and demonstrate how practices of close reading give rise to new ways of thinking about animals. By implicating the “animal turn” in the field of literary and cultural studies, this book urges us to problematize the separation of the human from other animals and rethink the hierarchical order of beings through close readings of select texts. It offers fresh perspectives on Posthumanist theory, inviting readers to revisit those criteria that created species’ difference from the early ages of human civilization. This book constitutes a rich and thorough scholarly resource on the politics of representation of animals in literature and culture. The essays in this book are empirically and theoretically informed and explore a range of dynamic, captivating, and highly relevant topics. Comprising over 15 chapters by a team of international contributors, this book is divided into four parts: Contestation over Species Hierarchy and CategorizationAnimal (Re)constructionsInterspecies RelationalitiesIntersectionality- Animal and Gender This book will be essential reading for students and researchers of Critical Animal Studies and Environmental Studies.

The Century Guild Hobby Horse

Author	: Century Guild of Artists (London, England)
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1887
ISBN 10	: HARVARD:32044039167176
Pages	: 218 pages
Rating	: 4.R/5 (32 users)

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Download or read book The Century Guild Hobby Horse written by Century Guild of Artists (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Possessed

Author	: Witold Gombrowicz
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2023-10-18
ISBN 10	: 180427061X
Pages	: 0 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (1 users)

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Download or read book The Possessed written by Witold Gombrowicz and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A darkly funny and subversive Gothic horror novel by Poland's greatest modernist.

Critical Paths

Author	: Dan Miller
Publisher	: Durham : Duke University Press
Release Date	: 1987
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015013094233
Pages	: 408 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (51 users)

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Download or read book Critical Paths written by Dan Miller and published by Durham : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great expositors of Blake and those who have followed in their footsteps have clarified the most minute particulars of Blake's vision. Now, in the place of traditional exegesis, comes a significantly new set of critical problems and interpretive methods. In this volume of essays, the major shift in Blake studies, already under way in practice, is addressed, gauged, analyzed, and debated. The contributors assembled here, leading exponents of contemporary critical methods as well as close students of Blake, argue the grounds, purposes, and validity of each approach and then apply its method in detailed readings of Blake's works. We see deconstruction, psychoanalytic interpretation, feminist critique, semiotic analysis, Marxist criticism, revisionism, and other methods brought to bear on Blake's texts and into confrontation with one another by those best able to do so. Through the essays themselves and in the reaction they will certainly provoke, Critical Paths will bring increased theoretical awareness to the study of Blake and will further the ongoing redefinition of Blake's art. At the same time, the collection investigates the general problem of methodology in literary studies by means of a casebook examination of modern critical approaches. Blake criticism and current literary theory here come together; the encounter illuminates and enriches both.

The "heaven" and "hell" of William Blake

Author	: Gholam-Reza Sabri-Tabrizi
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1973
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015020676352
Pages	: 374 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (52 users)

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Download or read book The "heaven" and "hell" of William Blake written by Gholam-Reza Sabri-Tabrizi and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Time Shelter

Author	: Georgi Gospodinov
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2022-05-12
ISBN 10	: 9781474623087
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (23 users)

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Download or read book Time Shelter written by Georgi Gospodinov and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The most exquisite kind of literature... I've put it on a special shelf in my library that I reserve for books that can never be fully exhausted - books that demand to be revisited every now and then. ' Olga Tokarczuk, author of The Books of Jacob and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 'In equal measure playful and profound, Georgi Gospodinov's Time Shelter renders the philosophical mesmerizing, and the everyday extraordinary. I loved it' Claire Messud, author of The Woman Upstairs 'Gospodinov is one of Europe's most fascinating and irreplaceable novelists, and this his most expansive, soulful and mind-bending book' Dave Eggers, author of The Circle 'A powerful and brilliant novel: clear-sighted, foreboding, enigmatic. A novel in which the future gives way like a rotten beam and the past rushes in like a flood' Sandro Veronesi, author of The Hummingbird 'A trickster at heart, and often very funny... Gospodinov is one of the leading writers in Europe: every book is an event' Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flâneur named Gaustine opens a 'clinic for the past' that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. As Gaustine's assistant, the unnamed narrator is tasked with collecting the flotsam and jetsam of the past, from 1960s furniture and 1940s shirt buttons to scents and even afternoon light. But as the rooms become more convincing, an increasing number of healthy people seek out the clinic as a 'time shelter', hoping to escape from the horrors of our present - a development that results in an unexpected conundrum when the past begins to invade the present. Intricately crafted, and eloquently translated by Angela Rodel, Time Shelter cements Georgi Gospodinov's reputation as one of the indispensable writers of our times, a major voice in international literature. Georgi Gospodinov is one of Europe's most acclaimed writers. Originally from Bulgaria, his novels have won his country's most prestigious literary prize twice and have been shortlisted for more than a dozen international prizes - including the 2015 PEN Literary Award for Translation, the Premio Gregor von Rezzori, the Premio Strega Europeo, the Bruecke Berlin Preis, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Literaturpreis. He has won the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, the 2019 Angelus Literature Central Europe Prize and the 2021 Premio Strega Europeo, among others.

A Concordance to the Writings of William Blake

Author	: David V. Erdman
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1967
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015054064491
Pages	: 1194 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (55 users)

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Download or read book A Concordance to the Writings of William Blake written by David V. Erdman and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lessons of Romanticism

Author	: Thomas Pfau
Publisher	: Library
Release Date	: 1998
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015040359617
Pages	: 496 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (54 users)

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Download or read book Lessons of Romanticism written by Thomas Pfau and published by Library. This book was released on 1998 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how the Romantic period gave birth to a seductive cognitive cultural program that retains far reaching implications for contemporary views on individuality and relationships between the individual and larger groups of identification. Established

The Wisdom of Many, the Vision of One

Author	: Marvin D. L. Lansverk
Publisher	: Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
Release Date	: 1994
ISBN 10	: STANFORD:36105009772794
Pages	: 232 pages
Rating	: 4.O/5 (36 users)

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Download or read book The Wisdom of Many, the Vision of One written by Marvin D. L. Lansverk and published by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 1994 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a full length study of Blake's most famous and arguably his most central literary device - the proverb. It begins with an investigation into the paradox of how the poet most known for his hatred of generalization and prudence could make such frequent use of proverbs, which as -the wisdom of many-, are historically closely tied to careful generalization. Arranged in two sections, the book first sets Blake's radically new visionary proverbs into a brief literary history (examining proverbs in the Bible, Bunyan, Swedenborg, and Milton). It concludes with a detailed study of the function of the proverbs in Blake's prophetic works. A central aspect of this function is ultimately shown to be the Godlike creation of Blake's Bible of Hell, a Bible which turns out to be chiefly comprised of his systematically rewritten versions of the biblical Wisdom books."

Aquachurch

Author	: Leonard I. Sweet
Publisher	: Group Pub Incorporated
Release Date	: 1999
ISBN 10	: 0764421514
Pages	: 280 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (14 users)

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Download or read book Aquachurch written by Leonard I. Sweet and published by Group Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweet vividly portrays the new paradigms facing churches today and tells how to minister effectively in a fluid, postmodern culture.

Saul Bellow

Author	: Mohammad Abdul Qayyum
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2000
ISBN 10	: STANFORD:36105026132154
Pages	: 620 pages
Rating	: 4.O/5 (36 users)

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Download or read book Saul Bellow written by Mohammad Abdul Qayyum and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Illuminated Blake

Author	: William Blake
Publisher	: Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press/Doubleday
Release Date	: 1974
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015000659345
Pages	: 428 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (5 users)

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Download or read book The Illuminated Blake written by William Blake and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press/Doubleday. This book was released on 1974 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated version of the folk song in which a fox travels many miles to get dinner for his wife and ten cubs.

Patrick Kavanagh

Author	: Antoinette Quinn
Publisher	: Gill
Release Date	: 2001
ISBN 10	: UOM:39015053497759
Pages	: 524 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (55 users)

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Download or read book Patrick Kavanagh written by Antoinette Quinn and published by Gill. This book was released on 2001 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

An Everyman Anthology of Excerpts Grave and Gay

Author	: Everyman's Library (Firm)
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1966
ISBN 10	: UCAL:$B395646
Pages	: 266 pages
Rating	: 4.$/5 (956 users)

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Download or read book An Everyman Anthology of Excerpts Grave and Gay written by Everyman's Library (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: