A Litany In Time Of Plague

Author : Kathleen Daisy Miller
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0889841454

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A Litany in Time of Plague by Kathleen Daisy Miller Pdf

A Litany in Time of Plague is K.D. Miller's first collection of short fiction. The `plague' of the title story is a reference not only to AIDS but to its ironic companion, loneliness. Miller's child characters are like little aliens dropped into a world that wavers from incomprehensible to bewildering, and yet, there is a knowing in them, an attunement to the `voice under the voice' that is disquieting. In `This Is Important' in Litany in Time of Plague, Arley is being questioned by her mother and a policeman about the man who followed her home from Brownies in his car. As she listens to them, she remembers the man `who came out of the dark. He was like a piece of the dark' and, unlike the policeman and her mother, talked to her `in his real voice, ' and treated her with respect and courtesy. `Nobody ever talked to me like that before.... It was harder to say no thank you that time.' The dark stranger comes to represent the answer to all the mysteries the grownups withhold from her, the knowledge of good and evil, like the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Only when she hears through to the need and fear beneath his voice, does she turn away. Each of the characters in the ten linked stories comes to the end of his or her spiritual rope. Kelly attends a Requiem Mass where she adds her and her ex-husband's names to a list of the dead. Arley pursues a dangerous fantasy down one dark alley after another. Raymond learns that his inability to love is exactly matched by his need to do just that.

Author : Kathleen Daisy Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:494205238

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A Litany in Time of Plague by Kathleen Daisy Miller Pdf

Author : Robert Dana
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 0877456682

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A Community of Writers by Robert Dana Pdf

"We do not pretend to have produced the writers included in this book. Their talent was inevitably shaped by the genes rattling in ancestral closets. We did give them a community in which to try out the quality of their gift.".

Author : Raymond A. Anselment
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0874135532

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The Realms of Apollo by Raymond A. Anselment Pdf

"In The Realms of Apollo, literary scholar Raymond A. Anselment examines how seventeenth-century English authors confronted the physical and psychological realities of death." "Focusing on the dangers of childbirth and the terrors of bubonic plague, venereal disease, and smallpox, the book reveals in the discourse of literary and medical texts the meanings of sickness and death in both the daily life and culture of seventeenth-century England. These perspectives show each realm anew as the domain of Apollo, the deity widely celebrated in myth as the god of poetry and the god of medicine. Authors of both formal elegies and simple broadsides saw themselves as healers who tried to find in language the solace physicians could not find in medicine. Within the context of the suffering so unmistakable in the medical treatises and in the personal diaries, memoirs, and letters, the poets' struggles illuminate a new cultural consciousness of sickness and death."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Nashe Thomas
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781473365452

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Summer's Last Will and Testament by Nashe Thomas Pdf

This early work by Thomas Nashe was originally published in 1600 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Summer's Last Will and Testament' is an Elizabethan era stage play that broke new ground in the development of English Renaissance drama. Thomas Nashe was born in November 1567. He was an English Elizabethan Pamphleteer, playwright, poet and satirist, but little is known with certainty about his life. Much of the information we have has been inferred from his writings. Nashe's first appearance in print was his preface to Robert Greene's Menaphon (1589), in which he offers a brief definition of art and an overview of contemporary literature. His early exercise in euphuism The Anatomy of Absurdity was published in the same year. From then on Nashe became involved in numerous political and religious causes, including the Martin Marprelate controversy where he sided with the bishops. Nashe offers an important insight into the workings of 16th century English life and his writings will continue to be studied for both their literary content and historical relevance.

Author : John Metcalf,Claire Wilkshire
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0889842744

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Writers Talking by John Metcalf,Claire Wilkshire Pdf

Eight interviews, eight stories, eight commentaries. Eight of Canada's finest writers. Writers Talking gives readers a chance to listen in: Terry Griggs on where stories come from, Michael Winter on writing Newfoundland, K. D. Miller on being an actor who writes. The volume also features stories by and conversations with Mary Borsky, Steven Heighton, Elise Levine, Annabel Lyon, and Lisa Moore.

Author : Rowland Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Devotional literature
ISBN : HARVARD:AH518S

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Psalms and Litanies by Rowland Williams Pdf

Author : James Hollis
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1585442682

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The Archetypal Imagination by James Hollis Pdf

Also available in an open-access, full-text edition at http: //oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/85764 "What we wish to know, and most desire, remains unknowable and lies beyond our grasp." With these words, James Hollis leads readers to consider the nature of our human need for meaning in life and for connection to a world less limiting than our own. In The Archetypal Imagination, Hollis offers a lyrical Jungian appreciation of the archetypal imagination. He argues that without the human mind's ability to form energy-filled images that link us to worlds beyond our rational and emotional capacities, we would have neither culture nor spirituality. Drawing upon the work of poets and philosophers, Hollis shows the importance of depth experience, meaning, and connection to an "other" world. Just as humans have instincts for biological survival and social interaction, we have instincts for spiritual connection as well. Just as our physical and social needs seek satisfaction, so the spiritual instincts of the human animal are expressed in images we form to evoke an emotional or spiritual response, as in our dreams, myths, and religious traditions. The author draws upon the work of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies to elucidate the archetypal imagination in literary forms. To underscore the importance of incarnating depth experience, he also examines a series of paintings by Nancy Witt. With the power of the archetypal imagination available to all of us, we are invited to summon courage to take on the world anew, to relinquish outmoded identities and defenses, and to risk a radical re-imagining of the larger possibilities of the world and of the self.

Author : Tim Inkster,John Metcalf
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0889841837

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The Porcupine's Quill Reader by Tim Inkster,John Metcalf Pdf

The Porcupine's Quill "Reader" celebrates and promotes the work of a small publishing house in the village of Erin, Ontario. The fact that authors published here have had four Governor General Award nominations in four years suggest that editor John Metcalf and publisher Tim Inkster must be doing something right. The "Reader" contains 20 short stories and assorted gossipy anecdotes and photographs of the authors giving readings and socializing. (And yes, this creates a feeling of being the voyeur at the family picnic, and yes, you might wonder why you would want to be a voyeur there of all places.) Inkster has long been known for quality book design and treats readers to brief arcane chats about typeface selection and paper size. Interesting if you like knowing why some books look and feel so much better than others, easy to skip if you don't.'

Author : Alexis M. Butzner
Publisher : Chemeketa Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781943536948

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The Art is Long by Alexis M. Butzner Pdf

The Art Is Long: Primary Texts on Medicine and the Humanities gathers introductory texts in the growing field of medical humanities. This unique volume presents a lens with which to examine the intersection of literature and medicine with diverse selections that span time and the globe. With authors from Sushruta to Hippocrates, Margery Kempe to John Donne, and Susie King Taylor to Sigmund Freud, the volume also highlights the voices of women, people of color, and those who have been overlooked or marginalized by the medical establishment. The Art Is Long aims to expand the medical humanities canon. In addition to more traditional works, readers will find snippets of literary and narrative encounters with medicine by writers who are neither doctors nor nurses, including professional caretakers and people who might be labelled “quacks” today but whose contributions represent a part of medical history. This anthology also includes medical reportage and philosophy, fiction and nonfiction, image and poetry. The shifts in genre, style, and perspective provide a wealth of opportunities to reflect on medical history and literary techniques, focusing on narratives that highlight a personal context for medical subjects in a single volume.

Author : John Metcalf
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781771960854

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The Canadian Short Story by John Metcalf Pdf

No other person has done more to celebrate and encourage the short story in Canada than John Metcalf. For more than five decades he has worked tirelessly as editor, anthologist, writer, critic, and teacher to help shape our understanding of the form and what it can do. The long-time editor of the yearly Best Canadian Stories anthology, as well as a fiction editor at some of the pre-eminent literary presses in the country for more than forty years, he has worked to support and champion several generations of our best writers. Literature in Canada would be far less without his efforts. Sifting through a lifetime of reading, writing, and thinking about the short story in this country, and where it fits within the larger currents of world literature, Metcalf’s magisterial The Canadian Short Story offers the most authoritative book on the subject to date. Most importantly, it includes an expanded and reconsidered Century List, Metcalf’s critical guide to the best Canadian short story collections of the last 100 years. But more than a critical book, The Canadian Short Story is a love-letter to the form, a passionate defense of the best of our literature, and a championing of those books and writers most often over-looked. It is a guide not only to what to read, but also one, its author’s most fervent desire, which aims to make better readers of us all.

Author : Andrew Mangham,Daniel Lea
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786948700

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The Male Body in Medicine and Literature by Andrew Mangham,Daniel Lea Pdf

With the dawn of modern medicine there emerged a complex range of languages and methodologies for portraying the male body as prone to illness, injury and dysfunction. Using a variety of historical and literary approaches, this collection explores how medicine has interacted with key moments in literature and culture.

Author : David Livingstone
Publisher : Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788024456836

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In Our Own Image: Fictional Representations of William Shakespeare by David Livingstone Pdf

This publication looks at fictional portrayals of William Shakespeare with a focus on novels, short stories, plays, occasional poems, films, television series and even comics. In terms of time span, the analysis covers the entire twentieth century and ends in the present-day. The authors included range from well-known figures (G.B. Shaw, Kipling, Joyce) to more obscure writers. The depictions of Shakespeare are varied to say the least, with even interpretations giving credence to the Oxfordian theory and feminist readings involving a Shakespearian sister of sorts. The main argument is that readings of Shakespeare almost always inform us more about the particular author writing the specific work than about the historical personage.

Author : John Metcalf
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781897231746

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Shut Up He Explained by John Metcalf Pdf

John Metcalf's Shut Up He Explained defies expectations and strict definition. Part memoir, part travelogue, part criticism -- wholly Metcalf -- it is thoughtful, engaged, contentious and often very funny. It offers a full does of Metcalfian wisdom and wit, and provides ample evidence that neither age nor indifference nor attack have withered him: he remains as sharp, critical, constructive and insightful as ever. Indeed, this may just be his most important and engaged book. Certainly it will be among his most controversial. What his critics will refuse to see, of course, is that it is also among his most positive, that it is a celebration of the best literature Canada has to offer, the birth of which Metcalf himself both witnesses and actively encouraged. Shut Up He Explained is magisterial, a virtuoso performance melding several seemingly different strands into one coherent narrative, which should delight and entertain as it serves to argue, elucidate and celebrate.

Author : Cambridge International Examinations
Publisher : Foundation Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 8175962488

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Songs of Ourselves by Cambridge International Examinations Pdf

Songs of Ourselves: the University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Poetry in English contains work by more than 100 poets from all parts of the English speaking world.