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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.

Critical Paths

Author	: Dan Miller
Publisher	: Duke University Press
Release Date	: 1987
ISBN 10	: 0822307928
Pages	: 380 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (28 users)

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Download or read book Critical Paths written by Dan Miller and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the unconventional English teacher who helped her conquer many of her feelings of insecurity is fired, a junior high student uses her new-found courage to campaign for the teacher's reinstatement.

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.

The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

Author	: William Blake
Publisher	: Univ of California Press
Release Date	: 2008-07-07
ISBN 10	: 0520256379
Pages	: 990 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (79 users)

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Download or read book The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake written by William Blake and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-07-07 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical commentary illuminating Blake's allusions and references accompanies the texts of his poetic and prose works.

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 Rhetoric of Topics and Forms

Author	: Gianna Zocco
Publisher	: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date	: 2021-01-18
ISBN 10	: 9783110641981
Pages	: 593 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (419 users)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Topics and Forms written by Gianna Zocco and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth volume of the collected papers of the ICLA congress “The Many Languages of Comparative Literature” includes articles that study thematic and formal elements of literary texts. Although the question of prioritizing either the level of content or that of form has often provoked controversies, most contributions here treat them as internally connected. While theoretical considerations inform many of the readings, the main interest of most articles can be described as rhetorical (in the widest sense) – given that the ancient discipline of rhetoric did not only include the study of rhetorical figures and tropes such as metaphor, irony, or satire, but also that of topoi, which were originally viewed as the ‘places’ where certain arguments could be found, but later came to represent the arguments or intellectual themes themselves. Another feature shared by most of the articles is the tendency of ‘undeclared thematology’, which not only reflects the persistence of the charge of positivism, but also shows that most scholars prefer to locate themselves within more specific, often interdisciplinary fields of literary study. In this sense, this volume does not only prove the ongoing relevance of traditional fields such as rhetoric and thematology, but provides contributions to currently flourishing research areas, among them literary multilingualism, literature and emotions, and ecocriticism.

Lessons of Romanticism

Author	: Nancy L. Rosenblum
Publisher	: Duke University Press
Release Date	: 1998
ISBN 10	: 0822320916
Pages	: 475 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (16 users)

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Download or read book Lessons of Romanticism written by Nancy L. Rosenblum and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 475 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

Dead Man

Author	: Jonathan Rosenbaum
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2019-07-25
ISBN 10	: 9781838715229
Pages	: 96 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (152 users)

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Download or read book Dead Man written by Jonathan Rosenbaum and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was released in 1995, Dead Man puzzled many audiences and critics. Jim Jarmusch's reputation was for directing slick, hip contemporary films. And Dead Man was a black-and-white Western. As time has passed, though, the number of its admirers has grown rapidly. Indeed Dead Man, with its dark and unconventional treatment of violence, racism and capitalism, may be Jarmusch's finest work to date. This is Jonathan Rosenbaum's view. For him, Dead Man is both a quantum leap and a logical next step in Jarmusch's career. Starring Johnny Depp as the uprooted accountant William Blake and Gary Farmer as his enigmatic Native American companion, Nobody, and with startling cameos from Robert Mitchum, John Hurt and Iggy Pop, Dead Man is by turns shocking, comic and deeply moving. This book explorers and celebrates a masterpiece of 1990s American cinema.

John Huston's Filmmaking

Author	: Lesley Brill
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 1997-10-13
ISBN 10	: 0521586704
Pages	: 269 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (4 users)

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Download or read book John Huston's Filmmaking written by Lesley Brill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of John Huston's filmmaking.

Engels, Manchester, and the Working Class

Author	: Steven Marcus
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2017-09-29
ISBN 10	: 9781351311755
Pages	: 239 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (117 users)

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Download or read book Engels, Manchester, and the Working Class written by Steven Marcus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friedrich Engels' first major work, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, has long been considered a social, political, and economic classic. The first book of its kind to study the phenomenon of urbanism and the problems of the modern city, Engels' text contains many of the ideas he was later to develop in collaboration with Karl Marx. In this book, Steven Marcus, author of the highly acclaimed The Other Victorians, applies himself to the study of Engels' book and the conditions that combined to produce it. Marcus studies the city of Manchester, centre of the first Industrial Revolution, between 1835 and 1850 when the city and its inhabitants were experiencing the first great crisis of the newly emerging industrial capitalism. He also examines Engels himself, son of a wealthy German textile manufacturer, who was sent to Manchester to complete his business education in the English cotton mills. Touching upon several disciplines, including the history of socialism, urban sociology, Marxist thought, and the history and theory of the Industrial Revolution, Engels, Manchester, and the Working Class offers a fascinating study of nineteenth-century English literature and cultural life.

The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 4: The Age of Romanticism - Second Edition

Author	: Joseph Black
Publisher	: Broadview Press
Release Date	: 2010-07-23
ISBN 10	: 9781460400609
Pages	: 1056 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (6 users)

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Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 4: The Age of Romanticism - Second Edition written by Joseph Black and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, the anthology takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors, and includes a wide selection of work by lesser-known writers. The anthology also provides wide-ranging coverage of the worldwide connections of British literature, and it pays attention throughout to issues of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. It includes comprehensive introductions to each period, providing in each case an overview of the historical and cultural as well as the literary background. It features accessible and engaging headnotes for all authors, extensive explanatory annotations, and an unparalleled number of illustrations and contextual materials. Innovative, authoritative and comprehensive, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature has established itself as a leader in the field. The full anthology comprises six bound volumes, together with an extensive website component; the latter has been edited, annotated, and designed according to the same high standards as the bound book component of the anthology, and is accessible by using the passcode obtained with the purchase of one or more of the bound volumes. The second edition of volume 4: The Age of Romanticism includes James Hogg, Matthew Gregory Lewis, and John Polidori as well as new selections by Mary Shelley, Sir Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and Percy Shelley. The new edition also includes two new sections of contextual materials. New to the bound book is “The Natural, The Human, The Supernatural, and the Sublime”—a section that includes not only a good selection of material from writers such as Edmund Burke and artists such as J.M.W. Turner but also material that may be less well known on topics such as changing human attitudes towards non-animals. New to the website is a wide-ranging selection of contextual materials on the Industrial Revolution, entitled “Steam Power and the Machine Age”. Additional highlights of this volume include: Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, a lesser-known but wonderfully readable epistolary short novel; “A Hymn to Na’ra’yena” by Sir William Jones; and, in an exception to the anthology’s general policy of including works in their entirety, Mary Shelley is represented by the last two chapters of The Last Man and by a selection of letters.

The Portable William Blake

Author	: William Blake
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 1977-02-24
ISBN 10	: 9781101127612
Pages	: 736 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (276 users)

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Download or read book The Portable William Blake written by William Blake and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1977-02-24 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Portable Blake contains the hermetic genius's most important works: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience in their entirety; selections from his "prophetic books"—including The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Visions of the Daughters of Abion, America, The Book of Urizen, and The Four Zoas—and from other works of poetry and prose, as well as the complete drawings for The Book of Job.

The Complete Poems

Author	: William Blake
Publisher	: Penguin UK
Release Date	: 2004-06-24
ISBN 10	: 9780141915715
Pages	: 1072 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (157 users)

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Download or read book The Complete Poems written by William Blake and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-06-24 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and visionary. His work ranges from the deceptively simple and lyrical Songs of Innocence and their counterpoint Experience - which juxtapose poems such as 'The Lamb' and 'The Tyger', and 'The Blossom' and 'The Sick Rose' - to highly elaborate, apocalyptic works, such as The Four Zoas, Milton and Jerusalem. Throughout his life Blake drew on a rich heritage of philosophy, religion and myth, to create a poetic worlds illuminated by his spiritual and revolutionary beliefs that have fascinated, intrigued and enchanted readers for generations.

Blake's Selected Poems

Author	: William Blake
Publisher	: Courier Corporation
Release Date	: 1995-06-01
ISBN 10	: 9780486285177
Pages	: 96 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (851 users)

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Download or read book Blake's Selected Poems written by William Blake and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarded by a contemporary as a "brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and literature", William Blake (1757-1827) is today recognized as a major poet and artist. This collection of 104 carefully chosen poems reveals the lyricism, mystical vision and consummate craftsmanship that have earned the poet his preeminent place with both critics and the general public.

William Blake and the Daughters of Albion

Author	: H. Bruder
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 1997-04-28
ISBN 10	: 9780230379572
Pages	: 291 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (795 users)

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Download or read book William Blake and the Daughters of Albion written by H. Bruder and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-04-28 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Blake and the Daughters of Albion offers a challenge to the Blake establishment. By placing some of Blake's early prophetic works in startingly new historical contexts (most provocatively those of female conduct and pornography) a very different image of the radical Blake emerges. The book shows what can be achieved when a challenging methodology, feminist historicism, is brought to bear on a canonical writer and on now canonized interpretations of his work.

Jim Jarmusch

Author	: Juan A. Suarez
Publisher	: University of Illinois Press
Release Date	: 2007-08-13
ISBN 10	: 9780252096075
Pages	: 216 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (96 users)

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Download or read book Jim Jarmusch written by Juan A. Suarez and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2007-08-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major English-language study of Jarmusch At a time when gimmicky, action-driven blockbusters ruled Hollywood, Jim Jarmusch spearheaded a boom in independent cinema by making low-budget films focused on intimacy, character, and new takes on classical narratives. His minimal form, peculiar pacing, wry humor, and blank affect have since been adopted by directors including Sophia Coppola, Hal Harley, Richard Linklater, and Wong Kar-Wai. Juan A. Suárez's Jim Jarmusch analyzes the director's work from three mutually implicated perspectives: in relation to independent filmmaking from the 1980s to the present; as a form of cultural production that appropriates existing icons, genres, and motifs; and as an instance of postmodern politics. A volume in the series Contemporary Film Directors, edited by James R. Naremore